Districts should have a policy in place if they are going to grant special requests such as sabbatical. Having school board members make a judgement on the suitability of someone's request is a very dangerous place to be.....specially since the school board is a volunteer opportunity and I think it is an unrealistic expectations that we can do the due-dillegence to make sure that all sabbatical decisions are fair without some kind of guidance from district policy. If they granted sabbatical before they should grant to Mr. Spencer, specially since it is unpaid.

He was denied BEFORE he ran and he ran anyway. If he had lost he would still have his job. He was hedging his bets. He gave up an almost $70,000/year job for one that pays half of that. When he was asked about the loss of income he repiled that's what lobbyists are for.