School board doesn’t need dangerous agendas

Thompson School District voters will replace the board, voting for four of seven members. Voters must elect a school board whose focus is guaranteeing a stable public education system rather than one whose agenda is dangerous, likely to throw the delicate system into chaos.

Those closest to Thompson schools — parents, families and educators — don’t trust the reform candidates whose political agenda uses our students as pawns. Politics is about public policy. It’s not a bad word, but when we witness a nationalized agenda surface violently at our local school board meetings and these reform candidates emerge as a slate afterward, it is very concerning.

I’ve gone public discussing issues in our district that demoralize staff like measly wages, aggressive HR interactions and wasteful district spending. That doesn’t mean I want to throw the baby out with the bathwater and vote for a neo-conservative political faction at the board level. I will support strong candidates and then support them making changes at the district level to improve outcomes for all our students once elected.

Please join me in voting for Alexandra Lessem, Amy Doran, Jarrett Roberts and Barb Kruse. Let’s keep kids, not dangerous agendas, the focus of our schools.

Janice Marchman Loveland