11-24-2015, 05:03 PM
(11-24-2015, 01:51 PM)Benton Wrote: A district elects board members. City residents elect councils. Corporations have board members. All are extensions of the majority, or at least that's the idea. If a community doesn't like having stupid people in charge, it's the requirement of the community to put better leadership in place. If they fail that — because they're too stupid not to put someone not stupid in charge — then they're getting punished for their own stupidity.
But I agree that some of the settlements and rulings are overboard.
No, a teacher was hired by a principal, who was hired by a superintendent, who was hired by a school board, who was elected by a community. That is too many degrees of separation from the community to say because a teacher (or even a small group within a school) did something racist the whole community should give a family $15 million. There is no way a community can make a conscious decision about the beliefs of a person within it's school district. People that are part of an organization are still free thinking humans that can change their view at any time, if someone wakes up one day and has a change of heart on how they feel about a certain ethnicity there is no way a community can reasonably be expected to know that.
As I said if there were comments made from the top down influencing such behavior it is one thing, but I highly doubt that is the case in most issues were a single person does something stupid and an entire organization receives punishment for it.
