Intercepts
A listening post monitoring public education and teachers’ unions.

Today, people in the Los Angeles Unified School District will vote on how 30 local schools will operate. That’s a worthy endeavor, but the process could only have been dreamed up by Lewis Carroll:

For one thing, the voting age could dip to 14. Undocumented residents are welcome. Some people will get multiple votes. Ballot stuffing is expected.

And did we mention that each contestant will actually be competing in seven simultaneous elections? And that the results could be meaningless?

…Parents get one vote per student. School employees who also are parents can vote as employees too.

In the end, in fact, anyone can vote. There are two kitchen-sink categories: “unverified parents” and “community.” Anyone can vote in these two categories in any of the 30 individual school elections.

I thought “unverified parents” were those people who show up on Maury Povich.

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