[ale] DeKalb County School Board candidacy announcement

[Derek Atkins]

Congrats and good luck.  If I lived in DeKalb I'd vote for you!  :)

-derek

On Tue, May 22, 2012 5:58 pm, Jim Kinney 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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