>At one point during the nearly five-hour meeting, school board president Zachary DeWolf—who launched an unsuccessful city council campaign just a year after being elected to the school board—announced that it was his birthday and then read a poem to honor his mother.

Is this guy ten years old or what? Good grief.

This entire thing displays bucket-of-crabs mentality: if I can't get ahead, then I'll make sure you can't either.