If you're pissed off *and* politically active, work against the local assholes on your school board

[Stinky The Clown]

They're allowing right wing POLITICS to affect their decisions. They're either cowards or complicit. Neither one is good. And therein lies, perhaps, the making of a nascent campaign to unseat them next go-round.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. The school board here were appointed by the repub governor

hence I'm showing it live!

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. Did you see what happened in Montana?

A bunch of Republicans quit the Republican Party, stating that it had been taken over by "phony Republicans."

I suspect that kind of infiltration is taking place all over the United States these days.

In case you didn't see this: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6484533

[Stinky The Clown]

4. Too funny!

Morons, all.

[elleng]

7. That's a great story, Tange,

one I hoped would get more play. Ike did warn against similar infiltration, years ago, and I wish we and others would make something of this stuff. (As in, prevent dems etc from dumping on e/o as reps want, and encourage more noise about such events as Montana.)

[donco6]

3. It's a start.

But most school boards are filled by people who ran because no one else wanted to. It's a thankless job. But we certainly could use more progressives.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. Actually, local school boards were (are?) targets for the kristofascist storm troopers

Their churches and rat fuckers like Ralph Reed pushed this a while back. Maybe still are (unless Reed is still too busy screwing native people.

[donco6]

6. Most terms are 4 years.

They come and go in waves. In over 20 years, I've seen several generations. Right now our board is decent, if not terribly brave.

[Odin2005]

8. The local school boards are how ideologues and wannabe social engineers inflect our schools.

Flame me, but IMO that would be an argument for a more centralized and technocratic control of the school system.