George Stockero
The month of January provides us an opportunity to acknowledge a special group of volunteer elected officials in education. It is School Board Recognition Month, and it offers communities across Michigan a way to acknowledge the continuing efforts of local and ISD school board members in providing leadership and guidance to local school districts. Across the state, there are more than 4,000 school board members who dedicate countless hours of hard work to improving education for Michigan children.
In my sixteen years as an administrator, I have worked with many school board members. I can honestly say that not one of them took the position for the pay, especially since school board members get paid very little or nothing at all. Instead, school board members take on the position, because they care deeply for their local school. They want to help their school and their community as a whole since in small communities such as those in the Copper Country, schools are often the center piece of the community.