Commentary
Any reader of horror fiction will tell you that you need to be careful what you wish for. It’s no less true in education.
School boards are “governing” boards, rather than “managing” boards. A governing board only has one employee: a superintendent, whose job it is to realize the board’s wishes. In practice, this means that a board can’t decide things like whether a particular child or group of children can be admitted, or how exams will be administered. All they can do is set policy, which is a set of general guidelines. It’s like Aladdin’s Genie—you make a wish, and the genie makes it happen….