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

[Billiejeens]

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

It is the Federal Government-
That's a huge problem.

 

[Lesh]

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

Sure as fuck is. The Party of Trump.

Far right is about all that’s LEFT of the Republican Party

 

[Billiejeens]

Sure as fuck is. The Party of Trump.

Far right is about all that’s LEFT of the Republican Party

The single most defining characteristic of the Republican Party led by President Trump is - Aggressive Common Sense.

 

[Billiejeens]

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

Is this just a troll post?

No legitimate post would state that Republicans want to do away with Public Education.

 

[SeaMajor7]

Sure as fuck is. The Party of Trump.

Far right is about all that’s LEFT of the Republican Party

You Marxist zombies label EVERYTHING that opposes your radical agenda FAR RIGHT.

 

[Harry Dresden]

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

its very true....and republicans had very little to do with that.....so in their case the democrats should also be left out of the solution...

 

[Lesh]

Is this just a troll post?

No legitimate post would state that Republicans want to do away with Public Education.

Horse shit. Republicans have been wanting to privatize education for decades

 

[Mac1958]

The GQP figured out that if they didn't like the way things were being done at the local level, they'd take matters into their own hands.

Now there's every chance they'll go too far, but that's what the ends of the spectrum do.

Maybe listening and working together would have been a better idea, huh? Naw, of course not.

 

[Billiejeens]

Horse shit. Republicans have been wanting to privatize education for decades

Another troll post.

Lush makes a claim about how it feels, no link, no backup, no examples -
Just feels -

 

[hadit]

Competent officials

"Competent officials" who are overseeing the continued decline of American educational achievements. It's truly embarrassing that we spend far more per pupil than the rest of the world and are constantly outperformed by them. Let's give the far right's emphasis on the basics of learning a chance to succeed.

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

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?

Obviously your parents grew up on processed foods. You obviously love em too.
If you ever wonder where your IQ went...now you know.

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

The problem is that whoever is in charge of the children's education gets to decide how the next generation thinks. The current custodians are indoctrinating the children with leftist propaganda. Did they think conservatives would sit back and allow this to happen indefinitely?

Well, yeah. They pretty much did. Only now that it's beginning to affect their own personal lives directly do they care at all.

 

[Billiejeens]

The GQP figured


Just for general Consumption -

Any poster that uses GQP is too gone to take seriously

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

Is this just a troll post?

No legitimate post would state that Republicans want to do away with Public Education.

But they ARE running from it (leftist indoctrination).....and that is a damn good thing.

 

[Billiejeens]

Well, yeah. They pretty much did. Only now that it's beginning to affect their own personal lives directly do they care at all.

The center and right basically allowed the Far left to take over the Media and The Education system, to disasterous results.
They have kept teacher pay low so as not to attract the best and the brightest minds.

 

[Billiejeens]

But they ARE running from it (leftist indoctrination).....and that is a damn good thing.

Lobbying for specific improvements to be made is not the same as - do away with, of course.

 

[Crepitus]

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.

Catholic school

 

[Crepitus]

Source?

Oh come on. You kids are always bragging about homeschooling.

 

[DGS49]

If all these Far Right Crazies get their way, our schools will...be run pretty much the way they were run a couple generations ago...you know, when HS graduates could actually read.

Oh, the humanity!

 

[hadit]

Oh come on. You kids are always bragging about homeschooling.

It's not bragging when it's true. That's your ilk's biggest failing, you desperately want to dump on homeschooling, but it continues to produce better results than the vastly more expensive government schools. In fact, homeschooling wouldn't have nearly the draw it does if government schools were safe and graduated more kids who can read, write, do math, understand science and know the difference between the Vietnam and Korean wars.