I’m writing as a member of the Sequim Committee for K-5 Schools, a group of more than a dozen parents who’ve led the backlash to our school board’s decision to reconfigure our elementary schools.
We didn’t know one another before this controversy, but we’ve become fast friends, united by our common commitment to advocate for our children.
Countless other parents, teachers and community members have worked with us to organize protests, communicate with the board and superintendent, fundraise and share our perspective through news outlets and social media, but it’s our small committee that has managed our Facebook group, of more than 800 members, and chosen school board candidates to endorse: Dean Christian, Jim Shepherd and Hunter Gilliam.
We believe the reconfiguration will be a net negative for students, but we’re even more concerned about the way it was decided.
Our school board has shown itself to be untrustworthy, and thus we’re hoping you’ll help us vote them out.
We live in a time of intense partisanship, and some are wondering if there’s a partisan angle to these non-partisan elections.
The Sequim Committee for K-5 Schools is not a partisan group.
We include Democrat, Republican and independent voters, and we’re trying to unseat incompetent leaders from both sides of the aisle.
The candidates we’ve endorsed are moderates.
We’re confident that if they’re elected, they’ll carefully handle any partisan controversies that come up, finding solutions that are based on sound principles of freedom and respect for all.
Adrienne Kaestner
Sequim