Pasadena ISD Board of Trustees Position 1:

 

My inspiration comes from many sources. I often volunteer at my children's school. I have made many relationships and friendships with teachers and staff. I attend District Committee Meetings that bring community, PISD, and parents together. Yet, I felt in my heart that I am called to do even more. My children are my legacy. I have invested so much of myself in them and want to see them and their peers succeed. They are our future. Our Students, Teachers and Staff are amazing. I am doing this for them.

 

I am the financial planner of my family and keep a detailed budget/spending spreadsheet to ensure my family's needs are met. I look forward to reviewing Our District's Funding and Budget.

I do not have official training yet, but life experience and dedication to our Families and Employees will drive me to ensure our District taken care of. If elected, I will be required to take Continued Education Courses and trainings that will even better equip me in my role.

Our students need to be accountable. They should learn to take responsibility for their own grades, actions and relationships with others. And then encouraged to improve on whatever their situation may be. They can't be blaming others for low grades, or consequences. We need to have mentally healthy young adults graduating from high school with the mentality that they are accountable for their actions and they can make a difference in their community.

I am very curious as to the funding that comes in to our District vs what Is spent and on what. I look forward to learning more about that and seeing how we can improve, especially in regards to supplies fro our classrooms so that our teachers are not coming out of pocket for expenses. 

Our Special Education programs are fantastic. I enjoy seeing our students getting involved and treated with dignity.

No more school shootings! Let's figure out how we can prevent this even off campus. Teach our students self regulation, accountability, and to make great plans for their futures that outweigh and grudge or issue they have in the small moment of time that is now. 

Let's increase our ratings. I want to drive by schools and see exemplary and recognized for years more recent than 2010!

I want our High School Students to have dreams. More than that: goals. Something to look forward to have a plan to be successful. For greater education, careers, families. They have so much potential. I want them to know their worth.

I hope to see teen pregnancy rates drop tremendously, and not covered up by terminations. I want them to be proud of their abstinence. 

I want to have relationships with each school. That is a great priority of mine. I want them to know they are heard and cared for.

Each student should take an aptitude test to find their possible prospects. To be enrolled in classes/electives that keep them interested and encouraged to keep their grades up. They need to earn their grade. Let's refrain from pumping unskilled/uneducated community members into the workforce. But of course, it comes down to their own accountability.  If possible have incentives for students to stay local and be employed/ volunteer with local small businesses.

 

When a need arises for a purchase or service, lets shop locally first. Community is important. It keeps us human, brings a sense of camaraderie. We can't lose that. We need to work together for our city's success.