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

[Toddsterpatriot]

Competition is designed to kill public education.

Full stop

It’s a scam

If the competition does better than public education, public education deserves to die.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Competition is designed to kill public education.

Full stop

It’s a scam

Are you THAT disconnected from reality?

 

[SweetSue92]

This is cute but while you are all flinging poo, teachers are quitting. No one is going into teaching. Teachers are walking out of the job in the middle of the school day.

You hate the B team you got now?

Wait til you get a load of the D team. Soon enough they'll just send prisoners to teach the kids like they make license plates now.

Both sides get the blame for this IMHO--the Left for not believing that some teachers ARE really bad, and the right for having an outsized Moral Panic over the scope of the problem

 

[pknopp]

Well, that beats the shit out of trannies and queers who perversely parade their sexuality in front of children who should never have to deal with that.

We should draw the line at a presidential candidate speaking on how they admire another man's penis.

 

[pknopp]

A real-life drama is playing out in Florida, with a leading conservative advocate for traditional family values fighting to keep her position on a school board after details about her alleged role in a sex scandal involving her husband and another woman came to light.

Bridget Ziegler, a co-founder of the conservative political organization Moms for Liberty, faced criticism from the community during the last several Sarasota School Board meetings, when residents turned out with calls for Ziegler to resign.

Moms for Liberty co-founder faces calls for resignation from school board amid sex scandal

 

[Votto]

You act as if it's a bad thing.

You would be pissed too if someone tried to take over your taxpayer funded indoctrination centers

The nerve of these people!!

 

[SweetSue92]

A real-life drama is playing out in Florida, with a leading conservative advocate for traditional family values fighting to keep her position on a school board after details about her alleged role in a sex scandal involving her husband and another woman came to light.

Bridget Ziegler, a co-founder of the conservative political organization Moms for Liberty, faced criticism from the community during the last several Sarasota School Board meetings, when residents turned out with calls for Ziegler to resign.

Moms for Liberty co-founder faces calls for resignation from school board amid sex scandal

Ah, I laughed out loud. Always beware of those who go on and on about "conservative values"

 

[SeaMajor7]

"It’s a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages, the first one being demoralization. It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years which is required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of your enemy. In other words, Marxism / Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least 3 generations of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism, American patriotism."
~ Yuri Bezmenov

 

[talksalot]

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?

It's about time conservatives started taking interest in the looney liberal policies that are destroying children's education.

It took drag queen story hour, Pride Month and CRT to finally get the public's attention.

 

[justoffal]

You act as if it's a bad thing.

They're not taking them over they're simply keeping the child predators out. The way it used to be and the way it should be again.

 

[Whodatsaywhodat.]

No, they are anti-education completely.

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

Accuse others of what you do typical Democrat tactic.

 

[Whodatsaywhodat.]

They're not taking them over they're simply keeping the child predators out. The way it used to be and the way it should be again.

Yet democrats fight tooth an nail . Why?

 

[initforme]

If the competition does better than public education, public education deserves to die.

Why won't private schools take on the most disruptive problematic kids? It'd be interesting to watch this experiment.

 

[hadit]

Why won't private schools take on the most disruptive problematic kids? It'd be interesting to watch this experiment.

There need to be alternate educational paths for the most problematic kids. Paths that involve less focus on paper and pencil and more on active, hands-on learning. Warehousing them in situations they clearly cannot handle well does them no favors at all.

 

[sparky]

Their fine with indoctrination though

Not in public schools

just look at any Sunday school.

That's not a public school

~S~

 

[Crepitus]

Not in public schools

Only because we have been able to prevent it until now.

 

[sparky]

Only because we have been able to prevent it until now.

perpetuate is the word that fits Crep

~S~

 

[Crepitus]

perpetuate is the word that fits Crep

~S~

Only in the RWNJ fake news echo chamber.

 

[j-mac]

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?

Good, it's about time we get politics out of our education system, and return to teaching the basics....

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Why won't private schools take on the most disruptive problematic kids? It'd be interesting to watch this experiment.

Many do.