Posted on 05/11/2022 10:06:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
The moms are why public education is where it is today.
They/we are waking up. It’s real. I had my 4 kids in our local (somewhat leftist—CA Bay Area) school district from 2010-2020 and have followed school board policies and union activities closely (and still do).
Prior to 2020, parents in my district were very supportive of teachers and the district, and even believed the union when they went around with phrases like “#ForOurKids” which was of course total BS (I knew before 2020; parents woke up with the shutdowns).
Now since the pandemic, parent involvement has skyrocketed, attendance is high and combative and parents are skeptical of anything the district does now. We also attempted to recall 3 of 5 trustees (the only ones eligible for recall) but were unfortunately unsuccessful (not quite enough signatures). But we have new good parent-focused trustees ready to vote for in the fall. It’s going to be tough, as there is a lot of union $$ to union-backed trustees and the unions are nasty and will try to destroy our candidates most likely.
It’s all very different. Parents are awake and cynical, and question and protest much more than before.
As for me and my family, I moved one teen to private school and one teen to homeschooling in 2020. I stay and fight for other students in my community but was blessed and resourceful enough to have moved my own kids out.
It’s the Year of the Parent.
As long as the university pumps out woke young teachers, the problem isn’t solved.
I pray the parents succeed but the teachers should be supporting them bigly!!
A lot of white, middle class, women are concerned with status and standing. They will not fight the school board.
This will have a huge effect on the 2022 election...bet on it.
You might be surprised. I’m in a white (and Asian) upper-middle class area of CA. We happily fight the school board. Also—have you been following the white upper-middle class Loudon County school board fights? They’ve led the way for the entire nation.
My district was the first in CA to try to recall the school board—and rich SF parents actually succeeded in recalling their district’s trustees in San Francisco!
Sadly, the Christian Coalition and the Silent Majority have passed. The Reagan coalitions are no more. More upsetting is that some once conservative churches now preach a "woke" theology.
I applaud you and wish you and your fellow fighting parents all the success in the world. Our country is at stake.
So many of these institutions have been taken by a few determined and committed leftist activists.
There are way more of us than them. We just need to make our voices and demands heard and we can send them packing.
I live in Florida (thank God) My suggestion is to find men like DeSantis and elected them as governors...
The Marxist loving universities have poisoned our kids minds. We’ll never be able to turn this around unless we can do something about that.
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No, the problem are the parents who take the middle class welfare so they can have McMansions, new cars, vacations, country club memberships, all while subjecting their children to the joys of govt education.
Eliminate the NEA, teachers unions and the Department of Education to start.
Kick liberals out of education, eliminate school boards, get back to basics including shop and physical education and there’s only 2 sexes and 2 genders. Anything else belongs in psychiatric institutions not to schools because apparently they haven’t figured out science.
That is good news!
But what I have seen, in my areas, is a “flash in the pan” followed by the same people being shamed into stopping.
I have family in Loudon, and that is what happened with that boy at first till the father took it to national news.
Similar things happen all the time (my wife is a teacher) and often are covered up, denied, or just buried. Local teenager sexually assaulted someone on a bus two years ago, and the topic quickly became how the assaulter was the real victim because of racism.
Hell, my local school board broke the law on multiple occasions, over spent their budget, and then sued the state for inequality when it the superintendent was charged.
That is one reason our kids go to a religious school
Yep.
The SBC went woke.
Same with many other denominations.
People act as if the only ones who can or should be involved in public schools are the parents who's children attend those schools.
As a citizen you have every right and maybe even the imperative to be involved. It is your money, it is your culture and it is your society.
Go down and get involved.
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