Dunn's agenda is incompatible with public education

I left Thousand Oaks, one year ago this week for a one year assignment in New York. During that week, in August 2005, Mike Dunn and his acolytes were trying to inflict their theological beliefs into the public school sectorThumbing through the Aug. 24 letters to the Thousand Oaks Acorn, deja vu hit me right between the eyes--the lead letter was Mike Dunn's.

This time, however, Mr. Dunn has stolen a page from the Karl Rove and Dick Cheney little elephant book: never answer a question that was directed to you and instead go off on a tangent that has all the superficial trappings of reason (but none of the substance).

I read David Dolnick's letter and Mr. Dunn failed to address any of the points that he so cogently raised.

In educational psychology terms, Mr. Dunn engages in collective monologues and shuns interactive dialogues. And in all candor, I cannot blame Mr. Dunn, because he was questioned about his incessant infusion of theological precepts into the public school curriculum, precepts that are in direct violation of the Conejo Valley mission statement.

And while Mr. Dunn's power points make him appear to be the Paul Revere of Conejo Valley Unified School District, warning the good parents and taxpayers of Thousand Oaks of the increasingly anti-democratic stances of his fellow trustees (the neoconservatives are raising their glasses of chablis to you today, Mr. Dunn), most of the negative press regarding the school board's decisions always seems to have Mike Dunn at its hub (a great Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity ruse).

So my suggestion is for Mr. Dunn to finish his term in office and not seek reelection so the school board can finally put their energies, first and foremost, into the students--a recommendation that any taxpaying parent would lovingly consent to. Marc Rogers Thousand Oaks