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Let me warn you right off the bat: This post has nothing to do with Homeschooling, church, God, Dancing with the Stars, although I was right about who would be kicked off. Next, better be that Adam dude.

This post has to do with the communities interest in the area school board election. Just because I teach my child at home doesn't mean that I should bury my head in the sand and not involve myself in local elections. I grew up here, worked for the district and loved every minute of it. I love the people and it hurts my heart to see what is going on.

Recently, some things going on at MISD have not been in the best interest of the staff. Good people have been treated badly, teachers rearranged to benefit certain students, jobs disappear then reappear the next week. People called into the principals office for a letter written to a newspaper, Sound fishy??

This school district needs to have a school board that will hold the administration accountable. It will all start with the election in May.

I think we as a community had better wake up and look around us to see what is actually happening here. Traditions and Dedication is being taken away from us, one chip at a time. By Whom? Why? and Why are we allowing this to continue? This is Our School District. Our Community. Have we as a community lost our small town principles, values and morals for national ranking and state recognition?

Change only begins with the school board. Lets face it…nothing happens in “the land of the panther” without making other changes also.

People are scared for their jobs. It is so sad to see and hear of the disrespect that is happening to our Faculty and to many of our Students.

This school board election should be about who is the best candidate for the good of our school district: our children, our teachers, our staff, our administration, and the parents.

So many times voters say that they voted for the candidate who phoned them, or they voted for the candidate whose name they saw most often on the campaign signs, or they voted for the candidate who had the most "important" sounding credentials. Hopefully, none of us do that without knowing the candidate's position on the issues of the school district.

On April 22 at 7pm at the Fire Station there will be a School Board Candidate Forum. Please inform yourself. There are three new candidates who are vying for positions on the school board: Tyson Johnson, Todd Grimes, Jeff Gaddis. All are hometown guys. Each live here and are raising their children here. Each, in my opinion, would hold the administration accountable and to a higher standard.

Let's not settle for the "status quo" any longer!

Change and Hope, Hope and Change...