Sweet N' Saur

Sweet N' Saur is a blog about local school issues which I started as an alternative to a crappy blog that our local school superintendent (Clayton Wilcox) had. A while ago I turned over the reins to Michelle, although I post in there occasionally.

Michelle and I met through Wilcox's blog, became pen pals, and then friends who see each other occasionally when our busy schedules allow for it. She's a beautiful person inside and outside (seriously!) as well as being highly intelligent. She is much more qualified (and patient) to run the forum than *I* am.

But yesterday morning she called and sent me an urgent message, telling me that the site was in need of a quick revision since Clayton Wilcox had finally decided to take down his long controversial blog.

Why was it controversial?

His blog was simply frustrating. I think it contributed to the general ill feelings people had about him.

No one usually monitored it, least of all Clayton himself. So it became a badly written blog (full of his writing errors) with no moderator.

Most participants felt that they really weren't listened to, and the crackpots were often the only ones which were left. I grew discouraged by it rapidly, feeling that Clayton had created it to pander to the masses, when the reality was that he wasn't at all interested in anyone's opinions.

Finally they announced yesterday that they were shutting it down. So we scrambled to get a message up, letting everyone there know that Sweet N' Saur was open for business. And I dropped everything to redesign the site.

Michelle requests: "Come over and share info about your state and local schools. Maybe our district can learn what we can do better. Maybe you have tried something we don't want to ever do and we can learn from your districts experience."