The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 160, No. 27, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 4, 2013 Page: 2 of 10
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Saturday, May 4, 2013
CANDIDATES from page A1
Erin Green/Bastrop Advertiser
Candidates for the two contested seats in the May 11 Bastrop school board election mingle with the
crowd after the first of two candidate forums held Monday at Cedar Creek High School and Tuesday at
Bastrop High School.
School board
candidates, from left,
Matthew Mix, Steve
Miller and Ashley
Mutschink await the
start of the candidate
forum moderated by
Bastrop Federation
of Teachers Vice
President Cary
Prater Tuesday
at Bastrop High
School. Candidate
Debra Thorne-
Francis was present,
as well, but arrived a
few minutes into the
forum.
EARLY VOTING TIMES
■ Early voting will be from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday
and from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Bastrop ISD Service
Center, 906 Farm St.
■ Early voting will also be held from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Monday and Tuesday at:
■ Bastrop Intermediate School, 509 Old Austin Hwy.
■ Cedar Creek Middle School, 125 Voss Parkway,
Cedar Creek
■ Lost Pines Elementary, 151 Tiger Woods Drive
■ Red Rock Elementary, 2401 FM 20, Red Rock
■ Cedar Creek High School, 793 Union Chapel Road,
Cedar Creek
Voting locations on May 11 include:
■ Paige, Precinct 2010, Paige Community Center, 107 S.
Main St., Paige
■ Cedar Creek Precincts 3014, 3015, Cedar Creek Elemen-
tary School, 5582 FM 535, Cedar Creek
■ Red Rock Precincts 3012, 3013
■ Red Rock Elementary School, 2401 FM 20, Red Rock
■ Bluebonnet Precincts 3016, 4019 and 4020, Bluebonnet
Elementary School, 416 FM 1209
■ Bastrop Precincts 1001,1002,1003, 2006, 2007,2009
and 2011, Bastrop ISD Service Center, 906 Farm St.
■ Lake Bastrop, McDade and Elgin Priecincts 1004 and
4021, Lost Pines Elemenetary School, 151 Tiger Woods
Drive
lie Monday at Cedar
Creek High School and
at Bastrop High School
on Tuesday to answer
questions and express
their views on every-
thing from the proper
role of a school board
member to the most
pressing issues facing
the district.
On the question of
what a board mem-
ber’s role is, Mix — a
chiropractor who is
originally from New
Orleans and has lived
and worked in Bastrop
since 2006 — cited sev-
eral roles he believes
are important.
“To oversee the ad-
ministration, number
one,” he said, speak-
ing to the crowd at Ce-
dar Creek High School
Monday evening. “And,
number two, to be a go-
between between the
school and the public
and the teachers and
the administration.”
Miller, a former cor-
porate financial analyst
who is now attending
Austin Presbyterian
Theological Seminary,
said he believes a board
member should act as
the ear of the commu-
nity, noting that he
would like to see the
board’s at-large dis-
tricts switched to sin-
gle-member districts.
“Right now, there’s
really no incentive for
the board to listen to
the community because
of the political action
committee formed by
four of the current
board members all liv-
ing in the exact same
neighborhood with an
additional member liv-
ing within two miles,”
Miller said.
For Thorne-Francis,
the role is also to act as
a go-between between
the public and the
school system, but also
to help set the policies
and goals the district
should work toward.
Mutschink noted being
a good listener is key.
Listing some of the
most important is-
sues facing the district,
Mutschink’s answer
was simple.
“Public school fi-
nancing, high-stakes
testing and post-sec-
ondary education,” he
said.
For Thorne-Fran-
cis, the issues are
similar— the district’s
growth, financing and
high-stakes testing are
all important to her as
well — but she noted
looking at testing is
something she’d priori-
tize.
“When they go out
and get a job, they’re
not going to be tested
like they are now,” she
said of the district’s
own tests on top of the
state’s standardized
assessments under the
No Child Left Behind
Act.
As for the issue of
safety and whether
teachers should be
armed, Mutschink be-
lieves in safety but
also believes that the
schools, working with
the city police depart-
ment and county sher-
iffs office, are working
to ensure students re-
main safe.
“School safety
should be at the fore-
front of everything we
do, even before academ-
ics,” Mutschink said.
“As a parent, I want to
know my children will
be safe when I drop
them off.”
