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Today's Poll!Two incumbents file for school board posts
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Two incumbents — Dennis Nickelson and Doug Whitehead — have stepped forward to announce they will campaign to retain their seats on the Jefferson City Board of Education.
Nickelson and Whitehead filed the necessary re-election paperwork Tuesday morning at the district’s administrative offices on Dunklin Street. The two officeholders agreed they have worked well together over the years and would like to finish the projects they started together.
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MO4LIFE 5 months, 2 weeks ago
don't re-elect anyone on the school board lets get some real parents on the board and not just flunkies that are going to do what the old money wants done. lets get some people that will actually do what the voters want to do. But alas this is JC and nobody can get elected to anything unless they want hell to pay dealing with the repercussions of messing with the od money in this town. Maybe in 20 30 yrs when all the old money is resting in peace and gone maybe JC can actually come up from the hole in the ground that it is.
thatguyagain 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Surely you can't be serious about "real parents" and referring to these two as flunkies.
Dr. Nickelson has a wall full of degrees, currently teaches at the university level, and was a tremendous high school teacher. In fact, I had him for two classes in high school and will state he was among the best I've had at any level. He has two extremely intelligent and hard working children and has spent years devoting an outrageous amount of work to making the JC school district all it can be. This effort has been replicated in many volunteer capacities as well according to the facts presented in the article. If this is an example of a flunky I'd hate to know what the rest of us are.
Mr. Whithead is the consummate "real parent" having a child in the district, one that graduated, and a wife who teaches. Moreover, he has attained recognition on the national level for his work on the school board. Based on accomplishments and statements made within the article it would be very hard to classify him as a flunky.
Your argument about the "old money" of Jefferson City influencing these two is absurd. As it states in the article, Dr. Nickelson teaches in Fulton and Mr. Whitehead works for the National BioDiesel Board. Neither of those positions are influenced by decisions made by business owners in Jefferson City.
Please read the article and think critically before casting stones and sentences without punctuation.
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