This was a letter that was sent to me that I would like to share with the Seattle community:
Dora
Dear Seattle Teachers and Seattle Education Advocates –
On Wed. 19 Oct the ballots go in the mail for the Seattle School Board election of Tues. 8 November.
WE each need to get 5 people WE know to vote for the FOUR challengers to the school board.
– Do YOU want to be on Strike in Sept. 2013 because the fellow travelers of Maria Goodloe-Johnson’s management by disruption, confusion and chaos have changed their tunes but NOT their behaviors?
–The more disruptions from downtown, the less we can help our kids.
–The more the school board is dancing to the tunes of education “reformers” who RARELY help us do our jobs better, the more disruptions from downtown.
–The LESS we participate, the more the school board dances and the more downtown disrupts.
–It doesn’t require a mountain of degrees to figure out, because it is simple cause and effect.
Read the words of a Tacoma teacher who has taught at Lincoln High School for 21 years and who was on strike this year.
WE each need to get 5 people WE know to vote for the FOUR challengers to the school board.
On the weekend of Saturday the 22nd and Sunday the 23rd of October – email or call 5 friends or relatives living in Seattle,
TELL them to get their ballots,
TELL them to open the ballots,
TELL them we get incessant new directives,
TELL them we get lots of highly paid bosses churning our directives,
TELL them how much help YOU get for YOUR kids in YOUR class, and
TELL THEM HOW TO VOTE. Period.
Remember – most people haven’t a clue about the School Board – you do.
REPLACE ALL 4 SEATTLE SCHOOL BOARD INCUMBENTS
Please vote on Tuesday 8 November to replace all 4 Seattle School Board Incumbents.
DISTRICT 1
SHARON PEASLEE (Vs. Incumbent Peter Maier)
http://sharonpeasleeforschoolboard.com/
DISTRICT 2
KATE MARTIN (Vs. Incumbent Sherry Carr)
http://katemartinforschoolboard.com/
DISTRICT 3
MICHELLE BUETOW (Vs. Incumbent Harium Martin-Morris)
http://buetowforschoolboard.com/
DISTRICT 6
MARTY MCLAREN (vs. Incumbent Steve Sundquist.)
Seattle area citizen bloggers have done outstanding work investigating the work, the votes and the policies of the Seattle School Board. If you don’t want to believe me –
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE !!!! At least skim the 2 blog diaries which follow – the titles and the urls are below.
Seattle School Board’s Voting Record: Yes, Yes, Yes and Yes
Posted on June 24, 2011 by seattleducation2011
Seattle Public School Board’s Voting Record, Yes, Yes, Yes and Yes.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2011
Can You Hear You?
Seattle Education 
Thank you Dora!
Sadly, our Seattle School Board is mesmerized by anything and everything which comes wrapped in a fancy job title, a fancy degree, a fancy office, lots of fancy connections, and HEAPS of fancy paychecks.
Someday the people outside the school buildings with all the fancy ideas for inside the school building will be required to pay for those ideas, instead of just issuing edicts. and making our jobs inside the buildings more complicated.