‘The Wrong Kid on the School Board’ (2021)

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Are these the voters or the candidates?

Remember this (https://leeduigon.com/2021/03/24/the-wrong-kid-on-the-school-board/)? I re-cast it as a satire, but it’s based on real-world foolishness indulged in by the Howard County, MD, Board of Education.

They proposed to allow a child, aged 11-16, to serve on the school board and vote with the adult members. All the kids in the district would be eligible to vote for (I don’t know what to call it) this special representative (best I could do!).

The next step, OF COURSE!, would be for the adults to pressure the child on the board first one way, then the other.Wow–wait’ll there’s a tie vote and the kid has to cast the tie-breaker. His family will have to emigrate.

Remember when you thought “government” was performed by intelligent, mature, and rational adults? [Dissolve into gusts of sardonic hilarity]

7 comments on “‘The Wrong Kid on the School Board’ (2021)”

  1. Children may be smart, sincere and good hearted, but they lack practical experience, are easily influenced and have no concept of the value of money. There are lower age limits on many things: driving, buying alcohol, flying and airplane, or signing a contract. They should never be making decisions on a school board.

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  2. Reminds me of our current Arkansas legislators. So many of them are green that they are swayed by those reps who are more senior, which ends up having them vote wrongly on so many issues. Vetting the candidates you support is so important.

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  3. Yes, Lee, it is Dave. My daughter had a minor heart attack, my older sister passed away who lives in AZ, and my computer has been in the repair shop (17 viruses). Now I have to figure out how to get thewhiterabbit back for my posts.

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    1. Hopefully Unknowable will read this and tell you how to fix it.
      Please take care of yourself, Dave.
      It’s the hardest thing in the world to lose loved ones.

    2. All I can suggest is to delete the browser cookies for WordPress.com and/or leeduigon.com, then log back in the nest time you logon to Lee’s site. Google how to delete cookies for your particular browser/operating system.

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