Prepared Text for Board Meeting –
Marc A. Schare
Tonight, I have the honor
of presenting the board of education impact award to George Sontag,
Jim Baker and Joanne Zwick.
The award is for the video
about Bus Safety and bullying, but in true “our town” fashion, I want to make
two observations. The first has to do with the district’s transportation
program. As a board member, I don’t often hear about transportation. It comes
up from time to time with this proposal or that proposal, but in general, Mr. Sontag, his team and our bus drivers do the job day in and
day out without much fanfare, so it gives me great pleasure to recognize the
entire transportation team not only for this video but for the work they do for
the kids every single day. The second observation is for the second topic of
tonight’s video. I cannot emphasize enough the seriousness that we must take
bullying. My colleague, David Bressman has made this
almost a personal mission of his and I thank him and join him in that effort.
Suffice to say that a child who is concerned with getting hassled at