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A school board member saying she is going to sue the school district after another elected school board member calls her out on her political speech makes me wonder if that member knows how her district works. The district can’t control any of those goofs
Elections do not and cannot fix the disfunction of the CCSD Board of Trustees. For whatever reason, this elected body seems to attract volatile people with bad judgment and negligible interpersonal skills. Anyone who has lived here even a few years has seen the parade of misfits who have rotated through the Board. I don’t fully understand why this Board is such a magnet for barely functioning adults, but it is. Based on this well-established pattern, it’s obvious that the solution is institutional change. Simply changing out the cast of clowns doesn’t end the clown show.
Is this markedly different from most elected school boards? They’re down ballot races that don’t generally garner a lot of serious voter attention. The salary trustees receive is meager, at best, ranging from $9,000 per year for Clark and Washoe Counties on the high end to $3000 per year on the low end for counties with population under 20,000. https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/fewer-candidates-running-for-nevada-school-boards-could-more-pay-draw-them-in
The low pay compared with the sacrifices more competent trustees would necessarily make in earnings tells you all you need to know about the quality of candidate attracted to the school board.
But this is Nevada. Nevadans keep voting for chronically underfunded governments and hamstrung public officials. It’s a feature, not a bug.
CCSD Board of Trustee is full of MARKEDLY more dysfunctional adults relative to other school boards. Other school boards have dysfunctional adults and embarrass themselves and their communities. But nobody does it as often, and as frequently, and in a sustained manner over time as CCSD. When, in coming years, the CCSD BoT has a complete turnover, the new Trustees will be just as clownish as the current Trustees.
Do you remember Katie Williams? Kevin Child? What other community in America elects people like this to school boards?
Yes, I remember Covid Katie. Yes, I remember Karen Child.
CCSD Board, clown show continues
What did the shirt say?
eh, it was just some scientifically inaccurate anti-trans BS.
It said xx xy
Biassotti and Dominguez might want to go read Houston Community College System v. Wilson before they file their lawsuit They should also bring copies of that decision with them to any consultations they have with lawyers. https://mrsc.org/stay-informed/mrsc-insight/september-2022/u-s-supreme-court-upholds-censuring-members-of-a
Here’s the copy they should bring with them. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/595us2r19_8n59.pdf
Somehow missed the two year anniversary of the most commented on post on this blog which was yesterday: https://lawblog.law/closing-arguments/
You mean 263 Comments?
What advice would you give a newer attorney on handling stress long term because there are days where I go home and think of all the things I still need to do for my cases and it seems so daunting
(1) Have a boss/partner/compatriot who praises you. I mean earnestly reinforces that you are doing a good job and succeeding (assuming you are). As you get older, you come to savor the success less and ruminate on losses more. You need someone outside of yourself to point out that you can sleep easy because you are doing a good job. (2) Get a therapist.. I know I also thought I was too smart and too strong to need a therapist. Guess what I wasnt and neither are you. (3) Develop skills in which you learn that you cannot and will not make all of your clients’ problems your problems. Your clients have issues. You have a job in which you have agreed to do your best to help them with their problems. But you did not agree to put their problems on your back. (4) Realize that people like me are better preachers than practitioners of such advice and need that same support from people like you.
All this + exercise.