"Anti-CRT" school board candidates are winning

[Calista241]

Source: Axios

A new PAC focused on electing conservative candidates to public school boards — by raising fears about how racism is taught — won three-fourths of its 58 races across seven states on Tuesday.

Why it matters: Those wins for the 1776 Project PAC, and Glenn Youngkin's gubernatorial victory in Virginia, underscore the political potency of culture wars and COVID-related issues in schools this year — and how GOP candidates are seeking to ride the trend to new majorities.

Founder Ryan Girdusky told Axios: "My PAC is campaigning on behalf of everyday moms and dads who want to have better access to their children's education."

But, but, but: School officials are concerned there's been intense hype and misinformation around the U.S. about what's actually being taught in most schools.

They also worry politicization of school boards is sometimes translating to violence against teachers, and poorly informed decision-making.

By the numbers: Thirteen Pennsylvania school board candidates backed by the group won their races, along with 11 in Colorado, nine in Kansas, four in New Jersey, three in Virginia and two each in Ohio and Minnesota.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/anti-crt-school-board-candidates-are-winning-6dea8064-0526-469e-96fc-08d68dee31fe.html

[Lovie777]

1. YAY . . ..

[turbinetree]

2. Maybe its time to run people that believe in history.....

and school officials are worried .....here a reality check, these people don't give a shit about history, unless its there fucking version of history...and this hand wringing will not solve the racists problem with these racists ..... so John Roberts money is Free Speech ruling is now being placed in school election...fucking Federalist Society.......and that knocking down of the Civil Rights voting Act.....really helped didn't John Roberts ......another racist's ruling, how do you teach that in school John.........

[ck4829]

3. ... And that means "Anti-CRT" school board candidates who win are now *responsible* for what happens

in their school districts.

Any scandal, any misallocation of funds, any flub, any confrontation, any large-scale problem that happens in a school district where "Anti-CRT" people won is now an "Anti-CRT" problem. It can be placed in their laps and hung around their necks, not "oh well, it happens", not liberals, not George Soros, etc.

We'll do well to remember that.

[lapfog_1]

4. We need to defuse the CRT bullshit

and NOT by either trying to explain it... or by saying "it's not being taught in K-12".

Because we can't explain it to white suburban moms... Fox and the right have demonized it to a point where it is toxic.

So, for now, we simply need to state "We will ban the teaching of CRT in K-12". But we will teach history. All of it. The good and the bad.

[Hangingon]

8. That argument is going to last 5 minutes

Are you going to agree not to use CRT to train teachers? No one wants to stop teaching history. Slavery, the Holocaust, and civil rights happened. We learn from it. What is objected to is demonizing white children. It is not necessary to teach history.

[RobinA]

12. Yeah, This

People aren't objecting to actual CRT, they are objecting to what they think it is. We need to find out what it means to them, and I think you are largely correct here, and deal with their beliefs, not how they are labelling their beliefs. Saying that CRT is not being taught in their school is not going to solve the problem.

[rkleinberger]

29. Well, then teach white children not to demonize POC. Seems a bit of privileged assessment.

[Hangingon]

30. Punishing white kids

That’s what I thought CRT is all about. Good to have all that white privilege!

[FBaggins]

9. Essentially saying "we agree to ban the teaching of Quantum Mechanics"

Doesn't much matter that it's a graduate course in Physics and was never taught here anyway... but if you want to ban it - knock yourself out.

[lapfog_1]

10. not what I said

it needs to be re-branded.

We say that we encourage the teaching of history, all of it.

and quit using the term CRT.

If we want to win elections... of course if you like losing elections, lets continue to try to explain CRT.

[HighFired49]

14. May not work

I don't believe that you'll be able to get the Repugs to stop using the term "CRT". It's too successful a wedge, even if it has no relevance to the curriculum being taught in public schools. Maybe a better approach would be to have the Dems. start saying that they don't want CRT taught in public schools. Wouldn't hurt a thing since it isn't there anyway, and would neutralize the crap coming from the Repugs.

[Hangingon]

24. In truth, VA seems to have used CRT in teacher training.

I think we have to disavow the whole thing.

[Hangingon]

23. absolutely not.

You are way over simplifying. The knee jerk counter is always stuff like this. There is enough on line for anyone who is interested to find what it is. It divides and blames. We taught truthful history before CRT. I learned about the evils of slavery and I was taught in a Texas school70 years ago.

[Igel]

32. No longer just a grad course in physics.

Undergrad.

And I know that we've taught bits and pieces of some of the principles in HS chemistry and physics.

Quantum numbers, permitted electron transitions, tunneling and uncertainty.

