Wednesday, April 09, 2008
DORMANT SCHOOL boards in Gulf Shores and Orange Beach aren't really hurting anything, but they aren't doing much good, either.
The appointed school boards are the last vestiges of Pleasure Island's failed attempt to create a separate public school system from that of Baldwin County.
Just over a year ago, voters emphatically turned down a 7.5 mill property tax increase that would have been used to start and pay for the separate school system.
The controversial issue of a Baldwin County school system split was thoroughly researched and debated before the vote took place. When the election was held, 72 percent of the voters in Orange Beach and 68 percent in Gulf Shores turned the proposal down.
In other words, it wasn't even close.
The message should have been clearly understood by the proponents of the school split.
Click here to read the full article from the Mobile Press-Register.
