Well I see that DOLT Moran stating that none of the money received from the vendors doing business with the school district will be returned. I have to say I give Kathleen McGuigan alot of credit for being honest and she id deserving of another term on the School Board, I sure hope some of the others follow her lead like Lesh and Hartman. It should be very easy for them (Hartman, Lesh, Mcguigan, and Minicozzi) to find one other loyalist enabling them to take over the Scranton School Board at their next re-organizational meeting in January 2008.
Every one on this board should help them do it, and then in return work eztra hard in the next few upcoming elections to remove the real corruption from within the Scranton School Board. We need new and young leadership to show the way to all the children that are being educated in one of the best school districts in the country.
Lets show DD that we are strong enough tocontrol elections without the fear of intimidation or threats, like they use....The real power is at the polls, get the vote out and makes sure they understand the truth, not the lies that come out because they have more money than we do and try to influence the elections by using it that way.......
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What no one else h ave any opnions on this upcoming School Board race,, its going to be important than the commishioners race.. alot at stake with our hard earned tax dollars
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I think the Scranton School Board has performed very poorly. Grade D. Maybe my opinion is slanted because my wife is a teacher in the district, but I see some real problems:
Qualifications - Call me crazy, but when I think of a school board director, I think of someone with expertise in areas like education, finance, the law, labor relations, etc. I don't think of a bus driver with a GED (and for the record, that particular director is a friend of the family). Yes, this may make me sound elitist, but so be it. I want what's best for our children first, and taxpayers second. To get that you need the right people in the right seats.
Leadership, #1 - Can someone please tell me why we don't have a Superintendent for the district? Seriously, I think that particular professional designation exists for a reason. The board has failed to demonstrate why Mr Sheridan is more qualified to run our district than someone who actually has that particular designation. This stinks to high hell.
Leadership, #2 - I'm fairly convinced that the district is top heavy. I've never seen any efforts being made to streamline the administration, make it more efficient, cost effective, etc. In other words, they seem to exist outside of the fiscal pressures that exist in the rest of the world. I have no problem paying for professional educators...it's just that I want as many of them as possible to be teaching our children, not 'administrating' things. The board has failed to take an active role in keeping administrative costs down to an absolute minimum.
Ethics - Board members who have accepted contributions from district employees and vendors should hang their heads in shame, right after they return the money. Yes, I agree that Ms McGuigan did the the right thing by returning the money, but remember this...she did it after having been caught. Little detail there to keep in mind.
All the above said, I'm honestly not sure who I will be voting for in November. It may, unfortunately, come down to a "lessor of evils" type of decision.
-- Edited by Agamemnon at 21:10, 2007-09-13
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Free Speech does't require a multi-paragrah disclaimer Mr. Pilchesky.
Not sure I know what you mean by 'type theory'. For example, my MBTI is an ISTJ, and I'm not sure what that has to do with wanting to run for school board.
Anyway, I know that no one running the school board can make everyone happy. For example, I happen to think that Attorney Mark Wash was an excellent director, but I'm sure that Fay 'Foam @ the Mouth' Franus viewed him as being somewhere between Mussolini and Stalin on the evil scale due to his support for the new high school. So, as they say in Arkansas, "everything is relative".
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Free Speech does't require a multi-paragrah disclaimer Mr. Pilchesky.
