COMMUNITY ALERT
Tomorrow evening, there is a regularly scheduled school board meeting. I would bet that most school board members expect to walk into the board room, and face the normal crowd of about a dozen audience members or fewer. Although this is a tumultuous time for the NASD, the school board and administration carry on with business-as-usual. Our teachers and support staff have both been working as status-quo for almost a month. If you ask me, I do not think any leader in the NASD should be acting as if this is business-as-usual. I think they should all be doing everything in their power to settle a contract expeditiously. Perhaps the community should be reminded we still wield a lot of power.
We can send the school board a message. We can say, enough is enough. We can tell the school board they need to do more. The most effective way for us to announce our power is to attend the school board meeting tomorrow evening. The current school board has grown used to a small crowd. We need to make tomorrow night different. Imagine if we showed up in the hundreds. Think they would get the message?
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I call on all teachers and support staff to attend. I also call on parents, taxpayers, even students, to attend. Tomorrow evening we will rally together as a collective unit, willing to speak up for our teachers and support staff.
I know that everyone is busy and it is a Monday night, but I ask everyone to try their best, and attend this important meeting. I can only ask you to try your best, by taking an hour or two out of your night. Busy with your kids? Bring them. Show the school board that they are affecting entire families. I believe the meeting tomorrow evening to be pivotal in the battle towards securing a contract for our teachers and support staff. There has never been a better time for us to unite.
As the saying goes, “you cannot put our students first, if you put our teachers [and support staff] last.” I think everyone can agree that we want to provide the best education to our students. That starts by supporting our teachers and support staff, and I ask you to join me tomorrow evening for that purpose.
