Democracy...government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.....
but not in Gilbert.
Tonight, Brad and I attended a Gilbert Public Board meeting. The discussion was about increasing the Gilbert school mandated credits to graduate from 22 to 24. (Az State only required 22). For 3 hours, we heard people give 3-minute speeches on how this would affect their choices, their family time, their motivation and the kids' desire to succeed. Wonderful speeches (Brad spoke too). Not one person was IN FAVOR of this change. Not one!! After all these speeches, the board had a "discussion". It was futile. They had already made up their minds and after pontificating their thought process, the vote was 3-2. We booed them! It was amazing to see the voice of the people say one thing, and then see "OUR" elected officials vote another way. As the President was making her remarks, she said:
"I can agree to give ONE FREEDOM BACK"
I'm hoping this becomes a big snow-ball. It really doesn't even affect Aly. It affects all those coming into the Gilbert School system. Students do not have the choice. They are now required to take electives. This does NOT include seminary. So, for the LDS, the seminary classes have now become impossible unless there is summer school. I hope all those who read this understand how important it is to be heard. Tonight, there was standing room only. Many people are mad, upset and ready to take action. We were absolutely shocked with the outcome. It shows me that the last days are coming and even our government can become corrupted in minor or major ways. Our voice was NOT heard tonight. It was amazing!
6 comments:
As Christs work moves forward, Satan will continue to affect the world in small and large ways. That is so frusterating for the seminary kids - they already have to take an A hour class!
Hope the teachers fight on this because they will be the ones in summer school as well!!! Someone has to teach those kids!
Honestly, what is the point of having a meeting to include parents thoughts and then just vote against it? What is so great about moving it from 22 to 24 credits?
Sorry to hear your voices were not heard. You are right - this is an amazing example of the last days....
as does your school council or whatever they are called realize that this idea of theirs is going to cost the school system more money?? for teachers, books, etc...
(you can probably tell this is bothering me...) :)
Money was a joke. They had just put numbers together 2 days ago. It's ONLY going to cost the Gilbert District 1.5 or so million dollars!! As the state as just announced that there WILL be budget cuts in the education system, Gilbert is going to spend at least 1.5 million. They tried to justify that is wasn't "TOO MUCH". It was amazing. I can't tell you the shock of the crowd, the audacity of the board to go directly against the voice of the people. AMAZING
1.5 million dollars can be spent in MUCH better ways. WOW!!!
The Gilbert school board is sooo crazy. They also just decided on "Campo Verde" as the name for the new high school coming down by us. So many people complained when they picked that name (it doesn't relate to anything near here)that they decided to open it up for the public to submit names and then vote.
So you know what happened? Campo Verde came in 7th in the vote....did they change the name to any of the 6 more popular names? Nope. Why did they open it up at all if they were going to ignore the public's input.
They are crazy.
looks like it needs to be re-election time! can the public vote for people in those spots? or is gilbert forever stuck with these crazies???
Post a Comment