School board meetings
School board meetings are what local democracy should look like: Concerned citizens coming together to debate the policy choices that shape their daily lives.
Jeffery Tyler Syck
Opinion contributor
Over the past several years, education has become the centerpiece of American politics. Local school board meetings are suddenly national news, and many of the most hotly contested policy debates revolve around the content found in our classrooms.
That education has become such a fiery issue should not surprise us. Americans instinctively understand that what we think determines who we are as a nation. However, it is important that we do not let the importance of this issue give us a license to erode one of the last great institutions of local democracy.