And that's in 10th grade pre-AP and some of it even in on-level chemistry. I also teach astronomy, and next week I get to explain how a strong magnetic field can split certain spectral emission lines. We discussed quantum degeneracy early this week.

But we don't teach the full-blown theoretical approach. It's simplified, and guides a lot of what's taught and how it's taught. It's an integral part, once past stoich and gas laws, but nowhere near "real" quantum.

Notice: I can say "we teach it" and I can just as well say "we don't teach it." But I change the referent, the meaning, of "it" in those two sentences. 'Cept that you can't hear the difference.

[FBaggins]

33. Maybe high level undergrad, but not high school

You can talk about the concepts in high school (just like you could discuss CRT in theory)... but you need at least Calc II and post-calc linear algebra to actually interact with QM.

[AllaN01Bear]

5. truth? they cant handle the truth.

so many injustices buried its pitifull

[JudyM]

6. All in all it's just another brick in the wall.

They are strategically adept, gaining far too much ground.

[yaesu]

7. too many stupid people falling for the fear campaign with the help of MSM & foreign PAC money. nt

[NCjack]

11. Instead of CRT, I would like that material presented in the

broad context of the History of All Races in America. And don't laugh, but the text books for the course should be accompanied with comic book versions of the books. That would permit many of the reading challenged parents to get their education of what is being taught.

[turbinetree]

13. 1776 Project Pac.....coming from a state that did the following, where they are based....

https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/state-history-textbook-erases-the-stories-black-hispanic-texans/

and then from Open Secrets....please note...2012 was there last report...where is the rest of the years?

https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/1776-pac/C00463232/summary/2012

Again the federalist society courts....John Roberts

[eppur_se_muova]

15. I don't understand why Republicans are opposed to Christian Race Theory (CRT).

Are they turning anti-religious ??

[TeamProg]

16. The Dumbimg Down of America is now at record pace.. n/t

[Polybius]

17. To me, the only CRT that's real is this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode-ray_tube

[LiberatedUSA]

21. And needed for Zapper gun games. N/t

[Polybius]

22. Absolutely

Modern TV's and light gun technology don't mix. I have several CRT's around the house.

[BlueIdaho]

18. Sorry, but our messaging sucks...

Critical Race Theory and Defund the Police are two of the worst messages to hang out hopes on. They, and others like them, are easily misunderstood and demonized by the right. Look at how the GQP messages. They can have the most loathsome ends but wrap it up in glowing patriotic terms.

I’m not saying we need to out and out lie like republicans but we need to remember America is functioning with a 7th grade level of literacy.

[Canoe52]

19. Not in our county which is usually 50-50 left-right. anti CRT people both lost 30-70.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

20. 58 elected in 7 states? Of how many board members in each State, total.. Wouldn't panic.

School boards will always have their fractional tally of racists and the generally cray.

[Jimbo S]

25. Four lost in Wisconsin Tuesday

My post here

[link:https://www.democraticunderground.com/108427422]

[madville]

26. The Republican Midterm strategy is taking shape before our eyes

- Anti-CRT (framing it as teaching white kids they are inherently racist)
- $450k payments to illegal immigrants
- The Democrats out of control spending is causing high inflation and soaring fuel and grocery prices

If they are allowed to hammer just those three points alone without nipping it in the bud early, we lose a big majority of independent voters and possibly 20+ seats in the House and likely a couple in the Senate.

Whoever in the DOJ that was negotiating with the ACLU for “up to” $450k payments per person to families separated at the border is probably hiding in a broom closet at the moment since the President wasn’t aware of it and flat out said it’s not going to happen.

[cinematicdiversions]

28. I agree with you

The problem is that their wedge issues are just enough reality based to stick.

We need to stop being so pinheaded and realise that teaching middle schoolers with a wheel of oppression and that they have done sort of original sin based on skin color is wrong. We need to shout this out loud

We need to state that we will not accept a rising murder rate and general lawlessness (shoplifting... copper theft etc) and if the police cannot bring it under control we will find some police that want to do the job.

We need to spend money building infrastructure and helping the poor. And proudly state that is where the money is going. Not for the hundredth art instalation or museum attached to a new tunnel project.

We need to find a way to build things cheaper than France. (See high speed rail)

[IronLionZion]

27. We can't erase history by removing statues

but we can always make up stuff to be against.

I'm against conservatives eating puppies and kittens.

[rownesheck]

31. Our problem is,

how do you you explain to stupid, fucking racist, bigoted fuckwads that they are stupid, fucking racist, bigoted fuckwads? But in a nice way.

[cntrfthrs]

34. How pitiful it must be..

.. to be so ashamed of your history you don't want it taught to your children...