Lakota public comment on Ashley Whitely

This is my public comment from last night's school board meeting.

Of course, Kelly Casper played unneeded games and made everyone cut their comment to 2 minutes, even though there was over six minutes left on the clock at the end of public comment. A simple mathematical equation and a motion to extend public comment for the time needed would have solved the issue and created less chaos. But leave it to Kelly to not know simple math.

If Lakota had even a little bit of transparency left, it’s walking out the door with Adam Zinc. Adam was someone this community could actually trust — honest, fiscally responsible, and focused on results. Adam, you will be sorely missed.

From people who have worked with the new interim treasurer, Randy Bertram, the message is clear: he believes the board already knows too much. He will not be transparent with the community. He will be sneaky. And he thinks he knows better than the parents.

That same lack of accountability shows up at the top. I am outraged and disgusted by how recklessly Superintendent Ashley Whitley handled Ron Henrich and the Hopewell Junior High custodian, Dennis Lahr. She failed to do her job. She failed to notify the proper authorities. She never really knew what was happening in her own district. Instead of taking responsibility, she put out a cheesy little video pushing the replacement levy — desperately trying to polish her image after her failures were exposed.

When I had the chance to vote for Ashley Whitley to become our superintendent, I voted no. I knew exactly where her talk about “culture” would take this district. I knew she would be weak. I knew she would not be honest or transparent. And I knew she would fail at her most basic responsibility: protecting children.
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I know some people are tired of me being proven right all the time, but common sense doesn’t fail. Lakota is failing the parents who trusted this district to protect their kids. Families and staff are leaving in droves because they see the direction Lakota is headed — We’re tired of the product this district is pushing — the racist and transgender ideologies, and the more than six million dollars spent on curriculums like Sources of Strength, Savvas Learning, and Portrait of a Graduate. These programs are designed to pull students away from the values their parents taught them and replace those values with a global worldview that teaches government is the answer to everything… not Jesus. This worldview trains students to vote for socialists once they graduate.

Until this district can prove it will be responsible with our students, responsible with our money, and put parents and children first instead of its own agenda and self-preservation, it will not earn the community’s vote for a replacement levy.