Ruth Sheehan Supports Lori Millberg and Eleanor Goettee
Read Ruth Sheehan's column of 10/31/05:
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/columnist/story/2828614p-9278543c.html
"Election acute for schools
A week from tomorrow a very small group of people will decide the future of Wake County's school system.
That's what scares me.
If past runoffs are a predictor, only a few hundred people will
determine which two candidates will serve on the Wake County school
board, representing Districts 1 and 9.
What frightens me is that a) there is so much at stake; and b) the
people who are most likely to vote in a local runoff are oftentimes
motivated in the negative. Think, "It's time to change the school
system now," rather than, "Gee, things are going well in our nationally
recognized schools."
Two
of the candidates -- Lori Millberg in District 1 and Eleanor Goettee in
District 9 -- support maintaining Wake's current policy of trying to
keep our schools as diverse as possible so that every child, from every
neighborhood, has an equal shot at learning."
