A soldier is overseas serving her country. Back home, her own school board is trying to take her seat.
That’s the situation playing out in Parma— and Today in Ohio podcast hosts said Friday they could not understand why the school board would be so backwards in its thinking.
Parma school board member Ashley McTaggart has been deployed on active military duty. Under current Ohio law, if an elected official misses too many meetings, they can lose their seat — even if the reason they’re absent is that they’re serving their country overseas. That’s the legal loophole the Parma school board is now using to target McTaggart…