Redirecting our energy with civility and respect.

I am sure you have all read Walter Nardelli's piece in the School Bell by now. If not I would encourage you to do so. (It has actually been anonymously posted as a comment on the Forum update post!) For many of us, Monday's announcement of the "official" Reconfiguration plan set off a fury of emotion. The information from Walter has hopefully... (Click "read more" to continue.)

re-invigorated this energy. At this point we want to pause and redirect this energy. We were guilty of a rush of emotion ourselves when the official reconfiguration plan came out on Monday. But now that the dust has settled somewhat we want to regroup as a whole and proceed in a civil, organized, professional and respectful manner. We want to hold our community forum and proceed with our mission to halt this reconfiguration plan.

We are a big, stong group of caring parents (and our numbers keep growing daily!) who want the best for their children as well as the future students of Williston schools. We want to be heard. It is a battle worth fighting.

The organizing members of the Williston Schools Reconfiguration Campaign for Change has done their homework feverishly, professionally and completely. We are well researched, extremely well organized and we have some very powerful information to share with all of you. All of this hard work will facilitate progress toward our goal of getting the current plan stopped. We then look forward to getting the school board and administration to re-evaluate, explore the options of reconfiguration and go back to the drawing board of devising a plan but this time with community input/representation.

Attached please find a brochure outlining the goals of the Community forum. Please let us know if you have questions. As always, thank you for your support.

Reconfiguration Campaign for Change Organizational Members:
Ann and Jeff Smith, Sarah and Jason Hibbeler, Sandy Loisel, Michelle Rath, Abby Klein, Mary Whitcomb, Kevin Mara and Nancy Kahn