My name is Krista Hasler and I am running in Race #1 as a Trustee for the Boise School board. Yesterday an article was written by previous Trustees and Superintendents stating that the “other side of the ballot”, meaning the challengers, represent “grievances including Covid 19 safety precautions, classroom content conspiracies, book banning, and other radical special interests.” I do not fit into ANY of these categories. I will speak for myself in stating their claims are baseless and the slander and smear campaign needs to stop.

I am running because I am concerned about our schools. I was a therapist and I specialized in helping teens. I was the treatment team lead in a program for teens who could no longer live at home or attend regular school. In this facility, we used a value based model that helped these youth find positive interpersonal skills, coping tools, and confidence to face their challenges. I know how to help kids thrive and can bring that expertise to our District to help our youth build and find success.

I find it interesting that these authors of this unfounded article are coming out so strong. While convincing us of the amazing leadership from the Board and making false and unsubstantiated claims about the challengers. Are they attempting to distract us from the policies and choices that the current Board has made? For example: the radical policy that our School Board had on the table in June for the dress code that stated only the “nipples, the groin,...

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