Richard Van Loon's response to the SfSchools BOE Questionnaire

We have another response to our SfSchools BOE questionnaire, this one coming from Richard Van Loon. Richard's answers are in-depth and from the heart. I want to thank him for the great effort and attention he has given to these answers.

You'll find his answers here and listed on our election page. Here is one short but representative sample from his response:

Some of the main causes of family flight are the very resolutions members of the Board of Education have passed and the direction in which they have been guiding our public schools. I believe it is wrong for an elected official to inject their personal political views into public policies, especially when those policies result in harming the very people and institutions those officials have been elected to serve, and yet this seems to be the norm on our current board. Some commissioners have expressed the belief that even though their policies may end up driving 'affluent' or 'middle-class' families out of the city, they will pursue them. I am running for the Board of Education to offer an alternative choice, an independent voice representing the aspirations and concerns of parents.