In the oddest move I’ve ever seen in Delaware education, Katie Hegedus was sworn in as a board member of the Christina School District Board of Education last night at their monthly board meeting and resigned minutes later.
Hegedus beat incumbent John Young two months ago in the school board election. Her platform was basically that she would resign once she is sworn in. This would force the current board to hand-pick a replacement. They announced at their board meeting last night they would begin this task.
This ridiculous stunt was concocted by the Friends of Christina, a small but connected group of parents in the district who basically hated the fact John Young would call out the district on, well, anything. Whether it was right or wrong. Their mantra of go along to get along brought forth this latest oddity in Delaware school board race history. One for the record books, that’s for sure! This election meant so much to their de facto leader that she is currently trying to sell her house and move out of state.
While Young is no longer on the Christina Board of Education, he has come back and relaunched his blog as Transparent Christina 2.0. I fully expect Young, who is now no longer beholden to certain bylaws of being a board member, to come out swinging on his blog! While this very sad attempt at silencing Young may appear to be a win in some circles, I fear all they have done is awoken an already alert dragon. With a tagline of “Because sometimes Exceptional needs some help“, Young has written several articles of late. Speaking for Exceptional, I welcome any help in the Delaware education blogosphere! Unless it is some urgent sounding blog…wink wink!
The board re-elected former President Meredith Griffith to another one-year term as President while Keeley Powell was elected to Vice-President of the board.
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