Ed Ross
School Board Candidate District 6
Here are the districts in Robertson County for the school board. This is the current list of school board members.
In the primary, you will have a choice between Jeff White and John Morris for district 3. This is for those that live in the Greenbrier and south of White House to Bethel Road. If you vote at the Greenbrier schools, these are your choices in the Republican primary. A forum was held last weekend by the Robertson County Republicans, and many of the candidates attended. There were several questions that I wanted to see answered, so I sent the questions to each candidate and will be bringing you their responses.
1. Explain your understanding of the role of the school board. While it is true that a school board is responsible for creating and revising policies that the director must use to conduct system-wide business, which includes all personnel, curriculum development, instruction, operations, vision, budget, and more, they must also define the direction of student success and service to parents. Board members must provide clear leadership that serves across the entire school community, which creates critical partnerships between teachers, parents, students, and community stakeholders. This leadership is responsible and accountable to the people who have elected them, and to all staff members, parents, students, and to county and state government officials.
2. How do you believe the school board could be more transparent? Our school board has distanced itself from parents, teachers, and community stakeholders by doing public business in private, and conveniently suppressing public comment at board meetings, to avoid conversation and confrontation. If elected I would work to actively invite the public to attend board meetings, and provide them with the full meeting agenda in advance, so that they may feel that their active participation is valued and respected. In addition, the board planning meeting, currently held an hour before the public meeting, would be used for agenda discussion, legal updates and advice, and private items concerning personnel. All agenda items legally appropriate for public knowledge will be motioned, discussed, and voted on in the public meeting, with public comments encouraged.
3. What is your view on public comment? Public comments are essential for developing a partnership of trust between school system officials, teachers, staff, parents, students, and community stakeholders.
4. In your opinion, what is the most pressing issue facing Robertson County Schools? Public schools are facing similar problems nation-wide, and under the traditional way of system-wide operation, problems will only increase, as national union influences push for more government sponsored socialist programs created by lofty Harvard elitists. We must keep focus on local solutions to social problems using Parent, Teacher, and Community Stakeholder Partnerships to cross seemingly impossible divides and foster student success. This is a starting place to deal with Failing Students, Social Promotion, Teacher Retention, and a Board non-transparency.
5. What makes you the best choice for the position? After a 40 plus year public school career, serving teachers, parents, students, and community stakeholders, my cause is to lead people into successful partnerships that help children. Because our school board does public business in private, and suppresses public comment and participation in our school system, and Constitutional Conservative Republicans believe in Transparency and, because I believe that our public school system can be saved by Parent Choice, where healthy competition creates OPTIONS that serve ALL parents, teachers, students, and stakeholders; and defeats the government influenced, socialist, national teacher unions who push insecurity and misinformation on teachers to retain political power and control.
6. In 3-4 sentences sum up why you are running for this seat. Children are the future of our community, and their parents are our clients! The “traditional” public school system method has been failing our children for decades with Marxist/socialism indoctrination that creates a sense of fear and insecurity in the minds of good people. FAILURE is not an option, and only courageous leadership change can solve this problem. And, simply put, I believe that we can still save our public school option. Perhaps I am one who can help.