Help Us! Give the School Board the Boot!

Ever wanted to feel empowered?  Ever wanted to do something that would be good for the community and get a rush of altruistic self-righteousness?  Want to do something positive to help bring up the value of your property or even lower the crime rate?  Then please, HELP US!

We are working hard every day to improve the quality of our school system and call out the corruption before it drags us all down.  This Thursday the state Board of Education may be able to help us make an important change in Dekalb by recommending to the Governor that he remove the entire school board.  

Here's how you can help us make sure that happens:

SIGN:  DeKalb County Resident Betsy Parks has done an outstanding job of gaining signatures for her online petition that ask the Governor to please give the school board the boot!  The petition goal is 1,500 and it is almost there!

WE ONLY NEED 9 MORE SIGNATURES!  If you have not signed the petition, please take a moment to do so RIGHT NOW:  

CLICK HERE TO SIGN PETITION!

WRITE:  Tom Taylor, District 79, has volunteered to hand-deliver personal letters from DeKalb residents to Governor Deal and/or the State Board of Education.  Rep. Taylor’s Chief of Staff, Page Olson, will be collecting letters at her home now through Tuesday, February 19, 2013.  Olson lives at 1148 Redfield Ridge in Dunwoody.  She’ll have a box at the top of her driveway for you to deposit your letter(s). Make sure that it is marked to go to either Governor Deal or the State BOE — or, better yet — send a personal letter to each.  Rep. Taylor will hand deliver to both offices on Wednesday morning, February 20, 2013.

Note:  your letters can be from you, your children and can be as short or long as necessary.  And, they can be ANONYMOUS   Please consider taking advantage of this offer by Rep. Taylor if you have information that you think is important to uncovering the corruption so our children can count on the adults in this school system turning their focus back to their education.


WATCH:  Scott Holcomb, District 81, intervened to make sure that the first hearing for the DeKalb County Schools BOE before the State Board of Education was streamed live so it could be watched online at home and at work by all interested.  This was especially good news for those who could not attend the hearing in person because of jobs and children.  Scott also took responsibility — without being asked — to make sure that the upcoming second hearing, scheduled for 8 AM, Thursday, February 21, 2013, would also be streamed live on the Department of Education website.  Thank you, Scott!

Here is the link:  http://www.gadoe.org/External-Affairs-and-Policy/State-Board-of-Education/Pages/Live-Webcasts.aspx