For me, in a school board election, they'd have to search rather a bit to find a more significant issue.
OK, it would be a top issue in a school board election if anyone in my neighborhood was suicidal enough to propose teaching ID.
Our school system simply allows kids to opt out of any controversial subjects. The rest of the kids do not get dumbed down classes. The short bus kids are on their own on standardized tests.
"For me, in a school board election, they'd have to search rather a bit to find a more significant issue."
Really? For me, a more significant issue would be how they planned to actually teach kids to read, write, and do basic math. That seems to be the big problem these days.
I'd rather the school board explain why they hired an education commissioner with no background in education but who happens to support vouchers, or let us know the reasoning behind the proposal to turn sex education into a 6 week course, 99% of it concentrating on abstinence (it's currently covered in 2 or 3 classes). Those are only the latest crazy stunts of these bozos. The state has real issues in education. The funding for schools is crazy, the bureaucracy that supports the schools is bloated, and we have a Supreme Court that has just mandated that the state dump another $500 million into school funding AND NOBODY IS FIGHTING THEM ON THIS. But those aren't on the board's radar screen, introducing creationism is.