As the teachers’ union worries candidates linked to right-wing politics will get elected to school boards, there’s a bigger question: With so many of the big decisions in education handled by the province, what’s left for trustees to do?
Stumped? You’re not alone. Compared to municipal councils, school boards tend to be like the witness protection program, a good hiding place for those seeking anonymity.
That’s what has some B.C. teachers worried. They fear candidates linked to hard-right politics will get elected to school boards Saturday, using their newfound beachhead to push a socially conservative agenda. Safe to say the VIVA candidates, some of whom complain that students already have a political agenda foisted upon them, aren’t thrilled with the way they are characterized.
That was the conclusion the NDP government of the 1990s came to when it did away with locally elected hospital boards, in part because low voter turnout allowed those bodies to be dominated by well-organized single-interest groups, notably anti-abortion ones. That leaves us with what we have now: boards of education with almost no ability to raise revenue and little leeway to determine how it is spent, since their budgets are largely devoted to paying for labour agreements imposed from above.
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