It's happening across our country.
Largely as a result of COVID, parents and taxpayers have been seeing some troubling trends in education, even more than we had suspected in the past.
In May, 4 of the 7 spots on our school board will be up for grabs - one of the spots (called "places") is vacant, and 3 others are up for re-election.
We suspect at least one of those 3 will not run for re-election, so we are soliciting candidates we plan to back to take control of the Board.
[INSERT -- I noticed I keep referring to "we", without identifying who "we" are --- a group of pastors, mainly, but also some conservative business leaders and concerned citizens]
It seems to be catching on as a community thing - the current Board is comprised of liberals who apparently rubber stamp anything and everything the superintendent of schools says or does, or anything the teachers unions proscribe. They even have a "Legislative Agenda" that's pretty much a mirror copy of the Legislative Agenda of the Texas Association of School Boards.
I had breakfast this morning with a local business owner who is quite eager to run for one of the "places", and he seems to be a candidate we can support.
We had one man elected to the Board last go-round because he was supposedly a solid conservative, but he appears to have lost his way, and is just like the others.
When one gets elected to the Board, they go to Austin for a week to learn how to be a Board member by TASB (the aforementioned group). Apparently, when they come back from that, they have a totally different view of their role and seem to think their job is to be "part of the system" rather than represent the parents and taxpayers who elected them.
This round, hopefully, will be different. We have already fired "a shot across the bow" at a Board Meeting this past Monday Night, letting them know we are unhappy with they way the have been running the Board, and our intent to run our own candidates in May. One of them who was up for election decided not to run again. Another is seriously reconsidering.
It is our intent to "flip" this Board, and I'll report the progress here. So far, there appears to be FAR more support for this than I had ever even imagined.
ETA - the "places" are simply slots - non political - you don't declare a party, and they are not geographic - you don't have to live in "District 1" to run for that slot - they're simply "places" numbered 1 - 7, but you have to declare which "place" you are attempting to obtain.
Largely as a result of COVID, parents and taxpayers have been seeing some troubling trends in education, even more than we had suspected in the past.
In May, 4 of the 7 spots on our school board will be up for grabs - one of the spots (called "places") is vacant, and 3 others are up for re-election.
We suspect at least one of those 3 will not run for re-election, so we are soliciting candidates we plan to back to take control of the Board.
[INSERT -- I noticed I keep referring to "we", without identifying who "we" are --- a group of pastors, mainly, but also some conservative business leaders and concerned citizens]
It seems to be catching on as a community thing - the current Board is comprised of liberals who apparently rubber stamp anything and everything the superintendent of schools says or does, or anything the teachers unions proscribe. They even have a "Legislative Agenda" that's pretty much a mirror copy of the Legislative Agenda of the Texas Association of School Boards.
I had breakfast this morning with a local business owner who is quite eager to run for one of the "places", and he seems to be a candidate we can support.
We had one man elected to the Board last go-round because he was supposedly a solid conservative, but he appears to have lost his way, and is just like the others.
When one gets elected to the Board, they go to Austin for a week to learn how to be a Board member by TASB (the aforementioned group). Apparently, when they come back from that, they have a totally different view of their role and seem to think their job is to be "part of the system" rather than represent the parents and taxpayers who elected them.
This round, hopefully, will be different. We have already fired "a shot across the bow" at a Board Meeting this past Monday Night, letting them know we are unhappy with they way the have been running the Board, and our intent to run our own candidates in May. One of them who was up for election decided not to run again. Another is seriously reconsidering.
It is our intent to "flip" this Board, and I'll report the progress here. So far, there appears to be FAR more support for this than I had ever even imagined.
ETA - the "places" are simply slots - non political - you don't declare a party, and they are not geographic - you don't have to live in "District 1" to run for that slot - they're simply "places" numbered 1 - 7, but you have to declare which "place" you are attempting to obtain.
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