““When trying to persuade a school board to endorse the program, three is the critical number, said Irvine. “If you get one person going in to the board, he is the one crazy person. He’s easy to ignore. If you get two people going in, well, the crazy guy’s got a buddy, so we can still ignore [them]. But if you get three, that’s a committee. It’s hard to ignore a committee. A committee makes recommendations; you’ve at least got to consider it.””
