Q&A Of The Day – Evaluating South Florida’s School Boards – Part 2
Bottom Line: On Thursday I mentioned this in my Top Three Takeaways: After decades of warning about what was and wasn’t happening inside of classrooms due to the creation of the Department of Education in 1980, we have two generations of adults who’ve been indoctrinated, propagandized and taught that there are more than two genders. Pretty much all of the daily cultural absurdities are explained away by that one. The bottom line is that as concerned citizens, regardless of whether we have kids in South Florida’s public schools or not, we have to reclaim and reform public education and it starts right here at home. Under Governor DeSantis we’ve had expanded school choice, the eradication of Common Core and mandatory civics education, that’s great but we also have to do our part at the district level. Our school boards are simply a product of what we’ve voted for, or most commonly in the case of local elections, not voted for. Here’s the good news. There’s a path forward.
There is no more fundamentally important issue in our society today than education. It’s about time we treated it that way. Imagine, for example, Trump rally level enthusiasm for our local school districts. What could be accomplished if that type of energy were applied at the local level to the most fundamentally important issue? The reason there’s a feeling by many of unaccountability by especially the Broward and Palm Beach County School Districts, is due to the status quo winning elections. We have school boards that are far more inclined to advance the agenda of teachers unions than that of parents. Until they start losing elections that won’t change. We need good candidates that are focused solely on the needs of parents and there’s a path forward. Consider that there’s nothing more politically unifying than school choice. This is from my 2019 story, Floridians want more school choice:
- 68% support school choice
- Only 22% oppose school choice
The number jumps to greater than 75% for parents who have kids in school right now.
Support based on political party of choice is as follows:
- Democrats: 69%
- Republicans: 73%
- Independents: 68%
- 69% would prefer their child or children attend a school other than what what’s been assigned to them
Imagine Trump rally level enthusiasm for education at every meeting with good school board candidates who prioritize maximizing school choice for parents. As Bill Barr pointed out last Thursday, the real systemic racism is within our public schools.
We have so much going for us in South Florida, but we have real issues within our public education establishments. It’s time to take back our schools by having accountable and responsible school board members. All of our big picture issues locally and nationally will be addressed if we’re successful in doing this.
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