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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More complaining by people likely not doing anything to produce change.  Those who want change will actively be advocating for county, state, and district policy that moves change, and aligning expectation appropriately.

For example, if they want correct oversight then they will pay the BOE members a salary worthy of the time to do so, thus attracting more candidates.  They will also provide the funding so those persons have the appropriate staff to be able to ensure said oversight.

They will be actively paying attention to MSDE policy that is going to then drive policy and operations in districts.  They will be paying attention to budget from a position of analyzing needs, tradeoffs, and wants.

But what we have is people complaining about getting a new school.[/quote]

Oversight isn't a full time job. What corporate board of directors put anything remotely close to full time in?

The school board professional staff need to be pulled outside the superintendent's sphere of influence. Elected positions need to be truly part time, facilitating working parents to have those roles.[/quote]

They aren’t going to work 40 hours a week and some have full time jobs double dipping with the county.  What is your obsession over working parents?   Better to have an involved educated stay at home parent truly committed as they have more time.  A board job is not a living wage.  [/quote]

It shouldn't be. Board positions should reflect community members with kids in school. That isn't retirees that have no skin in the game. And SAHPs have very different equities than typical parents.

A committed, but misguided, board member can easily do more damage than incompetent board members. I definitely don't want to see SAHPs or retirees on the board. [/quote]

Do you see a bunch of working parents or community members putting themselves out there to run?  No, because people don't want the headache.  Folks know that while it should not be a full-time job, it certainly takes a lot more time than most people suspect.  Heck most of ya'll haven't even served on the Exec Board of a PTA so have no idea what you're talking about.   And who wants to be getting screamed at and headaches from a bunch of people who can't even view a budget or boundaries with and understanding of the realities and tradeoffs.

The reality is that very few people want to run for BOE and very few people want the Superintendent position.[/quote]

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