Edit: Educate Yourself Before Venting

Maybe they think of themselves as education evangelists. Other words come to mind, though, when discussion leads to people in our community whose bitter letters to the editor or unrelenting clashes with Coeur d’Alene School District leave sensible citizens scratching their heads and wondering, “Doesn’t so-and-so have something better to do?” Most communities own a contingent like this, folks whose temperament bounces between boiling and blowing up. Constructive criticism is foreign to them. Anger is all they have, and they wield it like a weapon, not a tool. We’re writing on this topic today not just to share an observation, but with school now underway, to make a sincere suggestion. Before you criticize, do yourselves and your community a favor and be sure you know what you’re talking about. In the case of Coeur d’Alene School District, Dave Eubanks, vice chairman of the school board, has offered not just to meet with several of the district’s most outspoken critics, but almost begged them to let him take them into the classrooms so they could see first-hand what’s happening — and, perhaps, what isn’t. His offers have all been declined/ Coeur d’Alene Press . More here .

Question: Izzit just me — or does this area have more than its share of angry people who simply want to vent at government & civic leaders as well as every public project that comes along?