Should we elect school Principals?
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Anybody who's salary is paid for by the ppl should be elected, so I say yes. But, given how elections are handled these days (fraud), would it matter?
Post office, tax office, clerks in every government office are gonna be elected? They'll be electioneering instead of doing their damn jobs.
maybe the sherriffs but not all of the deputies.. i think the same idea should apply here.. elect the head and they can hire their staff and BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEM
exactly, those in any "leadership" capacity was my thinking. We elect leaders, and entrust in them to bring in the minions. Just like us voting in DJT as leader, and he selects his staff.
Probably not, we should hire and fire based on merit and not electioneering.
Take the money out of it, some school administrators make millions.... and that is ridiculously Evil. Get the unions out of all public sectors too.
Yes.
Why not? Can’t be any worse than the process now. Throw in School Superintendents too, they definitely should be subject to elections. But, why stop there? If these roles become elected positions then the primary qualification is convincing voters you have a plan for running a school, not a set of credentials produced by the same failing system.
Right now these roles are protected by a system that acts like a private club with the ogoal of keeping the membership small. That’s why a Superintendent who fails in one school system almost always lands a new Superintendent job relatively quickly.
Yes, but only the unvaccinated should vote, we have more stake in the future than the vaxxed.
Sure, but those elections can be stolen as well. Until we have a free and fair election, anybody who is elected, it’s not legitimate.
Good point.
No. It’s a job requiring a specific skill set, and is best determined by the school board members.
Citizens need to be more more proactive in hiring school board members. School boards need to have more local authority — currently states have usurped much of local autonomy.
Abolish the federal department of education, treat school unions the same legally as other trade unions, and most of all: Education $ follow the child, not a building. Parents should have the ability to choose public, private, charter or homeschool—whatever. And the government MUST be legally blocked from forcing any specific curriculum snd from any interference in religious schools.
True. But President Trump's argument is that School Boards represent the entire school district, the Principal represents that school. An elected Principal would be better served to help the parents than the teachers.
Let's say we have a small city of 70,000 people with three high schools, three middle schools and 12 elementary schools. Each district would be represented by one Principal and would likely the parents at school district meetings. In theory, they would be answerable to parents before teachers.
Yes.
Home schooling and home school co-ops sound way better to me.
Yes
They are easier to fire if not elected