Community members should be worried!

The following opinion piece is written by Debbie Evangelou of Richboro.

Dear Voter,

Community members should be worried!

In addition to handwritten postcards from Connecticut residents arriving in Council Rock, we also have an extreme misinformation campaign threatening to cause division and change the makeup of our current school board.

Recent letters from “Together for Council Rock” candidates Nikki Khan, Tracey Osecki and Kimberly Winnick, attempt to scare our neighbors by using loaded and dangerous terms like book banning, whitewashing history, lawsuits and more! They say they want to stop “Chaos from coming to Council Rock.”

However, the TRUTH is that the current board majority - including Ed Salamon, Joe Hidalgo and Steve Nowmos - has created stability for our students and community by making commonsense and reasonable decisions.

The only people who are trying to create chaos in Council Rock are the "Together for Council Rock" candidates. In fact, Nikki Khan tried to incite divisiveness by “crying wolf” to the community earlier this year about a fake book ban. Following that misrepresentation, as reported in the local paper, board members from both parties stated, “We aren't banning books.”

We need stability and rational leaders in our community, not overzealous partisans sowing division. Take the out of state politics and divisive rhetoric out of our wonderful school district. This election let’s support the commonsense candidates, Ed Salamon, Anne Horner, Joe Hidalgo, Steve Nowmos, Jonathan Seamans and Natalya Khavulya who follow the school’s mission of “Students First Always.”

Debbie Evangelou

Richboro, PA