Not getting along with your best friend? How about your girlfriend? Have you ever considered dissolving that relationship and replacing it with an entity backed by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors? Who hasn’t?
That’s essentially what two Fairfax lawmakers are supporting, saying the Fairfax County school board is too flawed to function. The Washington Post reports that Republican Del. Tim Hugo drafted legislation to allow county supervisors to dissolve elected schools, but dropped it to spend more time thinking about the proposal. Republican Del. David Albo said that if Hugo files the bill next year — as in, Jaunary 2012 —he’ll endorse it.
From the Post:
The school board is reviewing its discipline policy after a 15-year-old county high school student committed suicide. He had been removed from his school after admitting purchasing synthetic marijuana.
Albo said that he was against elected school boards in general: “If I had one vote in my 18 years to take back, it would be elected school boards… Because they just don’t work.”
It’s been a week of fighting words for school boards, as Montgomery County’s board filed a petition that many council members are perceiving as a lawsuit-in-the-making. Fairfax and Montgomery have always been rivals — who will earn more ire from their respective governments?
