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Goldberg: Why the right loves public-school culture wars
Michelle Goldberg, New York Times
May 5, 2021
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Ralph Reed has paved the way for culture wars fought by the religious right. The fight has again turned to schools as evidenced by a recent election in Southlake.Robin Nelson /
There is a quote from Ralph Reed that I often return to when trying to understand how the right builds political power. “I would rather have a thousand school board members than one president and no school board members,” the former leader of the Christian Coalition said in 1996. School board elections are a great training ground for national activism. They can pull parents, particularly mothers, into politics around intensely emotional issues, building a thriving grassroots and keeping it mobilized.
Mask opponents display ‘I can’t breathe’ signs during Carroll ISD meeting in Southlake
Protesters wanted school board trustees to end the COVID-19 protocol immediately, but they voted to keep it in place through the end of the school year.
Protesters held I can t breathe signs outside the Carroll ISD board meeting Monday night, two days after two trustees who oppose the district s cultural competence plan were elected.(Bjorn Bennett / Courtesy)
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Opponents of Carroll ISD’s COVID-19 mask mandate gathered inside and outside the administration building Monday during a school board meeting in which trustees voted to keep it in place through the end of the school year.
A Model for Fighting Critical Race Theory in America s Schools | Opinion Dana Loesch On 5/4/21 at 12:05 PM EDT
On Saturday, parents of various ethnicities, faiths and ideologies scored a victory against Marxist critical race theory in highly publicized school board races in the Dallas suburb of Southlake. Organized and conscientious parents voted in new board members committed to resisting left-wing indoctrination with landslides of nearly 70 percent. As parents across the country fight back against attempts to institutionalize critical race theory in their children s schools, Southlake developed a blueprint for winning back our school districts.
The first step: understand what and who you are fighting. The district s controversy began in 2018 when two high school students said a racial slur on TikTok. The teens apologized but still had to leave the district and move from the town as the reaction shifted from atonement to reckoning. Activists introduced the wel