[ale] DeKalb County School Board candidacy announcement

[Charles Shapiro]

Darn.  I also am outside your district. I'll put up a yard sign and
check with my local friends who may live there however.

-- CHS

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> 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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