Miller said he is
not in favor of arming
teachers, calling it “an
accident waiting to hap-
pen,” and called for a
strong police and school
resource officer pres-
ence on Bastrop cam-
puses, while Thorne-
Francis agreed, noting
that during her time as
a teacher, she would not
have wanted to carry a
gun. She agreed addi-
tional school resource
officers for the campus-
es or even hiring a secu-
rity company would be
a better way to go.
Mix noted he be-
lieves the district — or
any district — should
carefully consider such
a measure and decide
whether it is really nec-
essary and whether it’s
really the teacher’s re-
sponsibility to ensure
the safety or if it should
be that of security per-
sonnel.
“They’re there to
teach our children,” Mix
said. “They’re not there
to be armed against a
potential threat.”
SCHOOL from page A1
well as why the district
is expanding the topics
of the camps.
“Last year after the
camps, I was talking
to some of the gifted-
talented students’ par-
ents and they were say-
ing ‘Well, my daughter
really liked the camps
and enjoys the robots,
but she’s really inter-
ested in writing, too,”’
Flood said, noting the
district wanted to offer
the same fun experi-
ence for those with oth-
er interests as it does
for those interested in
STEM fields.
PUBLIC NOTICE OF TEST OF
AUTOMATIC TABULATING EQUIPMENT
FOR MAY 11, 2013 ELECTIONS
[AVISO PUBLICO DE PROBAR EL EQUIPO PARA
TABULAR AUTOMAtICAMENTE PARA
LAS ELECClbNES DEL 11 DE MAYO 2013)
Notice is hereby given that the automatic tabulating
equipment that will be used in the elections held on
Saturday, May 11 t 201 3, will be tested on Thursday,
May 9, 2013, at 10:30 a.m. at the Bastrop County
Election's Office, 804 Pecan Street, Bastrop, Texas
to ascertain that it will accurately count the votes
cast for all offices and on all measures.
[Por lo present® se da aviso que el equipo para
tabular automaticamente que se usara en las
elecciones que se llevaran a cabo el sabado, 11 de
mayo de 2013 se probard el jueves, 9 de mayo de
2013 a las 10:30 de la manana en la Oficina de
Elecciones del Condado de Bastrop, 804 Calle
Pecan, Bastrop, Texas, para determinar si el equipo
cantora can exactitud |os votos para todos los
puestos oficiales y sabre todos los proyectos de ley.)
Bridgette Escobedo, Election Administrator
The camps — which
will all be taught by
Bastrop school district
teachers such as Toni
Malone, Peggy Perkins,
Adona Frey, Rich Caw-
thron, Robert Vickery
and Keri Weathers—
will be offered in two
different sessions of
10 students each to al-
low the best learning
experience for all kids,
Flood said. The second
sessions don’t build on
the first, but rather of-
fer the same opportuni-
ties for a new group of
students.
“We want it to be a
resource for the whole
community,” Flood
said.
Each of the camps
for elementary through
middle school grades
will be from 8 a.m. to
noon, July 22-26 for the
first session and July
29-Aug. 2 for the sec-
ond session. Cost is $90
for each half-day camp.
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One of the camps
making a return ap-
pearance, “WeDo,” in
which students build,
program and test a ro-
bot built using Legos,
is also expanding,
Flood said. But another
version of “WeDo” has
been added this year,
for rising first- and sec-
ond-graders and will
involve the same type
of project, but on a sim-
pler level.
NXT Robotics will
be offered for rising
sixth- through eighth-
graders.
Budding video game
designers in the fifth
through eighth grades
will have the chance
to learn the craft in
Scratch Game Coding,
while fourth through
seventh grade aspir-
ing novelists and writ-
ers can take part in
the Writer’s Workshop
camp.
High school stu-
dents may participate
in Waterworks Under-
water Robotics, which
is being offered as an
all-day camp, from 8
a.m. to 4:30 p.m., dur-
ing the second session
only, July 29-Aug. 2.
The cost for this camp
is $175.
No prior experience
is necessary to attend
any of the camps, Flood
said.
She does encourage
parents and students
to register, early, how-
ever, since enrollment
is limited.
Sign-up forms are
available at each Bas-
trop campus, at the
Service Center, 906
Farm St., or by logging
onto tinyurl.com/bas
tropcamp.
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