I'm C.J. Cohick — a Glendora dad running for the Glendora Unified school board in Area 2. For years I've taught kids in this town, Sunday mornings at my church and every day at home.

Our district makes a promise, in writing, on its own website. It says Glendora Unified equips every student with knowledge, skills, and character. Not just test scores. Character. I love that our district says this out loud. I'm running to help make sure we keep saying it, and keep meaning it.

 

Character isn't a poster on a wall.

Kids don't learn honesty from a slideshow. They learn it from adults who expect real things from them, year after year, and from a town that still agrees on what those things are. Honesty. Responsibility. Kindness. Hard work. Glendora agrees on these. That agreement is rare now, and it's worth more than we sometimes remember.

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This town already knows how it's done. Look at the baseball field.

Glendora High baseball is having a moment — back-to-back championship seasons, and the whole town has felt it. But here's the part I want every voter to sit with. In almost sixty years, that program has had just four head coaches. Four. And each one played for, or coached beside, the men who came before him. Same standards, handed from one set of hands to the next, for six decades. The school itself says the program was built on teaching life lessons first — and that its players represent Glendora with class, character, and pride.

That's not a curriculum, that's a relay and a legacy. Character gets passed down in this town by adults who stay, who hold the line, and who hand the standard to the next runner. The wins are what everyone sees. The relay is why they happen.

My job as a trustee is to make sure that relay isn't a lucky accident on one field. It should be how the whole district works.

 

What I will actually do as your trustee:

Hold every decision up to the district's own promise.

Knowledge, skills, and character — the district wrote it, and I'll use it. When a program, a budget line, or a policy comes to the board, one of my questions will always be the same: does this help form kids of character, or does it just move them through? A promise you never check is just a slogan.

 

Protect the adults who carry the standard.

The relay works because good adults stay — coaches, teachers, club advisers, the people kids remember at their ten-year reunion. When rules, paperwork, or thankless workloads push those adults out, the standard leaves with them. I'll work to make staying easier than leaving for the adults who form our kids.

 

Honor character the way we honor championships.

We ring the bell for titles and test scores, as we should. I'll make sure the board celebrates the other wins too: the student who led the service drive, the team that earned a sportsmanship award, the quiet kid who did the right thing when nobody made her. What a town celebrates, its kids learn to value.

 

The bottom line

Glendora's schools sit in a town that still knows what it believes. Honesty, responsibility, kindness, and hard work taught at kitchen tables, carried into classrooms, handed down like a baton in a relay on a baseball field for sixty years. When schools honor that, kids don't just pass, they flourish. That's the promise in our district's own mission, and it's the promise I'll work to keep every day as your trustee.