Vote Absentee, not Abstentia

When you fill out your absentee ballots next week or go to the polls on November 4, you may or may not have a child in the school district and think this as a trivial vote. As a matter of fact, a majority of the 175,000 registered voters either have had their children in the school, have young children not old enough to be in school, have chosen to educate their children in a private or home school, or may not have children at all. You most-likely fall into one of those categories, but instead of randomly picking names at the bottom of the ballot or abstaining in this race entirely, you know that your choice for school board could be just as important as your historic choice for president. And it’s not because I am a special candidate; it’s because all politics is local. I’ll explain.
When you fill in that oval or punch the card, you are electing someone who will be making decisions on the future of 46,000 pupils’ futures. You will be deciding who is going to have a more open and transparent process in the district’s protocols and practices. You will be deciding on who wants to allow parents the best choice for their children’s education, whether that be public, private, parochial, charter, alternative, vocational, home school…whatever. You will choose someone who will have to ask very difficult and piercing financial questions, especially in an economy espoused in uncertainty. Your vote will go to the person you think can bridge the gap with the business community and the school district. You will decide who is going to impact housing prices and the make-up of your neighborhood. You will elect a candidate who is willing to press the flesh and meet new faces and go to places where board members have rarely tread in the past. I hope that choice is me and I hope that you and I can partner to make a positive change for our children.
Time is precious and our window of opportunity to impact an entire generation of students is short. We can’t let hundreds of children slip through the cracks and lose whatever hope they may have had when they excitedly entered the ranks of kindergarten. I am passionate about success and potential. Send your vote to me and I show you what we can collaborate on to correct course in our district, to bring kids back into a stable learning environment and keep them from becoming liabilities to society.