Another example is the new fight over education. It shows how things can look depending on where you are from.
The Washington Post (motto: “Democracy Gets Drowsy at Dusk”) is always a reliable guide to the current Enemies of Progress — Tea Partiers, pimply little Arians, conservative churches. And right now, the skunk at the vegan BBQ is … parents.
Conservative parents may elect school boards that are not supportive of teachers who want to end the third-grade systemic racism. Parents have been showing up to school board meetings and making a terrible racket. The parents smell like Hamburger Helper, rage and more.
Some have allegedly been foolish and reckless enough to threaten school board member, prompting an agonizing plea by the National School Boards Association for the Biden Justice Department. AG Merrick “We Dodged a Freakin’ Bullet” Garland complied, scrambling the feds to root out “harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators.” Parentes delenda est.
However, the reality is a bit different out there. Accusing concerned moms of “a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes” doesn’t play in Peoria. Madison. The following is a list of the Wisconsin Examiner, “on Tuesday, Nov. 9, the Wisconsin Association of School Boards (WASB) announced it was suspending participation with the National School Board Association (NSBA).” It may be the first step in formally leaving the national group.
Apparently, the Badgers aren’t as enthusiastic about cracking parental heads as the gang in DC. “A WASB memo to school board members around the state that the actions of NSBA ‘do not align with WASB policies and programs nor its mission to support, promote and advance public education’” the Examiner
If Wisconsin splits, the group will be joined by Ohio and Missouri school board groups. Pennsylvania, New Hampshire Tennessee South Carolina Kentucky Montana and South Carolina. The Examiner, “A conservative school board in Rapid City, SD, issued a statement saying that, if its state organization did not pull out of the national association, the city’s school board would consider pulling out of the Associated School Boards of South Dakota.”
The answer is obvious. Examiner article noted that “the liberal Massachusetts state school board association sent an email to NSBA stating that it was ‘very happy’ that the national board ‘reached out to the FBI.’” Of course it did. And a lefty prof from the University of Massachusetts said that the national conservative group Parents Defending Education “combines white supremacy with a vicious plan to launch personal attacks on elected officials, administrators, and teachers.”
There you have it. On one side, parents, some local associations, and a national group nobody’s ever heard of. Biden’s Justice Department, Education and Health Bureaucracies, Teachers Unions, and Media are all on the other side.
Somebody’s gotta win. However, private schools thrive.
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