A Florida school board candidate who lost his race in a county south of Jacksonville will get a seat on the board anyway, after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis tapped him to fill a vacancy.

Derek Barrs will take an open seat on the Flagler County School Board in northeast Florida, succeeding a member who resigned in September, allowing DeSantis to appoint a replacement rather than the seat going on the ballot for voters to decide.

  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    It’s going to be really annoying bringing every teacher, student and support staff in for votes over every budgetary item. Not sure how you make that work.

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      20 hours ago

      Do you need every teacher, student, and support staff to decide on every budget item? No. There are ways of organizing large groups without electing boards and representatives. I won’t deny schooling would need to be restructured, but I think school needs restructuring anyways.

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        17 hours ago

        Out of pure curiosity, what are the alternatives to electing representatives?

        I don’t think moat people understand how many decisions a school committee makes or how busy the average teacher student or support staff are in their day to day lives. We can’t seem to edge past 2/3s of the populace voting once a year for very important matters. How are you going to get all those people to do that multiple times over the year?

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          12 hours ago

          Groups within the school (however they want to organize themselves) could elect delegates (basically messengers) to reach decisions. That is how Europe developed its continental railway system (Kropotkin talks about it in Conquest of Bread). Its also a situation of let them figure out how they want to organize. I don’t think people not involved in the school should be deciding how a school is run. People should be free to organize themselves through voluntary association, not have decisions forced on them. Its about consent, and I can tell you right now, teachers typically do not like school boards.

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      2 days ago

      The best way is probably not to say it’s an impossible task from the outset, eh?