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School Board members should be open-minded and courteous to one another, open to the ideas of others, vs. being too dogmatic, and worse, wrong but inflexible.
Of interest, I have a small fold-over Payeur card that emphasizes first off, the importance of an open mind, as well as a trained one. In Payeur's wording, "School board members should be truly nonpartisan and able to hear multiple perspectives on issues and then use evidence and logical reasoning to make solid decisions."
You cannot argue with that. It defines a fitting perspective for anyone entering any meeting or discussion. Or position of responsibility over policies affecting many others. Those familiar with the recent history of this school board know about how factions exist and closed minds - minds like a steel trap, once triggered one way - exist; and the history is of a less than fully functioning system due to strongly held thinking set firmly in place and too narrow to admit there are more ways than one to get a job done.
Abbey will not be that kind of board member. There is no way she would be.
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I confess to having doubts about "the science of reading," but in this election both candidates should know that the issue of how to effectively teach reading exists and they should have cogent ideas about what is best for estudents. As one trained toward literacy teaching, Payeur deserves respect, and she and her opposing candidate(s) will have that issue to dissect and discuss. I look forward to hearing all sides, and weighing all factors, again including attention toward doctrinaire intransigency vs open-mindedness.
Anyone else having a vote on the seat this November should pay attention and vote the best candidate into the job of setting policy on how best to train the minds of those who will be our electorate of the future. Mistakes in choosing the best may not show up immediately, but we all know the wrong candidate for the job can be a problem with long-term consequences.
So, vote smart. Be informed before having the ballot in hand.
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A reader pointed out something which might add clarity. The official candidate filing period has not formally begun, so it is unclear here whether the incumbent in District 4, where Payuer is running, intends to run again or not. Crabgrass also does not know if the incumbent shares an appreciation of the essentiality of reading - how we keep to the ongoing process of educating ourselves into old age until death. (In one song Bob Dylan wrote, "He that isn't busy being born is busy dying." IT IS ONGOING.) Presumably one would not in good judgment be sitting on a school board without some view of reading as a needed skill. But again, the candidates will have time to discuss or debate priorities before Nov. 4. You can inform yourselves before then. School Boards matter.
Two links: ABC Newspapers. Minneapolis Media. ABC has been with us for some time. The second item is new and Crabgrass neither endorses it nor knows if it's objective or biased. The current report reads as unbiased. With reporting the upcoming election online, today, in varying fashion;