School Board

After learning in February that the Clay County school board planned to raise salaries 1.5%, the group urged supporters to call school-board officials and attend the meeting where the raise was to be considered. ❋ Jennifer Levitz (2011)

“I would rather have a thousand school-board members,” Ralph Reed once said, “than one president and no school-board members”. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Denver ballot includes local school-board races, a city initiative requiring employers to provide paid sick days and a statewide measure that would increase taxes to raise money for education. ❋ Stephanie Simon (2011)

The Koch-funded Tea Party group, Americans for Prosperity "did only voter education and volunteer work on the school-board campaign," said Newsweek, closing the story with a quote from a Koch spokesperson acknowledging the new school board majority will lead to "de facto segregation." ❋ Robert Greenwald (2011)

The rapid actions taken by the boards of education, made just ahead of a new school year and an approaching school-board election, surprised many in Bridgeport. ❋ Shelly Banjo (2011)

This could enable Mr. Bobb to void union contracts, sideline elected school-board members, close schools and authorize charter schools ❋ Matthew Dolan (2011)

The only other issue on the ballot is a school-board election in which none of the seats are contested. ❋ Matthew Dolan (2011)

POLITICAL SCIENCE The First Shall Be First About 10% of city-council and school-board officials elected in recent years in California owe their jobs to being listed first on the ballot, a study finds. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Mr. Suttle is the latest in a growing list of mayors, school-board officials and city-council members across the country targeted for recall by voters angered by a toxic brew of tax increases and service cuts. ❋ Douglas Belkin (2011)

For two years, Mr. Kanka has been a school-board member in Hamilton Township, the town where in 1994 his 7-year-old daughter was raped and killed. ❋ Lisa Fleisher (2011)

"Hamilton is a town that people don't leave," said Patty DelGiudice, the school-board vice president, who said her husband and son participated in the search. ❋ Lisa Fleisher (2011)

We really need to remember Ralph Reed once said, “I would rather have a thousand school-board members than one president and no school-board members” ❋ Unknown (2010)

Plus, you have the most opportunities for corruption because of the unique nature of the New Jersey government system, that has layer upon layer of government, from local sewerage and school-board entities to city council to counties to improvement agencies to economic development agencies, to state boards, state commissions, state colleges, subordinate entities. ❋ Lisa Fleisher (2011)

At a time of school-budget cuts and teacher layoffs, parent groups across the U.S. have marched on school-board offices, staged call-in campaigns and shouted down administrators at school-board meetings. ❋ Joe Barrett (2010)

Now, amid school-board elections and local budgeting, they are starting to see results—and resistance. ❋ Jennifer Levitz (2011)

"To my Democratic friends in the room, I say to you and myself, the days of avoidance are over," St. Cloud school-board member Bruce Mohs said. ❋ Amy Merrick (2011)

"It's about parents being able to decide what's best for their children," said Meghann Silverthorn, a school-board member. ❋ Stephanie Simon (2011)

In school-board elections in early April, none of the candidates endorsed by the Rockford Tea Party won, while two of three candidates endorsed by the teachers' union did—even though the tea party's pre-election media blitz linked property taxes to teacher pay the party said was exorbitant. ❋ Jennifer Levitz (2011)

Agents sent letters criticizing the concept to teachers and school-board members, and one agency hired a lawyer who questioned the process on multiple grounds, prompting the district to retrace some steps, according to Mr. Lloyd and public documents. ❋ Leslie Scism (2012)

District Superintendent: This newly elected school board I have to work with is impossible. They continue to break laws by discussing items in violation of the [open meeting] laws. This is an [undocked school board]! Elementary School Principal: No kidding, [Pawhuska] is one ignorant community for electing these people. ❋ Skypie (2011)

Dude, some idiot got shot by the cops while robbing a liquor store with a [School Board Special]! I've really been wanting to buy a nice handgun, but I don't have the funds. There's a [school board special] on sale at the gun store, so I guess I'll have to settle for that. Some crazy kid tried to [pass off] his [airsoft] as a school board special to his friends at school. ❋ Cthebold (2010)

[Parent] 1: "What did the Lower Merion School Board decide this time for redistricting?" Parent 2: "Those assholes decided to split [Ardmore] in half so now my kid can't go to the school that is two [blocks] away from our house." ❋ Blob-bob (2009)

Kansas State School Board [1999]. ❋ Not An Ignoranus (2010)

