Is this common these days? When I was growing up, it seemed like the school system and the overall community were largely indistinguishable. Everyone had kids in school, the parents were actively involved and a lot of town life revolved around school activities.
Today though in my hometown there seems like two separate worlds. The public school district doesn't seem to engage with other groups or organizations in the community at all, including the city government. They even butt heads on issues like youth sports and stuff where it should be a natural place for collaboration. I get the feeling that the school district tries to maintain its independence and control of everything. So in terms of our political structure now, we have the city commission and stuff going on through various civic and economic engagement programs, and then we have the school board and they do their own activities and things. There's no overlap and even the people involved seem to not overlap much or at all. I see entirely different people at school board meetings than I do at commission meetings, and the city commissioners don't seem to socialize with school board or administration folks. It's like they might as well be separate towns.
The weird side effect of this is that kids get overlooked entirely because the school district seems to have a monopoly on their attention and access to them. So when the city wants to do things like youth sports or recreational facilities geared toward kids, they can't seem to get any interest or input, and the schools won't assist in any way or work with them on it. That basically seems to take kids out the "city population" entirely, and there's just no way to build any public youth programs here because the schools keep the kids and parents in their own little walled garden.
Has anyone else encountered this sort of thing?
Submitted October 11, 2025 at 01:23PM by -Clayburn https://ift.tt/nW39Zgp
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