From Chuck Vierthaler
Monroe
To the editor:
My name is Chuck Vierthaler. I am a write-in candidate for the Monroe school board. I have been a resident of Monroe since 1976. I am 65 with 45 years in business. I began, like most everyone begins a job in any field, at the bottom. I worked my way up to management, then executive management and then to an executive officer. Later on I bought my own company, sold it and worked for an area manufacturer for four years as a manager. Over the past 38 years, I have watched our school system wrestle with budget shortfalls and takeaways from the teachers, support staff or students. I believe this approach falls far from the goal of graduating young adults with an education that delivers a young adult who is welcomed to participate in their community, their state, and their national systems of government. To participate is to be informed. To be informed is security. Most importantly, their security is in a job, a good job.
Monroe school district residents must embrace the goal of graduating each and every young adult with an education. With the trained ability to learn, they will have chance of living a life with some job security. For me the fact is clear for our young adults; no job equals no life. Our graduates must graduate with an "older" understanding than that of their parents or grandparents. Certainly a better understanding than I had at that age. Voting with intelligence will be a key to security.
If elected, I would try to bring a presence to the school board of making decisions that support education, with an intense conscious energy on each and every child to thrive on learning. Learning is a skill they must have after high school. Without teaching, what is the community's future? There is no liability for the successful: it is the young graduates that walk into an economy bent on minimum wages, no benefits and the illusion of choices. We have been told that globalization would bring millions of jobs and we lost more than 70 million by 2002. With pressure on workers and scarce employment opportunities, we are trained to walk by the ruined. It does not have to be this way. Our salvation is education. It is going to take a community to make this commitment.
I would like to help students. Please vote on April 7.
Monroe
To the editor:
My name is Chuck Vierthaler. I am a write-in candidate for the Monroe school board. I have been a resident of Monroe since 1976. I am 65 with 45 years in business. I began, like most everyone begins a job in any field, at the bottom. I worked my way up to management, then executive management and then to an executive officer. Later on I bought my own company, sold it and worked for an area manufacturer for four years as a manager. Over the past 38 years, I have watched our school system wrestle with budget shortfalls and takeaways from the teachers, support staff or students. I believe this approach falls far from the goal of graduating young adults with an education that delivers a young adult who is welcomed to participate in their community, their state, and their national systems of government. To participate is to be informed. To be informed is security. Most importantly, their security is in a job, a good job.
Monroe school district residents must embrace the goal of graduating each and every young adult with an education. With the trained ability to learn, they will have chance of living a life with some job security. For me the fact is clear for our young adults; no job equals no life. Our graduates must graduate with an "older" understanding than that of their parents or grandparents. Certainly a better understanding than I had at that age. Voting with intelligence will be a key to security.
If elected, I would try to bring a presence to the school board of making decisions that support education, with an intense conscious energy on each and every child to thrive on learning. Learning is a skill they must have after high school. Without teaching, what is the community's future? There is no liability for the successful: it is the young graduates that walk into an economy bent on minimum wages, no benefits and the illusion of choices. We have been told that globalization would bring millions of jobs and we lost more than 70 million by 2002. With pressure on workers and scarce employment opportunities, we are trained to walk by the ruined. It does not have to be this way. Our salvation is education. It is going to take a community to make this commitment.
I would like to help students. Please vote on April 7.
