October 10, 2024 • 8 mins
Robert Cribbs - Candidate for Forest Hills School Board
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Important race is all up and down, the top of
the ticket, down all the way, I say to dogcatchers sometimes,
but it is. It's it. I mean that the county races,
the township and I believe or not, I don't think
even more important than school board races are such an
important race to be paying attention to the most critical
election of our maybe not just our lifetime, but maybe
(00:21):
the entire history of this country. And I'll tell you
I've been paying close attention to some of these. In fact,
we've been talking about this behind the scenes for a
while now. But he is running for school board here
in Forest Hills, and I've had some conversation. We're doing
some unique things to really dig in and understand the
(00:43):
job Robert Cribs is running right now Forest Hills. And
appreciate you taking the time to join us. Robert, how
are you well?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I'm fine, justin.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Well, you're taking this seriously. I mean what you've been
doing behind the scenes, that, guys, I mean a real
hands on approach here. You are not only substitute teaching,
volunteering coaching, but you're also been driving school buses. I
can't get out just a wild tell me what you've
(01:13):
been doing and why you've been doing it?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Okay, Well, as you know, justin two years ago I
ran for school board and part of the reason I
ran was we were told by some friends of ours
that their grandkids were removed from Forest Hills for reasons
within the school system they weren't happy with. So Dorothy,
my wife, and I decided, hey, just check it out,
(01:36):
and so we went to a board meeting and we
saw how the deviceive it was. And so from that
and getting involved with other aspects of it, I thought
I'm gonna go ahead and run. So I did, and
I ran for the two year position. I ran against
a sixteen year incumbent, but did pretty well in the
(01:56):
in person but just got beeped through the absentee. So
many people ask me, Robert, would you do it again?
And I said, well, if I'm going to do it again,
I want to really get involved. So I got my
substitute teaching license and the goal was to teach in
every Forest Hills school at least twice. And it's been
a great learning curve because part of that is good
(02:18):
because I get to visit with the principals. I get
to visit with teachers. I get to hear what they
have to say. Many of the schools they have a
great relationship with because they call me up and said, Robert,
can you come in and help us today? And if
I'm able to, I will do it. So that was
one step. And then for the last several years I've
been involved with transportation doing oh they're banquets, their drivers
(02:41):
appreciation breakfast and helping out in that area. They call
me and say can you do it? So I do
the grilling, and all I've heard for, as you know,
three or four years, is how the transportation partner needs help.
So they had a transportation said hey, do you really
want to know what goes on and want you become
a bus driver? And I said I can do it.
Sub he said that'd be great, And it has been
(03:03):
a great experience because you have no idea what a
bus driver has to go through to be able to
be licensed to take these kids, which you know, the
first one's in, the first one and the last one's
out with the bus drivers and what they have to do.
So my whole point is by being involved, I know
what goes on more within the school district. By going
(03:26):
to all the board meetings, both the curriculum and finance
during the day and the monthly meetings. I have learned
a lot hearing what's going on. Knowing what's going on
because curriculum meetings and the finance meeting they talk about
a lot more issues than what you hear at the
monthly meeting. And it also gives the board members a
(03:49):
chance to kind of get to know me, because you
got to work with these people and you've got to
have a consensus to get the majority degree with you,
and if you go in with a hammer, it makes
it kind of tough. But I believe the board knows
me well enough that I will be actually very active
into what needs to be done. Being a former business
(04:13):
order and also I'm with SCORE and that's the mentor
group of small business. I want fiscal responsibility. I think
we need to not just rubber stamp of other things
that happened. I want to ask questions, make sure that
the schoolture safe, not being locked down like prisons. There's
a lot of things within the school system that we
(04:37):
do well, but there's a lot of things we really
need to improve.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
What is the biggest issue right now? I mean, I've
got to say that my wife and I've told this
story before. My wife is her grandmother's been she was
a teacher and a principal and then one of the
first I think superintendent's female superintendent's in the entire state.
