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The Kids Are Watching
Should school board campaigns model ethical behavior for impressionable students? The Charter School Industry doesn’t seem to think so.
“Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.”
– H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) School Board members are the politicians who directly affect the daily lives of our children. Some, like BD3’s Scott Schmerelson, take this responsibility seriously, visiting school sites regularly and meeting with the students they were elected to represent. For others, the children seem to be an afterthought; they only show up to pose for the television cameras or to take pictures for their campaign websites.
With the eyes of students on them, what responsibilities do candidates have for modeling ethical behavior? Are they role models who should make sure that their campaigns always exhibit fairness and integrity? Or are the stakes too high to be concerned with what impressionable young minds take away from these multimillion-dollar campaigns? Is controlling the School District so important that a win-at-all-costs mentality is…
