Posted on 09/07/2021 6:08:20 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Schools have become the focal point for culture war fights that animated former President Donald Trump's base and have been advanced by conservative activists and influencers since he left office.
Conservative grassroots activists have zeroed in on local education policy with a tea party-esque fervor for months — spanning debates about reopening, how to teach U.S. history and required masking. Now, conservative personalities are urging followers to run for school board seats that have rarely generated much interest, while dozens of activist groups focused on schools have sprouted to advance the fights.
The influence of the effort can be seen at nearly all levels of school administration. State legislators have passed bills to restrict what can be taught. Republican governors are locked in standoffs with school administrators over district masking policies. School board meetings have devolved into shouting matches, and some have even turned violent.
Longtime operators in the education world say they've never seen anything like it.
"Normally, our kids have been off-limits," said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, one of the country's largest unions. "We had tension over Common Core. There was tension over other issues. But in modern history, since the huge desegregation battles, kids have been off-limits. Now, they are the battlefield."
Jeff Timmer, former chair of the Michigan GOP, who has soured on the party and backed President Joe Biden, said it's at the school level where he has grown increasingly concerned about radicalization.
"If these people get into positions of school boards, they will start to set curriculum. And that will have a long-term effect," Timmer said, adding that the push for activists to run for school board seats is "as or more alarming than anything I've seen so far."
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Trump did not cultivate the culture war.
Trump didn’t create and promote the 1619 Project or CRT.
No doubt the writer knows this but has chosen to forget.
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...and, BTW...Jeff Timmer is a total POS.
They blame everything and anything on Trump.
It works with the indoctrinated, stupid Dem base.
First of all, Randi, they are not YOUR kids, they are OUR kids.
And the retaliation you are now experiencing for your campaign of anti-white aggression was long overdue - and it has barely started.
The beginnings of the culture war predate Trump’s entry into politics by at least two decades. NBC, as usual, is FOS.
He didn’t start the fight, wankers.
He didn’t start the fight, wankers.
Resistance to their communism, racism and faggotry indoctrination is making “war.”
Wake me up when the “war” goes hot and they’re getting shot in the face.
Our resistance to their war on our culture is the problem, you see.
NBC is a Marxist propaganda organ owned and controlled by the Roberts family.
He did however attempt to cultivate American values and useful metrics for learning….. so you can see the problem the left has with Donald
‘”Normally, our kids have been off-limits,” said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, one of the country’s largest unions.’
Right. The kids have been off-limits until the Teachers’ Unions joined the Communist Party and started imposing their doctrine on the kids.
Trump did not cultivate the culture war, he fought against the left’s 40 year head start.
Shut the hell up NBC. You punks are worse than what you accuse us of.
Pat Buchanan gave a notable speech about the Culture War in 1992.
But I guess we can blame Trump for anything going on today. Sheesh!
Translation: Things aren’t going well since Trump has been gone, so let’s continue to blame Trump and hope people buy into it.
NBC is mad because people are getting involved on a local level.
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