Roy Exum continues to reload his poisonous pen. Yesterday he wrote some untruths about me and some of the other board members that just happen to be educators as well. For the record, one cannot run for school board if one is a teacher at the time of the election. He said that I was still teaching when I was on the school board-not possible. I retired in several months before having at that point no thoughts about running for school board. I retired with 20 years because I would not work under what I would deem a dictatorship, or even better put, under a bully, so I walked out three days short of retirement. I did not know Rick Smith at the time in any other capacity other than he was superintendent and I was a teacher.
That point being made, how would I fit into the GOB box that he is referring to? If anything, I was more of a concern to him than someone he would entrust because one of my missions had become to weed out ineffective administrations. I have worked very hard, everyday, during my term to represent my constituents, teachers, and especially our children, and I will not stand by and have someone cut me down with destructive words.
I resent that RE should put me into a category of which I do not belong, and I certainly do not belong into the category of Southern male. He does not know me or my history; we've never spoken two words, yet he tries to assassinate my character.
And for the record he should know that I am a female from New Jersey.
Why doesn't he write about my success in getting Paul Coughlin, the Protector, to come to the high school in District 7 to speak for two sessions to our children about bullying and hazing? He referenced the visit in his Feb. 4 mantra titling it "We Must Have Courage." Paul came and did an outstanding job and I have the folks at Silverdale Baptist to thank for loaning him out to us. It took me a couple of weeks to pull this together with Paul's busy schedule.
Here is a quote I'd like to share: "Hope has two beautiful daughters: Anger and Courage. Anger that things are the way they are. Courage to make them the way they ought to be."
And another-"It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic." Winston Churchill
I hope in the future RE will be more careful about who he "calls out" while being more responsible in his reporting at the same time.
Girl from New Jersey,
Donna Horn, School Board Member District 7