Is it more important to protect the children and improve the school, or to appear positive?
There is indeed much to be thankful for in the East Noble community, and there are ample sources of positive news. In fact, the information from just about every other source in the community and school is usually so positive (examples below), that there is a vacuum of critical accountability. This is a void that must be filled.
Groups of people joining together to address the critical accountability gap could be perceived as having too much focus on what’s not going well. The Board and Superintendent may even find those groups to be rather discouraging.
However, parents and citizens who are dissatisfied with the leadership and their outcomes at East Noble Schools are actually broken-hearted and sad about the situation. No truly dedicated community member wants or likes to harm the perception of their own community or school.
But, it isn’t those who speak up about what needs to be improved or repaired who are harming the brand. That responsibility lies squarely on the leadership at the school and their tangible outcomes – and nowhere else.
Those who express a desire for a more positive vibe from a gravely concerned community should consider supporting the following changes at East Noble…
- Replace the Superintendent with one who puts forth better policies, applies proper discipline, who doesn’t have a track record of growing unwelcome gender ideology in K-12 education, and who seeks to do better than bare minimum legalism as her standard for K-12 educational excellence.
- Give parents a default opt-out on dirty books and stop making them do all the work to discover the filth in the school library and classroom, after the fact or not at all.
- Leave it up to parents to teach religious values (or values that oppose religious values). After all these are two sides of the same coin, and it is wrong to shut out one for the promotion of the other. You are more than encouraged to focus primarily on academics.
- On the Transgender Policy; protect our minor children from the risk of improper influence by activist school officials by requiring parents to be present for all related discussions with their children.
- Bring real consequences to professional educators who facilitate gender identity or sexual discussions – not just 3 days without pay. That is a first key step to ensure that these teacher behaviors stop, is to have appropriate consequences for them.
- School Board Members –
- Have open true-grit dialogs with your constituents and stop leaving us to guess.
- Stop treating us as if you are part of an exclusive club of people who are somehow superior to their constituents.
- Be mindful about pride. Be open to influence and to changing your mind.
- Unanimous voting – it cannot be that 7 people always agree on everything every month in perpetuity when the community that you supposedly represent is divided. This is actual observable evidence that you are indeed not representing your community.
- Persistently improve academic outcomes. In truth, no one expects miracles overnight.
Once concerned parents and citizens see real change in the policies and approaches that matter to them, there will be new great sources of positive feedback. In fact, they will be even more authentic and sincere than most of the sources that we already have.
REFERENCES – Low Accountability Scores
These sources are primarily positive and/or often lacking a perspective of accountability.
- Social media posts and press releases from the school itself
- Superintendent On The Move (she says it’s not about her, but her role is the first word)
- Board member discussion & feedback time in the board meetings
- Perpetual unanimous voting (like a government body in a coercively unified Communist, Socialist or Fascist country)
- Our hometown newspaper
