Nationalization of School Board Elections, a By-Product of CRT “Debate”, Adds Another Headache for Public Education, Another Arrow for GOP Quiver
Russell Contreras’ recent Axios article describes the most recent and chilling result of the movement to oppose “critical race theory”: school board recall elections underway across the country. Mr. Contreras writes:
The big picture: Just halfway through 2021, at least 51 local recall efforts involving K-12 school boards have been initiated this year, targeting at least 130 elected members of those boards.
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That’s more than twice the annual average, according to Ballotpedia, a website that follows election trends.
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It’s accompanying the surge of new school board candidates that Axios’ Stef Kight has been tracking.
Recall elections now impact a small number of school districts, but as the article notes, these recalls are the by-product of a national effort to undercut public education by injecting CRT into ALL elections for school boards, an effort that is abetted by Fox News and other national news chains like Sinclair who breathlessly report every local protest at every school board meeting. And, as Mr. Contreras notes, this is a national conspiracy taking place in full sight of everyone. He offers this bullet summary as evidence:
Don’t forget: Elementary school teachers, administrators, and college professors are facing fines, physical threats, and fear of firing as states pass bans to restrict critical race theory in public schools.
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Citizens for Renewing America, a group led by a White House budget director under former President Trump, offers activists model legislation to craft bans in their states.
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The proposed legislation says that equity, intersectionality, social justice, and “woke” terms are racist ideas and falsely claims that critical race theory teaches that “one race or sex is superior to another race or sex.”
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Meanwhile, “Patriots for Delaware” in May endorsed five pro-school-reopening candidates for the state’s elections, highlighting a local push to limit social justice discussions and defy mask mandates.
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And parents in Pennsylvania formed their own political action committee to support school board candidates running to keep kids in school in person.
The net effect of these reports is to undercut public schools and when these efforts are combined with the defunding of schools, the creation of “education savings accounts” to enable more parents to “choose” non-public alternatives to public schools, and a relentless wave of negative reporting the result is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Unfortunately that prophecy spells doom for an informed electorate.
Vote even if you think it doesn’t matter…. and be grateful you still can!
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