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Progressives win School Board Elections
The Wall Street Journal ^ | November 10, 2023 | Matt Barnum

Posted on 11/10/2023 9:23:20 AM PST by Rich21IE

"Conservative activists seeking to take over school boards around the country saw their momentum slow in this week’s elections after progressive groups organized rival campaigns targeting the normally sleepy local races.....Roughly a third of candidates endorsed by Moms for Liberty won Tuesday or were leading in contested races, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. This was down from 45% in prior races."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: arth; education
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I've been following the topic for some time now. The Journal has recently had articles focusing on the Central Bucks school district which is located outside Philidelphia. It's described as "affluent" which indicates it's populated by wealthy refugees from Philidelphia. Being wealthy, I would guess that the parents who oppose Progressive education policies will simply pull their kids out of the Public Schools. It's an interesting trend to follow.
1 posted on 11/10/2023 9:23:20 AM PST by Rich21IE
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To: Rich21IE

Whatever leftism touches, it ruins.


2 posted on 11/10/2023 9:24:32 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: No name given

another example of why the Chairwoman of the RNC must be replaced. 2016 was the only plus. She has been a consistent failure.


3 posted on 11/10/2023 9:28:13 AM PST by elpadre
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To: Rich21IE

Thanks to the internet it is simply too easy to homeschool your kids today. There is no reason to send them to public school except for one of two reasons - you are very poor or you are lazy.

Public schools are a 19th century paradigm that outlived its usefulness in the early 21st century. Their primary function is threefold:
1. Supply jobs to over-educated college grads.
2. Indoctrinate a generation.
3. Supply free daycare to parents that have sold themselves into indentured slavery.


4 posted on 11/10/2023 9:32:15 AM PST by cuban leaf (It is easier to fool a man than to convince him he's being fooled. - Mark Twain)
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To: Rich21IE

I’m telling you it’s the wealthy suburban women who leftist fools. They are selfish, depravely woke and only want to ensure they can kill their offspring in the event of inconvenience.


5 posted on 11/10/2023 9:34:02 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: Rich21IE

So our momentum slowed.

But we still have momentum.

We won in 35% of our races.

Which is 100 % more than we got three years ago.

The spin. It makes me nauseated.


6 posted on 11/10/2023 9:38:01 AM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: cuban leaf

“Thanks to the internet it is simply too easy to homeschool your kids today. There is no reason to send them to public school except for one of two reasons - you are very poor or you are lazy.”

Agreed and I’ve seen numerous articles of late to the effect that Public school districts are seeing a rapid decline in registration as more and more parents embrace either Home Schooling or private Academies or a combination of the two. And it’s not just “whites” or “Anglos”; increasingly Blacks are doing the same with their children as they see the Public Schools systems failing them.

I’m following the trends in Education to determine if, as a result of the Leftist take over of the Public systems, interest in and support for funding the Public systems will start to decline. I would expect that and I would expect to see ever increasing resistance to property taxes and bond proposals. However, it’s a topic complicated by the rain of Federal funding dollars that descends upon these Public Schools systems.

Not sure how this ends, except of course, ultimately as the GOP collapses nationwide and the US descends into a One Party Dictatorship, the Leftists will make Home Schooling and Private Education illegal.


7 posted on 11/10/2023 9:42:45 AM PST by Rich21IE
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To: Persevero

Not sure if it’s “spin” or a trend and as more and more “Conservatives” flee the public schools systems, it could well be a trend...as they leave, they lose interest.


8 posted on 11/10/2023 9:44:39 AM PST by Rich21IE
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To: Rich21IE

They gained in Indiana…

Just goes to the Indiana subreddit and watch all the wailing and gnashing of teeth that the “fascists” have taken over


9 posted on 11/10/2023 9:44:44 AM PST by Skywise
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To: Persevero

“We won an alderman race on Long Island.” “We didn’t lose Kentucky. They always have Democrat governors there.”

It’s funny and pathetic.


10 posted on 11/10/2023 9:45:39 AM PST by Luke21
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To: Rich21IE

The libs took over the university town school board. They talked about more money for education and helping teachers but they really just wanted men in the girls bathroom. The new HS they are building will not have bathrooms by sex, just generic bathrooms.


11 posted on 11/10/2023 9:49:44 AM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Obadiah

Absolutely correct.

My former good friend did not care one bit when I sent her video of Hunter Biden getting. a BJ from a Chinese hooker, It was online on Taiwan TV for a few days before the election and she saw it. I told her this makes Biden very very bribable, and she didn’t care. Loved Biden and even Kamala. Hated Trump. Probably still does, but I refuse to see her and blocked her number on my phone.

Not just for her politics, but for her personal insensitivity when my son died.


12 posted on 11/10/2023 9:54:18 AM PST by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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To: Rich21IE

This is gonna take time. Hope the challengers to woke school boards are in this fight for the long haul — and get the support of Republican party bureaucrats, donors, and politicians.


13 posted on 11/10/2023 9:56:04 AM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: Veto!

You cannot be friends with a leftist, with rare exceptions.


14 posted on 11/10/2023 9:57:41 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Rich21IE; metmom

Ping!.........................


15 posted on 11/10/2023 9:59:47 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Lazamataz

Agree in general, However, I do have a good friend who gets all her news at MSNBC. We just don’t talk about politics except for my occasional dig about the economy. She can’t deny that.


16 posted on 11/10/2023 10:01:43 AM PST by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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To: cuban leaf

IMHO, homeschooled kids will have a resume enhancer for jobs that work at home.


17 posted on 11/10/2023 10:09:06 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Luke21

It’s a tug of war. We win a few we lose a few.

We have the majority of governorship.

We have the majority of the state legislatures.

We trade the presidency. We have the majority of the House. We split the Senate.

This is not pathetic. I’d like even more power but it’s not pathetic.


18 posted on 11/10/2023 10:09:37 AM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: Rich21IE

It is time for the grooming and child molesting to begin in earnest....

:-(


19 posted on 11/10/2023 10:10:17 AM PST by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: Rich21IE

Too many Rs do not show up for any election that is not for President, then complain about things.


20 posted on 11/10/2023 10:18:09 AM PST by pas
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