The Davis County Republican Central Committee will meet on Jan. 5. A pending resolution, submitted by Leg 15 Chair Marv Cook, proposes the following: "Advocate to the Utah Republican Party and State Elected Officials to pass legislation, which will make all School Board Elections Partisan. The URP system of selecting candidates to run for elected positions has proven itself to be a valuable tool for vetting candidates for public office and should be expanded to include all State and County School Boards."
How on earth does party affiliation have anything to do with making a person suitable for public office? Let the best qualified people run for state and county school boards without the meddling and negative influence of party politics.
Gerald Nebeker
Layton
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Good letter. Let's leave partisan politics out of education. Wish we could leave it out of a lot of other things, including politics, but that's asking too much.
Destruction of our public schools is the objective of this push.
We might think that schools are non-partisan and are better off that way, but there are many aspects which are very partisan. I have worked in a school. They are very partisan.
Look up Utahs Republic to read the reasons for and against More..