A for ART
C- for PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS
C- for PLANNING AND ECONOMICS
F for CIVICS
F for ETHICS

I’m talking about the ambitious, expensive and controversial master expansion plan that will be voted on 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 14 at the regular Board of Education meeting at Westchester School on Scott Boulevard.

A is for pretty pictures based on
C-minus for sketchy population growth numbers,
C-minus for expensive, poorly developed plans and the
F in Civics for trying to ram it all down the public’s throat and get the public to pay for it, without including the public in the process … and if that wasn’t enough
F in Ethics for trying to sneak a vote at a non-regularly scheduled meeting without public notice and then spending a month hosting five sham public meetings in which public comments were shunted off into a black hole.

The Decatur City Schools Board of Education can bring those grades up to straight As by tabling the vote and mounting appropriate public process and amending the plans OR by voting “NO” and moving to launch an appropriate public process to amend the plans.

Since the vote is still scheduled for this coming Tuesday, it’s probably too late to get into the details. Right now what we need is NO VOTE OR VOTE NO. Help tutor the Board of Education in its civic responsibility by writing to:

Marc J. Wisniewski (chair) mwisniewski@csdecatur.net
Bernadette J. Seals (vice chair) bseals@csdecatur.net
Valarie D. Wilson vwilson@csdecatur.net
Julie P. Rhame jrhame@csdecatur.net
C. Garrett Goebel ggoebel@scdecatur.net
Dr. Phyllis A. Edwards pedwards@csdecatur.net

Let’s show our kids how the world can be made … by engaged people uniting a vision for a noble ideal!

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” ~ Margaret Mead, anthropologist

“The only thing that is needed for evil to flourish is for good people to do nothing.” ~ Edmund Burke (for whom Burke County, Georgia is named)