Three cheers for Memphis Republican Mark White, the Tennessee House Education Administration Committee chairman who said exactly what needed to be said about the Hillsdale College president who spent two hours belittling teachers and educators during a June appearance with Gov. Bill Lee in Franklin.
White, who has served as education administration committee chairman for nine years, said Arnn’s denigrating comments about public school teachers – the very people the Michigan man would need in the 50 planned charter schools the governor invited him to open across the state – need not worry anymore about finding instructors here.
“When the General Assembly convenes again next January, any hope that Hillsdale will operate in Tennessee has been shattered,” White wrote during a series of Facebook exchanges with teachers and others on Sunday.
“I will continue to work to find solutions to improve Tennessee’s public education system and protect our students, but Hillsdale, by Dr. Arnn’s comments, will not be a part of that solution,” White wrote.
It was a tactful way to tell the guy who said “teachers are trained in the dumbest parts of the dumbest colleges in the country,” to go home and crawl back under his rock.