I agree with this.
But as I recall the winning plaintiff in an unrelated suit (BIG verdict, small town) declared, if the taxpayers feel pain because of their elected official's misdeeds, maybe they'll learn to be more careful about who they vote for. In the case of this post, it would seem the school board - probably elected - failed to rein in the local school's bureaucrats.
Hallelujah and amen.
However, if the local bureaucrats had done any reining, then
they would have been subject to right-denying lawsuits.
kgbsquirrel opined:
"So the rest of us that would learn from it are instead forced to pay for the misdeeds of others, because of the insanity of universal franchise."
I agree with you, but don't know how to cure it, since the cure for "everybody votes" might be worse than the disease, and we have already gone over the tipping point anyway.
'Tis a puzzlement.