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A worthwhile school board

The only worthwhile reason to campaign to serve on the school board is to work to improve education while making the schools the best learning situation possible for students, teachers, and administrators. The best candidates to achieve that are Misty Leafers, Paula Levy, Dale Suiter, and Amy Wolin — each of whom seek only to serve as exceptionally qualified candidates, not to advance an agenda that has nothing to do with education.

School board elections by law are supposed to be non-partisan, with no candidate using a political party identification. Everyone knows that using “conservative” identification simply is another word for Republican in this situation. That is a grotesque violation of the spirit of the law and not a role model for students, and should disqualify those four candidates. Republicans also violated the spirit of the law by directly giving a donation for advertising for these four.

• Sue Patterson is connected to Charis, whose leader said he wants to rule the school board and the city. That should additionally disqualify her, if you don’t want your education system ruled by a cult-like religious organization.

• Dave Rusterholtz demonstrated against county health officials, calling COVID a hoax. Not protecting our children in schools from deadly serious illness should additionally disqualify him.

• Gary Brovetto has lied about Critical Race Theory being taught in the WP schools, which should additionally disqualify him.

• David Illingworth identifies with the above three, which should additionally disqualify him.

Vote to serve WP schools, not some self-serving political agenda. Thank you very much.

Rodney Noel Saunders, United Methodist Pastor, Retired, Florissant

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