School Board candidates were of vastly varied opinion following a question about sex education, book banning and what history should be taught to students.
"Once legislators and the governor get elected, it’s hard to get them out," writes InForum columnist Jim Shaw. "They get entrenched. They have a huge advantage in their re-elections."
The proposed change was part of an overhaul of the district's policies concerning meals and meal debt that was brought to the board by the district's administration for a first reading Monday night.
The so-called KLN (Ken, Lisa, Nikki) candidates are extremists, cut from the mold of the five right-wing candidates who were soundly defeated in Fargo's school board election in June. Fargo voters got it right. Now it's up to Moorhead.
"There are three frightening chaos candidates running for the Moorhead School Board," InForum columnist Jim Shaw writes. "They are Ken Lucier, Lisa Hahn and Nikki Pollock. They are anti-science, anti-LGBTQ and anti-common sense."
Families living within 2 miles of Horizon Middle School or Moorhead High School will not be eligible to ride the bus. Elementary schools will keep the 1-mile radius.
School board member Matt Valan said he understood the frustration some families feel because he and his family experienced similar school boundary changes when he was a boy attending Moorhead schools.
Fargo and Moorhead public schools with no longer require masks for all grades by Feb. 14. All Fargo students will be allowed to go maskless staring Jan. 17.
