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8. School Boards are a great field resource to study incompetency.
Where did Laurence Peter (co-author of The Peter Principle: Why Things Always go Wrong) do his research?
In this books he refers to Excelsior City Special Education Department which is none other than the Vancouver School Board where he worked for 9 years (1955-1964) before going to teach at UBC. The famous saying made famous by Peter, which everyone is familiar with is:
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
My observation is that school boards continue to exemplify incompetence and over-bureaucratization to this day. They are unique as a public body that seems to be most immune, sheltered, under the radar….whatever…but generally exempt from the discipline of accountability or dedicated oversight. I attribute this favored position to the fact that the "oversight" is done by tame trustees — lapdogs not watchdogs!
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