RL> For about a decade, an increasingly shrill chorus of politicians, 
RL> corporate
RL> stake holders,' journalists and "parent activists" has accused 
RL> Canadian and
RL> American schools of failing in their tasks.
    We're going through the same glossary down here in North Carolina.
    The current redistricting discussion in Guilford County has been 
delegated to a committee of a couple dozen "stakeholders".
    Most of these people have no real stake in Guilford County.  Some are 
corporate executives whose firms do most of their manufacturing elsewhere, 
making it dubious what special stake they have in the Guilford County 
chools.
    Others are members of racial pressure groups, almost all black.  But 
significant other minorities in Guilford County evidently don't have enough 
of a stake to be "stakeholders".
    Three have kids in private K-12 schools, so their only stake in public 
schools is that of _any_ citizen.
    None are elected!
    (Indeed, the whole "stakeholder" system in the reassignment process in 
Guilford County seems intentionally designed to lock out ordinary citizens 
and taxpayers.)
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