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

[Lesh]

By student loans and grants you mean?

No idea what that’s supposed to mean

 

[martybegan]

No idea what that’s supposed to mean

You claimed the government paid for the educators education. what mechanism?

 

[Lesh]

You claimed the government paid for the educators education. what mechanism?

The public education system you want to destroy

 

[CrazyTrader55]

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?

Judging from the results of the past 50 years of the 'educational system' - I would say it needs a hell of a lot of change, first thing to be dismantling the unions.

 

[martybegan]

The public education system you want to destroy

Give it competition, not destroy. And it's because you clods turned it into indoctrination 101 that this is happening.

 

[The Duke]

Judging from the results of the past 50 years of the 'educational system' - I would say it needs a hell of a lot of change, first thing to be dismantling the unions.

No taxpayer funded entity should have a Union. It's directly against the peoples' interest.

That used to not be allowed at all.

 

[Lesh]

Give it competition, not destroy. And it's because you clods turned it into indoctrination 101 that this is happening.

Nonsense. That “competition” is designed to destroy

 

[martybegan]

Nonsense. That “competition” is designed to destroy

That just shows how low Public Education has fallen if even its supporters think it can't compete with private schooling.

 

[CrazyTrader55]

Nonsense. That “competition” is designed to destroy

Are you an "educator"?

If yes, you are protecting your own self interest.

The unions have failed.

 

[martybegan]

No taxpayer funded entity should have a Union. It's directly against the peoples' interest.

That used to not be allowed at all.

Even a progressive liberal like FDR realized that.

 

[Lesh]

Are you an "educator"?

If yes, you are protecting your own self interest.

The unions have failed.

I am not

 

[hadit]

Plenty of good reasons to oppose it. For one, the GOP does not live in reality. They think your blob won the 2020 election.

No they don't. No one I know thinks a blob won anything, unless that movie from decades ago got an award somewhere. Anyway, I think you need to get out and meet some real people instead of believing these fantasies that you create.

Mostly False.

Prove it.

Nor do I intend to. Its a mixed bag.

You can't because those studies don't exist.

There you go again, throwing a tantrum that I criticized your cult leader.

I'm not in a cult so I don't have a cult leader to be upset about. You, OTOH, are desperate to put people in groups because you can't deal with independent thinkers. It demonstrates that your own thought processes go no deeper than, "What group can I put you in so I can claim I know stuff about you and ignore what you actually think?". You tried to do it with my wealth status, which I did not give you.

LOL... the best degree money can buy.

Okay, so you claim Wharton is corrupt with no backing beyond your feelz because they allowed TRUMP! to earn a degree, the cads. You know what, you're making this easy.

(PS: you have no friends).

They'll laugh when I tell them a random internet keyboard jockey thinks they don't exist because he's an adolescent that hasn't moved past the "Nuh-uh!" stage of debating.

 

[hadit]

Hopefully right wing candidate win these election. Amazingly we've let these problems happen in our schools since the sixties. Liberal teachers taught students to rebel against authority. The students then started protests and cost us any chance we had to win the Vietnam War.

Ironically, the very people rebelling against the establishment became the establishment that students rebel against today.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

The public education system you want to destroy

Why would conservatives want to destroy the public education system here in Chicago?
The leftists have already done that.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Nonsense. That “competition” is designed to destroy

Competition forces the poorly run to improve or lose customers.

 

[The Duke]

Why would conservatives want to destroy the public education system here in Chicago?
The leftists have already done that.

Detroit, too. I watched a big ol' documentary about it.
Continuing corruption and grift to the core.

 

[hadit]

Detroit, too. I watched a big ol' documentary about it.
Continuing corruption and grift to the core.

And, of course, any attempts at reform are met with shrieks about destruction, sunspots, dogs and cats living together, and all manner of apocalyptic disaster.

 

[The Duke]

And, of course, any attempts at reform are met with shrieks about destruction, sunspots, dogs and cats living together, and all manner of apocalyptic disaster.

Or murder threats against investigators. I can't find that documentary, it was many years ago.

 

[jknowgood]

Yeah, but only because it is.

RWNJs are anti-education.

We want to educate kids,not indoctrinate the..

 

[Lesh]

Competition forces the poorly run to improve or lose customers.

Competition is designed to kill public education.

Full stop

It’s a scam