“I (Bill A. Weaver) Am A GUHSD Governing Board Trustee Candidate For The 2012 Election”
As the parent of two young children, I’ve been active in this (GUHSD) District for the past decade. I’ve served in several elementary classrooms, I’ve been the treasurer on multiple PTA groups, and I’ve served on school site councils. Additionally, I have Co-Chaired the East County Chamber’s Business Education Committee, have served on the GUHSD Bond Advisory Commission (BAC-RR), the Repairs and Renovations Sub-Committee, have toured EVERY GUHSD CAMPUS as a member of the BAC-RR, and currently I am a Director, fundraiser, and organizer for a local education foundation.
As a GUHSD Trustee:
- I’ll work to ensure that we make children the focus in all aspects of GUHSD decision-making.
- I’ll demand fiscal oversight and accountability, in order to ensure that our tax dollars are managed wisely.
- I’ll approach each issue with an open mind and form conclusions based on careful evaluation, and objectivity: always focusing on the needs of our children.
- I’m willing and eager to devote the time and energy this position requires.
My only agenda is the success of our children and of the GUHSD. I’d appreciate your vote for a Governing Board position on the Grossmont Union High School District Board.
Alpine, here is the link to my LinkedIn profile:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/louis-russo/34/b02/3b7
You can decide, at the ballot box, if I am credible or if you want to believe Bill, especially considering that, as far as I can tell, he has never spent a single day in a classroom (public/private school, college, graduate, corporate, military).
This year we will get to decide our president based upon record. I suggest Alpine do the same in ALL of its balloting. In Bill’s case, I can find no record for him to stand on, other than his culpability in Alpine NOT having a high school, hardly what I would consider a glowing recommendation for one aspiring to be a school board member.
Respectfully,
Lou
SW, you have no idea how things work in the real world, and neither does Bill. It doesn’t matter the naming convention for the other high schools. Ronald Reagan is what the GUHSD board wanted and it is what they should have gotten. It would have given us a high school. Remember, the name is just some letters on the side of the building. As to GUHSD buying Lazy A, you are correct they BOUGHT it. Mr. Singer was going to GIVE GUHSD the land for the high school at Wrights out of the parcels he owns (more than BCLT). Weaver and the crowd at BCLT fought this because they want it when Mr. Singer passes. (My son was in the JMMS class that was pressured to write letters to GUHSD opposing the choice of Wrights, orchestrated by a AUSD board member who is a BCLT director and a member of AHSCC.) The land Mr. Singer offered to give GUHSD was valued at $20 Million. Two of the BCLT board members who opposed giving Alpine $20 Million worth of free land for our high school were on the AHSCC, under Weaver’s tutelage. You’re right when you say I have an agenda. That agenda is to actually get a high school, regardless of where and regardless of what it is named. Weaver and his liberal crowd ensured we would NOT get the high school and now he wants our vote? I think not. Alpine should think not also. A couple of years ago, when running for AUSD, Bill changed his party affiliation from Democrat to Independent, a political expediency. Let me assure you and Alpine, judging from the company he keeps, Bill is as liberal as they get.
ACN; This is a link to explain what the “POD”, and “Big Picture” concepts that Lou Russo objected to, is all about; http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/apr02/vol59/num07/Reinventing-the-High-School-Experience.aspx , additionally this is the HS in Seattle, WA, That our HS12 campus (to be) was modeled after; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marysville_Getchell_High_School , Lou Russo is not credible, he is stuck in the 20th Century of education, pushing for a repeat of what is wrong with education to be built here in Alpine, in the most inappropriate site, Wrights Field, thank goodness that site wasn’t the best site according to the EIR (Environmental Impact Report) and thus not the chosen site. Bill Weaver, lead nothing to do with the potential 12th HS site selection, nor the “naming” of the potential future high school. Let’s not let Lou’s gibberish affect this GUHSD Board of Trustees election…
Oh please, Louis … Naming the new high school ‘Ronald Reagan’ would have made it a done deal?? Ridiculous. That doesn’t fit with the naming of the other 11 high schools in the district. It only fits with the political leanings of some board members.
And not placing it on Wrights Field didn’t keep the district from buying land in another location.
I don’t know anything about Bill Weaver, but I think you’ve got another agenda …
Lou… keep your personal bias out of this! No single person is more responsible than Bill Weaver for the failure of Alpine/Blossom Valley to have a new high school. As the chairman of the Alpine High School Citizen’s Committee (AHSCC){Yes, Lou, It is true that I Chaired the AHSCC for 5 years, however; If it weren’t for my leadership, there would be no land purchased to build a potential HS on, no $65 M escrow to build it with, and maybe no Prop U at all to finish districtwide repairs and upgrades, Many will attest to my positive influence, however, I did resign 2 years ago from the AHSCC}, Bill oversaw the choice of Big Picture Curriculum [Sorry Lou, wrong again – The GUHSD’s own cabinet level Staff Development and Curriculum Director picked Big Picture – but it was a savvy choice – but not the AHSCC who chose this}, an expensive and unrealistic curriculum, for the new high school {in your humble opinion?}. The AHSCC, under Bill’s leadership, choose individual “pods” [my best qualification as a design and structure trained engineer} for the new high school facility, a physical plant choice which gave opponents a way to short change Alpine and Blossom Valley residents [You and your Alpine buddies Lou, were the only negative critiques and naysayers, I give you more credit for hurting Alpine chances of getting a HS than anybody, Thank you for the opportunity to state this, here you go again, trying to shoot us in the foot, once again} Bill’s most ardent supporters on the AHSCC, the directors of Back County Land Trust, fought the placement of the new high school on Wrights Field, a move that would have saved the taxpayers $20 Million and assured the building of the high school {I have “0″ affiliation with the organization you try to nail me with,I have friends who are affiliated, yes but I do feel that Wrights Field was not the best site for a HS}. Finally, Bill opposed the naming of the high school for President Ronald Reagan, a name brought forth by the GUHSD board and which would have made a comprehensive high school in Alpine a “done deal” {Lou, Again, you are misinformed, but it is your belief system, believe as you wish}. A vote for Bill is a vote for the man, more than any other, who keeps your children traveling down the hill for the next decade plus. {I’m hoping that your high regard for me (ha – ha) gets me lot’s of votes that I otherwise wouldn’t have received… If you respect Lou Russo and what he has done for Alpine… I don’t want your vote for GUHSD or anything else… Respectfully and Sincerely Lou – I don’t respect you or your opinion, thank you very much… this will be my last response to Lou Russo’s gibberish}
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No single person is more responsible than Bill Weaver for the failure of Alpine/Blossom Valley to have a new high school. As the chairman of the Alpine High School Citizen’s Committee (AHSCC), Bill oversaw the choice of Big Picture Curriculum, an expensive and unrealistic curriculum, for the new high school. The AHSCC, under Bill’s leadership, choose individual “pods” for the new high school facility, a physical plant choice which gave opponents a way to short change Alpine and Blossom Valley residents. Bill’s most ardent supporters on the AHSCC, the directors of Back County Land Trust, fought the placement of the new high school on Wrights Field, a move that would have saved the taxpayers $20 Million and assured the building of the high school. Finally, Bill opposed the naming of the high school for President Ronald Reagan, a name brought forth by the GUHSD board and which would have made a comprehensive high school in Alpine a “done deal”. A vote for Bill is a vote for the man, more than any other, who keeps your children traveling down the hill for the next decade plus.