Legislatures can meet remotely for all Alaska sessions

Every legislator can meet remotely and stay in their communities they represent.  This will make it easier for each legislator to be accessible to their community.  The only times the legislators should meet together is when a member of the congressional delegation visits the legislature and twice a year when the governor makes a speech to the body.  

Imagine five times a year the legislature meeting at the Alaska Airlines Center when members of congress and the governor speaks to the legislature.  

 

Rest of the legislature can meet remote at the legislative office closest to where they live an example.  Senator Jesse Bjorkman can meet at the Kenai Legislative Information office and  Representative Jeremy Bynum can meet at the Ketchikan Legislative Information office.  This makes each legislature more accessible to the people they represent.  COVID-19 proved that people can meet remotely and be closer to the people.  This will save Alaska taxpayers money in capitol meeting expenses.

 

The Anchorage Caucus and staff can meet at the Wells Fargo Building at Northern Lights and Minnesota

Fairbanks Caucus and staff can meet at the Fairbanks Legislative Information office 

Mat-Su Caucus and staff can meet at the Mat-Su Legislative Information office in Downtown Wasilla

  

The real reason school children are asking to not have cell phones in the classroom

The real reason many school districts across the United States have decided to no longer allow cell phones in the classroom.  Sometimes these devices can be distracting to students while the teacher is trying to teach the class.  The student could be contact someone on social media or consider it an electronic way of passing a note.  The only problem is the teacher is not able to confiscate the text to make the student read it out loud to the class.  A lot of teachers are now requiring the student to put the cell phone in a basket at the beginning of class then will hand it back at the end of class.  Some parents have felt this is an issue since they are not able to get a hold of their children during the school day.  The truth is most schools still have a landline telephone to contact the school and still use a public address system to notify the student if they need to come to office in an emergency.  Remember the student is their to learn not to be distracted.  Plus this also prevents the student from cheating on their tests or work assignments.  The other reason is some teachers have felt that a student may film independently a teacher making a statement about issue with maybe the parent disagrees with the subject the teacher is teaching in the class.  Remember most public schools in at least one class I would attend the principal would quietly sit in a class to observe the way the teacher was teaching the class.  Many school districts want their teachers to able to teach without outside interference. I support that children not having cell phone on their person and is giving back to the student by the end of the day.

In the middle school and high school the student would hand it over to the teacher in the home room that is the first period of the day in a school day.   
 

Dustin Darden not qualified for any elected office

Dustin Darden as a school board member would be like Theresa Obermeyer will be recalled if elected.  I could see him that be in left field on an issue dealing with the school board issue.  He has been thrown out of Assembly meetings for not being on topic.  Let's say it is about teacher contracts and he is talking about god and Jesus.  He has prevented Liz Vazquez from returning to politics many times over in fact in 2019 West Anchorage Assembly race his results allowed Kameron Perez-Verdia to win over Liz he got 9 percent would had put it in a close election.  Kameron received 6,161 votes, Liz received 4,852.  Dustin received 1,077 votes.  Had he not been in that race.  Kameron may have won by only by over 300 votes instead.  Imagine the Anchorage Assembly had Liz being elected in 2020.

 

Kameron Perez-Verdia 

 

Liz Vazquez 

Dustin Darden is just like Theresa Obermeyer refused to be on topic.  She never understood the topic of the question that Rhonda McBride one of my favorite reporters here in Alaska who was working at KYUK AM a Bethel affiliate of Alaska Public Media did not stay on topic of the question on question asked by Rhonda about rural Alaska.

 

Here is him at the Anchorage Assembly Meetings refusing to be on topic.

Please elect someone other than Dustin for this seat please.