This can all be traced back to Suni and co pushing out Candace Chow and then Dr. Goren. All in the name of “equity”. Give me a break. All these people have ever wanted is to further their own political ambitions. They have not had one rational thought but instead focused on land acknowledgement statements, lowering academic expectations …
This can all be traced back to Suni and co pushing out Candace Chow and then Dr. Goren. All in the name of “equity”. Give me a break. All these people have ever wanted is to further their own political ambitions. They have not had one rational thought but instead focused on land acknowledgement statements, lowering academic expectations and softening behavioral discipline. And now here we are. If people here are ever confused why someone as crazy as Trump could be so popular with conservatives, take a look at our school board and local government. To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Agree!!! All in the name of equity but where is that equity now? Now all our kids are suffering and the students that need the most intervention and resources will suffer the most. The literal opposite of what should be happening. This is such a disgrace and affects the entire fabric of Evanston!
It is entirely possible that some are willing to entertain the idea that the system seems so unjust and inequitable that it is quicker to torch the current system and start from scratch (whatever that means) than make reasonable efforts to steer the ship toward better outcomes within the guardrails of fiscal responsibility. Last six words there are critical.
I will say that there is some merit to this. Before Horton, District 65 was functional but with mild levels of corruption and very inequitable racial outcomes. Things had been slowly getting worse over the years - the budgets in the 2010s were bad and the 2017 referendum bailed them out for a few years, without actually fixing any of the underlying problems. I think of it as a smoldering fire.
Then the equity folks / Dr. Horton arrived and just poured jet fuel all over the system. I don't think it was intentional but they turned a bad situation into a much much worse one that is going to damage an entire generation of kids (they promised to help), but may ultimately result in a complete overhaul of the system.
Joey’s statement at the end about running for Board suggests to me that he is probably not running for re-election. I can’t imagine that Biz or Su will run either given the mess they have created.
Who in their right mind would want to be school board member right now?
You could see a scenario where nobody runs. We are in the middle of signature gathering for the ballot and I haven’t seen any candidate committees established yet for new candidates.
I hope someone sensible like Steve Hagerty throws his hat in as we really need some experienced leadership at the moment.
Are you talking about the same Candance Chow who voted for Horton as superintendent and then wrote a letter to the roundtable saying that the closed-door, exclusionary process that brought him here had "great merit"?
Yeah would be interesting to ultimately hear why directly from her. Probably quite complicated. Wonder if there is anyway to FOIA communication between board members leading up to her resignation to see if there were any off dynamics going on.
Candance announced today she's running for Alderman, so I'll probably give her some space on a future blog post to answer these questions. Probably not until after the new year, though, nobody wants a 6 month election season. So stay tuned.
Not sure if it's in Suffredin's interest or wheelhouse, but I'd be interested in him for BoE if he raised his hand. 6th ward will be OK...D65, I'm not sure.
This can all be traced back to Suni and co pushing out Candace Chow and then Dr. Goren. All in the name of “equity”. Give me a break. All these people have ever wanted is to further their own political ambitions. They have not had one rational thought but instead focused on land acknowledgement statements, lowering academic expectations and softening behavioral discipline. And now here we are. If people here are ever confused why someone as crazy as Trump could be so popular with conservatives, take a look at our school board and local government. To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Agree!!! All in the name of equity but where is that equity now? Now all our kids are suffering and the students that need the most intervention and resources will suffer the most. The literal opposite of what should be happening. This is such a disgrace and affects the entire fabric of Evanston!
It is entirely possible that some are willing to entertain the idea that the system seems so unjust and inequitable that it is quicker to torch the current system and start from scratch (whatever that means) than make reasonable efforts to steer the ship toward better outcomes within the guardrails of fiscal responsibility. Last six words there are critical.
I will say that there is some merit to this. Before Horton, District 65 was functional but with mild levels of corruption and very inequitable racial outcomes. Things had been slowly getting worse over the years - the budgets in the 2010s were bad and the 2017 referendum bailed them out for a few years, without actually fixing any of the underlying problems. I think of it as a smoldering fire.
Then the equity folks / Dr. Horton arrived and just poured jet fuel all over the system. I don't think it was intentional but they turned a bad situation into a much much worse one that is going to damage an entire generation of kids (they promised to help), but may ultimately result in a complete overhaul of the system.
This is not good policy!
Joey’s statement at the end about running for Board suggests to me that he is probably not running for re-election. I can’t imagine that Biz or Su will run either given the mess they have created.
Who in their right mind would want to be school board member right now?
You could see a scenario where nobody runs. We are in the middle of signature gathering for the ballot and I haven’t seen any candidate committees established yet for new candidates.
I hope someone sensible like Steve Hagerty throws his hat in as we really need some experienced leadership at the moment.
Considering past candidates were verbally assaulted, called racist, etc. it is not a surprise why no one is stepping up.
The cynical laughter that followed that statement tells me that none of them plan to stick around after they burn it down.
Are you talking about the same Candance Chow who voted for Horton as superintendent and then wrote a letter to the roundtable saying that the closed-door, exclusionary process that brought him here had "great merit"?
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2020/11/06/reader-calls-for-consideration-of-the-negative-impacts-of-making-personnel-preferences-in-public-meeting/
Yeah not a good look. But look back on how she was ousted from the president role and the dominoes that fell after.
I don’t understand why she quit the board mid term? Maybe she could have been one voice keeping Horton in check.
She’s not the only one to quit in mid-term. I suspect SuniBizCo make it unbearable for anybody with an alternate view.
Yeah would be interesting to ultimately hear why directly from her. Probably quite complicated. Wonder if there is anyway to FOIA communication between board members leading up to her resignation to see if there were any off dynamics going on.
Candance announced today she's running for Alderman, so I'll probably give her some space on a future blog post to answer these questions. Probably not until after the new year, though, nobody wants a 6 month election season. So stay tuned.
I'd be really curious to hear that (in six months). Tom Suffredin was a vocal / on the record John Martin supporter.
Not sure if it's in Suffredin's interest or wheelhouse, but I'd be interested in him for BoE if he raised his hand. 6th ward will be OK...D65, I'm not sure.