The Silent Majority Statement
Spurred by the Texas Education Agency's reclassification of the Wimberley schools from "Exemplary" in 2002 down to "Recognized" in 2006, a citizens group called "the Silent Majority" has formed with the intention of circulating a petition to be presented to the school board at the March/April Meeting. The organization will inform the Board that, although its members support the schools and want to do whatever is necessary to regain the "Exemplary" rating, they will NOT support any Bond proposal so long as the current Superintendent of Schools retains her position.
A spokesman for the organization said: "We want the best for the students in our schools. Political controversy and one-upmanship are NOT the way to achieve that goal. We will oppose any Bond proposals until Board members and the administration come to their senses and realize that their function is to support and improve academics and not waste time and energy engaging in political feuds. The FUTURE of our children is too important to ignore while pursing a vendetta against a Board member who to compile a report on "Community Perceptions of WISD and was only "the messenger."
The Petition will begin circulating in March. IF you want Wimberley to have schools worthy of its reputation as a "good place to visit - a great place to live", sign on to make Wimberley a "great place to go to school" as well.
A spokesman for the organization said: "We want the best for the students in our schools. Political controversy and one-upmanship are NOT the way to achieve that goal. We will oppose any Bond proposals until Board members and the administration come to their senses and realize that their function is to support and improve academics and not waste time and energy engaging in political feuds. The FUTURE of our children is too important to ignore while pursing a vendetta against a Board member who to compile a report on "Community Perceptions of WISD and was only "the messenger."
The Petition will begin circulating in March. IF you want Wimberley to have schools worthy of its reputation as a "good place to visit - a great place to live", sign on to make Wimberley a "great place to go to school" as well.
posted by cw at 6:46 PM
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"...their function is to support and improve academics and not waste time and energy engaging in political feuds.The FUTURE of our children is too important to ignore while pursuing a vendetta...."
Does this apply to a vendetta against the superintendent, or do we get to pick and choose which vendettas make it alright to ignore our children's futures? Are our own political feuds a better use of time and energy? How will this kind of rhetoric gain us any influence? It looks like a losing strategy to me.
A winning strategy would be to get some new people elected to the board, people who can help support change. The district has long hand-picked its board members. It can do so, because insiders are the only ones who care enough about school board elections to vote. They vote in block. The community is going to have to care enough to vote (and run,) or nothing will change. Anything else (like petitions advocating punishment at the expense of our children's education) only hangs our newest board members out to dry.
Thanks Anonymous. Usually I would NOT reply to an anonymous: COME ON OUT OF THE CLOSET - WE ARE. At least most of US that can AND NOT be subjected to a retribution by the School system in the form of JOB jeopardy or boycotting a BUSINESS. RIGHT HERE in RIVER CITY!! NO kidding!
VENDETTA. NO, because here you have 4 - 5 different groups in this community coming together finally (The Land Deal of the school, nepotism, teacher stipends, bond issue, unwarranted loss of GREAT teachers just doing their JOB, TAXES etc). Now, this is NO small deal folks - REMEMBER, we received %57 of the vote last time, and when all this info gets out on what the other side pulled last time WE WILL no doubt increase that as most of the people of Wimberley WILL NOT stand for that kind of treatment to even people that wanted to VOTE NO.
Maid Marion's side ALWAYS wants to CRY on OUR shoulders like they did in the last BOND Vote: IT IS ALL ABOUT THE KIDS. IT is more about adults taking responsibility which SHE and the BOARD have NOT done in the past year. NO ONE wants more than the BEST for the students than people like Dr. Jim, and yet, he gets CRUCIFIED unjustly by a few BOARD members and WE ALL know who the real blame should be put on.
Yep, you are right, we do NEED to replace (about FOUR) Board Members in the next election. The only three that are OUR HEROES are Dave Williams, David Junkin and Dr. Jim.
IF you come back, do NOT do anonymous. Are you a Liberal, Leftist Liberal, Southern Demo, Socialist - certainly NOT a Conservative or a Christian Conservative??
You ALL will have to get use to me using CAPITAL words, that is MY STYLE - just for EMPHASIS folks.
Using the "expense of the children" and "needs of the children" has become way overused. The purpose is emotional blackmail.
If one truly cares for the children, then these issues being raised should raise some eyebrows. An advisor at Texas State University has stated that the Wimberley students are way behind the average college student when they begin school there.
The children need good teachers or teachers that are not supressed by the administrators.
The vendettas are one sided, started at our administrative level, NOT by the community members, parents or former teachers.
It is a sad day when parental goals for their Hith School student is to simply "get their credit" and get out of there, instead of to gain knowledge, become smart/er, and to be enriched by exceptional arts , agricultural and specialized programs.
Way too many parents don't speak up because they believe if they can just get through without making waves their student won't be targeted and made miserable at school.
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