This article is SO like what I see more frequently ... proposals made that sound good ... usually made by one of the administration, (WHO wouldn't want a policy on suicide prevention ?) ... until you read that there will be an info gatherer at the class level, building level, school level and district level ... which all include (as I read between the lines) favored additional 'team members'
There's never been a suicide in our school
People on boards are not paying attention, or are functional illiterates, can't read, or perhaps do not understand WHAT they read
Isn't also your experience that the professional superintendent (equivalent to a city or a county manager, I guess, though usually paid better) exercises an inordinate amount of raw power, using a kind of apparently passive control over the chair and the agenda? Team him or her up with a board attorney and the pressure to adhere to "best practices," etc. etc., ad infinitum, and any resemblance to democracy turns out to be less than skin deep.
It's terrifying, sometimes, to realize how institutional bureaucrats hide their tyranny behind a mask of democracy.
I guess we'd have to define "stupid" as deliberate, rather than accidental, ignorance.