And then my dad thought for years, and both of us,
looking at each other today, said I just I don't
(05:04):
know if if there's any way that we're going to
be able to send our kids to public schools. And
I hate that because you know, particularly in Forest Hills,
you know, there's some other districts too where you're you know,
your property values are tied to the quality of the schools,
and if the quality of schools drops, guess what, so's
your property values. That's that's not good for anybody.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I agree, John, because when my kids went to school,
the involvement around thirteen to five is now around nine thousand,
and we all know the area is growing. And granted
a lot of people say, well it's because the housing
values and people are not having kids like they did.
But for example, where I live, I live in a
(05:47):
you know, up a middle and all five homes that
were just recently sold in the last year and a
half all have kids in them. But the part of
it is within the schools has a lot to offer.
They've got a lot of extracurricular we could use more
and I'm a big fan of extra liquor. And the
(06:09):
other aspect of it is that we don't really have
good trade programs within the schools. I think that if
we improved that aspect of it, like work with Fox
Motors and say, hey, we want to see if we
can have kids come over and observe about being a mechanic.
I actually spoken from the afl CIO up in Cooper's
(06:31):
Bill about trying to connect more with the trade, So
that's one aspect of it, and just really concentrate on
the major issues of math. It's really history, geography, English, reading,
(06:52):
And when I subt to teach, I'd like to get
involved with the kids. And I find the kids very,
very open to learn, that they want to learn, and
I think that's one of the reasons why I get
invited back a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
You know, the what I hear you saying is we
got to get focused back on the basics reading, writing,
arithmetic and and uh and and make sure that the
kids are learning uh what they're what they're supposed to.
We got reading scores. We've got test scores, all kinds
of scores dropping. And then and I know parents are
concerned about that the kids are being taught things uh
that they really shouldn't be taught in schools instead of
(07:26):
the basics. Again and look, ro I don't want to
put words in your mouth, but if people can find
out exactly what you believe, have a conversation with Robert,
find out where he'll be and find out what he
is all about when you go with the website Robert
Cribs for f hp S. That's Robert Cribs, the number
four f HPS dot com. Robert, thank you for taking
(07:49):
the time to be here with us today. Unfortunately we're
out of time. Gotta hit this brake put in the hour.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
All right, Thank you very much and I appreciate the
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Time justin as always, Good luck to you, my friend,
and thank you God bless the
Important race is all up and down, the top of
the ticket, down all the way, I say to dogcatchers sometimes,
but it is. It's it. I mean that the county races,
the township and I believe or not, I don't think
even more important than school board races are such an
important race to be paying attention to the most critical
election of our maybe not just our lifetime, but maybe
(00:21):
the entire history of this country. And I'll tell you
I've been paying close attention to some of these. In fact,
we've been talking about this behind the scenes for a
while now. But he is running for school board here
in Forest Hills, and I've had some conversation. We're doing
some unique things to really dig in and understand the
(00:43):
job Robert Cribs is running right now Forest Hills. And
appreciate you taking the time to join us. Robert, how
are you well?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I'm fine, justin.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Well, you're taking this seriously. I mean what you've been
doing behind the scenes, that, guys, I mean a real
hands on approach here. You are not only substitute teaching,
volunteering coaching, but you're also been driving school buses. I
can't get out just a wild tell me what you've
(01:13):
been doing and why you've been doing it?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Okay, Well, as you know, justin two years ago I
ran for school board and part of the reason I
ran was we were told by some friends of ours
that their grandkids were removed from Forest Hills for reasons
within the school system they weren't happy with. So Dorothy,
my wife, and I decided, hey, just check it out,
(01:36):
and so we went to a board meeting and we
saw how the deviceive it was. And so from that
and getting involved with other aspects of it, I thought
I'm gonna go ahead and run. So I did, and
I ran for the two year position. I ran against
a sixteen year incumbent, but did pretty well in the
(01:56):
in person but just got beeped through the absentee. So
many people ask me, Robert, would you do it again?
And I said, well, if I'm going to do it again,
I want to really get involved. So I got my
substitute teaching license and the goal was to teach in
every Forest Hills school at least twice. And it's been
a great learning curve because part of that is good
(02:18):
because I get to visit with the principals. I get
to visit with teachers. I get to hear what they
have to say. Many of the schools they have a
great relationship with because they call me up and said, Robert,
can you come in and help us today? And if
I'm able to, I will do it. So that was
one step. And then for the last several years I've
been involved with transportation doing oh they're banquets, their drivers
(02:41):
appreciation breakfast and helping out in that area. They call
me and say can you do it? So I do
the grilling, and all I've heard for, as you know,
three or four years, is how the transportation partner needs help.
