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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what's the solution besides venting on this forum? I'm not being snarky. What can be done? [/quote]

A new school board. Unfortunately that is practically impossible at this point. The school board is political and they are all democrats. The school board would do better if it were a mix or independent. We live in an area where almost everyone votes democrat.[b] (I’ve been guilty of doing that as well - not again.)[/b] So even people who don’t have kids or don’t care about the school board at all will go and vote and just vote for the democrats on the ballot.  A lot of the school board members don’t really care about the school system - they are using it to further their political career. And that means [b]they care less about education and more about social issues[/b].

And so all we can really do is vent on forums like this. [/quote]

I get what you are saying but I am not going to vote for people who don't share my values just because its "party ticket" voting. The issue of it being a political stepping stone is real though. I'd argue that education doesn't happen in a bubble though and you can't extract social issues from education. That's a top down issue, schools are tasked with delivering a LOT of social services for kids. Which makes some sense, we know where they will be and have access to ensuring they receive services at school. But still, this is an overly simplistic view of any solutions. [/quote]

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