At the end of a recent Board of Education meeting, board member AJ MacArthur asked a question. He wondered if having a child in the school system is a prerequisite to being on the school board. MacArthur said he was tired of hearing people say a child in the school system should be a prerequisite to having a board position.

What people are suggesting to MacArthur is having a child in the school system assures some element of “skin in the game.” They are indicating if he had children enrolled in APS maybe some of his decisions would have gone a different way… as in supportive of the learning environment instead of wasting time and money. For instance, maybe he would not have:

~ Voted down a 100% grant-funded rain garden project that would have provided hands-on environmental lessons in na

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