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We had a couple of problems with our local school boards, primarily regarding school closings in our district. In my experience they do not care one whit about what the public thinks or says. They had the obligatory public comment session where unanimously the crowd was opposed to them. Some read newspapers, some chatted and laughed with each other with hands over their microphones while those opposed made comments. After they had performed their legal duty they unanimously voted to do what everyone attending was adamantly opposed to. They had no worry because they could expect to gain reelection through bloc voting and yellow dogs.

They of course assured the crowd that no student would experience any negative effect beyond the longer drive to school. About a week after the school year started they had to announce that two grades that previously had choir would no longer be accepted into the school choir because they had 200 more students and the same number of teachers. I would have thought they could at least have waited a semester before blatantly showing that they were liars.

So I am quite surprised that the parents of these cheating students could get the time of day from a school board much less a vote. These kids must have had some pretty connected Daddies to pull that one off.