The creation of five local school boards as proposed by a group of local parents is an interesting one — but ultimately it’s one that doesn’t appear to be feasible.

Parents propose the Eisenhower, Youngsville, Warren, Sheffield and Tidioute school areas each have their own five-member board.

Then, two members of those boards would make up the countywide school board.

Concerns raised over the composition of existing countywide board as being too centered in Warren have some merit. Conditions in the further reaches of Warren County can be markedly different than they are in the immediate Warren area.

But rather than create more school boards, wouldn’t it just be easier to have election districts for the current set-up so that the existing board always has representation from all areas of the county?

Rather than five boards, better representation of the entire county could be more easily achieved with a simple tweak of the existing system.

Creating five new school boards is likely to create more complications for county schools — competing for dollars, radically different curriculums and procedures across the different schools and fights amongst the various boards for a limited number of teachers in the county, just to name a few. And, the benefits listed, including creating educational specialties in the various schools, is possible under the current one-board system if staffing and money weren’t very real issues for county schools.

In fact, creating educational specialties is easier in bigger schools because there is less duplication of courses among the existing teaching staff.

We appreciate parents stepping forward with suggestions. The board should listen to those concerns — but some of the solutions may be much easier than parents think.

Let’s learn from New York state how not to structure a county school system. Chautauqua County has 18 public school districts — let’s not start down that path.