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Voting for Seattle School Board Candidates
There is a Seattle School Board Candidate forum tomorrow night, Tuesday October 15th, from 6:30-8:00 pm at the John Stanford International School.This event is hosted by JSIS PTA and sponsored by Seattle Council PTSA.
Moderated by current members of Superintendent Student Advisory Board.
This is a kid friendly event and students are encouraged to attend. Their voice and insight is powerful!I love when kids ask questions because they tend to be direct. I sure hope one question is about the commitment each candidate has to fulfilling a full term.
It is important who sits on the Seattle School Board. I have learned that sometimes it's picking the person you are just okay with rather than someone you believe will not do a good job/have an agenda you can't support.
As the years have gone by, I have ruefully realized a couple of concerns that I hope you take into account as you vote.
1) Candidates will sometimes present themselves as one thing but once they get on the Board, are not that director.
A good example is Jill Geary. She practically ran on her Sped cred and yet, she has not been a champion at all. I really thought this was going to be a good chance for Special Education issue to be daylighted and discussed by the Board. Not really.
This is not to say she wasn't qualified or a good director - she just was not the director that she made herself out to be as a candidate.
2) Don't consider the individual; please consider how that person talks about working with others and not just people/groups that he/she/they are aligned with.
Because being on the School Board means learning to work together with people you may disagree with on issues. But, for anything to get done, there has to be teamwork.
3) Beware of alliances.
It's great to get group of smart, talented-in-different-ways people on a governing group. But you don't want people who will vote in lock-step.
I'm always pleasantly surprised when people who may seem allies on one issue, giving valid reasons for having differing views on another issue and voting accordingly.
4) Beware of candidates who talk a good game but somehow can't point to an achievement related to School Board work.
If someone is using impactful words like "impactful" or vague language without real statements of how to get from A to B on any given issue, ask yourself if this is what you want to hear for the next four years.
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