WFB: A group of Wisconsin parents, incensed by their school board’s inaction in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, is on a mission to oust board members.
“When you sign up to be a board member, you take an oath. And when you do nothing, you are complacent with the people who are hurting our children,” Mequon-Thiensville School District parent Amber Schroeder told the Washington Free Beacon. “You are complacent. You’re an accomplice at that point.”
Schroeder is a member of Recall MTSD School Board, a parent group that submitted thousands of signatures to recall four school board members who refused to vote on the district’s coronavirus mitigation strategies in August 2020. Their inaction gave Superintendent Matthew Joynt power to keep schools closed through September.
Parents across the United States organized during the coronavirus pandemic to hold to account school board members who refused to return students to the classroom, even though mounting scientific evidence proved it was safe to do so. A similar story is unfolding in Fairfax County, Va. There, parents collected 5,000 signatures to recall an official who not only kept kids from returning to the classroom but also neglected to take stances on important topics and allegedly ignored constituents. more
Good for them. Hope it works and the replacement actors have at least the fortitude to express themselves, but more so, express those who they represent.
Hope and Change was based on complacency.
The kind of complacency where people just hoped things would somehow change.
We can’t be complacent and hope that school boards have our children’s best interest at heart.
We can’t be complacent and hope that someone else will do the heavy lifting.
We have to do it ourselves!!
Ι αssυmε τhατ τhεγ mεαητ “cοmρlιcιτ,” ηοτ “cοmρlαcεητ.”
Why stop with replacing board members? Replace current public education. Fact is home schooled kids can knock out a day’s worth of public schooling in about an hour and a half per day. The balance is spent in all kinds of crazy having nothing to do with academics and, today, it’s mostly harmful to kids.