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“Mean Girls” Attack Jeffco Board, Officials on Twitter

Parents, students, and teachers upset with the Jefferson County Public School District Board of Education majority members and select district staff continue to use social media to get their frustrations out. However, some of those targeted by anonymous Twitter handles call their messages rude, intimidating, unflattering, and just plain mean at times.

Textbooks? Curriculum? Achievement? Failure to communicate in Jeffco

In the 1967 classic film Cool Hand Luke, the angry warden whips the free-spirited title character and famously drawls out a subtle warning to Luke’s fellow chain gang members: “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” The warden just as easily could have been speaking for the Jeffco community regarding the public education system. The two sides of the education debate seem to be talking past each other. There is much we can agree on, assuming we can agree on the facts.

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