Comments on: City Schools of Decatur School Board Candidates

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:35:22 +0000

Here here. Let’s hope these many candidates take to the web or otherwise share their positions and reasons for change in short order. Decatur’s full of considered folks but they need content to consider. Candidates, feed the beast!

By: CSD Snowflake

CSD Snowflake — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:45:27 +0000

Every sector of Decatur needs to be involved in discussions of CSD. We CSD families need the involvement of the non-CSD residents because they do indeed contribute a large proportion of the local funding that is needed on top of state funding. And all of Decatur needs CSD families to let them know how the schools are doing because if the schools were to become less attractive, it would hurt the general quality of life in Decatur as well as real estate values.

Incumbents are human beings like everyone else and can become complacent or set in their ways or overlook issues. Active discussion of issues and solutions keeps incumbents, challengers, and voters on their toes. There’s not many places that have the capability of carrying out the De Toqueville vision of American democracy, but the City of Decatur may just be one of them. We should be proud of that.

By: Decatur Metro

Decatur Metro — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:02:43 +0000

Fixed it for you Fifi.

Unfortunately, when it comes to comments, only I have the ability to edit.

By: fifi

fifi — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:57:25 +0000

Above should read I just COULDN’T pass on this issue – sorry . I am a terrible typist.

DM – I wish there was an edit function on the page.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:56:59 +0000

I think that is exactly the argument of the incumbent school board members this year Scott.

Something like – Look at what our school system was like in 1996-2001 and look at how much better it is now. Why make any risky changes? This would particularly true for south-side voters.

I wish them luck, but I just don’t see “inside baseball” candidates – by “inside baseball” I mean arguments about the schools internal affairs as Mr. Goebel presented above – really winning over the majority of the voters who do not have kids currently in the schools.

The childless masses out there simply want to know if the schools generally doing a good job (I don’t know how you could argue that they are not) and are they spending our tax dollars wisely? If those answers are are “yes” then the incumbents get re-elected.