Pennsylvania school board member to parents: ‘I don’t work for you’

York Suburban School District school board member Richard Robinson wrote a piece in the York Dispatch to explain his statement.

A Pennsylvania school board member told parents: “No, I don’t work for you.” According to Fox News, Robinson wrote that local school boards require opportunities for parents and the public to voice their opinions about school related issues. However, there has been a recent shift.

“This provision gives residents of a school district the chance to vent their spleens about exorbitant taxes or demand subjects be taught properly the way they were during the most frigid period of the Cold War. In the past, more often than not, nobody showed up.”

Robinson continued, “Not these days. AS social media outlets, national news broadcasts and our local newspapers tell us, school boards are now the new battleground in the fight for America’s future.”

He referred specifically to how some members use the comment section to insult board members. “Some members of my community appear to interpret this part of board meetings as the occasion to tell board members why they have the collective intelligence of a village idiot and how the school district ought to be addressing real problems.”

Robinson’s statements drew attention from Nicole Neily, president of Parents Defending Education. She said to Fox News Digital, “Far too many elected officials have shown over the past two years that the consent of the governed is little more than an inconvenient speed bump on the road to advancing their unpopular agendas. Mocking and dismissing the concerns of the community may be cathartic for petty dictators, but it is not a path to electoral success.”