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.
Teachers trying to eradicate the racism in third grade may be hindered by parents who elect conservative school boards. Parents have been showing up to school board meetings and making a terrible racket. The parents smell like Hamburger Helper, rage and more.
The National School Boards Association pleaded with the Biden Justice Department for help. 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.
Out in the sticks things are a lot different. 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 added that this 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
The Wisconsin group could split and join Ohio or Missouri school boards. Pennsylvania, New Hampshire Tennessee South Carolina Kentucky Montana and South Carolina. These are the Examiner also said that “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 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.”
We have it. On one side, parents, some local associations, and a national group nobody’s ever heard of. The Biden Justice department, education and health bureaucracies as well as teachers unions and media are the others.
Somebody’s gotta win. Private schools, however, are flourishing.
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