"Survey? What survey? lololololol"

If conservatives manage to get some referendumb passed to run roughshod over inalienable rights, they complain that opponents who sue to have it overturned aren't abiding by the will of the people.

But this story shows how phony the rightists' claims to populism truly are.

In Bradford County, Florida, the school board sent out a survey about (you guessed it!) uniforms. Parents rejected the failed idea of uniforms by about a 2-to-1 margin.

School board members were shocked that a majority of folks would dare to even think that school-imposed groupthink wasn't worthy of unadulterated praise. So they announced they were going to just ignore the results of the survey and continue imposing uniforms anyway.

But what about the will of the people? You know, the same will of the people that was so important in other cases?

I guess instead of lying about the results of surveys - as other school boards have been caught doing - Bradford County school officials have finally realized it's easier to just ignore survey results altogether.

A school board member's tirade exemplifies the smug attitude the school bored has about public opinion. She declared, "Once again we're going to let the parents dictate to us when we're the school board - and for once we ought to stand up for what's right and what's good for this community."

Heaven forbid public officials such as school board members actually let the public have input, huh?

At least now kids who come to school out of uniform won't go to jail, after state lawmakers put a clamp on that.

(Source: http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20321977&BRD=2150&PAG=461&dept_id=377017&rfi=6)