Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed: School boards remain essential

During the election campaign, the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) promised to abolish school boards and elected commissioners and replace them with service centres, and now in government, it’s planning to do just that. That promise had bothered me from the beginning, and at first, I couldn’t quite put my finger on why. Upon reflection, I realized that my experiences with school boards have been significant, both as a child growing up in the West Island and as a parent of childre