You ever think about how the correct and proper thing to do is put a former general in the Secretary of Defense of position -- even though the law explicitly discourages this for very important reasons But former teachers never get elected to local school boards because "bias"
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"Do you want this insular class of education professionals, represented by unions that bleed us taxpayers dry without deigning to explain what they spend our money on, to oversee THEMSELVES? To become a wholly unaccountable institution?"
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"No! That's why we have a school board! That's why it's entirely proper and correct that we elect some random retired old fart who owns a plumbing supply company and believes Jesus created Earth in six days to that position! We want outsiders with real-world experience there!"
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I'm sorry that my brain made this connection I don't even care THAT much about Biden appointing Lloyd Austin as SecDef but fuck I hate school board elections so fucking much
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I personally think that, by their logic, I, myself -- a weird young-ish Internet person with no kids and no intention of ever having them -- should be on the school board I also think I should also someday be the Secretary of Defense, or someone like me should
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The difference is "expertise I personally agree with" and "expertise I personally disagree with", and corresponding institutional trust.
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