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

[hadit]

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!

And that is the biggest "in your face" to the OP. Those schools actually worked and were far less expensive.

 

[Crepitus]

It's not bragging when it's true.

And there ya go. Undermined your own "point".

 

[22lcidw]

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.

Where was that at? Schools have been moving left for at least 60 years. The costs to taxpayers have mushroomed. And the quality of education has dropped in many areas.

 

[hadit]

And there ya go. Undermined your own "point".

You were attempting to insinuate that the right doesn't want to educate their children. That is demonstrably false.

 

[hadit]

Where was that at? Schools have been moving left for at least 60 years. The costs to taxpayers have mushroomed. And the quality of education has dropped in many areas.

That is true. The radicals of the '60's became the establishment and pulled the schools in their direction. Now the conservatives of the '80's are pulling them back. They don't like that.

 

[Crepitus]

You were attempting to insinuate that the right doesn't want to educate their children. That is demonstrably false.

Homeschooling isn't real education. It tends to be the very definition of indoctrination.

 

[hadit]

Homeschooling isn't real education. It tends to be the very definition of indoctrination.

Except that it produces exceptional educational results, you can't deny that. Let's put it this way, is it better for children to learn how to behave in adult society from adults or from other children?

 

[Crepitus]

Except that it produces exceptional educational results, you can't deny that.

Of course I can! It's true!

 

[hadit]

Of course I can! It's true!

Then it should be easy for you to produce studies that show homeschooled students ON AVERAGE falling behind their government school compatriots. Feelz don't mean anything.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Anti-Dept of ED sure, no sane person would think otherwise.

Just every other first world nation that has better educational systems than we do.

 

[initforme]

There's always been a blame the teacher mentality. Scapegoats.

 

[hadit]

Just every other first world nation that has better educational systems than we do.

And lower cost.

 

[Lesh]

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.

You just chided me for not posting links to claims and you post THAT garbage?

 

[Independent thinker]

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?

So, you are against elections and voting?

 

[Jarlaxle]

Yeah, but only because it is.

RWNJs are anti-education.

That's a lie.

Competent officials

That has to be satire...right?

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

There is no "public education." There are government schools, which are, mostly, high-priced babysitting with a side of indoctrination.

 

[martybegan]

No, they are anti-education completely.

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

Do they force other kids to go to Sunday School?

Because the left forces their morality on others via public schools.

 

[martybegan]

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

That isn't eliminating it, it's giving it level playing field competition.

Lefties should love vouchers, then they could run their own schools making boys dress as girls, girls dress as boys, and demand teachers be in slutty drag as part of their teaching contract.

 

[Lesh]

That isn't eliminating it, it's giving it level playing field competition.

Lefties should love vouchers, then they could run their own schools making boys dress as girls, girls dress as boys, and demand teachers be in slutty drag as part of their teaching contract.

Privatization is anything BUT a level playing field

It is however a good way to kill public education

 

[martybegan]

Privatization is anything BUT a level playing field

It is however a good way to kill public education

You give the same money voucher to everyone and come what may.

Public education has taken its monopoly status and broken trust with people not SJW crazies.

It's not privatizing, as the funding is still governmental, it's just contracted out.

 

[Lesh]

You give the same money voucher to everyone and come what may.

Public education has taken its monopoly status and broken trust with people not SJW crazies.

It's not privatizing, as the funding is still governmental, it's just contracted out.

The infra structure has been paid for. By US

INCLUDING education of the teachers