When the decision was made to run for the school board, I was not acquainted with anyone on the board. I attended board meetings in support of and while encouraging the students in their campaign for Mr. K. All the while Dee was attending board meetings for team uniforms and new textbooks. As a booster & a parent attending events at the HS –Dee, Anita and my paths had crossed many times.
At one point, Annette, her mom, Dee, her sisters and a few neighbors from throughout EA joined a group I organized campaigning to vote NO for the 131 referendums. Through these times, Dee & I realized both of us were contemplating a run for the school board.
Though, Dee & I have been lumped as one by our critics, we have only met socially once. We met for dinner with a couple of the newly elected board members prior to their being seated, last spring.
When I was the new person, I had been welcomed by a couple of the seasoned board members. Following their past practices, I did likewise. During dinner we chatted about the upcoming new board. We shared our hopes for 131 and our thoughts on the direction we’d like to see the board move. We all agreed we’d like to see change. Three of us strongly encouraged Dee to agree to accept the position of board president even when she was hesitant. The three of us expounded on why we felt she was the best option. Reluctantly, she conceded to our pleas, relying on the fact, she would have our continued support. She was nominated & elected, as were others, to the positions as we had all agreed would be a good fit & welcome change.
After a few months a fellow board member started a campaign to have Dee removed as Board President. This member relayed to me, she had political aspirations and felt she would be better suited as the board president. There were stories shared by this board member pointing to Dee as the reason for problems of information not being relayed that was cause for poor decisions being made by the board. Initially, many things were believed without being verified. It is easy when things are not going well, to look for a scapegoat to be the fault. I finally questioned this member of the specifics of the reasons Dee should be removed. She had no reasons relating to Dee’s performance of her duties.
Most of the reasons were relayed through rumors of things Dee purportedly had done.
She was specifically spiteful in comments of wanting Dee removed as president, before spring, so Dee would not be eligible to sign her son’s diploma. Seems she has continued to work towards this goal with the Resolution for Reorganization on this upcoming 131 board agenda.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 206 of 206Amen 2/28 @ 12:51 PM. The problem is no one in this community cares except for a few. The attendance at the board meeting is implorable. No one, but no one, can tell me that in a district this big that the few that go are the only ones able to. The one board member that really is the biggest disappointment is Anita Lewis. She is flip-flopping back and forth like a fist out of water. She has made so many turn arounds in her decisions without being clear why, that she should be dizzy and find it hard to walk around without falling down. The rest the writing has been on the wall. Why Gonzales is on the board is a wonder. She does not want to really be on committees and do what is expected of a school board member. Takes away to much from her personnal time. Turza does not have a backbone and a clue of what is going on. Hitler gave Johnson lessons. Juanita is Juanita. Weaver is trying to do good, but needs more assurance in herself and stand up for what she believes in and quit letting others brow beat her. Hull not sure of yet. No bet about it Johnson will be the next president. Also, anyone who read up on it that resolution should not be done now. It is supposed to done after the election in the odd year. And if it was just a discussion last meeting, then why was all that legal(?) work already done? Seems as if some members were discussing it alright, but with the lawyers and not the whole board. Shame on Lewis and Johnson for being so underhanded. I would not be surprised if Roberts had a hand in this also. Johnson and Lewis were also ones who felt that alot of these conferences, etc. should be done on line and should not be attended, that it was a waste of the taxpayers money. They have done a about face in this also. Tsk, tsk, get on board and go along for the ride an all the "fringe" benefits.
Hey Weaver stop writing about yourself.
Scheduling is not an easy task but it is a basic skill needed by an administrator. If you can't handle a skill as basic as scheduling, how can anyone expect you to lead a school building of more than a hundred staff members and almost 1000 students.
It should be a strong signal to upper level management if your building administrators can't handle scheduling. It should also be a strong signal when you have a building in disarray and administrators who take time off during almost every school day for donuts and who knows what.
It's time for some leadership in this district. It's simple. Do what's best for the kids.
Translating 9:30 p.m.'s comments:
"I am one of those teachers who is being coddled by corrupt administration. I cannot justify being paid full-time for working a part-time schedule, so I'll just post a bunch of gibberish in the hopes that people will be distracted from the truth of the original argument".
Nice try from moron-land. Too bad most of us can see right through it.
Have a nice day!
:)
To translate your comments:
I'm a fat ass who can't spend one hour away from my computer to actually go out and make a difference in the school district. I hope that somebody will take action on all of my ignorant lies. I haven't been outside my house in 10 years and have never said anything positive about anything.
Thanks for your imput, have fun becoming part of your desk chair.
8:02 must be talking about themselves!
I'm 7:56. Let me introduce myself:
I have a masters degree. I not only work full-time; I volunteer several hours a week tutoring D131 students (so much for your ignorant assumption that I "can't spend one hour away from my computer to actually go out and make a difference in the school district"!). I regularly attend events in the Aurora community (although not School Board meetings, because I work Monday nights).
And I work too hard for my money to be willing to see my tax dollars wasted.
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