
Powered by parent groups, takeovers of school boards are a rising trend. What’s interesting here is the coordination between a governor and school board members to create systemic change. The Left does this all the time. Everything is coordinated from the top down. Conservative school board members however are often on their own in supposed ‘red’ states.
This is just the beginning, but it’s an interesting model.
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis put his weight behind dozens of conservative school board candidates across Florida during the midterms. Now they’re in office — and are purging some educational leaders who enforced Covid-19 mandates.
World’s smallest violin plays. Also can we stop calling school officials and assorted government officials, “leaders”? Presidents are leaders. A school superintendent isn’t.
New board members in two GOP-leaning counties essentially sacked their school superintendents over the span of one week. The ousters were spurred by how the superintendents carried out local policies like efforts to support the rights of parents, an issue inflamed by schools imposing student mask mandates last fall in defiance of DeSantis.
And while not tied to the 2022 election, the school board in Broward County earlier this month fired its superintendent through an effort led by five members appointed by DeSantis. All combined, school boards with ties to DeSantis pushed out three superintendents in November alone — and each of them served over districts that implemented student mask mandates.
That is how you do things, Godfather style. Accounts are being actually settled, instead of the impotent virtue signaling, conspiracy theories and outrage we see all too often in certain circles.
In Brevard and Sarasota counties, embattled school leaders have faced immediate pressure from newly-installed board members and offered to leave voluntarily rather than risk a vote on their terminations.
Clean and neat. That’s how you do it. Getting the other side to surrender because they see the inevitable is how you know you’re winning.
DeSantis in particular used his clout to endorse more than two dozen school board candidates during the 2022 election cycle, a rare move for a Florida governor that came with $1,000 cash contributions from DeSantis and other GOP lawmakers. Most of the candidates DeSantis endorsed won their elections and are now transforming the make-up of school district leadership and will have huge influence over policies affecting hundreds of thousands of students in the state.
Both Sarasota and Brevard’s school boards put the superintendents on the chopping block the same day that new members endorsed by DeSantis and conservative organizations like Moms for Liberty were sworn into office.
The only question here is why did it take so long. And why do so few state Republican parties pursue a similar integrated model for taking over the school system?
That got me thinking, how does the left take over a school system? What I saw, in my old school district, was first they bankrupt the district, then, Voila! The state has to take it over.
Funny that THEY purposely bankrupt the system then take it over. Does it escape the tax payer of whom or what political party bankrupted them?
The Communist party is purposely bankrupting America so that they can blame it on American capitalism?
In a school district, the superintendent is a King, by power and by salary. Its great that they got rid of some bad ones but superintendents do tend to move around going from job to job. They still get their pension, sometimes two pensions as they often were once teachers. It is like CEO’s who move from job to job- not as highly paid but high enough.
Remove anyone with any connections with the NEA and other leftists groups who oppose parents from getting involved
From top to bottom is how it’s done.
This is all good and well, but the reality that government schools are simply fated to degenerate into collectivist garbage heaps precisely because they are government schools. That said, our governor does his job and does it well.
It took so long because most moms and dads were both working to make a decent living. The decent living is more and more difficult as the tax burden rises to redistribute earnings to an ever-growing class of non-tax paying (and often non-citizen) class. The redistribution will not stop as it is designed to make loyal soldiers against the American middle class which is the strength of the nation.
Putting little Johnny and Jane on the big yellow school bus was easy because parents were ignorant about the leftist teaching in the classroom. Public schools are operating on the fumes of goodwill. They once were partners in education with the parents. The goal of teaching was the best interest of each child and the creation of a strong, free and prosperous citizenry.
The mistake was online classes during Covid lockdowns.
The key here is DeSantis. He obviously has not been paid off by the Big Ed lobbyists and the countless other side businesses, agencies, and organizations that exist because of government schools. He walks the talk. Not the case for the other “conservative” governors who either do not have the courage to stand up to the globalist marxist establishment, or have no problem with its agenda.
He understands we are dealing with ideology, indeed, a Satanic ideology and that means it will be very, very difficult, if not impossible, to turn it around. Even so, he also understands that it’s his job to try. And he is, God bless him.
We can root out the collectivist ideologues and the sexual deviance advocates for a while, but they’ll eventually ooze back into the classrooms so long as government funded school systems exist. I know from personal observation and experience; the guttersnipes remain in Florida’s public schools. The entire government education monopoly must be torn up, root and branch, put to the flames, and the ashes must be scattered in the sea, never to be mentioned again.