Goal--public school privatization. Tactic--take over school board, fire superintendent. [View all]
US Public education is under attack by dark money billionaires who want to control the curriculum and harvest all those delicious tax dollars for themselves. Locally, one incumbent (a pal of Steve Bannon's) and two new Sarasota FL school board members were endorsed by Proud Boys and Moms for Bigotry, and campaigned for by DeSATAN himself, in person. The new members replaced sane, brave, caring board members who endured horrible abuse during COVID over support of masking in schools--now their rational voices are gone, replaced by conservative ideologues.
Within minutes of being sworn in the newly conservative board voted 4-1 to fire the public school supervisor (one lone non-ideologue remains on the board). The motion to terminate the supervisor's contract was made by a conservative member who had graded the Super as "effective" 21 days before moving to fire him.
A fearless local group called "Support Our Schools" has been warning about this use of school kids as political pawns in the GOP quest for profit and thought control for at least a year--that's when a big corporate charter school business tried to make inroads in the county. Now they have organized a rally to support the Supervisor. But the area has become a hotbed of MAGA morons. And with DeSATAN authoritarian one-party controlled state government, it's a constant battle.
Other states and communities need to be aware that those who want the destruction of PUBLIC education are playing a long game, with plenty of money to support their cause. Profit is their ultimate goal, our kids are their pawns in this con, and they are relentless.
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