Our school board election of April 9, 2013 is a struggle based upon two conflicting ideologies
People may not remember exactly what you did or what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel. Our school board election of April 9, 2013 is a struggle based upon two conflicting ideologies. One is ossified, undemocratic, immature, ego-driven, revolting, insulting of our democratic values, suppressive of our rights as human beings and U.S. citizens, unrepresentative of our community and of our nation, repressive, and reactionary that looks backward toward tyranny and slavery, is fearful of progress and change, and has failed our children and community for twenty years now. Today, we have a school board that is disconnected from reality and from its community it has sworn to protect, represent, and serve.
The other view is confident, caring, fair, democratic, inclusive, effective, hopeful, compassionate, selfless, competitive, innovative, optimistic, knowledgeable, fair, focused on our district goals, experienced and driven by success and the spirit of "Yes, we can and Yes we will." The board is responsible for putting in place the proper keystones for students to learn and achieve at the highest possible levels.
Positive and inspiring visions, our First Amendment Freedoms, which we hold most dear, will enable and support community input for the school success that will require the widespread involvement of the full school board and those whose lives will be influenced and shaped by the vision, our community. To save the school district's 227 sinking ship, we must first plug the hole on election day, April 9, 2013. Retaining these same people on the school board will be like kicking these school district 227 problems down the road and they will only get worse. Finally, we have some highly competent, experienced, highly successful, fair minded, and committed citizens running for the school board on April 9, 2013. These highly experienced, successful, willing to be trained citizens will be our saviors and hope on April 9, 2013.
Today, through school board listening, the community needs to know that their ideas and thoughts are being heard. Only then can there be a chance that community concerns will be acted upon. After twenty years of school failure and debauchery of our community, causing the birth of a charter school, unwavering commitment will be required to turn our school district around, but it will be done. Today, we know that without full school board and community involvement, which the present school board has blocked, there is unlikely to be much commitment. It is a process that Joel Barker calls building the vision community.
Contrary to the popular opinions of the uninformed, School Board 227 is not above the laws of our land. To say that it is wrong for our citizens who have been wronged to defend their constitutional and God-given rights in our courts of justice against a corrupt school board who has violated those rights is a libel upon the whole character of our law-abiding parents, community and its citizens who want better for our children.
The founders of our country also fought to establish the rights of men and women and for principles of fairness, democracy, community participation, and universal liberty. Today, our school district community hungers for change, progress, taxation with representation, and a brighter future for our children.
On election day, the people of our community will speak. Their voices will be heard and their desire for voice, liberation, community participation, school district success, democracy, creativity, diversity of views, and talent which represents their hopes, and not their fears, will be recognized. Liberation is something in our souls that cries out for school success, board accountability, assessment of our students' achievement in data analysis, an ethics overhaul, board effectiveness, and freedom to be successful.
Dr. David E. Morgan ... School Board Member ... Rich Township High School District 227 ... Olympia Fields, Illinois 60461
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