The problem with the educational system is that there is no one to challenge them. The union, the school board, the teachers are all one and the same. The buy off the politicians and they are free to do as they will.
I don’t know where the author is from, but here in Pennsylvania school boards have been bare-knuckled political for as long as anyone can remember.
The unions generally stack the deck by having their members run for seats in an adjoining district (and vice-versa). Since turnout in those elections is very low they generally get away with it.
Hard to think of any recent teaching jobs that weren’t filled through nepotism or political patronage.
Tell me about it....we are in the midst of school board elections here. And when I was elected to a large community college board in 1991 I thought it was non partisan...Ha..that’s when I began my political education.
School boards apolitical?
In what alternate universe?
They have always served as a first level in the political cursus honorum. Certainly in urban politics.
Then, he made school boards!
The above apparently came from Mark Twain decades ago. So in more than a century, Twain's apt description still applies!