[ale] DeKalb County School Board candidacy announcement

[Tim Watts]

You have my support -- and my sympathy.  And if district 4 includes
Kirkwood then my vote as well (don't remember if I get to vote for all
slots or just my district).  Our civic institutions need more
civic-minded folks like you.


On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 17:58 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> It is with no small degree of impending community and personal
> responsibility that these words are written. As I have been involved
> with the lives of many people over the more than 2 decades living in
> DeKalb County, involved with the upbringing of my own children,
> involved with education both of myself, my wife and my children and
> the children of others, I know solidly that there is little else we do
> as adults that has more importance than to prepare the next generation
> for the world they will inherit from us. To this end I have worked
> with the graduates of DeKalb County School System at Georgia State
> University, Emory University and Georgia Perimeter College  as an
> instructor of physics and astronomy. I have seen first hand many of
> the strengths and weaknesses of our county school system both in the
> students I have taught, my own children, their friends and the
> children of friends as well as in my interactions with school
> officials and teachers over the past 20 years. I have weathered the
> divisiveness of power during a fight for school control that resulted
> in forced faculty changes and parents pulling their children from the
> school to avoid recriminations from the teachers that won. I have been
> compelled to act on behalf of faculty, students and staff when central
> office processes had totally failed and health and safety issues were
> putting all school members at risk.
> 
> As I discussed my views and convictions surrounding the DeKalb County
> School System with my family and friends, I discovered a community of
> supporters encouraging my greater involvement. As my resolve steeled
> with the rising awareness of the work ahead, the circle of supporters
> widened. Speaking briefly of intentions with parents, community people
> and teachers within the school system has provided the final
> conviction that the level of effort is recognized by more than just a
> few and I am not alone in willingness to work towards the betterment
> of DeKalb County School System for the benefit of all.
> 
> To this end, I announce my candidacy for the DeKalb County Board of
> Education District 4 for the General Election on November 6, 2012
> 
> -- 
> -- 
> James P. Kinney III
> 
> As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
> consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as
> they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the
> outcome.
> - 2011 Noam Chomsky
> 
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> 
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