A superintendent and his board chair steadily lose support on the board and in the community.
They threaten an outspoken opponent privately. He takes it public and it blows up in their faces.
In the annual election of officers, they lose control of the board. They latch on to sunshine laws as an excuse to derail the process...supremely ironic in itself...
...except the laws don't actually say that...
...and nobody the sunshine laws are meant to protect has complained...
...and the election was conducted following policy and laws to the letter.
So finally, they produce an undated, unsigned "complaint" from the loser of the election, only after the superintendent has tried to get the school lawyer to say the election was invalid and is presented instead with a weak response that to be "conservative" maybe something should be done, but only if someone complains...
...but damn...nobody else has complained! How embarrassing!
To add to the problem, there's the inconvenient fact that there is no process allowed in the policy manual to remove a chair you absolutely cannot imagine working with until your retirement.
Still, where's a lawyer who will say the original election was invalid? Trouble is, boards all over the state elect officers the same way and nobody has EVER complained. What to do?
...suggest if there's any question there will be nobody to sign bonds!...and conveniently sidestep the fact that the only question that has been raised has come from you...then have the old chair who clearly can't win step aside and run someone else you can tolerate.
...and after you vote again with signed ballots? Oops, the only people interested in who voted for the upstart turns out to be the old chair and the superintendent. How inconvenient and messy! The reporters just go home.
But it worked!...or did it?
You can tell it must finally unravel when outrage turns to laughter or mockery. There is no good defense against laughter, and it has never been more justified.
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