Candidate Roundup

There is nothing in life that is more dear to us than our children and grandchildren. We all want the best for them just as our parents wanted the best for us. We want them to succeed, to find and follow their passion, to realize and be proud of their place in their community. We want to equip them with the skill set to meet life’s challenges. The world around us continues to change... In very short order our children and grandchildren will inherit the responsibilities that we as parents, grandparents, teachers and mentors have been shouldering. I know that their future will be incredibly rewarding and I want to ensure that they have the ability to realize their full potential and dreams. It is our responsibility to continue to assist them along their life’s path.

 

I am optimistic that we can incorporate into each school’s curriculum instructional classes which will provide our students with skills to deal with the challenges they face every day, challenges that neither of us faced when we were in school. A child’s resort to alcohol/drug abuse and suicide contemplation comes at the end of an evolving mental health crisis. We need to take more of a pro-active and interventionist approach and provide our children with the help and guidance required to make good choices in life. We need to begin a dialogue with our youth at a very early stage in their education so that they are equipped to deal with harassment, bullying, intimidation, peer pressure, anxiety, depression, anger and feelings of loneliness. We must do a better job...this is our moral and social responsibility to our children...and this is what I will commit to as a member of the Middletown BOE.