Christian County Board of Education hides from voters, too

Another local board of education is choosing the cowardly way out of their responsibility to the voters (subscription), hiding behind a terrible, anti-voter law passed during this year’s legislative session.

That voter-hostile law allows (but does not require) local boards of education to conduct the meat of their annual superintendent evaluations in secret.

This secret process denies voters any insight into how their individually elected officials perform perhaps their most important job – oversight of the school district’s CEO.

The only thing Christian County voters are likely to see is a “consensus” report that won’t reveal anything about what individual board members really think. This process will also cover up problems.

Shame on any Christian County (and Jefferson County) board members who subscribe to this cowardly retreat from their public responsibility. As elected officials, they have a primary, individual responsibility to be up front with the people who put them in office. Hiding behind a secretly developed consensus report doesn’t pass the test.