Welcome to Restoring Ottawa. This is a site comprised of concerned parents and citizens writing about significant topics that are prevalent in the Grand Haven Area Schools and community. We are primarily focused on the public school system and their policies and curriculum. However we will also occasionally broaden our scope to community wide issues and more.
This is a collection of writers, not one singular voice. As such, we may not all agree with everything written by other contributors, but we do agree on core principles that drive our discussions. What brought us all together was a great concern over the actions and decisions of the school district and school board.
With recent events that have come to light, the writings we will be submitting on here are even more significant and timely. We have collectively done our research and we will back up what we write with documented proof. Our hope is we lay out a clear picture of what is happening in our local schools.
One of the goals of the public schools, as relayed by a school official, is to encourage students to be “active citizens”. Well, we are active citizens. We hope you will follow us and read our well researched articles, mixed with some opinion pieces and perhaps become active citizens along with us.
Thanks for reading and following.