Far-Right Candidates Are Trying To Take Over Public Schools Across The Country

[elektra]

Who would the far right be taking the schools over from ...

 

[candycorn]

Consequential school board races in North Carolina, Maryland and other states could change the education system as we know it.​

Over the last few years, elections for public education officials have gone from overlooked and low-profile to heated and politicized affairs, a shift that’s due in large part to conservatives increasingly eyeing schools as places where they can wield significant influence and enact a specific agenda.

Moms for Liberty, a far-right group that popped up in Florida during the COVID pandemic and has since campaigned nationwide for a variety of conservative causes, is a significant driver of this shift. The so-called “parental rights” organization has thrown its support behind school board candidates across the country who have gone on to ban books, pass policies that hurt LGBTQ+ kids, and limit what teachers can do and say in their classrooms.

In 2022, more than half of the candidates endorsed by Moms for Liberty won their races, with those in Florida seeing particular success. But the following year, the group’s high-profile attempts in Pennsylvania were largely a dud.

This year, the group said it has identified 77 candidates for endorsements but has not publicly released the list.

“We continue to strive to have all voters across the country engage in their local school board elections and get to know the candidates because we know that change happens at the local level,” Moms for Liberty co-founders Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich said in an emailed statement to HuffPost. “We have seen an incredible win rate the past two years that shows the power of our grassroots organization and we are excited to see that same kind of win rate this year.”

But even as the group keeps a lower public profile than it has during previous elections, its impact is clear. Across the country, far-right extremists are looking to get on school boards and reshape public schooling.
The blueprint for a right-wing, Moms for Liberty-style candidate has been made, and conservatives are following it. These candidates typically rail against “critical race theory,” a college-level academic framework for understanding structural racism that has been co-opted by conservatives to mean talking about race at all and making white people feel uncomfortable. They falsely claim books about gender or sexual identity are inherently pornographic. They may smear teachers as groomers, and make sure transgender children are targeted and ostracized at school.

Parental rights and fighting to keep trans kids from playing sports are now Republican talking points at all levels of government.

“The work of Moms for Liberty hasn’t been as visible. But the rhetoric they use and their candidates are very much visible,” Tamika Walker Kelly, the president of the North Carolina Association of Educators, told HuffPost.

In blue, red, and purple states alike, this election is shaping up to have dozens of hotly contested school board races that feature right-wing candidates going up against their more liberal counterparts and hoping to shape the next generation of public school students.

Much more in the link below...

Far-Right Candidates Have A Target This Election — And It Could Reshape The Next Generation​

Scary stuff. They've been operating mostly under the radar - and they are dangerous! What do you think?

And they will. Nobody pays attention.

 

[candycorn]

Who would the far right be taking the schools over from ...

Competent officials

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

You act as if it's a bad thing.

It's a blatantly obvious thing.

 

[Blackrook]

Competent officials

If you think the public schools are being run competently you must be living under a rock.

 

[MarcATL]

LOL. We sooooo scarrrrreeeeeeeee!

There's such a threat of us far-far-farrrrr right wingers trying to improve education, the learning of reading, writing, and arithmetic, with emphasis on STEM subjects which would better prepare the next generation for employment.

Nahhhh, keep on electing left-wing indoctrinated fools pushing hatred and division via CRT and SEL and whatever new B.S. slogan they come up with, pushing so-called "social justice activism," and grooming them to drug and mutilate children after convincing them they're "born in the wrong body."

Keep throwing more money down the drain as test scores keep plunging, as long as union teacher goons get their unearned cut of taxpayer resources and buy their school boards to continue the flow of corruption.

That's not what these extremists are doing.

 

[Lesh]

Do NOT let Republicans have control of public education.

They fuck up everything they touch

Vote against them. Dog catcher to the White House

They are ALL extremists

 

[whitehall]

Who do the public schools belong to if not the parents of the kids who attend them? The federal government?

 

[eagle7-31]

Do NOT let Republicans have control of public education.

They fuck up everything they touch

Vote against them. Dog catcher to the White House

They are ALL extremists

I see you still have your phony left wing talking points.

 

[Lesh]

I see you still have your phony left wing talking points.

I’m dead serious

 

[candycorn]

If you think the public schools are being run competently you must be living under a rock.

Yeah...putting a bunch of bibles in he schools (the only right wing solution besides arming teachers) is going to fix things.

 

[Lesh]

Yeah...putting a bunch of bibles in he schools (the only right wing solution besides arming teachers) is going to fix things.

TRUMP Bibles of course. Gotta make that profit

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Yeah, but only because it is.

RWNJs are anti-education.

It's a good thing the LWNJs control public education in Chicago.

They're doing such an awesome job.

DURR

 

[elektra]

Who would the far right be taking the schools over from ...

Competent officials

Name them

 

[Harry Dresden]

Do NOT let Republicans have control of public education.

They fuck up everything they touch

Vote against them. Dog catcher to the White House

They are ALL extremists

explain how Californias education went from top 5 to bottom 10....lets see you blame republicans for that...

 

[Lesh]

explain how Californias education went from top 5 to bottom 10....lets see you blame republicans for that...

If that’s true , the solution is NOT handing over control to Republicans, who want to do AWAY with public education

 

[Billiejeens]

No, they are anti-education completely.

Their fine with indoctrination though, just look at any Sunday school.

1 day a week Churches teach that God is the supreme authority
5 days a week Schools teach that Government is the supreme everything.

Different levels of indoctrination for sure.

 

[Lesh]

And guess what? 9 out of 10 of the best states for education?

Yeah . Blue states

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[hadit]

They don't mostly.

Source?

 

[Billiejeens]

The far right has been trying to take over school boards since the 1980s. In the 80s and 90s the far right, usually far right evangelicals, would run stealth candidates. These were candidates who would keep their agenda a secret and run as moderates then turn into nut jobs once they were on the school board.

Really this is nothing new. It is the same shit but different day: Don’t tell the voters who you really are until you are elected. It is the only way these nuts can get elected.

Sadly, there is no organized "far-right" in this country.