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Revised (Nov 20 2008)
Other district staff
Boards of education, with their expanded mandate to meet the learning needs of all students, including those in early childhood education programs and adult education courses, require a great number of employees with a wide range of skills and experience. You will have direct contact with only a few.
Trustees must remember to maintain an appropriate relationship with principals, vice-principals, teachers and other district staff. If individual trustees start responding to or directing staff without involving the whole board and the senior administrator, communication breakdowns, conflicts and confusion will arise.
If you have a job or a business that would normally involve working with or selling to school staff, you may see a change in attitudes once you’re a trustee. Even though you have no intention of using your elected position for personal benefit, you may be perceived in that light. Staff members are also more likely to be less comfortable with you as a trustee if you have a potential influence over their employment or careers.
When you deal with a teacher or other staff member in your role as a parent of a student, make it clear to that person that you are strictly following the proper processes and modeling the behaviour that any other parent would be expected to use.
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The secretary treasurer
