No idle threats

Another story that the Trib doesn’t, has never, covered that shows how wrongheaded JCI directed School Boards can be.

Bjerklie’s reference was clear, and it’s appalling. For a board member to suggest, even in jest, that he’d favor closing a community’s school (in this case, his reference was to Tower-Soudan) in retaliation for that community’s continued objections to implementation of the restructuring plan is highly inappropriate. School board members are given substantial authority, and they are supposed to use it for the public good, not as a means of punishing communities that don’t fall in line with their questionable notions.

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