So they had a transportation said hey, do you really
want to know what goes on and want you become
a bus driver? And I said I can do it.
Sub he said that'd be great, And it has been
(03:03):
a great experience because you have no idea what a
bus driver has to go through to be able to
be licensed to take these kids, which you know, the
first one's in, the first one and the last one's
out with the bus drivers and what they have to do.
So my whole point is by being involved, I know
what goes on more within the school district. By going
(03:26):
to all the board meetings, both the curriculum and finance
during the day and the monthly meetings. I have learned
a lot hearing what's going on. Knowing what's going on
because curriculum meetings and the finance meeting they talk about
a lot more issues than what you hear at the
monthly meeting. And it also gives the board members a
(03:49):
chance to kind of get to know me, because you
got to work with these people and you've got to
have a consensus to get the majority degree with you,
and if you go in with a hammer, it makes
it kind of tough. But I believe the board knows
me well enough that I will be actually very active
into what needs to be done. Being a former business
(04:13):
order and also I'm with SCORE and that's the mentor
group of small business. I want fiscal responsibility. I think
we need to not just rubber stamp of other things
that happened. I want to ask questions, make sure that
the schoolture safe, not being locked down like prisons. There's
a lot of things within the school system that we
(04:37):
do well, but there's a lot of things we really
need to improve.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
What is the biggest issue right now? I mean, I've
got to say that my wife and I've told this
story before. My wife is her grandmother's been she was
a teacher and a principal and then one of the
first I think superintendent's female superintendent's in the entire state.
And then my dad thought for years, and both of us,
looking at each other today, said I just I don't
(05:04):
know if if there's any way that we're going to
be able to send our kids to public schools. And
I hate that because you know, particularly in Forest Hills,
you know, there's some other districts too where you're you know,
your property values are tied to the quality of the schools,
and if the quality of schools drops, guess what, so's
your property values. That's that's not good for anybody.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I agree, John, because when my kids went to school,
the involvement around thirteen to five is now around nine thousand,
and we all know the area is growing. And granted
a lot of people say, well it's because the housing
values and people are not having kids like they did.
But for example, where I live, I live in a
(05:47):
you know, up a middle and all five homes that
were just recently sold in the last year and a
half all have kids in them. But the part of
it is within the schools has a lot to offer.
They've got a lot of extracurricular we could use more
and I'm a big fan of extra liquor. And the
(06:09):
other aspect of it is that we don't really have
good trade programs within the schools. I think that if
we improved that aspect of it, like work with Fox
Motors and say, hey, we want to see if we
can have kids come over and observe about being a mechanic.
I actually spoken from the afl CIO up in Cooper's
(06:31):
Bill about trying to connect more with the trade, So
that's one aspect of it, and just really concentrate on
the major issues of math. It's really history, geography, English, reading,
(06:52):
And when I subt to teach, I'd like to get
involved with the kids. And I find the kids very,
very open to learn, that they want to learn, and
I think that's one of the reasons why I get
invited back a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
You know, the what I hear you saying is we
got to get focused back on the basics reading, writing,
arithmetic and and uh and and make sure that the
kids are learning uh what they're what they're supposed to.
We got reading scores. We've got test scores, all kinds
of scores dropping. And then and I know parents are
concerned about that the kids are being taught things uh
that they really shouldn't be taught in schools instead of
(07:26):
the basics. Again and look, ro I don't want to
put words in your mouth, but if people can find
out exactly what you believe, have a conversation with Robert,
find out where he'll be and find out what he
is all about when you go with the website Robert
Cribs for f hp S. That's Robert Cribs, the number
four f HPS dot com. Robert, thank you for taking
(07:49):
the time to be here with us today. Unfortunately we're
out of time. Gotta hit this brake put in the hour.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
All right, Thank you very much and I appreciate the
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Time justin as always, Good luck to you, my friend,
and thank you God bless the
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