OPINION:
San Francisco voters ousted three school board members and sent them packing, and did so with a wide enough margin to send a strong message to other power-grabbing bureaucrats around the nation.
Fairfax County, Virginia — are you listening?
Parents are sick and tired of school officials who think they know best how to raise kids.
More than 70 percent of the voters in San Francisco’s recall election supported the booting of the three board members.
Goodbye, Alison Collins. So long, Gabriela Lopez. See ya later, Faauuga Moliga. And listen up, you other four on the board: Listen to parents, or lose your seats, too — such is the strong message.
“It’s the people rising up in revolt in San Francisco and saying it’s unacceptable to abandon your responsibility to educate our children” said one parent, Siva Raj, in The New York Times.
The revolts are happening across the nation. And for various reasons; in San Francisco, it was the ridiculousness of board members focusing on the renaming of buildings, while all along true teaching had come to a crashing halt.
On the East Coast, it’s about the porn.
“Fairfax [Virginia] parents file recall petition against second school board member,” The Washington Post wrote in late December.
Why?
Parents in Northern Virginia’s wealthy enclaves are tired of school pinheads feeding soft porn — and not-so-soft porn — to their young children via library titles like, “Lawn Boy” and “Gender Queer: A Memoir,” that includes sexual descriptions and images of, holy cow, sex between a man and a boy. Anywhere else and that’d be called pedophilia.
But in Fairfax County, the school board deemed it educational.
“Loudoun County School Board meeting brought to a halt by families opposing the mask mandate,” WUSA Channel 9 reported just a few days ago, about another fight brewing in another Virginia school that is seeing parents and children rising up against an overreaching board that doesn’t want to abide by Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order giving parents the power to decide about face masks for their kids.
It’s everywhere.
The seeds of rebellion are growing everywhere.
From Canada to California to spots on the East Coast, parents are taking back their power to parent from politicians.
It’s about time.
The coronavirus, if anything, has served a solid purpose of opening parents’ eyes to the pitfalls, even evils, of the public school system.
Republicans have been warning for years.
Now independents and Democrats are seeing the light — rather, seeing the darkness. And the message to the public servant class couldn’t be clearer: Keep your hands off my kids. Parents are taking back their authority and reminding school officials who’s the real boss.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Socialists Don’t Sleep: Christians Must Rise Or America Will Fall,” is available by clicking HERE.
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