Lemmy Lemmy:
Typical. The entire board-of-education system is geared towards avoiding litigation. Boards are so scared of lawsuits that a disproportionately large percentage of policy making, resources, and effort are directed at limiting liability. If there's one thing my years of research into public education has revealed it's that the entire board system is an ineffective, inefficient, incompetent and corrupt monster that should be slain.
You think the Senate is a problem? If the public had any concept of the inner workings of boards of education they'd want the whole system blown up and those in control lynched.
You'd be slaying a hydra. The heart of the hydra is the culture of risk aversion. The culture of risk aversion is inculcated from the very top (even as they start off their latest cynical "Innovation in the Workplace"). The very top benefits from a predictable system, because predicatbale situations can be manipulated.
Of course, they are not prepared for a Black Swan event like this (an unforseen consequence that goes viral). We all get to laugh at the cringing stuffed shirts in front of TV camera light, pinned like an insect to a wall. A sacrifice is made, as low down the chain as the elite think they can get away with, and the the system becomes even more bigger and more bureaucratic in order to prevent that particular Black Swan event from happening again. Something like "The Board will be hiring a new policy review team. From now on, any new policies must be thoroughly vetted ands approved by this team. Also, November is Innovation month..."