Well, one can dream, right?
Thank you to Anonymous for finding this case. Doing the Google search on the keywords "Spirit Lake" school board remove shows quite a large body of information, including the actual recall petition.
"We, the undersigned Spirit Lake, Iowa registered voters and residents, state that we have "no confidence" in the abilities of the Spirit Lake School District Board of Directors, particularly under the guidance and direction of President Beth Will and Vice President Ann Goerss to responsibly direct the finances, budgets, contracts, and the public, professional, business meeting requirements of our Spirit Lake School District.
We therefore request the immediate resignation of President Beth Will, and Vice President Ann Goerss so as to allow for responsible fiduciary actions and ethical conduct in doing the public business of the Spirit Lake School District. We find we are in a time of true crisis and thus must be able to peacefully and respectfully have our school district able to move forward in a positive, ethical and legal way."
I like the way that sounds...Will it work on defeatist and defunct borough council members as well?
Saturday, May 24, 2008
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I think this is the way to go. I'm so afraid of the damage that would be done before the state steps in. I'm sure they have their hands full. "Little Hitler" MUST go along with his cronies. Just a thought ....I think there should be some kind of "test" an individual must pass before becomming a School Board Member. Not any Joe blow should be able to be elected unless they have some credentials that warrant their eligibility to perform their duties as a member and for the betterment of the school and the town. C'mon people come out of the wood work and make ourselves known and actually start to do something before it's too late.
Just the Emperor and Angry Al? Aren't you leaving out, at a minimum, Marlys Mihok? Or are you going to deny that you left her out? Or blame it on the Courier Times, perhaps? Or are you advocating leaving one of the "Big Three" (GM, Ford, Chrysler? FDR, Churchill, Stalin? Hitler, Stalin, Mao?) behind to clean up the mess they created, ....er, I mean inherited? Kinda like Joe Pesci's character Louie Kritski in the 1991 blockbuster hit movie "The Super", in which a callous landlord in sentenced to live in his own hovel for 6 months? Nah, the movie that really comes to mind is the 1997 Jim Carrey vehicle "Liar Liar"....
Q. What do you call a thousand lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean?
A. A good start.
The rest of them will implode harmlessly without someone else to do their thinking for them.
What is so tragic about the Morrisville School Board is who would replace them? The old school board insulted seniors and disrespected parents & community members. Our community needs a school board that after thorough evaluation of the school buildings reaches the right conclusion. Renovation has to be cheaper than a building a brand new school. I don’t know the answer but if necessary, I would pay the increase in taxes. Raise my taxes but don’t run the school into the ground to force a state take over. I pay the increase in gas, groceries and bills. I pay my federal taxes so the senior have Medicare and Social Security. Our childrens’ education is our communities’ investment into the future.
If the accountant can’t balance our budget and fulfill the state and federal requirements for special education students than lets find someone with a heart and soul who can.
Why not start with a more practical experiment.
For this experiment you need:
1 set of "Robert's Rules of Order"
1 dictator
5 sheep
2 board members willing to buck the system
Meeting 1:
Board member 1 (let's call him Joe) could make a motion to remove the dictator as president of the board. Board member 2 (let's call her Robin) would second the motion. With a motion and a second on the floor the motion will be open for discussion. The two board members will make a case that, for the good of Morrisville, someone else should be the board president. A CALM and LEVEL argument for the motion must prevail. Do not let the temperature rise too high before turning down the heat. (Predicted outcome: The sheep will quietly gnaw at the grass. The Dictator will get angry. The motion, upon a vote, will be defeated.)
Meeting 2:
Repeat the experiment. Note the changes in the sheep. Suggest another board member as a replacement (it doesn't matter who, the object is to shake the dictators confidence. Even a replacement by the Vice President,(let's call him Al) would be a successful conclusion to this experiment. In fact, it might serve the experiment if you started with the most acerbic replacement, and on each iteration suggest amore acceptable candidate).
Repeat over and over again until a change in results becomes evident.
This experiment in civil protest should produce some very interesting results. The idea is not to remove the dictator from the board, just to remove him from the role of dictator.
Shadman that's a great idea. Make them pass a test and why don't we have you draft and grade the tests. Who needs a school board elected by the people anyway? The last board just did their own thing and wasted millions. Now the evil new school board is cutting costs. Oh my!!! what shall we all do shadman? Perhaps we should dethrone the emperor and elect you as king. To bad though that you probably couldn't pass the test. By the way shadman, I know Joe Blow and you're no Joe Blow.
Wasted Millions? That's purely a matter of perspective. It could easily be argued that the current board wasted the money by derailing a project that had great promise, but I suppose recognizing any other perspective but your own would just be too damn hard to do. There should be a literacy requirement for holding public office, especially a School Director position. It shouldn't just be another high school popularity contest as you suggest.
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