Greetings All,
During the September 3 Board of Education Meeting, the Public Participation was primarily focused on Safety and Security at recent athletic events. The concerns shared were focused on a recent situation that occurred at one of the football games within the last week or so. The concerns expressed involved the engagement and responses of the School Resource Officers (SROs). The staff heard, reviewed, and addressed the concerns with the Safety and Security Department as we value the safety of all at all events. To this end, our public will see School Resource Officers positioned within the stands, near the main areas, and near the parking areas. Our SROs will be more engaged and responsive. Your continued feedback is always welcomed and appreciated as we work together to create a high-performing school district. We are asking everyone to work with our SROs as we want everyone to enjoy our students within a safe environment.
As Superintendent, I would like to remind our community that we are engaged in the difficult and complex work of improving our school system. Yes, we are working together to ensure we have a safe, improving, and high-performing school system. I humbly ask our community to not take or support an adversarial or unhealthy approach to addressing issues during Public Participation or in other roles of leadership. We have come a long way as a community and we should not allow anyone or a small group of disgruntled individuals to diminish our progress or improved reputation as a community and school system. It is my sincere hope that we do not allow some misguided persons to take us back to a time of supporting politics that only harmed our community, negatively impacted our children, and diminished our reputation as a school system. Sharing a concern is one thing, but being "mean-spirited, vindictive, and adversarial" is another matter. Sharing concerns to make it better comes from a good place--This is welcomed and strongly encouraged. But being "mean-spirited, vindictive, and adversarial" towards the school system and individuals who are working to ensure our children are safe as we lift our children and improve our school system can’t be helpful to our children, our school system, or our community. As I have often shared and fundamentally believe, when you do things from a good place, good comes your way; but when you do things from a mean-spirited, vindictive and adversarial place, you should not expect good outcomes at all. I am asking this community to hold me accountable always while it also holds community members accountable by not supporting or encouraging such mean-spirited, vindictive, and adversarial approaches that are harmful to our children, our community and our school system. Our children deserve nothing but good and caring examples; anyone who is not a good example for our children is unworthy to represent our children or be around our children in any capacity.
We humbly ask for this community's continued support. As we want to always be the "BEST" example for our children, we are asking all of us to be the "BEST" example of how we can always support this vision of high-performance that we are working together to achieve. Remember, we are here to lift our children, our school system, and our community as we work together to achieve high-performance--Let's Stay Focused On This.
Dr. Beasley
