Why are we digging into School business, uncovering questionable practices?
Why are we looking at School Board voting records and meeting notes to uncover abuses of power?
Why are we digging through the budget, line by line?
Why are we asking about the fund balance?
Why are we upset that the school can't produce a corrective action plan in response to the comptrollers audit?
Why are we involving politicians and lobbying in Albany?
Why are we digging into Open Meeting Law violations?
Why are we insisting on justification for "personnel" changes when we aren't school leaders?
Why are we pointing out misinformation, about test scores, discipline, performance records, secret files and anonymous surveys?
Why do we care if theres a qualified Special Education Chair?
Why are we appealing to the Commissioner?
Why are we questioning the hiring of unqualified people?
Why are we not okay with a hand picked, impersonal, aloof Superintendent?
Why are we insisting on a search for a qualified Superintendent, with vision and heart that matches our community?
WHY WHY WHY ?
Because members of our community, get up every morning and get their kids on the bus, despite personal struggles that the power players in our district can't possibly understand.
Because we have foster parents who take on some of the most difficult abuse and neglect cases anyone can imagine, sending those broken souls to our school to get some of the desperately needed healing they so deserve.
Because we have parents who adopt those same kids, believing above all else that love will conquer the demons these children came to them with and they fight, every single day, to do what they can to make that a reality.
Because we are a district that measures out at a 75% poverty rate....and you know what, our kids are spirited, feisty, awesome little human beings anyways, whose parents make up for the difference so that all of our children are of one community.
Because our Superintendent, Ass. Superintendent and BOE have become complacent in their idea of us as uneducated, unorganized and uncaring, our own BOE President stating "there is no community".
Because with poverty, with foster kids, comes a high need in compassion and Special Education, something our Principal and our Assistant Principal posses, while our invented "Assistant CSE Chair" refers to these children as "opportunities".
Because we have kids with Sensory Issues, ADD, ADHD, ODD, that are on the spectrum, that are immature or inexperienced, whose parents are exhausted and don't read for 20 minutes every night, that are classified our not yet classified, and our Administrators fight to keep them in the classroom until they find their own way regardless.
Because KWMR and the BOE are ignoring us, rolling their eyes at us, recruiting people to make their case among us, so we have to be louder and we will keep getting LOUDER and LOUDER until you do hear.
Because our District leadership counts on a separation between the "haves" and the "have nots", the degree holders and the average Joes. They do not realizing that while they get in their cars and drive back to Chenango Bridge every afternoon, we are playing sports, celebrating Birthdays, discussing bus arguments, having play dates, comparing homework answers and solving disputes.
Because when you mess with our kids, it cuts deep and we all bleed the same, you have empowered us to share our knowledge, our skills, our enthusiasm, our histories, our relationships and most of all our love for this place.
Because when you mess with our kids, it cuts deep and we all bleed the same, you have empowered us to share our knowledge, our skills, our enthusiasm, our histories, our relationships and most of all our love for this place.
Because we are ONE COMMUNITY. Because we CHOOSE US. Because our kids love their friends, because our kids don't care if their friends live in a fancy house or are in a perfectly lovely and manageable trailer, because our kids could give a crap about standardized tests, because our kids LOVE THEIR PRINCIPAL AND THEIR ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL and because YOU....KWMR and the BOE are breaking their hearts and in turn, breaking ours.
Because WE love OUR children. All of them. Our neighbors, our fosters, our suffering and our successful.
Because we know who we are. We love who we are.
This is our town, our community, our School.
Because it freakin matters that's why!
Enough is Enough.
Because it freakin matters that's why!
Enough is Enough.
NO MORE BUSINESS AS USUAL!
We are taking this School back.
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