Cody Kittle, BOE candidate. We disagree about Democrats and George Will: I think they're the spawn of the Devil, he doesn't, but otherwise, he sounds like a good guy

Bringing a high schooler’s perspective to our schools

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Coy Kittle on depoliticizing the BOE

Here is a question I have been pondering through this campaign season: Why is the Board of Education a political body? I am not aware of a single company that divides its Board of Directors by political affiliation. Political parties are a useful way for people with different objectives for the government to organize. But in the case of the BOE, similar to businesses, there is no disagreement about the objective. Everyone, regardless of party and despite what certain lawn signs posted around town may suggest, wants to make the Greenwich schools the best schools possible. How to achieve that is an empirical question that involves measuring tradeoffs, not an ideological question.

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Ironically, I make the case for an apolitical board even though I have very strong personal political views. My intellectual inspiration comes from Thomas Sowell, Milton Friedman and George Will. But I struggle to see how their philosophies impact questions such as: (1) how to set capital project priorities, (2) how to set up an evaluation framework for the superintendent, (3) how to evaluate curriculum’s impact on student performance, (4) how to evaluate the costs and benefits of line items in the budget; let alone the myriad of random topics that the BOE must address. Does the issue of AstroTurf vs. grass sports fields divide by political party?