[Boarding] [schools] in general are not the [elitist] "rich kids' schools" they are made out to be. ❋ Feh (2005)

Caroline: Oh, you go to boarding school? Which one? i go to andover. Andy: well, i applied to [st. paul's] and milton, but got rejected from [milton's] and [waitlisted] on st. paul's. ❋ Heynow (2006)

p1- what boarding school do you go to? p2- [andover]? what about you? p1- the [kent school]. did you know that kent is home 2 other boarding schools like Marvelwood and south kent? and i know exactly where kira [sedgwick], oscar de la [renta] and [kevin bacon] lives. p2- "thinking"... well um. did you know that i'm really rich?!! you know you go to boarding school when: you are closer to your chemistry teacher than your mother it its [snowed] 8 feet and you still have school when your best friends live in california, turkey, korea when the [the dean] has seen you in your pajamas and its normal when your advisor whose know you since you were 14 becomes your dad when the students and teacher joke like siblings when your going to school on [presidents day] and federal holidays have nothing to do with you when the internet shuts off at 11pm when you go to school 6 days a week including saturdays when your next door neighbor is from papal [new guinea] when youve learned how to swear in 6 differnt languages when you can distinguish between korean, thai, japanese, taiwanese, and chinese because you hear it all the time when you become closer to your friends rather than family when your in [11th grade]. but youve been home twice this year when you took [A.P] chemistry as a sophomore and calculus B.C as a junior when an A stands for average when everybody has at least a 3.6 gpa if you only get one B+ out of 7 classes and everyone one thinks your stupid and teachers get concerned when you can count on 2 hands how many times youve seen your family in the past 4years when your home for a month during vacations when at least 12 people at home have forgotten your existence when you go to school with people that could buy out oprahs studio when youv'e met more different kinds of people than oprah and [maury] put together..well maybe not maury. you've walked by your dorm parent (a man) just in your towel on the way to the shower and neither of you notice when you live above your english teacher when you watch tv shows like greys anatomy or mtv with the calculus teacher several times in the week and you don't notice when on person gets sick. the whole school is. when the [night watch] man has seen you changing from your window. regularly. when you miss dinner life is over.. and you go hungry until the next day when you cant say i left my homework at home. when you have manitory [study hall] when you cant eat any food without someone wanting some. when a B- is frowned upon when you get [exicted] to be able to wear jeans and a sweatshirt to school when you havent watched tv in a month and it doesnt phase you when you go home and you don't know what [prime time] shows are becuse you have study hall during that time when you don't know the names of any shows to watch when you get home when your physics [study partner] is from france when all the people in your class live in different countires. when you babysit your history teachers kids on weekdays creating plans to runaway or jump out your windows becomes a daily topic among your friends when you make things like this and your still bored afterwards. when youve met people that could buy baby jesus 10 times and still have money left over to do it 10 more times you've been monitored at night and all nights by people who are not your parents when the school A.P stats teacher drives you to the mall on sundays when youve played video games [3x's] with your headmaster and dean this week and it phases neither of you when facebook is blocked its like a 1968 detroit riot when you have [basketball practice] at 9pm and 5am and you have no choice when teacher have cursed you out at least 10 times this week and it doesnn't phase you.. when your starving but cant do anything about it when your a teenager but you get [direct deposit] into your [debit] account when youve basically been an adult since the age of 14 when everyone has .. everything when 9 [people people] from the senior class got accepted to princeton when perfection is not expected. its reality. ❋ CT 4 Year Boarding Schoolgrl (2009)

[Aww] Brian got [sent off] to boarding school after his parents caught him [selling] drugs! ❋ Jeweliepop (2009)

Hillary: Omg Jane, I love your new [Vera Bradley] Bag. Its adorable. When did you get it? Jane: Oh why thank you, I got it this summer At a little botique in [Nantucket]. Thats the same week Daddy bought his new yahat. It was so fun, we had this huge coctail party on it, paris hilton was there. Hillary: Thats sounds cute, your so lucky this summer I only went to Europe and sailing in the [Bahamas], i was so mad. I didnt even get the Mercedes i wanted! It was so horrible My parents dont love me. ❋ Alexandria And Noelle (2005)

I went to boarding school, AKA I pretty much raised myself and wasn't allowed to do anything outside of [my school], include see my own parents, without [a dean's] [permission]. ❋ Brielle A (2011)