Elementary School Situation Part 3
A nameless letter was sent to the BOS and the BudCom regarding my Jan. 15th GilfordGrok blog post. The letter was basically asking how “every member of the budget committee endorses such things”. Let’s be perfectly clear, I DO NOT SPEAK FOR THE BUDGET COMMITTEE!
I also find it humorous that a community that promotes a High School play called “Urinetown” has an issue with a picture of a bull getting the best of a matador. I guess we all have a different sense of humor.
Okay, back to the issue at hand. One of the teachers that I wrote about approached me last night to voice concerns about what I had written. The primary concern of the teacher was to inform me that they were not speaking out as a teacher but as a parent. Therefore, the teachers as a whole should not be implicated in this issue. I must admit, that point had me in a bit of a bind. After all, I’m posting these comments on this blog site as a concerned citizen and NOT as a Budget committee member. To that point I have no choice but to agree with the teacher or, in this case, concerned parent. I went on to explain however that my larger point of yesterday’s post was to raise the point that the teachers, as a whole, should be weighing in on this issue. As I wrote, they have no issue supporting many other issues.
Subsequently, another concerned person approached me to suggest that the teachers may be backing off from their initial outrage about this issue. According to this individual, teachers are speaking with parents to help answer their concerns about how these personnel changes will affect their children. This is great news! If teachers are helping concerned parents understand that these changes are going to be fine then how about a letter in the paper or some public notification?
I remain skeptical because their Warrant Article is still out there and it's unclear how much "noise" will be made to support it. At this point, their actions will speak louder than the words wispered to me in closed quarters.
I was then led to believe that a compromise is in the works to simply keep the guidance position in place until the dust settles. This is great news too. My position remains clear; the parents, teachers, School Board and the Administration can reach whatever “compromise” they see fit as long as the proposed budget stays AS IS!
