Steve Lagoon for District 833 School Board
Your Clear Common-sense Conservative Choice November 7
Steve's Campaign Themes
Curbing Out-of-Control Spending
Steve will be the taxpayer’s watchdog. He is concerned about the ever-increasing costs of education. We need to protect good wages for school teachers and staff while holding the line against frivolous and wasteful spending.
Special Education has seen a dramatic increase in spending. Steve strongly supports serving the needs of special Ed students.
However, there is an increasing problem of students whom simply refuse to cooperate or learn, and are driving up cost for extra staff to manage their out of control and obstinate behavior.
Steve wants to set in place greater consequences so that classrooms will be reserved for Students that want to learn and teachers that want to teach! Over time,this will result in great savings to school budgets.
Curbing Out-of-Control Classrooms
Steve is concerned about the rising level of students with chronically disruptive behavior in our classrooms. These willfully obstinate and disruptive students have become a major burden to our teachers and staff since they divert their attention away from teaching to merely managing disrespectful and uncooperative students. In an effort to leave no child behind, we are leaving the whole class behind!
Steve believes that school districts need to exercise greater discipline and have greater consequences for such students, sending a message that we are taking back our classrooms!
We will no longer tolerate students that engage in every type of rule breaking and disrespect. We will no longer tolerate students that simply refuse to work; who are verbally and even physically abusive to other students and school staff.
State law allows such chronically and willfully disruptive students to be expelled from school for a time until the student is ready to comply with reasonable student behavior. In the meantime, they can be home-schooled, do on-line learning, attend a charter school, or go to a private school?
Greater enforcement of discipline in our schools will allow our teachers to focus on the job they chose and love; teaching! No longer will they dread coming to school or have their attention diverted to babysitting disruptive students.
This will result in the retention of more quality teachers, improved results for students, closing the achievement gap, and reducing education spending.
Local control
Steve favors local control of education. The greater the portion of our state taxes paying for education, the more strings the state attaches with the money and the less control we have over our districts education policies. Therefore, Steve favors a gradual move toward more local control of education.
More flexibility for High School Students
Steve is concerned that we have adopted too much of a one-size-fits all approach to High School education. Particularly, he believes that we are demanding too much higher-level math for students who may not have a natural aptitude for such challenging math, but whom, on the other hand, may have great aptitude in the creative arts, language, science, geography, or history etc.
Steve favors allowing such students, to tailor there high school years with classes in the areas of their strength, and help prepare them for their adult goals and experiences.
