Rex Sinquefield Sues Mehlville School District

The headline on KSDK.com is 'Children's Educational Alliance of Missouri prepares to file lawsuit against Mehlville School District.'

The Children's Educational Alliance of Missouri, or C.E.A.M., is funded in large part by billionaire Rex Sinquefield. In 2008, 2009, and 2010, Sinquefield provided CEAM with $330,000 in reported funding. (2011 and 2012 numbers are not readily available to me.)

Rex Sinquefield founded the libertarian, conservative think-tank that most people know as the Show-Me Institute.

The central point is that the Mehlville School District, in particular, the students, classroom teachers, and educational administrators are innocent bystanders in a much larger, political battle of billionaire bullies.

The political battle is between a form of irrational libertarianism funded by Billionaire Rex Sinquefield, and those who know that schools falsely labelled as "failing" are a symptom of the cycle of poverty and not the cause.

However, it is not just the Mehlville School District that is being sued; it is the Mehlville Community, considering their funding comes from us, the taxpayers.

A major concern is that there are some members of the Mehlville School Board who are sympathetic to the irrational politics and philosophy of Rex Sinquefield.

Can the Mehlville Community trust the board members to act in the interest of the district and the community instead of their own political ideologies? 

I guess we shall see. In the meantime, an enormous amount of energy and other resources that would normally go in the direction of providing a highly effective education for Mehlville students is being siphoned off to fight a Billionaire and his misguided political passions.

The classroom teachers and education administrators of the Mehlville School District just want to do their job, and that is to continue providing the best educational return on investment for the children who attend the district and the taxpayers who pay for it.