Who is on the BOE and the one of the heads of the Spain park football booster club?
 
http://www.spfootball.com/content.asp?SID=1317&CID=82960
 
Read about 3/4 of the way down.  
 
No way she can be objective when it comes making decisions.

Interesting posts from both of you.  If 40% of the BoE and AC are members of their kids' booster clubs, is that a conflict?  If so, why?  Truthfully, how much weight to the boosters hold?  I am asking these questions in all seriousness because I don't know.
 
Bucs, you are inferring that by SB being on the BoE AND a booster for SP, this is a conflict.  ILH, you're saying that it is OK (or are you, I can't tell) because BV and AC are on the Hoover booster club, so they cancel each other out.
 
The only way this could be a problem is if the booster clubs carry any type of voting power or influence the vote (lobby).  If they do, then out with all three.  It's clearly a conflict.  But if they don't, and it's nothing more than a club/fraternity that grownups that live vicariously through their children feel they must belong to, and their voice means nothing, then let them be.
 
The question to you both:  how much power do the boosters have?

All of them have conflict of interest. I wish they had 5 people with that were neutral.

It would be great to have various facets of school/ community represented.

BV always votes in the best interest of the football program.  SB pushed through the artificial turf for the high school fields at a cost of $1.4 million.  At SB's first BoE meeting, in June of 2006, she questioned "parity" for the two high schools.  She and Dr. Williams got into a big argument, and A.W. really showed his a$$ by making some asinine comment putting Dr. Williams down.  
 
When it came down to it, academics WERE on par, in fact, SPHS had a better student to teacher ratio than HHS had.  Where the discrepancy was was in physical education units.  SPHS ended up adding 11 PE teachers for 2006-2007.  That translates into assistant football coaches.
 
They BOTH put athletics above academics.  At least SB attempts to enter into the discussion about academics.  She pushed through the academies for SPHS.  BV has his head so far up RP's a$$ that he doesn't have a clue about academics at the high school level.
 
They ALL should be removed, IMHO.

Thanks, Carmen, for the laugh.  I am too serious most of the time and it takes something really good to get a laugh out of me.  You won the prize today.
By the way, lots of Bessemer folks running our schools.  AWB was born and raised and graduated from Bessemer, too.  I think he's been sucking the same wrong people as BV..  Coincidence?

Quote from ILuvHoova on 08/05/07 at 5:04pm:

 
Good answer, as are the other ones, however, I don't see a real conflict.  What I DO see is that the two, perhaps three, people that you are speaking of have a strong interest in the athletics program.  This is not a conflict, just a like for one part of the many that they are responsible for.  If all of them would abandon athletics, then we might hear someone shouting that athletics is not getting a fair shot.
 
What I wanted was a true conflict, one that could be run with and perhaps have reason for removal based on that conflict.  SB and BV liking football doesn't get it, sorry.  Of course that will influence them regarding this whole RP mess, but that's not relevant at this time.  If and when the time comes for there to be a decision on RP and the BoE is involved in that decision, and it appears that there is bias toward him based on their affiliation with him then we take that on.  In the meanwhile, I don't think anyone here has a problem with two of the BoE members enjoying a little football, now do they?  The way I see it, the second half has just begun.  They were ahead by three TDs.  The other side has gone into the locker room and come out and is driving down the field.  This game is long from being over with.  How's that for a metaphor, Lament?