‘All the kids, all the time’

It is with alarming urgency that I pen this letter. There is an election of the greatest importance coming up, one that affects our children in our public school system now and for the rest of their lives.
It is our chairman of the school board. All of us have or know someone who has children in the school. This is important.

Our chairman must be someone who has our kids’ best interests at heart, someone who we know and who has spent a lifetime with us as children, and then our children and, indeed, our children’s children.

Our chairman must be someone who has a name in our community and who is not trying to find one. They must be there to answer our questions, whether we see them at church on Sundays or at peewee football games. We need someone who is approachable and one of us. This person will be entrusted with our greatest assets — our kids.

This person should be someone our kids know and respect, someone who is a friend, not part of the way but all of the way, even if some people don’t like it.

In the next few years, a lot has to be done and decided for the present and future for our kids. I know in my heart that person is Harry Wayne Parrish.

Please go to the polls and let’s put someone in office who represents all of our children, not just a few in a few schools, but all the schools, all the kids, all the time.

Darrell Johnson
Dothan