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Thursday, May 10, 2007
‘Most Bizarre’ School Board Meeting
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
School board meetings can be a dull affair, unless you’re a policy wonk like me. I enjoy hearing the nitty-gritty on the inner workings of a school system — which, admittedly, would put most to sleep.
But I also grow tired sometimes of the lack of real, hardy debate among school board members. In some school systems I’ve covered, months will pass without a single divided vote.
Apparently, a recent DeKalb County Board of Education meeting about the system’s contentious redistricting plan was not your regular staid affair. According to AJC reporter Kristina Torres’ story today, the public sniping among the nine-member board lasted four full hours.
David Schutten, president of the local teachers’ group told Kristina that some observers considered it “the most bizarre meeting in school board history.”
Kind of makes me wish I had been there.
