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Dear Editor:
In regards to partisan school boards, follow the money.
Over a century ago, education was deemed so important that legislatures everywhere were pressured to set up entirely separate funding mechanisms for schools. At the time, parents were concerned that education needed a reliable and continuing stream of money, separate from roads, public safety, and the pork barrel. School boards were a further manifestation of separating education from politics.
Education, along with libraries (education by another name), have their own separate funding requests on the ballot to ensure they are not subject to partisan wrangling in the legislature.
We should not return to injecting politics into school board races.
Jim Gorby
President of Hamilton County Senior Citizens
Noblesville