One Pennsylvania school board member has a message for parents: “No, I don’t work for you.”
York Suburban School District school board member Richard Robinson wrote an op-ed in the York Dispatch explaining to parents that she doesn’t “work” for them.
Robinson wrote that local school boards require a public comment opportunity for parents and members of the community to voice their opinion about issues related to school, but there has been a major shift recently.
“This provision gives residents of a school district the chance to vent their spleens about exorbitant taxes or demand subjects be taught properly the way they were during the most frigid period of the Cold War. In the past, more often than not, nobody showed up,” Robinson said. “Not these days. As social media outlets, national news broadcasts and our local newspapers tell us, school boards are now the new battleground in the fight for America’s future.”
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Robinson wrote that some members of the community interpret the public comment portion of school board meetings to show “why they have the collective intelligence of a village idiot.”
“Some members of my community appear to interpret this part of board meetings as the occasion to tell board members why they have the collective intelligence of a village idiot and how the school district ought to be addressing real problems,” the school board member wrote.
The school board member then shared some of his “positions” and said that he doesn’t “work” for taxpayers.
“With all due respect to the men and women who snarl, ‘I’m a taxpayer! You work for me!’ No, I don’t work for you. I was elected by people who voted to represent you,” Robinson wrote.
In the list of “positions” written, Robinson also states that parents don’t “always” know what’s best for their child.
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