Thread by @insomnochick

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/

Third: Show me the governor who's turning his/her back on federal funds for education?
Fourth: Governors (and sometimes a combo of governor and state legislators) appoint State Boards of Ed (or regents, or whatever your state calls it). They set "standards" schools MUST follow 4/

Fourth: State BOEs also set criteria for teacher education and certification; these are heavily influenced by the unions, and the universities that teach to these standards. Rather than dictating, they are usually complying with what these supposed "experts" want.5/

Fifth: Teacher education programs all the way up to PhD are 100% captured by critical pedagogy. I personally know of ZERO exceptions nationwide. Even in-service teachers who were not educated this way have been or will be required to complete PD courses in critical praxis. 6/

Sixth: Teachers unions wield so much power, they push the CDC and Democratic Party around (literally). If they don't like something going on in Education, their power will be felt by whomever crosses them: intimidation, extortion, harassment, nothing out of bounds. 7/

Teachers unions LOVE critical theory because it's perfect cover for the failures of their membership to TEACH (lack of achievement and chaos are "society's" fault), and it allows them to use their classrooms as recruiting offices for their political causes. 8/

Seventh: even good teachers (@CBHeresy @RamonaBessinger to name two) can't speak out against what's happening in their schools without facing retribution, even loss of their jobs and hard-earned pensions. They also face harassment and social stigma of nonconformity.9/

Point being, even GOOD teachers have two choices: stay and duke it out like David vs. Goliath, or leave, which is the choice the majority of good teachers are making. So who's left, even if you manage to "take back" the system? Where are you gonna get all new teachers? 10/

But back to the original point...School boards give you a public, open meeting, with cameras, recordings, and a microphone, so you can broadcast your grievances and (ideally) recruit others to your cause. Super. It also gives government TONS of footage of you to manipulate.11/

The show of support may help recruit more people, but to do what? If you're not prepared to remove your kids, who have to show up each day AFTER those meetings, and face possibly retribution by teachers, administrators, and fellow students who have been brainwashed already, 12/

are you really helping YOUR CHILD, today? We're two years into this mess, and there have been thousands of school board meetings, with brave parents and teachers speaking out, and to what end? Things they do control (mask and bathroom policies, and porn in the library)13/

aren't really changing, or the people who like those things are using your push-back as evidence you're deranged, etc...I agree with most of you, they're not going to win that argument most likely, BUT neither are you. The districts doing these things are doubling down 14/

It's an even greater show of force if they keep doing what they're doing in the face of throngs of screaming parents that if no one showed up. If suddenly parents poured the time, energy, and money they're putting into school board campaigns and speaking into grassroots orgs 15/

If they started micro schools, homeschool co-ops, childcare solutions, and other projects to facilitate the REMOVAL of hundreds of thousands of children from the control of these psychopaths, it would take power from them, and reallocate it where it belongs: with PARENTS. 16/

Glenda the Good Witch was right: you have the power all along. Click your heels together and say it with me: "THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME..." It doesn't need to literally BE your home, it just needs to be decided by YOU, around your kitchen table, and with the same neighbors 17/

who would have voted for you for school board, or supported your speech to the board, or whatever. THEN, use your new organizations to lobby your lawmakers, elect governors with backbone who will refuse federal money with strings attached, etc. 18/

This problem will only be solved one family at a time. There's no group you can replace, no single body you can control that is going to fix it. Most people can't even articulate what "fixed" would look like! Even if you removed all the critical praxis, 19/

the teachers are still not teaching the kids to read and do math properly! Even if you managed to get the overt Marxism out, the entire system is collectivist FORCE at its core! It was founded and built by Marxists, with the intention of producing what you're fighting now 20/

So to recap: replacing your school board will accomplish exactly nothing except making a temporary statement, which will be promptly used against you by the government.21/

You can't turn off the gas under the pot little froggy, so your only chance, your CHILD'S only chance, is to hop out while you still can./END #justwalkaway