{"id":184741,"date":"2024-10-24T08:47:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T15:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=184741"},"modified":"2024-10-24T08:47:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T15:47:39","slug":"vta-endorsements-letter-to-the-editor-barbara-hecocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=184741","title":{"rendered":"VTA Endorsements Letter to the Editor ~ Barbara Hecocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Murphys, CA&#8230;I was disappointed recently to see that the VTA membership of VUSD endorsed Kathryn Eustis. Two years ago, a teacher at Michelson, wrote a letter to the editor stating that 90% of life is \u201cshowing up\u201d. Kathryn has yet to show up to any of the VUSD board meetings. Last year when a seat opened up, she threw her name in the hat for the appointment. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Soapbox7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Soapbox7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"246\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Soapbox7.jpg 320w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Soapbox7-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a long 3-hour meeting that ended in a stalemate, Kathryn withdrew her name and walked out of the meeting. She also did not attend the recent Candidates Night. How can the VTA endorse a candidate that quit one appointment and then didn\u2019t show up for the candidates&#8217; night? What kind of board member will she be if there are hard issues to tackle? The hypocrisy and bias are sickening. Jodi Sledge has been there from the beginning of her term. She was there at the Candidates Night and continues to be an advocate for the teachers and the students. Apparently \u201cshowing up\u201d isn\u2019t a priority anymore for the majority of the VTA membership. <\/p>\n<p>Barbara Hecocks <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murphys, CA&#8230;I was disappointed recently to see that the VTA membership of VUSD endorsed Kathryn Eustis. Two years ago, a teacher at Michelson, wrote a letter to the editor stating that 90% of life is \u201cshowing up\u201d. Kathryn has yet to show up to any of the VUSD board meetings. Last year when a seat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,20,18,1,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arnold","category-featured","category-murphys","category-news","category-opinion","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Soapbox7.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184742,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184741\/revisions\/184742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}