Nelson to Run for School Board
Forty-year-old business analyst Ken Nelson has filed to run for Mecklenburg County School Board. Married, with a three-year-old daughter, Nelson has been a Charlotte resident since 2006.
This will be his second run for a School Board seat, being narrowly defeated in 1997 in his hometown of Clark, NJ.
Nelson is known locally as a conservative activist. He currently serves as the 9th Congressional District Coordinator for Campaign For Liberty, the 9th District Republican Executive Committee Treasurer, the Treasuer for the North Carolina Republican Liberty Caucus, and is the Republican Precinct Chairman in Precinct 65.
He says he is running for this seat because, “It is time for this board to be accountable to the taxpayers, parents, and children of this community”.
Nelson can be reached via telephone at 704-364-4657 or email at knelsud92@yahoo.com.
The following was taken from his announcement on Facebook. More details, a website, and a full platform will be available in the future.
After much deliberation, I have decided to run for a seat on the Mecklenburg County School Board. It’s time for an adult to step up and be able to communicate to this community without scare tactics and outright lies. This Board is supposed to be helping our children, yet they act like children when someone tells them no. We have real problems that aren’t going to be solved by throwing more money, more testing, and more programs at them. We need maturity, discipline, and traditional problem solving to fix this broken and bloated mess known as CMS.
That’s not the only reason I’m running. I’m tired of our children being used as social experiments. They are CHILDREN, not lab rats that some ivory tower educrat can collect data on. Every child is important, every child can learn, every child will learn if self-imposed barriers put up by certain communities are taken down. Forty years of this social engineering hasn’t led to anything productive. If anything, it has created larger problems which schools are bearing the brunt. It’s way beyond time we stop this nonsense. We stop the incessant whining about an “achievement gap”. It’s a culture gap, and nothing is going to change that until we stop the cycle of dependency and hopelessness.
The status quo does not work. Our children are graduating our high schools without the basic skills to get a job. This needs to change. What happened to vocational education? Did we get so caught up in the Clinton mantra of everyone needs to go to college that we forgot that some people have a knack for a skilled trade where they can do a lot better than training to work in a call center? Even the successful graduates don’t have the basic knowledge our grandparents had with a sixth grade education. It’s time to go back to basics. No matter how much money we throw at a problem, there are still certain unequivocal truths that will never change. They are, 2+2=4, a subject and verb must agree, and the United States Constitution is the best document ever written by man to govern man. If schools just got back to those basics, we’d be on the path to fixing this failure.
I am Ken Nelson, and I’m running for Mecklenburg County School Board. Thank you for your support.
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