Serving the Flathead Valley & Montana since 2006. A reality based independent journal of observation & analysis. © James Conner.
There probably will be school board and levy elections in the Flathead in May. I say probably because given the strange laws that regulate school elections, sometimes elections are not held. But most of the time there are school elections. Every damn year, in fact. And always in May, even in years when there are primary elections in June.
The turnout tends to be abysmal, sometimes less than 20 percent, which of course suits the teachers’ unions.
I vote in these elections — that’s not only my right, but my duty — but I resent the educational establishment’s resistance to combining school elections with the general elections in even numbered years. (The date of the elections is set by the legislature, but the legislature would move the school elections to the primary or general if the education establishment made the request.)
The situation angers me. That anger makes me less likely to vote for levies and bond issues.