School Board Gone Wild

I’ve got a problem and I need your help.  When your kid has (or is) a problem at school, you go to his teacher.  When you have a problem with the teacher, you go to the principal.  When the principal is the problem, you go to the Superintendent.  When the superintendent is the problem, you go to the School Board.  Where do you go when a member of the school board is a problem?

We are not trouble makers nor are our kids (yeah, I know what you’re thinking).  We volunteer in the school regularly, we attend our kids conferences, we go to their assemblies, we monitor their grades on line.  Our kids stay out of trouble and are very good students.  So enough about us.

My problem is that a school board member, whose wife is also one of my kids teachers, heard through a verbal argument with one of his ex-wives (who is also my sister in law) that my son stated that this teacher was his least favorite teacher.  Yeah, that’s right, “adults” sounding just like kids.  SO-This school board member goes into my kids classroom DURING CLASS, calls my son away from his desk, and basically asks him if he said that.  And that if he did, he wouldn’t tell the teacher (who you remember is also his wife).  My kid never said that and even told us that if his science teacher thought he said that, that his grade might be lowered (you know how kids think).

This is a gross abuse of power and a critically bad display of terrible judgement and it’s not the only time.  My wife and I asked to be put on the School Board meeting agenda to discuss our concerns.   The school board president (who has begun circling the wagons to protect this other school board member) had my name removed from the agenda because I would not elaborate on my concerns.  She also did this 10 minutes before the close of the day Friday so I would not have time to try to be included on the agenda for Mondays meeting.   I was also told that after I disclosed what my concerns were, only then would she decide if I would be included.  This probably won’t happen since she has taken extraordinary steps to keep herself and other board members out of hot water before because of their stupid underhanded and inappropriate decision making.  You have to understand that if you give them too much of a heads up on the problem, they will begin spinning excuses and diminish the seriousness of the matter with everyone they can.  Eventually they lie and falsely discredit anyone who might cause them problems.  It has happened before, and there’s no doubt in my mind it would happen again.

It’s too bad when a school board president is more concerned with her own welfare and that of a moronic school board member than our kids having a comfortable learning environment free from immature interference in the classroom from a school board member.

By the way, my kid is 11 years old.  We’ve contacted the state school board association.  No help there because they say they are advocates for school board members.  The person answering the phone was sympathetic enough to suggest calling the state department of education which I will do Monday.  If that doesn’t help, there is really no where else to go short of hiring an attorney which I really don’t want to do.   Does anyone have suggestions?