School Board Meeting Reflection

Across each district monthly school board meetings are held to discuss different issues within the community and schools. The school board members discuss items such as budget, employee contracts, academic services, school choice, teacher and student conduct, etc. Locally elected school board members are responsible for discussing and voting towards the decisions that impact educators, students, and our community. I feel that it important for community members to attend school board meetings because during these meetings parents teachers, and other community members are provided with an opportunity to voice their opinions and concerns on topics. I was able to watch my districts school board meeting for the month of August and a few topics that were discussed include school name changes, discipline, student code of conduct, etc.
The different topics discussed in the August meeting had political ramifications that can and are affecting our schools and community. Although many political topics were discussed I was amazed at the depth of discussion amongst school board members on changing the language of self-defense in the student code of conduct. This political topic is one that I would
I would be upset if my child were to come home and say they were attacked and did nothing to defend them-selves, although I raised them to use self-defense. “Sometimes decisions are not made in the best interest of the children but rather are those that upset the fewest number of vocal stakeholders” (Lindle, n.d., p.63). With that being said although it was changing the language of self-defense did not pass I believe this issue needs to be further discussed to provide students with their rights and a clear definition for “reasonable”