School Board Elections - A Change is Needed

Since students in Wake County are likely to attend a school outside of their local School Board member's district, the way School Board members are elected needs to be changed. As it is now, you can only vote for candidates who are running in the Wake County district in which you reside. That means that if you live, for example, in northwest Wake County, but have a child who attends a school in eastern Wake County, you cannot vote for the School Board member who represents your child's school. Consider this bit of history:

Prior to 1976, School Board members were elected at large - the city and county systems were separate. As plans were made to merge the two systems into one, "the county feared Raleigh would take over the school board and have all the control" (Al Adams, former House member). A clause was included in the merger law to elect board members by district. The NC General Assembly gave final ratification to the merger bill (House Bill 1199) on June 25, 1975. One year later the Wake County Public School System was officially created.
[from "A Community United", Wake Ed. Partnership, 2006]

Don't you think that THIRTY years is long enough to wait to go back to county-wide elections? I think this is significant because we are no longer in a new merger situation. I'm not sure whether at-large is best now, or a system like we have for electing County Commissioners (candidates still have to reside in their respective districts, but are elected county-wide), but it needs to be changed! Shouldn't be a problem since School Board members aren't afraid of change (like they say we are)!