Mission & Vision
of the Concerned Parents & People of Greenhorn Valley - GPGV
OUR MISSION:
To be much more keenly aware of, involved in, and directly responsive to the decisions being made for our children and community.
OUR VISION:
A higher level of involvement in District #70 Board of Education and District Level Administrative decisions. A commitment to be an active voice in the decisions being made on behalf of our children. A promise to hold the BOE and Administration fully accountable when decisions are made that are clearly detrimental to our children and our community. A commitment to work with the BOE and Administrations in hopes that they will be receptive to our input and interest in what is best for our children and our community. Certainly, fighting against one another lacks any hope of improvement.
CPGV - Est. 2021
Parents, teachers, and community members from the Greenhorn Valley Community originally met near the end of the 2020-2021 School year after deciding that passively allowing infuriating decisions to be made repeatedly for our children for 15 months was no longer something we were willing to do. After discussing our frustrations together, we quickly realized that in total, hundreds of attempts to have concerns heard by the District 70 BOE and/or administrators had gone completely unanswered and unheard. In addition, a handful of parents were met with hostility and denied access to a public BOE meeting. Eventually, they were let in to speak and upon requesting to let more parents speak at the following meeting, it was promptly cancelled for unknown reasons. It was this blatant and unwarranted silencing of Concerned Parent voices that prompted the group, "Concerned Parents of Greenhorn Valley." But upon further thought, it isn't just parents that are concerned about the way District 70 Administrators and BOE members are running our schools...its friends, grandparents, coaches, and many community members. Thus, Concerned People of the Greenhorn Valley have joined to speak up and stand up for what is right for our students, teachers, parents and community.
It's not just about masks at this point. It's about rights...the rights of our children and our parents. The mask is, however, a fine symbol of covering our personal individuality, our ability to express ourselves, and the silencing of our voces.
Concerned Parents
Our constitutional and civil rights as parents and community members and our children’s rights have been completely overrun by the BOE and Administration in conjunction with the State and local Health Departments.
They have done so with full knowledge that the physical impact of the virus on our K-12 children and our staff has been so remote as to be negligible.
By so doing, they have caused a far worse pandemic of isolation, hopelessness, despair, anxiety,
clinical depression, suicide,
and violent out-lashing.
Numerous Parents, Teachers, and community members have emailed the BOE and various Administrators with concerns but most, if not all, have gone unanswered. Here, you can read some of the letters of impact and email us your own letter if you'd like it displayed here.
The actions of shunning the very communities who elect, hire, and pay these educational leaders are purely unacceptable. We have been ignored and threatened.
This will no longer be the case in the near or extended future.
Student Concerns
Our utmost concern is that this pattern of irresponsible behavior on the part of our BOE and Administration will continue not only in the area of “COVID management,”
but in every other area that the Board and District Administration oversee in regard to the safety and well-being of our children.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Understanding our Rallies:
As always, joining to protest or rally is voluntary and the cause should matter deeply to all involved. The reason we feel the need to Rally for our Rights is threefold:
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1) Parent voices have been silenced for over a year by the BOE and Administrators via unanswered emails and phone calls, consistent (but often false) blame on the Health Department and/or CHSAA, refusal to let parents attend public BOE meetings, hostility, arrogance, and cancellation of BOE meetings where parents were planning to voice further concerns.
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2) Parents & families can no longer be complacent! Concerns about obnoxious, relentless, and unnecessary contact tracing, vaccine waivers, quarantines, & closures; masking of students (especially under age 10); athletics inconsistencies; and discrimination and HIPAA issues are topics that need addressed NOW, and continually throughout the schoolyear.
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3) Teacher voices have been silenced by the BOE and Administrators via verbal threats on more than one occasion, and it is has come to our attention that many D70 staff feel that they were not only silenced like other D70 parents but were also unable to speak up for what they feel is best or safest in their classroom, or for their own children, for fear of being fired. Administrators and health department officials that rarely ever step foot into schools pre-pandemic, now drop in to "check up" on masking and social distancing practices with an unwelcoming and intimidating demeanor. Meanwhile, administrators that were invited into buildings to attend staff meetings to hear teacher concerns were a no-show. Multiple times throughout the pandemic, teachers were treated as if their jobs are a cake walk by this district. They have not been given any input or voice in decisions being made about remote students switching back and forth at their leisure, contracted grading deadlines being changed with almost no notice, sent home for a two-month stint of remote learning with only a half day notice, and expected to handle it all in stride with no complaints, because if they do -- here come the threats.
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