It's About Time

My husband and I have a great story of how we met.  But if you ask him why he married me, he will honestly tell you it was good timing.

We can all remember a situation when we took action because the timing was right.  Maybe to go back to school, start a family, get a puppy.  Careful planning, fate, a higher power or the alignment of the stars – why the timing is right can be credited to a myriad of things.  In the case of my husband, it was age.  He was turning 30 and it was time to settle down.  And I was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time.

I have come to realize that the same thing holds true for the Windham School District.  Looking back over the last ten years I realize the timing was never right for the things I tried to accomplish.  Public kindergarten came eight years after a group of us sat around my living room and formed the Windham Public Kindergarten Initiative.  It didn’t happen because of anything we did.  It took a state mandate and the loss of funding to push it through.  Four years ago a friend and I gathered over 200 signatures supporting a 30 million dollar bond for a new middle school.  State funding was on the line and we needed to act fast. Unfortunately, the timing wasn't right because we were still coming to terms with the high school debt.  Last March, I thought it was a perfect time for me to run for School Board.  Clearly I was wrong about that, despite the outpouring of support I received. 

The current School Board has chosen to endorse the building of a new middle school on London Bridge Road. I don't have the best track record when it comes to supporting initiatives in our District, but if you ask me, I would say it's about time.  You will be hearing from a lot of people besides me in the coming months about the importance of passing a bond in March to support a new school.  Please educate yourself, visit the current building to see the overcrowding, and talk to students.  Now is the time to show your support of our schools.