Fullmer will fight back

Congratulations to the Leadership students of Ferris High School’s “Face Off” with District 81 school board candidates.

The two competitors could not be more different. The education bureaucracy has endorsed and promoted their candidate, Deana Brower. The challenger, Sally Fullmer, has taken on the so-called education industry for their lack of transparency toward their constituents, the taxpayers.

With total school spending, one would expect a better graduation rate. Superintendent Nancy Stowell is paid over $200,000 a year and 110 administrators are each paid over $100,000 while micromanaging teachers. Shouldn’t more money be spent educating the students?

Let the teachers teach. Allow them to use methods that are proven to work. Put some of those administrators in the classroom; after all when it comes to pay raises there is no administrator left behind.

Stop using the number of schoolchildren who qualify for “free or reduced” lunch as the district’s excuse for their own failures. They label the students beginning in elementary school and show the “soft bigotry of low expectations.” George Washington Carver, Benjamin Franklin or Steve Jobs wouldn’t have a chance by today’s standards.

Vote for Sally Fullmer.

Ray Kuhn

Spokane