How in the world did Harold win a school board election? Was this school district full of idiots?
shareProlly due to character growth, and then is on city council, in season eight (I think)... while Monk still seems to struggle much to move forward.
But to answer your question directly: Yes. Full of idiots, the lot of them lol
This actually strongly mirrors what happened in real life in East Ramapo, New York where a majority of people without children in the public school system voted in a school board of people without children in the public school system and no knowledge or interest in the public school system with the only goal to defund it so they would have to pay less taxes.
Listen to this episode of this american life!
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/534/a-not-so-simple-majority
That is a pretty extreme example and happened right in the year this episode was first broadcast! But knowing american politics a bit i'm sure there have been plenty of other school board elections where incompetent republican candidates are elected on some platform of lowering taxes at the cost of public education. At this level of local government there are plenty of people getting elected without charisma or skill just because they belong to the right faction and/or espouse a populist platform.