JIM REEDThere is a lack of governance on our school board. It is clear to me that many of the problems in the past have been made by a superintendent that lacked supervision from our school board. Either the school board was not paying attention, did not want to micro-manage his decisions and policies or they approved of his actions. None one of these scenarios is valid to me and shows a lack of governance on the part of our school board. |
Top Thing he Wants to Accomplish
I personally like great work coming from the skills USA program. Industry is having a hard time finding skilled workers for high paying jobs.
The dual immersion program seems to be popular with citizens that have kids in our schools.
I support the effort of the board trying to expand the program into more grades.
One of the most important improvements for me would be to keep the teacher’s political preferences out of the classrooms.
I think it is imperative we get back to teaching our students HOW to think, not WHAT to think.
Students should be taught the curriculum and figure out what they think about a subject instead of teachers telling them what to think.
The dual immersion program seems to be popular with citizens that have kids in our schools.
I support the effort of the board trying to expand the program into more grades.
One of the most important improvements for me would be to keep the teacher’s political preferences out of the classrooms.
I think it is imperative we get back to teaching our students HOW to think, not WHAT to think.
Students should be taught the curriculum and figure out what they think about a subject instead of teachers telling them what to think.
What Experiences, Past jobs, or Education makes him qualified for School Board?
- A resident of Paso Robles for over 30 years.
- A father of an PRHS alumni
Why did he decide to run?I am a concerned taxpayer. I have concerns about how our tax dollars are being spent by our school board. Currently 61 % of our property taxes go to the schools and that is only half of the money that goes to the schools. The other half is from other tax dollars that we pay to the state.
This year we will getting back from the state around 80 million dollars of our tax money for our schools. Too many times over the last several years we have heard that the school budget has been mis-spent, for example, needless cost overruns for improvements and questionable hiring of expensive administrative employees. These are funds that would be better spent on educating our students. |
How will he respond to COVID-19 as a member of the School Board?The public only seems to hear what the school’s administration wants us to hear. I haven’t really heard much from what the citizens want with respect to the children attending schools.
From the little I have heard, people with children in schools want the kids back in school and most of the teachers want to be back in schools as well. I know there are some teachers that don’t want to be in the classroom. It seems to me the teachers that don’t want to be in class can have their class over the internet like they have been doing already. The teachers and children that want to be in school should be able to do that. There are plenty of protection measures to follow to keep them safe. I have been asked how we will pay for it. I believe a budget of $80 million per year is enough money to pay to educate our children. |