Rick Busselle has announced his candidacy for one of the three open seats on Bowling Green City Schools Board of Education.
Busselle’s goals include making the district a system that students and teachers feel proud to represent, and a district that draws and keeps families in the community, according to a Monday press release.
“Our kids and teachers deserve good schools and, just as importantly, our community needs our schools to grow and thrive,” Busselle said. “We are losing families to neighboring communities because the perception is that our schools are failing. The schools aren’t failing, but the community has been failing our kids.”
Busselle grew up in Grand Rapids and graduated from Otsego High School. He’s lived in Toledo, Lansing, Michigan, and Pullman, Washington. He moved to Bowling Green in 2012 with his spouse, Dawn Shinew, and their two kids. Both kids, Luther and Lucy, graduated from Bowling Green High School. Busselle started attending school board meetings last year.
“I didn’t go to the meetings because I wanted to serve on the board. I went because I believe we should support the institutions that are at the heart of our democracy, regardless of how we feel about individuals or individual decisions. But after seeing how much our teachers and students are accomplishing and how little the community recognizes those accomplishments, I felt I should run.”
Busselle’s campaign platform focuses on the most fundamental and important principles of education in a democratic society: representing his local community to support public education; preserving local taxes to support local public schools; ensuring that students have access to accurate and factual information; and supporting all students and district employees so that they can feel supported and be successful.
For more information about Busselle, visit https://www.busselleforbgboard.com or follow him on Facebook #Busselle for BG Schools.
