[Coffee_drinker]

Getting conservatives on our local boards means that change can start to happen at the ground up. Nothing wrong with that, but nothing important is determined at the local level, like textbooks, or is even possible to determine, like implementing a religious curriculum.

School boards spend the money that makes up

57 percent of the state budget
One third of local prop taxes
And billions of federal dollars

If we want to start to take back America, we can start in the schools and help set priorities where the money is spent.

[GeronL]

and the school boards are going to change the state and federal mandates how?

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

School boards spend the money that makes up 57 percent of the state budget One third of local prop taxes And billions of federal dollars

85-90% of the school budget is teacher salaries. Good luck making any meaningful salary changes, or trying to implement pay-for-performance.

Good luck trying to make any meaningful change in anything. It's not reasonable to expect the residents of any town to agree to anything that isn't lowest-common-denominator, or whatever is popular at the moment.

I ran for school committee. You might as well run into a brick wall.

I did get to tell the folks who turned out for candidate night about the origins of compulsory schooling. And they couldn't take my mic away. It was fun, in that way. You should have seen the looks on the faces of the brown-noser, please-Mr.-School-Committee-guy-get-my-kid-into-Harvard crowd.

Some parents really appreciated it though. That made the effort worthwhile.