Stakeholders watching school board closely moving ahead

Editor,

Congratulations to Elena McComas on her successful run for the Worcester County school board. She ran a campaign supported by at least three strong political clubs, committees and unions backing her along with two local newspapers. Elena is a friend of mine. While we both enjoy a shared organization striving for the same excellence, we differ in school board policies. 

On Election Day, our Republican tent and table, supporting Dorothy Shelton Leslie, campaigned to keep public school boys out of girls bathrooms and sports, and to give stakeholders a voice. Four times, while sitting at my table, I was harassed by a McComas sign holding, female, public school parent campaigning for her belief in liberal policies. While approaching my table at our tent, in a shrill voice, she called us liars, was embarrassed because she had to explain to her young son about ‘keeping boys out of girls bathrooms.’ She called me by name promising to call elected officials to “tell on me.” She taunted me saying, “you’ve got no children in public schools.” 

Myself, being a stakeholder, a Worcester County taxpayer, with no young children, I definitely believe I have a voice. She asked me, “what is a stakeholder?” I was in awe at her question.

Politics is a blood sport; using dirty harassing politics isn’t kosher. Elena won fair and square, amiss of a few tactics used by other campaigners, of which I’m sure she had no knowledge. One of the McComas supporters is facing a judge Dec. 10 for his alleged illegal tactics while campaigning for another candidate in lower Worcester County.

Again, congratulations to Elena. I mean that as a friend and fellow Worcester County Citizen.

But the school board has to know we are monitoring them and that we stakeholders, (whether current public school parents or not), are watching closely. We don’t like certain policies, rules and laws and will be monitoring carefully their multiple lunchtime meetings as well as the two promised evening meetings.

Susan Ostrowski
Berlin
(The writer is a member of Worcester County Republican Central Committee.)