To the editor:
“Capturing Kids’ Hearts” cost the district $65k, correct? Just to teach our teachers to ask kids “What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Why aren’t you doing what you should? What’s gonna happen if you don’t do what you should?”
There are a bunch of free “Love & Logic” slideshows available online that could have been used for a PD instead. Heck, you can get a copy of the book for under $4 and share it with our staff, and the learning from a book would be immensely deeper than some PD presentations. Every teacher should have read this book (and others) during their pre-service education and have already known how to best relate to all kids in the first place.
In my opinion, this was wasteful spending. Not a single board member has any relevant teaching experience, and it shows, even if they can’t see it.
While I’m at it, how many tens of thousands were spent on replacing the decorative metal facade around the high school building with a different decorative metal facade? Hope you guys are getting kickbacks or at least a fruit basket from Tower Pinkster for your generous contributions.
Also, most of the trees and landscape plants on our school grounds are dead or dying due to horrible care. The truth hurts.
Apologies for the call out, but my previous call-ins do not receive replies from our board members.
— Jake Gless, former school board candidate and art teacher at Lakewood Schools.
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