APT President Dr. Elise Marks delivered the following remarks to the Board of Education on Sept. 11:
I plead with the people of Piedmont to promulgate the positives of Measure P and promote its passage.
This proposition must prevail in PUSD so that pupils may prosper, so that our powerful and pioneering programs may be preserved and progress. So that what we’ve prized in our past can persist in the present and be promoted unstoPPably as we proceed.
We must pass Measure P to persuade the most passionate professionals—proven in positive praxis–to pick PUSD and make it their permanent place of emPloyment.
We must pass Measure P to press on as a premier, pre-eminent, prestigious and (dare I say) puissant place for pedagogy and life preparation. A place which produces, post-graduation, people who are public-spirited, principled, purposeful, proficient, persistent, playful, profoundly perceptive, and prepared to persevere against a plethora of perils and predicaments.
People who are polyglots, polymaths, and proactive problem solvers. Peacemakers. Protectors of the planet. Poets, professors, project managers, and pediatricians. Painters, photographers, physicists, philosophers, pianists, and playwrights. Pop-up shop owners, political prognosticators, city planners, computer programmers, PGA pros, pizzaiolos, and public servants.
Perhaps even Presidents.
Oh, the promise and possibility!
Piedmont is a place of perennial potential, and we are poised to protect what’s best and propel it forward perpetually.
But only if we pass Measure P.