<p>Just shows that conservatives don’t have a copyright on stubborn unreasonable behavor and decisions. </p>
<p>And don’t get me started on school boards. “Little” power is often great because it is seldom checked.</p>
<p>A nice bookend for the brainless Kansas school board which endorsed creationism - and likely to have a similar result. For those of you from other parts of the country, let me echo Citygirlsmom’s assurance that this is not a popular decision hereabouts (for lots of reasons) and has a good chance of being reversed before being implemented.</p>
<p>yeah, so there ;)</p>
<p>anyway, school boards…often a stepping stone for higher office, which is fine and dandy, but that is a place that should have term limits if any office should and I hate term limits</p>
<p>I also don’t like the dont ask dont tell policy, but that is a battle to be fought elsewhere, not with HS schools</p>
<p>I am one of those people that actually listens to the meetings on the radio…it is like one of those “documentaries”- like SPinal tap, or Best In Show, you just can’t imagine that this stuff is real</p>
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<p>Isn’t the SF school board elected?</p>
<p>Edited to add: Ah, they’re on the way out. When does the new board start? Maybe a quick reversal would fix this. Let us know what happens.</p>
<p>before our last major school board election- we had a superintendent who was being run out of town ( figure of speech) and his COO was appointed temp Supe.
The outgoing board, instead of waiting to see what the new board would do, decided to hire the COO- after a national search didnt turn up anyone
But guess what!
3 years later- he is now a lame duck and has announced his resignation and this board that the city thought was going to be such a boon to the community, can’t even run a community meeting without people being dragged out by security.</p>
<p>I think that since an elected board hasn’t been working- that we should try an appointed board & one who is accountable for their decisions-
I would like to see people who are skilled in needed areas and paid for their work- rather than people who are put up by the various divisive factions to be elected, but aren’t able to get basics accomplished</p>
<p>I don’t think school boards are necessarily a stepping stone to higher office.
Of the last board- one woman was an attorney who had been very involved in education in Seattle- including starting up several schools( now retired)- One man had been an education reporter for a major paper for a number of years,( now retired) and school board was a way to get even more involved, another was also an trial attorney who had been very involved in education, running programs to teach kids about the legal system ( and now is getting his education degree )
From the County or City Council, the Politicians may go on, but not the seattle school board.
( I don’t think anyone would elect them again)</p>
<p>Was it voted out because of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” or because the members think it is militaristic and targets minority kids? Who was backing the school board members in the community?</p>
<p>Its impossible to vote it out because of dont ask dont tell, because gay people that talk about their homosexuality are allowed into the ROTC. It was obviously a sentiment of liberal anti-military pacifism</p>
<p>of 4 people, golani, and those four people were wrong…</p>
<p>I am happy you feel that way.</p>
<p>I think someone would support the ban of moslem students in a hearbeat.</p>
<p>what does that mean</p>
<p>As a former Battalion Commander and a Regional Commander in JROTC (further down south from Los Angeles, no less), I was a bit shocked to hear that San Francisco decided to ban JROTC from its high schools. It is a very worthwhile program, and the school board is just politicking to the anti-Iraq-war sentiment that is present in San Francisco. I sincerely hope the next school board overturns it immediately, and allow cadets to return to their daily retinue in JROTC.</p>