Winning School Boards Is Not Enough

Government overreaction to COVID

In 2020, there was hope that all of this would change.

Government overreaction to COVID shut down schools and forced children into online learning. Parents witnessed government education’s day-to-day indoctrination first-hand.

In 2021, a parent revolution broke out across the country.

Parents crowded school board meetings, demanding an end to DEI, LGBT, and CRT programs. Some protests scared the school board members into quitting their jobs. Parents then took over the school boards, hoping to right the wrongs in their local school districts.

But the long-term reforms to public education still haven’t materialized.

A new school board conservative majority can promise reform. Within three to six months, one or even two of those campaign conservatives begin deviating from those promises, falling into the status quo that ruins public education.

What happens if parents don’t elect a conservative majority on a school board? Oftentimes, the good members are only outvoted but get demoralized. Parents stop attending school board meetings, frustrated that they are not achieving the reforms they hoped for. Frustrated in turn by the lack of support from the community, those school board members, elected to make a difference, elect to resign early and retreat to their everyday lives.

Perhaps a conservative school board majority not only takes charge, but also implements many of the reforms promised during the election season. What do the parents do about all the left-wing activists who target the school board members and their families? Keep in mind that a school board can implement policies at a district level, but school staff, from the superintendent down to the classroom teacher, has to enact and enforce those policies. What if the teachers don’t comply with the new directives like “No more pride flags in the classroom”?

Then California declared war

Conservative school board majorities in Southern California (Chino Valley and Temecula Valley School Districts) enacted a number of pro-children, pro-parent policies to protect the students and enhance the school curriculum. They even ensured that teachers would comply.

Then the state declared war. Governor Newsom fined one district $1 million for removing books from the approved sex-ed curriculum. When both districts enacted a parental notification policy, the state legislature overrode their local authority with a law banning such policies!

Parents are finding out the hard way that they can elect the right people, but how long will those new school board trustees vote the right way? How long will they sustain their efforts to reform the schools before caving under pressure?

How do they stand up to larger forces forcing their hand on key issues? And what guarantees do parents have that their children will learn, free of indoctrination or exploitation, when the corrupt staff—teachers, librarians, administrators—are still running amok in the school districts?

The point of outlining these ups and downs in the conflict of parents versus school boards is that the silver bullet for solving the problems in public education is not electing better people. Left-wing activists, government interests, and teachers’ unions remain the fifth column of communist moral corruption in our schools, impeding these efforts.

The interminable bureaucracy of administrators, civil servants, support staff, para-educators, and other employees is committed to the status quo. Steeped in the morass of LGBT-DEI-CRT madness, they resist all opposition to this agenda.

After years of higher education, they have embraced the lie that they know better than the parents, and they are fanatically committed to this progressive caucus, the well-being of children and rights of parents be damned. Most daunting of all, the larger apparatus of government, whether the state government or the national interest groups, blocks reforms in public education.

School board members are not just outnumbered, but they are outflanked

School board members are not just outnumbered, but they are outflanked with a lack of training and resources to take on the regressive leftist mire that is overwhelming public education.

Parents have the numbers, but they don’t have the activist awareness or organization to fight back. Parents need to form a MassResistance army of their own, repeatedly pushing back on all the interests within and outside of their local school districts. Where most pro-family groups have tinkered around the edges for change, MassResistance trains and commits parents to think bigger, demand more, and achieve real, lasting change in the schools.

Decades ago, parents would have marched on school districts, with torches and pitchforks, if they discovered that a teacher or an administrator was transitioning a child into the opposite sex, or teaching their kids about anal and oral sex, or indoctrinating them with anti-American hatred.

That kind of outrage must be resurrected.

Instead of relying on elections, parents should organize and demand:

• Termination of all employees committed to pushing sexual perversion on children
• Access to all education materials, including the right to obtain and review them at home.
• Restoration of full parental involvement as volunteers within the schools, to monitor their children’s learning.

Parents must organize for education reforms, a complete removal of moral corruption and intellectual stagnation

Parents must insist on these demands at every opportunity and organize for the long haul. Parents should not settle for new policies, but require school boards to defy unjust state laws and codes that harm children and undermine education.

School board members should then unite with other pro-family conservatives across their respective state and ignore heinous laws that require school districts to keep secrets from parents, allow males in female sports and spaces, or permit the prevalence of pornography and LGBT perversion in classrooms and libraries.

And winning school board elections is not enough.

Parents must organize for education reforms, a complete removal of moral corruption and intellectual stagnation. When enough parents raise hell and consistently push for better results, school districts will know that they resist.

MassResistance can help them achieve these outcomes.