I don't know.  All i can do is read.  What I read is that they had their heated discussion in the principal's office.  I doubt you can see inside the principal's office while hanging around the parking lot, but then I don't know the layout of the school in question. 

I don't even know if the tone of the  suggestion to run for the board is "tell 'em how it is" or "get a taste of how it really is."   More then once I've told someone who was bitching about how a board was running some organization that instead of bitching, they should get involved and actually help get the work done.