In this school board race, there should be no free passes! It's about time someone makes an effort to ask the tough questions about why Tim Burke should be on the Farmington School Board. It's fairly common knowledge that - yes - Mr. Burke goes to the school board meetings. It's fairly common knowledge that he sticks around for the admisinistrative part of the meeting to rail on the district for everything that they are doing wrong. It's also common knowledge that when they get to the meat and bones of the school board meetings - I don't know, stuff like curriculum, district goal-setting for meeting AYP, discussing how to keep open lines of communication with parents, teachers, and the community - you know, trivial stuff like that - we realize that WAIT - Mr. Burke has LEFT the building. Apparently that STUFF (curriculum, communication, AYP) is not important, and if you evaluate what Mr. Burke has said in his reasons for wanting to be on the board, you're not gonna find any mention of that STUFF. Mr. Burke is a one-trick pony - look past the rhetoric and you will find that he is a mile wide and an inch deep. As an educator, a lifelong Farmington resident, a product of Farmington Schools, and a parent with kids in the district, I want someone on the board with a vision for moving the district forward. I'm sorry folks - Tim Burke doesn't have it.
*disclaimer - The Superintendent is in no way financially supporting my efforts to undermine Tim Burke (I thought that I would head that off before it shows up on that "watch the district" website!)
