A school board expert from Iowa who spoke at a conference in Dartmouth earlier this month noted that elected school boards in both Canada and the United States are increasingly being replaced by appointed bureaucrats.
Mary L. Delagardelle, who is in favour of elected boards, warned that “giving up elected school boards . . . is also giving up a little piece of democracy.”
True enough. But we have surely reached the point in Nova Scotia, after a decade of troubles with school boards, where a little less democracy would be welcome change.