Editor, Gazette-Journal:

The following is a response to a question in last week’s letter to the editor concerning the record of “the other school board candidate,” Dr. Marianne Gibbs.

Prior articles/letters in this paper have spoken to Dr. Gibbs’s extensive training and experience in the field of education. A dancer and gymnast as a young person, she leaned toward a career in some branch of the healing arts and found occupational therapy (master’s degree) to be a good fit, given her athletic interests.

Working with young children in the area of fine motor skills and writing readiness became her passion. Early on, she developed a training program for this work, which was first used in a school district in Texas and now impacts hundreds of school districts throughout the U.S. and Canada. After working in the public schools for about seven years, she wanted to reach out beyond her home base and share her knowledge and skills with a larger audience. She obtained additional traini...