Summary
The title "Dumping traditional school boards could save education" caught my eye in the My View piece (March 9).
As a local school board member, I was interested in what a college student, Jeffrey R. Wilbur, had to say. Being the eyes and ears of the community is one of the defining roles of school boards. However, I was greatly disturbed with the underlying unsubstantiated assertion upon which his revolutionary change was apparently based: "The average salary of members of county school boards is well into six figures. And for what? What benefit are they to the system?" The benefits of dumping of traditional school board "... are direct and obvious: Millions of dollars in board members' salaries would be freed to go directly back into the schools themselves ... most importantly, the bureaucracy itself would cease to exist."See the full content of this document
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Local School Boards Play Critical Role
Mr. Wilbur's whole premise is based on an enormous flaw: that school board members are raking in huge amounts of cash and are themselves an ineffecti...
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