There are ten School Board candidates running for five seats on the 2020 School Board Elections–Shearra Miller, Richard Hooker and Roger Harris. The establishment elites are working hard to re-elect these three to go along with incumbents Phillip “Bully” Glover and Coleman Hunt to form a majority on the nine-person school board. That way they can keep control of the School Board by liberal tax and spenders. And continue their never-ending cover-ups.
The “establishment” has decided to attack dedicated “change” candidates like Samantha Davis, Robert Queen, Ron Humphries, Joel Shores and Rodney Fitch. Hoping that Miller, Hooker, Harris, Tolbert and Taylor will win. Or at least Miller, Hooker and Harris. But any combination of three of those last five candidates combined with Glover and Hunt will maintain the School Board status quo-to the detriment of all 14,000 students at CCS. While all of these candidates, Davis, Queen, Humphries, Shores and Fitch must win election in order to make the necessary changes on the School Board and at CCS.
My prediction for the CLOSED SESSION 2020 Elections School Board forum at CCC is this.
Based on 10 candidates and a two-hour forum the time breaks down like this:
• 120 minutes divided by 10 Candidates equals 12 minutes each.
• Opening and closing statements by the moderators plus the time it takes to read out each question will take at least 15 minutes total. There will also likely be a 15-minute break. Thirty minutes in all. Subtract 30 minutes from 120 minutes give you 90 minutes of candidate time. Nine Minutes each.
• Question time limits will vary from 30 seconds to two minutes. Closing statement time is only one minute. So, out of 9 total minute per candidate with a one-minute closing statement, leaves only eight minutes for questions.
• Two 30 second questions, two 60 second questions, two 90 second questions and one 120 second questions for each candidate and they are all done with the issues.
Common sense tells all of us that education in America is on a downturn. With the slope down being steep. American Education was the best in the world when I was coming along in School over 50 years ago. We put a man on the moon in 1969 and have not do so again sic ethos Apollo space shots. President Bill Clinton sold our last Saturn V rocket to China in the 1990s. Now many third world countries have better education systems than the USA. We are not even in the Top Ten anymore.
So how can any school board candidate describe their plan to recover the American Education system here in Cleveland County in eight minutes. Or eight hours. When years will obviously be required if we started tomorrow.
You don’t have to be an Einstein, a rocket scientist or a nuclear engineer to figure that out. But we have to start somewhere. And this 2020 Cleveland Community College School Board forum that excludes the public is not likely going to be that starting point. And, it appears that this forum is part of a planned scheme to NOT be a starting point for changing our direction from down to UP.
As for me, I attended the 2020 Primary Elections School Board forum as well as other forums in the past. I have attended most of the School Board meetings and watch the videos on all that I missed. I have studied each candidate and have already come to my conclusions.
This is a “cut” from the 2020 School Board ballot. These are the candidates I recommend. Take a look at the sample ballot and tune in to this 2020 School Board Forum on Channel-19. Compare your impressions with mine. I suspect our conclusions will be the same.
One warning, remember that the incumbents will be treated better than anybody else. For the reasons provided in this article.
2020 General Election School Board Sample Ballot:
