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School Board Election

It’s official.  I dropped off the letter of intent and statement of interests today.  I am seeking a 3 year term on the school board for our district.  Wish me luck. Given my background in technology, I imagine that if I get elected, I will be on the technology committee.  Anything that we can do to prepare students for the future, be it technology or what have you, we need to find a way to do it. It will be interesting to see what happens.  Since we placed David in the psychiatric facility last fall, our interactions with the school have been largely nonexistent.  Other than parent teacher conferences, or IEP meetings for our other children at the high school, things have been for the most part positive. With that, there will be little for me to write about our district.  If I don’t win election, it will seem like

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Local School Board

Someone resigned from our local school board.  Rather than holding an immediate election, they advertise for “letters of interest”. I submitted a letter of interest in filling the remainder of the term.  It is something like one year.  After which I would have to run for reelection. I am kind of excited about it.  After the school and our family largely settled our differences regarding David, things have been going fairly well. Time will tell.  Right now the key issue is a severe lack of space.  We are on the edge of an oil field that is booming and our student population is going through the roof. Wish me luck. Tweet #fighting4answrs

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