Emily Mitchell-Marell for Onteora School Board

01/07/2023

https://www.chronogram.com/chronogrammies-awards/2023-education-and-learning-winners-18465176 😍

Classes/Workshops Winner: ClubASL® Second Place: YWCA Ulster County Third Place: Center For Creative Education College Winner: Bard College at Simon's Rock Second Place: SUNY New...

20/06/2023

Love to see the next generation thinking about and learning about the environment and the effects of pollution 🌲 🍃

20/06/2023

This looks amazing!

16/05/2023

An amazing day of meeting our community. Feeling so much excitement and positivity!

14/05/2023

I have not now or ever said anything about a current board member or their respective businesses. I don’t encourage that type of behavior or agree with it at all. I stand by my beliefs regarding the school district. If elected I will be true to myself. I have truly zero interest in drama, aside from the show 'Love is Blind'. I’m here for the community, which I truly adore. It should be obvious that I do not share each and every opinion and whim of every member of OPEN or other random people. No matter how the election turns out let’s move forward and heal. Get off Facebook, it's a dark hole! Go outside, it's a beautiful day.

11/05/2023

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08/05/2023

Looking forward to tonight!

Reminder: Come meet the Board of Education candidates! On May 8, from 6-7:30 PM in the High School auditorium, community residents will have the opportunity to meet the five candidates seeking election to the three available seats on the Board of Education, and ask questions.
If you cannot attend in person, please email questions to [email protected]

06/05/2023

Amazingly, a lot has changed even since even last week. On Tuesday, the current board voted to close Phoenicia Elementary next year and to close Woodstock Elementary a few years later. We were devastated by this news and feel this will also devastate our towns, our children and our families. We love our town schools--why are we fixing something that isn't broken? With this in mind, we are trying to FLIP THE BOARD by getting three of us on there and reversing this terrible decision the current board made in the face of public outcry and popular opinion. So, to keep schools open please vote Tuesday, May 16th 2-9pm at your local elementary school for the following three candidates:

Emily Mitchell-Marell
Clark Goodrich
Caroline Jerome (Caroline is a write in candidate, please remember to include)

There is honestly not a huge turnout for elections like this so if we can all get 5 or so people to vote and vote for this crew of three above, we can flip the board and keep our beloved primary schools OPEN.

Please spread the word! Most people want to keep open our village schools, we just need to express that via voting. Thank you so much for your help!!!

Emily

05/05/2023

It’s hard to imagine why we would close these primary schools where children are thriving and happy and our beloved community is brought together.

02/05/2023

Truly devastating for our communities.

The school board is voting to close Phoenicia Elementary TONIGHT. Yes, you read that correctly.

They added it to the publicly-posted agenda for tonight's meeting just this morning, at the last possible moment, hoping folks wouldn't notice.

We noticed.

If the vote passes, which we expect it will based on past comment by the board's current members, Phoenicia will close after the 2023-2024 school year.

What's more, the resolution aims to centralize all elementary students at Bennett by the start of the 2028 school year, meaning Woodstock would close after 2027-2028.

Even worse: they're attempting to ram this through before the upcoming school board election on May 16! With some seats at risk, they want to pass it now.

Are you outraged? We are. Utterly irresponsible behavior from our elected officials who are flat-out ignoring the public will against doing this, confirmed by their very own survey!

Ask yourself: what is their motivation for closing schools? Why are they so steadfast, so unwilling to listen to public opinion on this issue? Why are they refusing to obtain rough cost estimates on the TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS of renovation costs needed to centralize at Bennett? Why the rush?

We will not allow this to happen. Show up at the board meeting tonight at 6pm at Woodstock Elementary and speak your mind. Tell them how you feel; don't hold back! Tell everyone you know.

Share this post far and wide. Vote the current board members OUT on May 16.

25/04/2023

If you don’t already know me (or the other candidates) please come to Meet The Candidates on Tuesday, May 8th!

19/04/2023

Another amazing event at Woodstock Elementary. Maximus and I learned some great games that were fun and helped with Math and English learning. We had a blast!