Delaware Liberal Endorses Kim Stock And Kecia Nesmith In Local School Board Elections

Kim Stock For Brandywine School Board. It’s almost impossible to imagine a better, and better-qualified, candidate for the Brandywine School Board. Kim Stock is Delaware’s current Teacher Of The Year. She has been a tremendously-effective and inclusive educator during her career.  Just check out these excerpts from the press release following her having been named Teacher Of The Year:

Stock’s passion for supporting students who face difficult challenges comes from her own life experiences. Abandoned as a child in South Korea, Stock said she does not know her age, birth place or given name.

“After living with a foster family in Korea, I was adopted by a white family in Nebraska. Despite experiencing moments of trauma, racism, illness, loss and death caused by ethnic violence, I have been given new opportunities and second chances,” she said. “Only through God’s grace and many opened doors by people who believed in me do I stand here today.”

Stock, who teaches Advanced Placement Literature and Composition and 11^th grade English language arts, manages the language acquisition plans for more than 160 McKean students. She executed a new program and curriculum that serves more students with rigorous grade-level material resulting in 100 percent of McKean’s English learners graduating in 2020. She continues to provide regular professional development to McKean staff about EL teaching methods.

Her career in education as both a teacher and education non-profit administrator includes work at Claymont Community Center, where she secured partnerships with school districts, non-profits and government agencies to create a new adult basic education and GED program. The adult English as a Second Language program more than doubled immigrant students served.

As an advocate for students, Stock also is a diversity champion for her school and community, speaking on panels, serving on social justice committees and leading professional development while empowering student leadership through the Student Voices and Cultural Celebrations Advisories.

She is running against the selected candidate of the so-called ‘Patriots For Delaware’ group, which is an outgrowth of Lauren Witzke’s RWNJ (‘right-wing nut-job’, for the uninitiated) 2020 campaign.  When you see all of the signs that Stock’s opponent has in Brandywine Hundred, another name comes to mind: Shop-Rite robber-baron Chris Kenny.  Someone, and I bet it’s him, is throwing gobs of money at this race.

That’s why I urge all Brandywine School District residents to come out to your nearby schools, and vote for Kim Stock next Tuesday, May 11.  She is the only qualified candidate in this race.

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If you live in the Red Clay Consolidated School District and think Trump is still the President of the United States, and if you want to elect a homophobic school board member who thinks “faggots and jews” are ruining white America, there is a candidate in the school district race that wants to use your vote to launch her career in wingnut politics.

If you DON’T think faggots and jews are ruining white America make sure you vote for Kecia Nesmith, pronounced (KEY-see-uh NEE-smith).

Unlike her opponent who is running to force a radical racist/trumpist agenda into Red Clay schools, with no interest in doing the actual work of being a school board member, Nesmith is a teacher and principal who has a long track record of commitment to the highest and best virtues of public education.  Just check out her bio:

My children have attended Red Clay Schools including Richardson Park, Linden Hill, Skyline, and now Conrad Middle School of Science and the Charter School of Wilmington. As a parent, both my husband and I have supported our children’s PTA organizations and I have served as the PTA Board Secretary at Richardson Park.

Professionally, I have served as a middle school teacher in Philadelphia, a K-12 English as a Second Language teacher in Kennett Square, PA, an elementary assistant principal and principal in Cecil County, MD, and now as an elementary and K-12 cyber program principalin Downingtown, PA.

As I work to finish up my doctoral degree in Educational Leadership at the University of Delaware, I have become more knowledgeable about ways to support effective policies and practices that will support school systems in implementing practices that ensure excellence and equity.  All students deserve an education that will prepare them for the global society. As an advocate and innovator, I seek to assist the school district and community in coming together to meet the needs of all of our students through providing multiple tiers of support that ensure the necessary interventions, services, and enrichment opportunities for our diverse student population.

That’s why I urge all Red Clay School District residents to come out to your nearby schools, and vote for Kecia Nesmith  next Tuesday, May 11.  She is the only qualified candidate in this race.