Originally Posted By: tnshootistJava,I don't know what it is like where you are but I can't believe how arrogant some get when elected or appointed,we don't get to elect all our school people anymore,to the school board.But I guess they catch it from all sides.Still ,more could be done if the board could hold their head and do the right thing.Politics on a small scale seems more silly than what goes on in DC sometimes.
OK, yeah, it was like that in Maryland, too, where I lived for about 12 years. School boards were appointed by the governor.
Out here in WA, and much of the west, generally, school board members are elected. I do really prefer that and the western states' tendency to give much greater power to the voters through the initiative process--much easier to get a measure on the ballot out here than it was back east, which I like.