This @TexasObserver story by @stevanzetti highlights the importance of voting in your local school board elections.
"By the end of 2021, candidates backed by [the conservative billionaires-funded political action committee] Texans for Educational Freedom had established near or outright majorities in all three districts—and all three would later rank on a list of book-banning districts [...]"
Who would have guessed this? The furious right-wingers disrupting school board meetings across the US are almost exclusively white suburbanites. All that (faux) rage out there that the media wants us to believe is due to econoomic dispossession among struggling working-class citizens….
It's hard to get more privileged than living white in a suburb, isn't it?
How School Board Meetings Became Flashpoints for Anger and Chaos Across the Country
In the first wide-ranging analysis of school board unrest, ProPublica found nearly 60 incidents that led to arrests or criminal charges. Almost all were in suburban districts, and nearly every participant was white.
I believe this is a template for what communities that elect ultra-conservative school board majorities can expect. I'll be surprised if Florida isn't experiencing a state-wide teacher shortage very soon as a direct result of similar policies being enacted at the state level. By the way, Moms for Liberty (the people banning books) has their hands in the "American Birthright" social studies curriculum standard this district has just adopted.