When will “SH” come forward and stand behind their statement?

This last Monday August 25th I attended my very first Kirkwood Board of Education meeting. Having no munchkins at all yet or any other family attending a school in the district, I have not seen a need to attend these meetings. I do glance over the updates the Board prints and sends out. The standardized testing scores the students get seem to be good. I do not hear complaints from my friends and neighbors that do have kids in the district’s schools. So, like most folks I leave the issues in the hands of the folks we elected to serve us and our community’s students – the Board of Education.

Before I go any further I want readers to know I do bring a unique perspective to School Board issues, since I was raised by my mother who is now a retired teacher. I have first-hand experiences of what it takes to be a dedicated elementary school teacher as I watched my mother’s career of 27 years. I have been a part of the struggles and the rewards. It is incredible to be out with her and people will recognize her, then go on and on about what an impact she had on their life as their teacher. Not only does my Mama get the “big head” about it, but I do too! Hey that’s my Mama! She kicked butt and took names as a teacher. Just ask her … or … me for that matter! (wink)

On Monday I came to my first meeting to see what would be said and not said by those attending. My interest had been peaked by an anonymous and of course pathetic comment that was made in a June 9th Kmail. Supposedly, some resident identified by Keith Williams as “SH” said:

“I trust none of them. They are snakes who present information w/ their own spin on it. Then they act like people who call them out on it are the enemy. I am not the enemy. I just want fairness and reasonableness. As long as people have a myopic view that those running our schools can do no wrong, we're hopelessly screwed!”

Yet, that night no one came up to the podium and uttered this quote. As I have said before on this issue, “SH” is clearly a person that is devoid of the quality of character to publicly address our elected school board members, look them in the eye, make this statement and stand by it. So, this person slithers over to Keith, hides behind Kmail, so they together can make their political attacks with anonymity. So, who are the real snakes in this instance?

This kind of a statement by “SH” makes me question just how much this person wants “fairness” or “reasonableness.” They are definitely providing neither. Their lack of corresponding action does not match their anonymous run-off-of-the-mouth.

Like all too many of the “Alleged Disenfranchised” in this community “SH” is – All Bluster, All Slam, All Hype.

When will “SH” come forward and stand behind their statement?

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