A Florida school board candidate who lost his race in a county south of Jacksonville will get a seat on the board anyway, after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis tapped him to fill a vacancy.
Derek Barrs will take an open seat on the Flagler County School Board in northeast Florida, succeeding a member who resigned in September, allowing DeSantis to appoint a replacement rather than the seat going on the ballot for voters to decide.
Abolish school boards. Schools should be managed by the teachers, students, and support staff.
It’s going to be really annoying bringing every teacher, student and support staff in for votes over every budgetary item. Not sure how you make that work.
Do you need every teacher, student, and support staff to decide on every budget item? No. There are ways of organizing large groups without electing boards and representatives. I won’t deny schooling would need to be restructured, but I think school needs restructuring anyways.
Out of pure curiosity, what are the alternatives to electing representatives?
I don’t think moat people understand how many decisions a school committee makes or how busy the average teacher student or support staff are in their day to day lives. We can’t seem to edge past 2/3s of the populace voting once a year for very important matters. How are you going to get all those people to do that multiple times over the year?
Like idk, everyone having a say, but maybe one person being more actively doing it, one who we could all decide on by voting?
