School board hijinks

Dan and I have been doing some work to help out one of the four school board candidates here. There are two seats open. The election will be a week from Tuesday, on Nov 6.

Another one of the candidates, Joe Spector, who is a school psychologist in the district, has (rather, had) a campaign manager who is a history/American government teacher at Davis High School. A couple of weeks ago the teacher was accused of having his students stuff envelopes for his candidate during class time. It was supposedly an exercise in group vs. individual work; could you stuff more as part of a group? Give me a break. Anyway, there was much back and forth after the accusation, which came from a former School Board member who has a child in this teacher's class and who is also supporting the same candidate we are. Finally now the teacher has admitted it, has been fired as a campaign manager and now I guess Spector maybe has to find someone else to run the last week or two of his campaign.

There is almost nothing else on the ballot - just two parcel tax measures, one for the schools and one for the library, both of which are likely to pass - so there is a lot of attention focused on this particular election.

Douglas was excited because today was "pizza and pajama" day at preschool. He got to wear his pajamas to school and they will order pizza at lunch. Fun.

Next week are parent-teacher conferences. Owen's is on Halloween. I'm not expecting anything too negative. He is in the highest reading and spelling groups and keeps coming home and telling us he got "102 percent" on his spelling tests (she gives a few extra credit words, I guess).