Two school board candidates
puts students first

Newspaper accounts of the recent Ypsilanti School Board candidates’ forum defined the central campaign issue as the continued tenure of the school superintendent.

Do those who want to fire the superintendent know how the school district can afford to buyout his contract in these tight budget times?

Then who is to replace him? Some of the candidates are so eager to micromanage the schools. Will one be a replacement candidate? We need a full disclosure now on what is included in their warped agendas driven by ego and baseless discontent.

Candidates for school board should have leadership skills at the very least. The Ypsilanti School Board candidates who want to dump the superintendent must explain how they would recruit a successor in the climate of fear, distrust and erratic antics, which are being displayed. No worthy professional will come to this circus. The strange behavior of our latter day lynch mob will create a vacuum into which only a pathetic puppet would venture. Who then would dance to the treacherous tunes of a miscreant board?

Our schools deserve far better and John Vincent and Hugh Kennedy are the only ones who can restore reason, common sense and integrity to our school board.

Trustee Tom Reiber resorted to profanity in a public forum for school board candidates. To use profanity in a public forum with children present confirms his need to retire from any public office, as the duties are too much for him thereby corrupting any judgments he makes.

Return good sense and genuine service to the public by voting for Hugh Kennedy and John Vincent on June 14.

Strong academic programs and good business management have been valuable hallmarks of the current Ypsilanti superintendent. His distracters consist of some school board members who cannot even behave properly in public and have nothing constructive to offer.

Bring back order and discipline to our school board by electing two people who understand the proper role of school trustees and the vital public responsibility it embraces.

A vote for Hugh Kennedy and John Vincent means student education is the number one issue not adult personality conflicts.

What is Memorial Day to the average American?

Many would just say that it is the day at the beginning of summer when we put the boat in the water.

Or maybe it is the day when we open the cottage for the season. It is always a good day for the family reunion or picnic.

Possibly it is all of the above.

But, according to a recent survey taken, 72 percent of those contacted did not know what was the reason that Memorial Day, as an American national holiday, was created.

Simply stated, it is the day set aside for we Americans to honor our military veterans, both alive and deceased.

So how about making it the day that we watch the local parade of our military veterans marching slowly down Main street?

And maybe a day to think about what exactly a veteran is and has done for you and for me.

Here is what an unknown author has written on the subject.

"It is the veteran, not the clergy, who has given us freedom of religion. It is the veteran, not the reporter or editor who has given us freedom of the press. It is the veteran, not the writer or poet, who has given us the freedom of speech. It is the veteran, not the jurist or lawyer, who has given us the right to a fair trial. It is the veteran, not the politician, who has given us the right to vote.

It is the veteran who stands and salutes the flag as it passes, who served under that flag, and whose coffin is draped with that flag."

That’s what a veteran is, God bless them all.

Enough said.

Ross E. Medos
Willis