SCHOOLS: Trio earns support

Trustee challengers Eubanks, Hazel, and Hearn are liberals favored by local education elitists. They are running against conservatives Brent Regan, Ann Seddon and Bjorn Handeen, who are fighting to make improvements long neglected by the old liberal board.

Eubanks, Hazel and Hearn deny there are any problems with Progressive Education or learning the basics in our schools, but the statistics from NIC and internal Basics testing tell a different story. How can they begin to fix the problems if they deny any problem exists?

The challengers accuse the current board of having a "political agenda," but cite no facts in support. They accuse the board of failing to consider public input in connection with eliminating IB/PYP, even though all aspects of the program were publicly debated for over three years. They call the present board "unresponsive," which in this case is code for "the board decided against us on IB/PYP." Anyone attending school board meetings since the liberals resigned knows that there is vastly more public input, and dialogue between the trustees and public, than there ever was under the old, three minute clock-watching, temple-massaging old board.

Challengers Eubanks, Hazel and Hearn are "against" having a conservative school board to balance many years of liberal board domination. So what are they "for" specifically? Higher teacher compensation, higher taxes, and a return to liberal-Progressive, laissez-faire school board pseudo-oversight that leaves it to the "education elite" to decide what and how to teach our kids.

A vote for Eubanks, Hazel and Hearn is a vote for continuing everything that is wrong with public education. A vote for Regan, Seddon and Handeen is a vote for long overdue checks on out-of-control public schools, and a return to sanity in education. The liberals have controlled education for years. Let’s give the conservatives a chance.

DUNCAN KOLER

Dalton Gardens