Re “UPCC Pleads: We Still Have Time. We Deserve a Chance to Decide”
[img]1994|right|Jeannine Wisnosky Stehlin||no_popup[/img]Jeannine Wisnosky Stehlin, President of the United Parents of Culver City parents union, raised a question this afternoon I never had heard formulated during the last eight days of hurricaned conversations about the presumably catatonic bond measure:
Bring it back to life.
Call a special School Board meeting for the express purpose of reversing last week’s supposedly final non-vote that shockingly killed the facilities-fixing bond campaign while it was blithely gliding toward the November ballot, was effectively what she wrote.
That is a bold, and no doubt welcome, move by Ms. Wisnosky Stehlin and the UPCC – especially since numerous Culver City families have been waiting for 14 months, with growing impatience, to see if UPCC was capable of making an assertive stroke in a controversial community issue.
A special meeting?
“It can't hurt, and it may help,” School Board President Kathy Paspalis, one of last week’s two minority votes to continue the campaign, tells the newspaper. “Certainly helps to listen to what folks in the community have to say rather than shutting them down.”
Says her colleague Laura Chardiet, the other Let’s Continue vote:
“I would welcome more discussion.”
Isn’t the present crisis why the UPCC ostensibly was formed, to play fire department, to extinguish blazes and to save lives while shining a light on the path the community should tread on vital issues?
“Why do we need a parents union?” activist fathers and mothers wondered a year ago last spring when the first-ever parents union was organizing.
The motivating answer has been bellowed across Culver City for the last eight days because supposedly a quorum of moms and dads objects to committing assisted suicide on a bond campaign this cycle due to lack of information.
Tapping their feet, activists have been asking, Is United Parents of Culver City a player or an observer?
Their imprint is nowhere to be found.
Aha, but here is a delicious pudding just made for UPCC palates.
We support giving the voters the right to vote on a school facilities bond, writes Ms. Wisnosky Stehlin, mother of three students.
The blowback crossfire deriving from last week’s non-vote by the School Board – that assumed no Board votes were movable – has descended into an indecipherable cacophony.
UPCC’s next task – starting in 5 minutes – is to untangle the wires and make a strong, unswerving stand for reviving the corpse.
It almost is incidental whether UPCC wins or loses. This is their historic moment to try.
