04/16/2025
Mr. Whisler, current Board of Education member, and candidate for Delegate representing Carroll County, has stated multiple times that he is against requesting additional funding from the County Commissioners for our school system. He has justified his statements by saying that the school system should "live within our means" on multiple occasions.
He is also a strong supporter of the Charter School that members of Moms for Liberty have submitted an application to the state to have in our county. He has stated numerous times, erroneously, that this charter will not take funds away from the other schools. However, he forgets that funding follows the student, just like with Blueprint, the per pupil funding would follow the student. So if you take away a dozen students from one school, and send them to this charter, you take away the funding for that dozen students, which could negatively impact the resources and teachers available at the home school.
However, the charter school and Blueprint are not the topics of this post.
Mr. Whisler, who states the school system should live within its means, and not request additional funding, took it upon himself to attend a conference in Florida, on his personal time, not officially as a representative of the CCPS BOE. He then decided to fly into Tampa a week early, rumor has it that he took a cruise, then checked into the hotel in Orlando for the conference.
Mr "live within our means" requested (and had approved) the charges for his flight to Tampa Florida for his vacation, the hotel for the conference that he was not attending in an official capacity, and his flight home from Orlando Florida!
Mr "live within our means" had CCPS pay for his vacation! How is that living within your means?