Carbon County schools are governed by five boards. (A small sliver in the northern part of the county is part of the Hazleton District.) The Palmerton school board recently settled a protracted legal issue involving administrators. Two of the boards, Lehighton and Jim Thorpe, are currently involved in intra-board legal disputes. In the case of Lehighton, the battles have been multi-year. The one in Jim Thorpe just started earlier this month over a dispute about the presidency of the board.
I don’t know what is at fault here. Are the voters electing bad people? Are we electing fanatics who put personal grudges above the interests of the students? I know we live in a litigious culture, but that is ridiculous. These are small districts in small communities. Seven high school seniors could do a much better job.
Might I also mention that the Tamaqua school board is flirting with the idea of arming teachers? Tamaqua, however, is in neighboring Schuylkill County.
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