A lot of people use school boards as jumping off points to political careers. A friend of mine served on her son's school board and she said when it was no longer about the kids, she was gone. During her tenure there was a major building project they oversaw, so attention was focused for a time, but afterwards, the petty crap started in and that was when she resigned. She said some people have truly altruistic intentions but others...it is a prime example of narcissistic behavior at everyone else's expense.
This is what you happen when you take mediocre people living mediocre lives and give them a hint of power. Instead, what we need is for excellent people with excellent lives to sacrifice part of their productive day to help the community with the school board. Being part of the school board should be a sacrifice you make from your own life to help the community, instead of it becoming your entire life or your greatest accomplishment.
A lot of people use school boards as jumping off points to political careers. A friend of mine served on her son's school board and she said when it was no longer about the kids, she was gone. During her tenure there was a major building project they oversaw, so attention was focused for a time, but afterwards, the petty crap started in and that was when she resigned. She said some people have truly altruistic intentions but others...it is a prime example of narcissistic behavior at everyone else's expense.
This is what you happen when you take mediocre people living mediocre lives and give them a hint of power. Instead, what we need is for excellent people with excellent lives to sacrifice part of their productive day to help the community with the school board. Being part of the school board should be a sacrifice you make from your own life to help the community, instead of it becoming your entire life or your greatest accomplishment.
I've said for years, the people that would be good at the job, for the job, don't want anything to do with it.