Posted on 01/23/2022 6:08:55 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A Pennsylvania school board member, ostensibly disgruntled because parents are showing up at board meetings to voice concerns about education issues, penned an op-ed Sunday in which he responded, “I don’t work for you.”
Richard Robinson, a member of the York Suburban School Board, appears to long for the days when “nobody showed up” to school board meetings.
The “public comments” period of these meetings, he noted at the York Dispatch, once gave residents “the chance to vent their spleens about exorbitant taxes or demand subjects be taught properly the way they were during the most frigid period of the Cold War.”
These days, however, Robinson complained, “school boards are now the new battleground in the fight for America’s future”:
Some members of my community appear to interpret this part of board meetings as the occasion to tell board members why they have the collective intelligence of a village idiot and how the school district ought to be addressing real problems. When the board does not fall in line with each and every demand, we are accused of ignoring the thoughtful, unbiased, sincere and righteous ultimatums of our community.
Robinson said he preferred to write not as a “member of a school board,” but, instead, as a “member of my community who serves on a school board.” He responded to the concept that he works for the taxpayers of his community with the statement:
No, I don’t work for you. I was elected by people who voted to represent you. It is not the same thing. You may also be surprised to learn every member of a school board is a taxpayer, too. I come from a long line of taxpaying men and women.
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I agree that parents have no say in how the school board runs things. It is the taxpayers who finance the schools. It is they who should determine how the schools are run.
Then a) why are voters in charge of electing you? and b) why do you take tax money to pay your salary?
Fire his goatsmellin’ ass. Send him back to his fast food job.
“I don’t work for you.”
Well there you have it folks, a government employed socialist commie type, in a position of power. being stunningly honest!
We have arrived at the point were these tax funded demigods are telling us little people to just Fuck off.
Tar and feathers.
Someone missed school the day all of this was explained in civics.
I hope the Democrats maintain this stance all the way to November.
We just had them here in Pennsylvania and the next ones happen in 2023.
Pennsylvania School Board Member to Parents: ...‘I Don’t Work for You’
Hopefully this arrogant clown son won’t be working.
The parents aren’t the taxpayers? I’d be willing to bet that they are. Even renters are paying the landlord’s property taxes included in the rent money.
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