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17 Jan 2007, 12:50 pm

marktwain wrote:
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.


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17 Jan 2007, 1:07 pm

:lol: So true.



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17 Jan 2007, 2:45 pm

That is very true.



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17 Jan 2007, 3:59 pm

Three "Hail Mary's" and an "Amen" to that!


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17 Jan 2007, 5:09 pm

gotta love mark twain's wit :D


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17 Jan 2007, 6:57 pm

tinky wrote:
gotta love mark twain's wit :D


oh yeah!


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17 Jan 2007, 9:38 pm

I'll drink to that :P



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18 Jan 2007, 8:45 pm

Should school boards be elected or appointed? For my school system they wereappointed. For a neighboring school system, they weren't. I've heard that the neighboring school system really went into a decline after the school board became elected. (And also due in part to a sad incident that got five principals fired. One of the principals that got fired was replaced with my uncle as a result, though. )



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18 Jan 2007, 9:02 pm

xon wrote:
Should school boards be elected or appointed? For my school system they wereappointed. For a neighboring school system, they weren't. I've heard that the neighboring school system really went into a decline after the school board became elected. (And also due in part to a sad incident that got five principals fired. One of the principals that got fired was replaced with my uncle as a result, though. )


Your uncle is THE PRINCIPAL?! Man, your popularity in school must suck. Not meaning it to be mean, just that the principal's family isn't considered very popular in most systems...

Of course, our principal doesn't have any family in the student body, so we're ok...


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19 Jan 2007, 4:21 am

heh.

I know how that can feel.

especially when you have three or so children in the school and you're principal. one of my friends had that.

Yeah.

schoolboards suck.



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19 Jan 2007, 6:09 am

....then when came the smart kids? After schoolboards? Or was it after idiots learned atleast something?



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19 Jan 2007, 1:21 pm

xon wrote:
Should school boards be elected or appointed? For my school system they wereappointed. For a neighboring school system, they weren't. I've heard that the neighboring school system really went into a decline after the school board became elected. (And also due in part to a sad incident that got five principals fired. One of the principals that got fired was replaced with my uncle as a result, though. )


They should be appointed, because if not: they may be a crack-pot.


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19 Jan 2007, 1:22 pm

Moonlightelf wrote:
....then when came the smart kids? After schoolboards? Or was it after idiots learned atleast something?


Before School boards ;)


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19 Jan 2007, 1:43 pm

dgd1788 wrote:
marktwain wrote:
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.


Very true in terms of educating your kids, but that's not why school boards exist. They exist to provide their members ways to enrich themselves (some more legal than others) and/or to provide a stepping stone to higher political office.