I want to know what you’re teaching my kids.” “I can, so I decided I will,” he said of his candidacy. In an interview this week, Delisle said he just wants to make a difference and that he has the skills, from his work as an accountant and business owner, to help the district.

“My fear is that if the position becomes less appealing, the only people who will run will have self-interested reasons for doing so.” “Given the huge time commitment if you do it well, given the amount of work involved, the amount of scrutiny and sometimes hostility school boards are experiencing, it’s not exactly an enticing position,” said Troy Flint, spokesperson for the California School Boards Association. Dennis Delisle, who is running unopposed for one of the seats on the Morgan Hill school board, wrote that modern descendants of slaves are “so much better off” than if their ancestors “had been left in the country that they came from.” Delisle also opposes homosexuality and gay marriage, according to a self-published book he wrote in 2012, and likes to quote a Founding Father who believed “the number one purpose of public schools is to teach youth, young people, the Word of God.” Provided by Dennis Delisle for Morgan Hill School Board District 3Ī candidate running unopposed for one of the seats on the Morgan Hill school board wrote that modern descendants of slaves are “so much better off” than if their ancestors “had been left in the country that they came from.”ĭennis Delisle also opposes homosexuality and gay marriage, according to a self-published book he wrote in 2012, and likes to quote a founding father who believed “the number one purpose of public schools is to teach youth, young people, the Word of God.”

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