Our School Law professor gave us this assignment: Social forces exist not only at the national level. Very often, schol policy, which...

I imagine it is hard to see social forces at a meeting like that...

I would think that the most obvious social force that tends to work at a school board meeting would be the desire of parents to push for the best education they can get for their children.  I would think that this force would tend to show itself in demands for extra programs and buildings and in a somewhat selfish desire for benefits to be funneled towards schools in the area of the most vocal (probably well-off) parents.

I imagine another possible social force would be resistance to taxes, especially from those who have no children in the school system.  These people would be more likely to argue for austerity.

Do you think that is the sort of social forces that your professor means?