![]() Please don’t say that some school board expert guy got up here to talk with you about all this. Take that one off the banned word list and add expert to it because I’m sick of it. You should be calling yourself a US citizen instead. Stanford had their whole banned word list that they had on there. That is a label to shut down any type of dialogue and pretend that you can’t use your own brain to figure things out. Stanford added that whole-I mean if 2020 has proved anything else it is that expertise is dead in the country. I’m so sick of the word expert, I could scream. One thing I’ll caution against, though, is don’t call me an expert, please. They’ve never had somebody in there in the details that knows what they’re about and I’m sitting across from a superintendent, and we both know the game that’s being played right now. I’ll tell you, in a couple of the boards that this has come up with, and they have a contract with me, the right people are freaking out because the fox is in the henhouse. Then like I said, what I’m bringing to the table here is the inside information. You need to know these things, hold them accountable to it, make them commit to it. ![]() These are the things that your candidates should agree to take action on when they get in there. One point to lay out here is something for the first hundred days about these are the things that board should be pursuing, and these are the things that you should be expecting them to pursue. What I realized and what I’ve seen boards do is if they get in there, the dog has caught the car, and they don’t know what the first thing is to do. I’m going to write up here, what you should see boards doing right off the bat. The goal and what I’m going to share this afternoon are ideas about how we can help the majority identify what’s happening and (unintelligible) hold schools accountable and cut through all the baloney excuses and stonewalling that most of these districts have to face, and most of these boards need to face. There’s another level, and it’s the partner on the grassroots side, and it’s the district-specific in the details, the district response of what’s particular to this school, this type of schools in this district. Heritage is doing a great job and other groups that are getting the policies, giving the legal, giving the financial, giving Robert’s rules of order. There are an increasingly number of state-level groups. That’s how I got to the point of forming a K-12 consulting company to do this for reform-minded school board majorities. I was looking out there and thinking, they need somebody on our side that can do the things that the other side has been doing that a board can contract with or bring in to consult with. What I realized especially as you started seeing some boards that flipped and then were having a very hard time making headway, even in the majority, or you had some board members who weren’t necessarily following through on the things that they were promising. It’s all their own friends, and they’re just paying them off, and they’re all on the same team. They can use this consultant for an equity audit, use this one to bring in SEL, use this one to change up this curriculum. They have all the consultants in the world to choose from to bring this stuff in. What I also knew is that you have board members getting onto the board, but then they’re running into a machine, a machine that, like I said, has been doing this for decades, controls all the levers of power, has a ton of money behind it, has, increasingly, goons that will come out and yell and scream until they get their way. It is very much within education….It’s a do-or-die moment. They…If we don’t make most of this chance, we’re not going to be at another one. It took almost 100 years for us to start playing the game, and they have 100 year head start. Actually, getting some school board candidates elected onto boards (unintelligible) from a minority to a majority.
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