My response - a novel
Ok, so much for my novel on the background of yesterday. Someone will ask where I got the information that parents were threatening to vote against the levy if the drill was ran. My son?’s teacher read them an email from the front office sent to all teachers citing the complaint calls from parents and their threats. Simple as that. Someone in the front office had the courage to tell the truth. I can only hope they made this courageous decision because they face reality like my family does and apparently good people like Mr. Kemper and Chief Taylor do. So I now have to ask myself who would cave into a threat of voting against a levy. A school principal who is charged with the safety of our children and takes that charge seriously? Probably not. A Police Chief who is charged with the safety of our children and takes that charge seriously? Probably not. That leaves just one group of people who would capitulate to this threat. Politicians.
Yes, here I am again blaming the politicians in the PLSD for all the problems in the district. I envision a superintendent and several school board members nervously sitting in a room continually wringing their hands and looking at each other saying ?“Should we cancel??” ?“Shouldn?’t we??” ?“What if these 10 parents really vote against the levy and we lose by 10 votes??” ?“What if, what if, what if?….??”
Let me ask all you politicians this, what if your child was molested and murdered in her classroom and something like Mr. Kemper?’s drill could have saved her or even one single person? So trust me politicians, I can throw back just as many ?“What If?” questions to you as you probably threw at each other yesterday huddled in your little think tank.
Since you react so well to the threats of such a small number of people, let me remind you of something you failed to consider yesterday, you might face more severe consequences from what is probably a much larger group of parents/realists who now say, I will vote against the levy for your unconscionable decision yesterday.
My rationale is no more ludicrous that that of the callers yesterday. They threatened to compare apples to oranges and I am making the same comparison today. I am reminding you that this was a side you should have, but failed to consider yesterday. You thought that by getting Mr. Kemper to assume the blame for calling it off you would escape notice. You were wrong. You sullied the reputation of a man by involving him in your political platform.
The politicians have now made it abundantly clear that their priority is building schools at the expense of the safety of out children. I am sickened by this and I will never again vote for anything proposed by this school board or this superintendent. Remember ?“It?’s For the Kids?”? Yeah, right, it?’s really for the kids, isn?’t it?
--more to come, last chapter
By Central Dad
Ok, so much for my novel on the background of yesterday. Someone will ask where I got the information that parents were threatening to vote against the levy if the drill was ran. My son?’s teacher read them an email from the front office sent to all teachers citing the complaint calls from parents and their threats. Simple as that. Someone in the front office had the courage to tell the truth. I can only hope they made this courageous decision because they face reality like my family does and apparently good people like Mr. Kemper and Chief Taylor do. So I now have to ask myself who would cave into a threat of voting against a levy. A school principal who is charged with the safety of our children and takes that charge seriously? Probably not. A Police Chief who is charged with the safety of our children and takes that charge seriously? Probably not. That leaves just one group of people who would capitulate to this threat. Politicians.
Yes, here I am again blaming the politicians in the PLSD for all the problems in the district. I envision a superintendent and several school board members nervously sitting in a room continually wringing their hands and looking at each other saying ?“Should we cancel??” ?“Shouldn?’t we??” ?“What if these 10 parents really vote against the levy and we lose by 10 votes??” ?“What if, what if, what if?….??”
Let me ask all you politicians this, what if your child was molested and murdered in her classroom and something like Mr. Kemper?’s drill could have saved her or even one single person? So trust me politicians, I can throw back just as many ?“What If?” questions to you as you probably threw at each other yesterday huddled in your little think tank.
Since you react so well to the threats of such a small number of people, let me remind you of something you failed to consider yesterday, you might face more severe consequences from what is probably a much larger group of parents/realists who now say, I will vote against the levy for your unconscionable decision yesterday.
My rationale is no more ludicrous that that of the callers yesterday. They threatened to compare apples to oranges and I am making the same comparison today. I am reminding you that this was a side you should have, but failed to consider yesterday. You thought that by getting Mr. Kemper to assume the blame for calling it off you would escape notice. You were wrong. You sullied the reputation of a man by involving him in your political platform.
The politicians have now made it abundantly clear that their priority is building schools at the expense of the safety of out children. I am sickened by this and I will never again vote for anything proposed by this school board or this superintendent. Remember ?“It?’s For the Kids?”? Yeah, right, it?’s really for the kids, isn?’t it?
--more to come, last chapter
By Central Dad
