A Letter of Thanks to The Broken Arrow Board of Education

Greetings Board of Education,

I want to personally thank you for the worst recommendation in the history of Broken Arrow for reorienting our school district, destroying our economy, and breaking up our town. I know the recommendation came from a Steering Committee and all that, but I'm not so blind to not know that there was not at least a finger or two in it. I also know that the deciding factor comes down to three out of five of you making the decision to move forward or not.

This preliminary recommendation, whether it passes or not, has had a profound effect on this town and its people. It has revealed to us that we have been blind, and we don't want to break up. You have, thus far, enjoyed a relatively quiet existence winning canceled, unopposed elections, but this recommendation has changed everything. You see, it turns out threatening to break up Broken Arrow caused it to get all riled up. Turns out those of us on 51st and those of us on 131st actually still like being neighbors and want to keep doing high school together. Like the Japanese dropping bombs on Pearl Harbor, you have awakened a sleeping giant, and this giant is sorry he's been asleep for so long.

Now, regardless of how you vote and regardless of how this proposal moves forward, what you do is now being watched. We are suddenly very aware of our local government and who is making the decisions for us. We are looking at the bios for every one of you and eagerly awaiting your vote on this issue so we can find out if you deserve to remain where you are or if we need to find someone else to represent us. We will find out where you stand on what matters to us which will tell us how you feel about our community and schools. We will know if you agree with us or not, and if you fail to do as we wish, we will find someone to run against you and vote you out.

You have helped us to realize and remember that we want our community unified more than anything. We've been teaching this across the district for years. Every student is a tiger. We are one school, one faculty, one spirit, one pride, one team, one voice, one tradition, and one community, and you will not take that away from us. If you are not part of our ONE Broken Arrow, then you need to be somewhere else.

This is not a threat, of course. Here is the United States of America, we call it democracy in action. You are only where you are because we have allowed you to be there, however blindly it may have been.

So as you settle into your comfortable chairs to cast your votes on this decision and all that come in the future, be aware that we will know and talk about what you do. And if we don't like it, we will plan to remove you. God bless America.

I am so glad this recommendation came out and forced us to look at our local government and start to take control again. Good job.