Serendib Politics

This has been an impossible year, and you and your families should be immensely proud of what you’ve accomplished.

School board meeting tonight, 6:30, got home around 11. School board is definitely more of a gauntlet than library board…

Tonight’s school board meeting, 6-9:30. Just to document. Good, productive meeting.

I’m catching up on posting a few things from last month, which got very harried with end-of-semester. This is a quick pic of me in the sari I wore when being sworn into school board office. What’s funny is that I waffled mightily about which sari to wear — the problem being that I mostly

Home from first school board meeting, 10:22 p.m. It started at 6:30. I’m told this is really quite early for getting out of a school board meeting. Going to be an interesting four years. I may have to pick up an evening coffee habit? Although tonight, I was revved up enough on nervous energy to

The Chicago Tribune did a piece on the new school board members, click on the picture to see the article:

I’m no Paul Goyette when it comes to photographing and documenting the political work of our community, but I did want to capture this moment at the D200 high school board meeting yesterday. Current board president Sara Dixon Spivy hands a bouquet of flowers to retiring board member (and former board president) Dr. Jackie Moore,

Waiting to be sworn in for school board. I was in a rush, but think I managed a decent sari drape in five minutes, which I would’ve said was impossible a decade ago. I wear sari a lot more often than I used to — I guess practice does help. Wearing traditional Sri Lankan handloom

Nice piece in the Wednesday Journal about the school board transition and the appointment of Greg Johnson as our new D200 superintendent. https://www.oakpark.com/…/27/oprf-still-poised-for-change/