Ypsilanti, MI -- "Gems of Runs House" wrote: I heard someone say a change is coming. I feel in my heart they are talking about positive things getting ready to come our way in Willow Run.  It pains me to read the harsh things on this site, but I understand how passionate people are when it comes to the bad things that the superintendent and board of education have allowed to happen within the district. I want to tell you all that in order to get to the "promised place" you have to tell others to "LEAVE MY JUDAS ALONE".

--> For those who do not know, Judas was a traitor, a liar and deceiver <--

Translation: Leave Dr. Doris Hope Jackson; Claudette Braxton; Cliff Smith; Laconda Hicks; Andreas Blakita; Larry Gray; and anyone else in the doghouse, alone.  Why? Because they have a purpose here.  Doris Hope-Jackson did not come to Willow Run by mistake.  Her steps were ordered here.  She didn't put Laconda Hicks and Larry Gray here by chance.  It was supposed to be.  Claudette Braxton's mistakes as board president were supposed to be.  Cliff Smith's selfishness and smug cantor and rhetoric are supposed to be.  Believe it or not, we were destined for our paths to cross Hicks and Gray's.  As for Mr. Blakita, in all of his ramblings at meetings, there is a message...

If you were paying attention at all this past year, you have seen and experienced some pretty horrible treatment at the hand of Dr. Jackson and some of her staff.  You have experienced a deaf ear by way of the school board's continuous passing of motions without intellectual debate and earnest consideration.  They have too often not responded to citizens and plagued them with their disrespectulful posturing. And for that, I offer that it is all for a reason.

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Willow Run, MI -- Clayhillkid wrote: What on God's green earth is goin on in Willow Run? I think y'all have gone stark crazy letting this outsider come in and tear things up so bad that the district is quickly fading to black. While I have known and supported Clifford and Claudette for some time now, I believe it is time to make changes on the school district board. Claudette Braxton has enabled Dr. Hope-Jackson to be an aboslute mess in our schools! She is solely responsible for enabling this woman's disrespectfulness and has refused to see her lack of ability to treat people right and fair. Claudette has done some things OK in past years, but she has lost her way and vision.  This is a shame.  But to be fair, I went on my own mission to ask questions and find out what is really going on inside the schools. 

Much to my disappointment, more negative things were shared than positive ones.  I raised my kids in Willow Run and they turned out great! I supported many programs and even some tax increases, all in the name of making Willow Run Schools a better place so that my grandkids could enjoy.  What has happened? How did we allow us to sink so low and treat people so bad? Have we become so selfish and self righteous that we have taken the public for granted? I listended to Claudette Braxton and trusted her to do right. Instead she had bad relationships with teachers and let Dr Hope-Jackson build a threatening environment for employees.

Did we just assume that we could grow our way out of this mess? We elected and trusted the school district board to safeguard our kids and schools and now we are the laughing stock of Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor. No one wants to be associated with Willow Run because of all the negative events and issues suffered at the hand of a deceptively ill-mannered Dr. Doris HopeJackson. This is really the school board fault for allowing this to carry on. I am even sadder to report that the superintendent Jackson still has not returned phone calls. Her secretary acts as though she is a drone, a hopeless drone, filtering information for the bad, bad doctor.