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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A better alternative might be to go back to a system where School Board members are appointed rather than elected.  Perhaps that way the Board of Supervisors could give some thought to appointing members who have an appropriate cross-section of expertise and aren't so controlled by the special interest groups.  95% of the current agenda is dictated by teachers' groups and the NAACP. [/quote]

This is it. Elected boards have to play a political game and their decisions are always subject to partisan criticism. Appointed boards can straight up do the right thing for schools, students, and staff.
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No - that's not a solution.  Ultimately, it is the citizens who are responsible for the school board -- either through direct elections, or through electing the person who "appoints" the school board.  All that would do is create another level of separation between the citizens and their school board.

The fault lies with the voters -- you are all voting for this moronic school board and its non-academic based policies.  You do it because it touches all your political buttons and it makes you feel good.  You want to vote "Democrats" onto your school board to stop Drumpf or whatever inane political reason you tell yourself.  You all get the schoolboard and the lowest common denominator school system you deserve. [/quote]

You want to crap all over the Democrats, as out-of-power Republicans always do on anonymous forums.

Too bad the candidates endorsed by Republicans in the 2019 School Board elections were largely right-wing hacks out of step with county residents.  You should probably look in the mirror before you complain that voters somehow weren't savvy enough to elect people as nutty as Zia Tompkins, Andi Bayer, Vinson Palathingal or Steven Mosley, or re-elect someone as lazy as Tom Wilson, to the School Board.  Of course they dragged down the few GOP-endorsed candidates who might not have been a total disaster (Buford, Drain, Karloutsos). [/quote]

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