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comment by steve

this is relevant as I'll be in the board meeting for my kids' school this evening. I already know we've got angry parents on both sides of the equation for discussion on the agenda - returning kids to school. I am REALLY not looking forward to this one.

Interestingly - the board should have known that what they are doing, even if no one else was admitted yet, is a violation of most sunshine laws. You cannot meet to discuss school business in private. This is one of those cases where playing by the rules would have protected them from themselves.





kleinbl00  ·  1129 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There was nothing private about that meeting. If you watch the recording through to where the "saucy" shit hits, person after person after person after person is joining. It was a public meeting, the board was talking among themselves, probably not particularly concerned that anything they said was going to be used as a weapon against them, because they were comiserating about particular parents, no names mentioned.

Then the mob kicked in.

steve  ·  1129 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    There was nothing private about that meeting.

I know - but they were talking as if they were. "Are we alone?" - and that's my point - they shouldn't be - any time more than two board members are talking about school business, it constitutes a board meeting and MUST be public (at least in CO - don't know about CA). My point is... there's a time to talk shit and a time to be in a public meeting.

having said that - parents are the worst - and being an unpaid volunteer board member draws the worst from people. goobster said it well above.

    the people who step up to do the real work will be lambasted and demonized until they leave.