School board elections are a joke—we want to say that up front. School board elections are a fucking joke. Just putting it out there, and now that we’ve got that off our chest…
Michael Christophersen comes off as an unsettled rage monkey. We’re tempted to endorse the guy for the sheer entertainment value. The school board is already a shit show—why not make it a little shit-showier? But that wouldn’t be fair to all the kiddies. We asked Christophersen about accusations that he’d verbally abused a district staffer at a public meeting a few years ago. He admitted to making his strongly held views known, but he denied ever using abusive language. Okay. Then he went on to say that if elected, he would tell the district administrators: “Please don’t come back to me with your bullshit.” The SECB finds that kind of abusive language shocking. We almost had to break out Tim Keck’s “smelling salts.” (Or are they bath salts? We forget.)
Anyway, Scott S. Pinkham—a parent of two girls in public schools, a Native American, member of the Urban Native Education Alliance, and a University of Washington lecturer—kept his cool…
