Evert Mol & the Future of FWCS
Posted by Jeff Pruitt - 10/22/08 @ 6:00 am - Filed Under 2008 Local Elections, Featured
Evert Mol, Fort Wayne Community School Board candidate, had an excellent op-ed piece in one local paper today that you should take the time to read. Mol lays out the problems with the current board and where we need to go in the future:
Despite its stated objective and state and federal mandates to improve test scores, Fort Wayne Community Schools has gone five years with no improvement. Incumbent board member Steve Corona and other board members did not set measurable objectives for academic improvement until this year and still don’t have a timetable for coming into compliance. Up to now they have been satisfied with staying the course
This statements get to the core of the problem regarding the FWCS board. Members like Corona would rather yap about public relations nonsense than actually make an honest assessment of our schools and what we need to do to give our students the kind of education they deserve.
Ostriches like Corona bury their head in the sand and refuse to address the serious realities within our school system. Stop telling me we are “ on the verge of greatness“. Stop telling me we don’t have a discipline problem and that we should be a model for every other district. Stop hiring consultants to come in and blow smoke up my ass.
Show me the results. Show me how you’re going to get from A to B. What these current yahoos do is hope the problem gets better. Just like mayor Henry hopes the budget problem fixes itself. Just like President Bush kept saying “the fundamentals of our economy are sound” - we know better; we’re not stupid.
This isn’t an election where PR flaks and spinsters should be rewarded for duping voters. There are real consequences at stake here. If we don’t start making progress in this school district then things are going to get real bad, real quick - ask Indianapolis.
Ask yourself this - should anyone be on the school board for 30 years? How much longer can we afford to send tired candidates like Corona back to the well? If Corona had any ideas that were worth exploring and could get this district back on track wouldn’t he have tried them sometime over the last 3 decades?
I realize that most people could care less about school board races but these things really matter. Producing a viable and educated workforce is vital to our future local economy. And don’t forget that if the board majority, led by Corona, would’ve had their way then you would be preparing to pay half a billion dollars more in taxes right now.
And guess how much of that would’ve gone towards academic achievement? Zero. Not a single penny. I realize change is a slogan but it’s also an incredibly important mechanism voters can use to keep the system populated with fresh ideas from new individuals. If there was ever a governing body that needed change it is the Fort Wayne Community School Board…
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The community should be grateful that we have someone like Evert. Not often that people with common sense like Evert run for office. I don’t know how one can’t vote for him.
Agreed Jeff(s)…that was one damn fine editorial!
I will say you went “easy” with the head/sand thing.
I could have sworn that cranium was buried “elsewhere”…!
JP: Damn fine observations (read facts) by you as well!
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B.G.