Again, please run for a school board position to prevent the idiocracy from doing things like banning AEDs from schools:
“The Vancouver school board’s decision to reject an AED for our school despite our fundraising efforts is both illogical and lacking in compassion for everyone on school grounds who may face a cardiac emergency,” Zhang’s Dec. 19 letter says.
Please try to become a School Board Member if you are keen on being an impediment to the terrible slide into fascism. The fascists are already filling these key positions.
6.8: Fighting the Far Right's Attack on Public Education with Dr Sam Myovitch
Across the USA, the far right candidates have been getting themselves elected to local and county school boards. Their goals include financially choking public schools by diverting government funds toward charter schools, often religious in orientation. Tune in to hear what Dr Sam Myovich, retired history teacher turned school board candidate campaign field coordinator, has to say about what’s at stake, the far right’s deployment of fascist tactics in their fight to destroy public education, and what we ordinary citizens can do to fight back against them, save our schools, and protect our very democracy itself.
Here's how we #saveAmerica for our kids:
Stop funding private #schools with public money.
End the #propertyTax funding model.
Make #civics and critical thinking classes mandatory at every level.
Ensure our kids have enough to eat via school lunch and breakfast programs, and make the resources available to intervene when they need help.
And stop giving #schoolBoards the power to deny our children the #education they need in order to build a thriving #democracy
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This @TexasObserver story by @stevanzetti highlights the importance of voting in your local school board elections.
"By the end of 2021, candidates backed by [the conservative billionaires-funded political action committee] Texans for Educational Freedom had established near or outright majorities in all three districts—and all three would later rank on a list of book-banning districts [...]"
https://www.texasobserver.org/school-board-pacs-consultants-right-wing/
This in-depth story by Barry Yeoman about how neuvaux right-wing politics easily overwhelms self-described "moderates" who have long been tools for the forces trying to block progressive change in Orange County is an important read.
https://www.theassemblync.com/education/orange-county-schools-diversity-education/
Moms for Liberty has targeted teachers, administrators, parents, and school board members, orchestrating harassment campaigns that have left people fearing for their safety—and in some cases, their lives.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3gnq/what-is-moms-for-liberty
#MomsForLiberty #education #CultureWars #RonDeSantis #Florida #Anti-LGBT #schoolboards #News #extremism
The school board takeover is one of the most insidious, Koch-funded attacks on democracy.
#Koch #GOP #SchoolBoards #FBI #EvilGOP
Why GOP culture warriors lost big in school board races this month https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/17/gop-school-board-races-midwest-00092232
In a 1982 case, #SCOTUS ruled that #school #libraries give #students “an opportunity at self #education and #individual enrichment” and that public #SchoolBoards are not allowed to #restrict or #ban #student access to #library #books “simply because they dislike the #ideas contained in those books.”
So then how are #Republicans getting away with their #BookBans? 
https://georgiarecorder.com/2023/04/10/a-year-later-georgias-book-banning-law-normalizes-censorship-in-schools/
A year later, #Georgia’s #BookBanning #law normalizes #censorship in schools | #GeorgiaRecorder
@yaneerbaryam @whn Note to BC Ministry of Education and #BC #schoolboards
The astroturf is one thing; the Streisand effect is definitely another.
waiting for summer 
Mechanic 
