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Today’s question:
QUESTION: Should a person be required to have a child/grandchild in the school district in order to serve on that district’s school board?
Talk about it….
No…not fair to those who are interested in education but either can’t or don’t want kids. I would welcome any individual with perfect credentials.
I don’t think so. School boards are how Democrats start their way up the corruption ladder. Helping your kids is the last thing on their minds. Don’t believe me? Are your kids in school yet?
“The Democratic National Committee is committed to electing Democrats at every level — from the school board to the Oval Office.”
https://democrats.org/who-we-are/
No. Not required to have a student in school at that time. They should be required to be able to demonstrate that they have had experiences and worked within the school district (as a parent in the past or as a teacher or school administrator).
No. However they should be required to live within the District and pay taxes to the District. Then they will have a vested interest in the District that the represent.
Yes there should be a requirement to either have an active student or a past student in the school district. With this requirement parents/grandparents will understand their decisions directly affect their families. If not people will serve to further their own agendas. In this woke/social justice environment the latter type of people will prove the most damaging to our schools and children
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No, we all pay school taxes whether we have kids or not. A school district is part of the community like fire stations, hospitals, etc. and we all have an interest in that.
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No.
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But they should live within the district they are to serve.
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MDUSD is more than regular k-12 it also has 16 Alternative schools and Programs and 2 Adult Education. I think it would be good but the person should be able to understand all the issues in MDUSD.
Yes, the decisions made by a school board need to be also felt at a personal level and that means having a kid in the system.
Forget Schools. only K thru 8 th grade. then a trade school for 2 to 4 years. make some money peeps. $$$$$ no sense in taking a history class since history is being erased anyway.
Now would be a good time to rethink high school. Start with AP classes. Why not just have students pick up a class at DVC, LMC, or CCC? It would be a real college class and the AP teacher could teach a regular HS class and aleviate the over crowded classrooms. Don’t require so many electives and let seniors have a shorter day to start college or get a job. Art, do we really need so many art classes? PE,it isn’t what it used to be. If a students plays sports release him out of PE. PE teachers that also coach use PE to condition their athletes. Coaches making teachers pay, not good. Too bad it will never happen.
No, however anyone affiliated with the teachers union should be disqualified. There is an obvious conflict of interest.
I’m fine with it , I never had or wanted kids but my taxes go to the school. Would love to get in there if I had the time and put an end to spending. My taxes are being wasted on useless stuff and not going to help kids.
Everyone who is taxed has every right to be on the school board.
I believe that people who don’t have children shouldn’t be taxed for education.
I know the arguments about taxing people and the schools.
I still hate having to pay for someone else’s kids to get an education.
That should be the parent’s responsibility, not mine.
Cellophane,
I support school / property choice. My property taxes should not be extorted by school districts.
Yes, I agree….we pay = we have a say!
At any given time, only 25% of the population have children in K-12 .,, but, we are ALL, that is 100% of us, are required to pay for those 25%. So, yes. If you pay taxes in the School District, you should be able to sit on the Board. He who pays gets a say! People who don’t have children in the District should outnumber those who do by 3 to 1.
And, if you don’t pay Property Taxes, you should not be allowed to vote for County Bond Measures and Special Assessments that will increase them. Enough is enough!
I would be okay with ditching public education in general…
But I think these comments are lacking some perspective. Children are not just a private good or a lifestyle choice. The whole society depends on the population continuing to reproduce itself. Even fiscally! Who do you think the workers whose taxes will pay for your Medicare etc. are going to be? Where are they going to come from?
Look up the phrase “demographic winter”, read for ten minutes, and then reconsider whether society as a whole has an interest in there being a next generation.
I believe the country has already been taken down.
It’s already too late.
Cellophane
Don’t think we have hit bottom yet but the woke are working on it.
Nobody not invested in the future with kids should even be in education at all. Not on the board and not in the classroom. If you ain’t got kids it’s impossible to know the importance.
So…since I don’t have kids, I can stop paying taxes to support those schools?
Absolutely. The schools waste 80% of our money on bs. Dry them up, back to basics please.
So you can only be a teacher if/when you have children? What about people who graduate college but don’t have children yet? Do they have to wait until they have children to start their career teachers? These commenters have no critical thinking skills.
Yes that’s what I think. Do you really want a 22 year old childless marxist teaching children? I don’t. Every parent will tell you their whole perspective changed when they had children. I don’t care what you think, nobody not invested in the future should be involved with education.
No, but would be nice if they weren’t leftist kooks more intent on indoctrination rather than EDUCATION. And if you think that’s hyperbole then watch last night’s meeting and/or visit the social media pages of a certain lunatic on the Board. I mean the rest of them are also left-leaning, ineffectual idiots, but at least I can’t say they’re stark-raving insane racists like this one particular moron is.
No, not for the whole board, but there should be a certain number of board seats that do have that requirement. Families of students should have representation on the board ensured by its by-laws. But requiring it for all board members doesn’t make sense.
I don’t have kids and I’m not exempt from paying the taxes that support the schools, so why shouldn’t I have a say in how that money is spent as a member of the school board?
We should have s students union. The students need a big powerful union looking out for them.
Public Schools are publicly funded and the board positions should be open to anyone that qualifies in their specific district. Schools can not survive with parents alone and allowing parents only would risk finding quality candidates who are not board members.
A parent should be on the board to represent parents and subcommittees could be formed within each specific district(s) to give parents. They would not have voting rights but their voice would be equal to any other board member