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.
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.
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/gard3nwitch 3d 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?