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Joe Pflueger
Longtime Gilmer County band director and educator Joe Pflueger has announced his candidacy for the Gilmer County Schools Board of Education Post 2 seat.
Pflueger states, “My experience as a 29-year educator has fueled my long-standing passion for providing high-quality education for all our children in Gilmer County.
I truly believe we have tremendous teachers and staff members working with our children. Education takes place in each of our classrooms throughout our district, and the board’s efforts must focus on enhancing and enriching what goes on there.”
As a 27-year Gilmer County educator, Pflueger has witnessed the powerful teaching that goes on in our schools first-hand, having two sons who attended kindergarten through 12th grade in Gilmer County schools.
Pflueger is in his ninth year as head band director at Gilmer High School and will be retiring at the end of this school year. He also served as assistant director of the GHS Band, GHS Pep Band director and as the director of the middle school band program in Gilmer County. For two years prior to his arrival in Ellijay, Pflueger was band director at Hogansville Middle School and Hogansville High School.
A 1985 graduate of Central-Carroll High School in Carrollton, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in music education from Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Ala., after attending Indiana State University for two years. Pflueger received a Master of Education Degree in educational leadership from Kennesaw State University in 2009.
He and his wife Jeris, have two sons Colby and Colin.
“If elected, I would be honored to work with the superintendent and other school board members to provide the best experience for teachers, all staff members and most importantly students in our system,” Pflueger stated.
“Our focus must remain on the students in Gilmer County and how to provide them with the best education possible while maintaining fiscal responsibility for our taxpayers who work extremely hard to support their families in our beautiful mountains of Gilmer County,” he added.
Pflueger went on to explain his reason for running for school board is a simple one: “Because I want to help make decisions that affect Our Children, Our Community, Our Future.”
I ask for your vote Tuesday, May 19.