Last year two of us parents ran against two incumbents. One was the President of the Board, and the other the Treasurer and member of the state association. Both are big names in our small community, and between the two of them had served on the school board for a cumulative total of 48 years.

This was the first time either of us have ever done anything like this, and it was quite the learning experience. We personally knocked on over 1,000 doors, spoke to members of our community at meet the candidate events, and were even interviewed on a local conservative morning radio talk show. We took 46% of the vote.

This year there are three seats available. Two of the incumbents chose to bow out, and the single incumbent who filed to run did so very late. We assume she was coerced to refile by the President along with one of his friends. Otherwise myself and two other parents would have been the only candidates on the ballot.

The pressure from our parents has been enough to get some changes underway and get two current members to seriously reconsider serving again. It doesn't matter if your children attend public schools, or even if you have children at all. We have all witnessed the nonsense going on in these schools, and it's our duty to fix it. You can run yourself, or identify, encourage, and support others that are.

I know there are some here that will ask how they can help me. I only ask for two things:

If you are on facebook you can like, follow, and/or share my campaign page. https://www.facebook.com/profi...p?id=100075522777686. You can also visit my website should you have any interest. www.frankzykan.com.

I also ask that you locate those who are running in your districts and if they are part of the solution follow them, share their pages, talk to your friends/family about them, and if you're so inclined offer them a small donation. Many of these races can be very expensive to run, especially for newcomers. In addition, encourage everybody you know to vote on election day.

We can fix this. We just need to get as many of us as possible involved.

Thank you, Frank.

Good luck, this is the place to start fixing things at the local level!

Your tag line, Vote Frank, he's a Safe Bet!

Good for you. School board can be a very rewarding experience. I served 7 years on a school board - 6 as board chairman. I got the honor of signing both of our children's diploma. Our schools weren't broken and we made sure they stayed that way by nixing any sign of woke-ness and 'modern' math.

Good luck and thanks for getting in the ring.

Good luck!

Go get 'em, Frank. From what I know of you, I think you would make a formidable member of that board.

Quotes from your website;

"With few exceptions, I am opposed to our schools wading into issues involving morals, religion, or sexuality as I feel those topics are best left to the individual families."

"Students should not be made to feel guilty about who they are"

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Orange County / Central Florida, which is the 11th largest school district in the nation, with an annual budget of over $4 billion dollars, just elected someone with no experience over someone with a Phd in education and a lifetime spent in education.

The newcomer is so far to the right that she is doing the complete opposite of what I quoted you on above. She wants to bring religion into the schools. She wants to bring morals back, her morals. She has already publicly bullied children who do not conform to her ideology.

It sounds like you are running on a good platform, I wish you the best of luck.

Best wishes, and good luck.

We can't complain about the country falling apart if we're unwilling to serve and work to make it better.

Good job.

Good luck to you. I did a partial term for an abandoned seat and ran and won a full term.

It was an extremely interesting and challenging position. I had the honor of being written up in my hugely lib city's rag as "a barbarian at the gates" and on the same day in the considerably more conservative county paper (at the time, not now) as "A voice of reason".

I just mention that to reinforce what you already know, that politics ain't bean-bag. So again, good luck to you.

Yep, best wishes. I just joined Next Door which is a social media by neighborhoods. I found a thread complaining about hoe the city mayor is corrupt and not caring about the community. It seemed like a general consensus.

The head scratcher for me is that the guy ran unopposed just like a good number of city positions.

I applaud you for caring and running.

As an aside, I would say the same thing about jury duty. We need juries of our peers serving in these ground level opportunities.

Our children's lives and the future are impacted by leftist school boards, get em out, we are way late in playing this game.

Yeah, but we’re did you go to high school? (St. Louis joke). It’s a tough job and we need tough people to steer our schools down the right path. Best of luck.

Good luck.

Best of luck Frank. You’ll do great things. Being a business owner will lend you a good perspective when making financial decisions. The rest is really common sense. You will probably deal with more personnel issues than you realize.

We have 4 openings this election cycle, 3-3 yr terms and 1-1 yr term to fill the seat of a board member that stepped down. Only 3 signed up for the 3 full terms, which included me, so I won’t need to run a campaign. While it’s nice to not to have to deal with the stress of a campaign, I would like for more to be willing to run. Everyone wants to complain, but no one wants to deal with the work of actually serving. It’s kind of sad. Either the community thinks we are doing a good job or we are all suckers and doing a job no one wants…

Best of luck Frank.

You too, Erick85. What school district?

Best of luck to you both!

Jim

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Originally posted by chellim1:
Best of luck Frank.

You too, Erick85. What school district?

Hillsboro.

This will be my third term. 2015-18 and 2020- present.

I served on the Mehlville School Board for 6 years. Now, we can't get a conservative candidate to even run. The board is completely NEA rubber-stamp candidates.
At least in neighboring Lindbergh there is one (David Randleman) brave enough to run.

My brother in law lives in Columbia, MO. He has told me some of the things going on in that school district and I just shake my head. He’s one of those that will complain but not run. I tell him every time to that he need to run. You can’t enact change/make a difference if you’re not willing to put yourself out there.