Qandryel Romrell For ESD School Board

I feel like people would stop protesting what Elon Musk is doing if they got money back… Cutting funds is one thing, but seeing the funds go back to the people to let them decide what to put their money towards is even better.

WEF Professor Says Parents Will Soon Need a ‘License’ To Raise Their Own Children
https://www.planet-today.com/2023/11/wef-professor-says-parents-will-soon.html

Now, I’m not trying to create an additional worry to parents out there. What i do know, is that ideas get spread around and agendas get implemented. If this is even a thought on a World Economic Forum’s view, don’t you think that it will be pushed through at some point? What are your thoughts on this agenda if it were real and passing- what is your view on who owns the children? Something to think about…

"A magnificent killer whale named Tahlequah
gave birth and caught the world’s attention.

Her calf died only thirty minutes after being born, each of those blessed minutes a sacrament to the progeny of love.

But the real reason journalists and photographers and millions of viewers followed this mother’s story, was her willingness to grieve unbidden, to become a thing utterly governed by kinship.

After a year and a half of growing this enormous life inside of her belly, and the immense feat of labor, and a half an hour of looking into one another’s eyes, Tahlequah proceeded to carry her dead baby on the tip of her nose for seventeen days, traveling more than a thousand miles all throughout the Salish Sea.

And some people think that grief is not
inexplicably beautiful. But perhaps it’s because those people (who are us people) no longer see grieving enacted publicly as a plea for sanity, as a way of feeding that which grants us life.

There was no real grieving at my mother’s funeral––

sniffling and shoving tears back up into our eyes, yes, but no keening. No collapsing into the bottomless cavern of one another’s trembling arms, no crying out into the insufferable heat of that late-summer day, and certainly no carrying my mom’s dead body as a holy procession all throughout the places she ever knew and loved.

So I continued to carry her mostly on my own.

I wailed in the privacy of my own home long after the funeral was over, with only the hurting eyes of my husband to behold me––a kind of holding that was never meant to be done alone.

I imagine that if killer whales were not endangered, Tahlequah would have swam those seventeen days with a grand procession of many other glistening, black and white giants all across the ocean.

Or perhaps she swam for one thousand miles
to personify the loneliness of her grief in a world spiraling toward oblivion.

And our savagery for not swimming alongside her; for taking pictures, for watching her exquisite ceremony on our little screens as if it were pure entertainment, as if that couldn’t be any one of us, carrying our dead children out into the dark and emptied streets."

From ‘The Progeny of Love' by April Tierney, Artwork by Lori Christopher 🐋

So I have been pondering on what my next steps forward would be since I was not elected to the school board. I have no hard feelings about this, as I still believe we have a wonderful community to invest in.

So, I am going to share thoughts and insights I gained while running for school board on this page.

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I have some questions and would love people’s input. In voting for a representative, what are things you are looking for the schools to do?