Where would people get the idea that school boards are run by morons?

I taught a kid who had very exceptional skateboarding skills. His skateboarding skills were so exceptional that he had signed a sponsorship agreement with a major board brand and was preparing to embark on an all-expenses-paid tour of Australia.

So he and his parents made arrangements with all his teachers to do his grade 11 credits from afar. Things were going OK till the matter went up the chain of command for Board approval.

The pointy heads at the Board determined that it would be feasible to grant credits in his academic courses, but, and how bizarre is this, not his PhysEd credit.

Why?

Because even though he's a professional grade athlete, he would miss the theoretical component of the grade 11 PhysEd curriculum, which is primarily concerned with theories about how to avoid STDs.

So a 16 year old kid who has enough skater cred to be offered a tour gets shut down by educrats who think he might be missing some crucial high school health class curriculum?


Morons!