Tracy Boyd, for JMCSS School Board
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As a former student of the Jackson Madison County School System, I understand that this school system needs improvement. I want to help improve it!
I'm not interested in running for the board so I can impose all of my idiosyncratic preferences on the district regardless of whether anyone wants them. Our best hope is a system that reflects the ambitions and values of this community. I believe in the great potential of community-based, democratically accountable public schools.
As I begin my campaign for the Jackson Madison County School System Board of Education, District 6, Position 1, I have one goal in mind, and that is to SERVE OUR STUDENTS.
In order to do that, I must get elected. This requires petitions, mailings, signs, t-shirts, and much more. I wish that this was a job for which I could just sit down and interview but unfortunately it's not.
I look forward to the challenge!
I'm running for School Board, District 6, Position 1 for several reasons:
Our district needs to be more responsive to what the community wants. Too often district policies- for example, the new school day schedule, or the dismayingly short elementary school lunch periods, or the continual talk of school closures- seem to descend from on high, without any regard to community input.
I want to keep ALL of our schools OPEN. Closing schools when enrollment is expanding makes no sense and is needlessly divisive and expensive.
( On 3/8/2016, I took a visit to some of the schools in the JMCSS, and I spoke with some of the teacher's about concerns they may have about more than 3or 4 schools closing by the next school year, and concerns were definitley raised. 1. Overcrowding in the school 2. Additional Behavoral Problems 3. Ratio of Students to Teachers, 4. The extra amount of work that will be placed on educators, etc... It's like we're trying to eliminate one thing, but we're adding another thing to it)
Thirdly, we should pay special attention to the needs of disadvantaged students and their familes. In my view, those familes are the bestjudges of what those needs are. We should seek out their advice and bring it to bear on district policy.
Teachers and school staff have invaluable knowledge about what is happening in our schools and what might need to change. They should not feel inhibited for any reason from speaking publicly about the district's policies and practices. I'd like to develop an employee free speech policy to ensure that school staff will feel free- and encouraged-to contribute publicy to the discussions about our schools.
We need sound, capable managment from our administrators, but on policy issues the board should lead, not follow, the administration. The board is the only democratically accountable element in what would otherwise be an insulated and self-reinforcing system. It needs to speak up for the community and push back against proposals that don't have the support of the public.
In order to share my vision with our community and be elected to the Jackson Madison County School Board in this upcoming elections, I need support and funding.
I must be sure that voters are aware of my qualifications and my candidacy, while ensuring they understand my commitment to students and taxpayers.
Your donations will be spent promoting my candidacy. I appreciate anything you can give, no matter how small.
Follow my campaign on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/WeWantTracy
Follow my campaign on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TracyDjuan
I'm not interested in running for the board so I can impose all of my idiosyncratic preferences on the district regardless of whether anyone wants them. Our best hope is a system that reflects the ambitions and values of this community. I believe in the great potential of community-based, democratically accountable public schools.
As I begin my campaign for the Jackson Madison County School System Board of Education, District 6, Position 1, I have one goal in mind, and that is to SERVE OUR STUDENTS.
In order to do that, I must get elected. This requires petitions, mailings, signs, t-shirts, and much more. I wish that this was a job for which I could just sit down and interview but unfortunately it's not.
I look forward to the challenge!
I'm running for School Board, District 6, Position 1 for several reasons:
Our district needs to be more responsive to what the community wants. Too often district policies- for example, the new school day schedule, or the dismayingly short elementary school lunch periods, or the continual talk of school closures- seem to descend from on high, without any regard to community input.
I want to keep ALL of our schools OPEN. Closing schools when enrollment is expanding makes no sense and is needlessly divisive and expensive.
( On 3/8/2016, I took a visit to some of the schools in the JMCSS, and I spoke with some of the teacher's about concerns they may have about more than 3or 4 schools closing by the next school year, and concerns were definitley raised. 1. Overcrowding in the school 2. Additional Behavoral Problems 3. Ratio of Students to Teachers, 4. The extra amount of work that will be placed on educators, etc... It's like we're trying to eliminate one thing, but we're adding another thing to it)
Thirdly, we should pay special attention to the needs of disadvantaged students and their familes. In my view, those familes are the bestjudges of what those needs are. We should seek out their advice and bring it to bear on district policy.
Teachers and school staff have invaluable knowledge about what is happening in our schools and what might need to change. They should not feel inhibited for any reason from speaking publicly about the district's policies and practices. I'd like to develop an employee free speech policy to ensure that school staff will feel free- and encouraged-to contribute publicy to the discussions about our schools.
We need sound, capable managment from our administrators, but on policy issues the board should lead, not follow, the administration. The board is the only democratically accountable element in what would otherwise be an insulated and self-reinforcing system. It needs to speak up for the community and push back against proposals that don't have the support of the public.
In order to share my vision with our community and be elected to the Jackson Madison County School Board in this upcoming elections, I need support and funding.
I must be sure that voters are aware of my qualifications and my candidacy, while ensuring they understand my commitment to students and taxpayers.
Your donations will be spent promoting my candidacy. I appreciate anything you can give, no matter how small.
Follow my campaign on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/WeWantTracy
Follow my campaign on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TracyDjuan
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Tracy Boyd
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Jackson, TN