2021: The year of the parent activist

[SugarDaddy1]

In the early hours of Nov. 3, Republican Glenn Youngkin, now the governor-elect of the commonwealth of Virginia, took to the stage at his campaign election night watch party to promise a conservative renewal in governance in a state that had moved to the left in recent years.

Youngkin’s victory, on a platform featuring a vow to empower parents in public education, proved to be the culminating achievement of a parental rights movement that was visible in Virginia but also swept across the nation to Texas, Minnesota, Colorado, and everywhere in between.

From the refusal of numerous schools to reopen following the pandemic closures, the inclusion of critical race theory and gender ideology in school curricula, the fight over mask mandates, and the Loudoun County public school rape case, a wide breadth of issues pertaining to education motivated a new kind of voter, turning the Virginia race into an unexpected referendum on public education.

But the most visible aspect of the parental activist movement, and a defining image of local politics in 2021, was the use of public comment periods at school board meetings.

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[LukSkyFokker]

STFU, miles.

 

[pecksniff]

If "parental activism" means parents showing up at school board meetings to complain about CRT or disease-containment measures, then it ain't no improvement.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

If "parental activism" means parents showing up at school board meetings to complain about CRT or disease-containment measures, then it ain't no improvement.

This is what democracy looks like!

 

[pecksniff]

This is what democracy looks like!

It's what's happening already. And in this particular regard, it ain't helpin' nuttin' nohow.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

It's what's happening already. And in this particular regard, it ain't helpin' nuttin' nohow.

Democracy would be great if it wasn't for that fucking demos.

 

[WillJ8787]

This is what democracy looks like!

Ah no...this is what nuts looks like....not those nuts between your legs, the nuts between your ears

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Ah no...this is what nuts looks like....not those nuts between your legs, the nuts between your ears

Maybe parents should shut up, pay the tax bill and hand over their kids to geniuses who think those nuts swing under penises on women.

 

[pecksniff]

Democracy would be great if it wasn't for that fucking demos.

They get their democracy on election day. Which includes school boards.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

They get their democracy on election day. Which includes school boards.

Those boards are government, no? And the 1A is still around?

 

[pecksniff]

Those boards are government, no? And the 1A is still around?

And parents are already making full use of it.

But the 1A only guarantees your right to speak; it does not guarantee you will have anything worthwhile to say. Those who complain about CRT or disease-containment measures do not.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

And parents are already making full use of it.

But the 1A only guarantees your right to speak; it does not guarantee you will have anything worthwhile to say. Those who complain about CRT or disease-containment measures do not.

Good thing you don't make the rules. The rest of us still get to petition our government for redress of grievances, no? And indoctrinating kids in CRT and QT is certainly a worthy grievance.

 

[pecksniff]

Good thing you don't make the rules. The rest of us still get to petition our government for redress of grievances, no? And indoctrinating kids in CRT and QT is certainly a worthy grievance.

No, that is not a worthy grievance. But you remain free to bring it.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

No, that is not a worthy grievance. But you remain free to bring it.

You'd be shocked at how few people hold your view. So few, in fact, that our voices are now being heard and laws passed over the squeaks and mewls of guys like you.

 

[pecksniff]

You'd be shocked at how few people hold your view. So few, in fact, that our voices are now being heard and laws passed over the squeaks and mewls of guys like you.

That's not parent activism, then, that's just politics by ordinary means.

 

[icanhelp1]

You'd be shocked at how few people hold your view. So few, in fact, that our voices are now being heard and laws passed over the squeaks and mewls of guys like you.

What’s really ironic is that teachers unions are demanding each student provide a negative test before being allowed back to class and Biden fell asleep on the mass deployment of test kits, how does that work, dammed if you do and dammed if you don’t. Looks like the unions win and kids lose.