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Looks like I have to say it again: it's not a BAD thing to go to school board meetings, and complain about curriculum, or replace board members with those more likely to fire bad superintendents, and hire good ones, but it's not the solution you're being led to believe 1/
First: school boards (with two exceptions, CT and VT, and only minimally even there) don't choose curricula. State boards of Ed determine state standards, and curricula must meet those state standards. Since ESSA was put in place by Obama, ALL states must have an Equity plan 2/
Second: "Equity" per the US Dept. of Ed. means something fairly specific, and there are metrics schools have to meet that are, as you might guess, geared to *encourage* adoption of things like SEL/CRT/CRE, etc, all of which are "critical pedagogies," or Marxian to the core 3/
