The following comments were shared by Tim Nance at the School Board Meeting on Monday, February 26th:
It is no secret (I have spoken now at four board meetings), that I am an active member of Take Back Perry Schools. Well, yesterday afternoon my family and I delivered about 35 TBPS yard signs to houses throughout the township. The people I met seemed to me to be good people, families of Perry Township with parents who are very concerned by what has been going on with their school board, and upset about what has happened over the last several months. These people have been called a mob, called those “orange people” who like to disrupt, called disgruntled political pawns who blindly follow Dr. Williams or who are acting out of anger over past school board elections.
The dozens of people in TBPS that I have met over the last few months are not these things. We are parents, grandparents, teachers, and concerned township residents who are asking for our elected representatives to actually listen to us and do what is in the best interest of our school district. We are simply exercising our constitutional rights.
We have two goals:
- For our SI, Dr. Williams to be reinstated
- For our school board members to be held accountable for their actions
These goals have never changed and board meeting after board meeting what we see from four of our board members just strengthens our resolve. Obviously, we were disappointed at the last board meeting when a sensible resolution that provided compromise and offered hope for healing was voted down while the decision to hire more attorneys to start an investigation we were told had begun months ago was approved. But, as I delivered those signs yesterday, I was encouraged to see that every single neighborhood we went into (100% of them) had people with our orange signs in their yard. Both the Perry and the Southport side, we are a township united around those two previously mentioned goals. Which now, by the way, independent objective news sources (The Indianapolis Star and The Southside Times) after following the Perry circus the last four months and doing their research have taken a stand. Guess what? They agree with us. They both strongly recommended that Dr. Williams be immediately reinstated and they both found concerns about members of this school board overstepping and not knowing their proper role. Most importantly, they encouraged this board to unite behind what the majority of Perry constituents want and start putting our students first. My question is simple: Will any of the four of you listen? Or is this one of those cases where “Everybody else is wrong and you’re right“ ? When children get caught up in that game, as adults we reason with them and usually the child has an epiphany, and realizes that he or she was being selfish and not seeing the big picture. Well, we here in Perry Township find ourselves waiting for one of you four to have that epiphany.
T. Nance
Yes, of course.