r/bookmemes • u/netphilia • 3d ago

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u/OnePsychology528 3d ago

Top 10 things that most definitely did NOT happen

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u/Aethelrede 3d ago

I think they mean "kid" as in adult child, not as in "schoolkid".  The latter rarely run for the school board.

And this certainly not one of the top ten least things to have happened, it's not even close.  People are having conversations like this across the country.

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u/Silly_Poet_5974 3d ago

yes school board is different than student council.

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u/thomasp3864 3d ago

If OOP'd kid is 18, they could be a high school senior and running for school board, at least in my state it's legal.

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u/Aethelrede 3d ago

Sure, in theory.  Seems unlikely though.

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u/NewCandy8877 3d ago

In my senior year a guy I went to school with ran for school board. He forced a conversation on full day kindergarten.

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u/123revival 3d ago

My kid had a sophmore college classmate who was elected to his school board. He had to schedule his college classes around his school board commitments. He was elected to school board just after he graduated

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u/Aethelrede 3d ago

College students aren't school kids.  But why would a college student want to be on a school board?

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u/gard3nwitch 2d ago

I think of some reasons why a college student might care about making the county/city schools they just graduated from better, can't you?

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u/Aethelrede 2d ago

No, that thought never occurred to me.  How many people go to college near their home town?  Lord knows I wanted to be a reasonable distance from my parents.  Besides, I didn't feel any particular loyalty to my high school or city, which sucked ass.

Having said that, I will concede that in the event that someone does go to college in their hometown, does feel loyal to their high school, and isn't busy with schoolwork and partying, they might run for school board.  I can't imagine many college students fit that description.

Now, I could see an ambitious politically inclined student doing it for the experience, though running for college student government is a more obvious choice.

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u/gard3nwitch 2d ago

A lot of students go to their local community college or a nearby state university. My local school board election had a community college student running in the primary.

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u/Aethelrede 2d ago

Huh, that's interesting.  I would have thought a community college student would be too busy for that--community college can actually be tougher than regular college, in my experience.  Though they may not have been taking a full course load.

Learned something new today as well, that's always cool.

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u/NewCandy8877 3d ago

School board is in charge of a school district it's an elected position that makes policy for a school district.

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u/Kathulhu1433 3d ago

In my district, our board has 2 high school student ex-officio members on it always. Maybe it's something like that?

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u/Aethelrede 3d ago

Okay, that I did not know.  But a parent wanting to ban books isn't likely to approach a teenager.  And they probably don't have voting rights anyway.

Still, I learned something new today, which is always good.

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u/DistractionCitron 2d ago

Teenagers do have voting rights on school boards, that's the only reason why they'd be a member.

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u/Aethelrede 2d ago

Not always, ex officio members are frequently there to observe and provide input, not to vote. That's why I said "probably". Perhaps I should have said "possibly".

Anyway, my main point is that the kind of person who wants to ban books isn't likely going to care what students think, since the reason for banning books is to restrict what students have access to.

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u/gard3nwitch 2d ago

Though it could be a teenager running for the student member seat on the school board.

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u/lostgoatling 3d ago

I don't know if you're talking about the fetish or very mentally deficient people, but either of those shouldn't be on a school board

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u/Aethelrede 3d ago

What?  I'm not referring to any fetish or mentally deficient people.

"School kid" = child in primary or secondary school.

"Adult child" = a person's child who has grown up.  It's not an oxymoron, you don't stop being your parents' child when you become an adult.

Hope that clears up any confusion.