Increasingly, we’re convinced we’re in a decades-long task of eliminating Liberal influence on the education system in this country. It’s terrifying whenever the current White House tries getting children to sing songs in adoration of Dr. Utopia. Scarier, still, when his political arm, Organizing for America, attempts to co-opt high school students, turning them into his own brown shirt brigades. Nothing like this has ever been done on American soil, and Utopia gets away with it because school systems nationwide are firmly in the hands of Liberals.
But, Liberals are less than 20% of the population. So, why do they control the school system?
It’s because moderates, conservatives, and independents don’t run for election on the school boards. If they did, they could, in time, replace all the Liberal board members, and start taking back the curriculum from these Alinsky-Zinn-Obama radicals.
We’d love to see as many of you out there as possible run for your school boards. We’ll help you in every way that we can. It’s going to take years and years to remove the Liberal influence in the education system, and will take decades before all the damage the politically correct, Liberal indoctrinationists have done can be repaired.
But, we have to start somewhere.
And we think that somewhere is to start getting rational, good, decent people onto the school boards to rein in whatever indoctrination attempts this White House is planning.
How many of you out there are willing to look into running in your home districts?
You don’t have to make a commitment today…just think about something you probably never thought about doing before.
And, if you DID decide to run, just think about the ready-made campaign organization you’d have at your disposal through us.
Think about it.
February 1, 2010 at 7:18 pm
THANK YOU, HILLBUZZ. I couldn’t agree more.
I commented about this in another post. But for those of you joining here – for some context, the White House is recruiting for interns in our high school. Please read this – particularly look at the suggested reading, which includes Rules for Radicals. This White House is asking our high school students to read Rules for Radicals and another book about organizing! AWFUL.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/01/31/obamas-recruiting-students-further-agenda-and-reelection
February 1, 2010 at 8:55 pm
Sorry about this but need some help.
Off topic, but I need to ask a dumb question.
What does it mean if you find a commenter’s screen name set up as a “hot link” and when you click it to follow the link it takes you to some government web site – say the Department of Labor web site – but that said web site does not allow visitors to leave any comments at all, let alone make up commenter/user names?
February 1, 2010 at 9:32 pm
For example, if the screen name was Ma Tuckker and it linked immediately to the Democratic Party Headquarters web site…….
What could that mean?
February 1, 2010 at 9:46 pm
Could it be, this beniah or whatever below? Sometimes when I reply on an unknown (to me site) I catch a troll.
February 1, 2010 at 10:00 pm
Not referring to any person’s post on this blog but on another, opposition blog……
February 1, 2010 at 8:56 pm
I agree – people of good intent have to start running for office at all levels – and the school board level is a good place for new people to start to become actively involved in governing.
February 2, 2010 at 7:48 am
That article is terrifying! I don’t know if it’s come to my area yet, but I am sure going to find out.
February 1, 2010 at 7:38 pm
A better world is possible — a world where people come before profits. That’s socialism. That’s our vision. We are the Communist Party USA.
http://www.cpusa.org/
Obama State of the Union: He got the ball rolling
In some ways last night’s State of the Union address by President Obama was a virtuoso performance. There were stirring moments, memorable turns of phrase, humor, a defense of activist government, and proposals that will be welcomed, and surely help, millions of people in need…
February 1, 2010 at 8:07 pm
…
Troll?
February 1, 2010 at 8:43 pm
Troll? No…
WHITE HOUSE ORGANIZING FOR OBAMERIKA
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/
COMMUNIST PARTY ORGANIZING FOR OBAMERIKA
http://www.cpusa.org/
February 1, 2010 at 8:59 pm
OFA = Obama Fighting Americans
February 1, 2010 at 8:12 pm
Have fun with your vision, dear! Because that’s all it will ever be in America.
February 1, 2010 at 8:44 pm
Socialisam is Obama’s vision, Pelosi’s vision, Reid’s vision, ot mu vision…
WHITE HOUSE ORGANIZING FOR OBAMERIKA
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/
COMMUNIST PARTY ORGANIZING FOR OBAMERIKA
http://www.cpusa.org/
February 1, 2010 at 8:28 pm
Where has communism ever worked?
Enlighten us.
February 1, 2010 at 8:45 pm
Where has communism ever worked?
Ask Obama…
WHITE HOUSE ORGANIZING FOR OBAMERIKA
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/
COMMUNIST PARTY ORGANIZING FOR OBAMERIKA
http://www.cpusa.org/
February 1, 2010 at 9:15 pm
Oh… You were posting what the communist party said.
February 1, 2010 at 8:46 pm
WHITE HOUSE ORGANIZING FOR OBAMERIKA
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/
COMMUNIST PARTY ORGANIZING FOR OBAMERIKA
http://www.cpusa.org/
Obama State of the Union: He got the ball rolling
In some ways last night’s State of the Union address by President Obama was a virtuoso performance. There were stirring moments, memorable turns of phrase, humor, a defense of activist government, and proposals that will be welcomed, and surely help, millions of people in need…
February 1, 2010 at 9:57 pm
you are good at cutting and pasting, typical troll MO
February 1, 2010 at 11:11 pm
deb,
Forgive me for simply cutting and pasting my reply to tollen below…
Obama’s policies are the same as the communist party’s policies.
That is the point I am making by juxtaposing the Obama’s Orgnizing for America website and the Comunist party website.
Understand now?
Benaiah
February 1, 2010 at 7:49 pm
Totally O/T, but I thought everyone and hillbuzz would enjoy this:
http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/video-andrew-breitbart-on-msm-these-decandent-bastds-are-going-down/
February 1, 2010 at 7:50 pm
Forgive what I hope is not an obnoxious comment. It is not meant to be. At all. Meant to share an experience.
I graduated from Stanford a little under 10 years ago. I was a history major, specializing in American history. I hated Stanford – hated the elitism, the self-congratulation, the arrogance of both the students and the professors (discussion seminars were nothing more than exercise in sycophantic one-upmanship, including the profs). So I wasn’t all that engaged in college. In addition to the fact that I was given a reading load I couldn’t handle, I also could barely understand anything I was asked to read. It was all pseudo-intellectual bullsh*t. So I probably read about 20% of what was assigned to me in my major, or even maybe in all of college.
Turns out, I lucked out.
While I was home visiting my parents over this past Thanksgiving, I was perusing all the history books I was meant to read in college. One struck my eye – it was a book about how socialism evolved in Russia. I excitedly picked it up, thinking, this is great, I can read this and have a bounty of talking points to explain to my liberal friends precisely why socialism (and Obama) is BAD.
So I started flipping through this book…Only to discover – it was a flattering account of socialism. WHY was I asked to read this in college?!
And then I started googling the many other books I was also meant to read…Things about the Constitution is a living document, American capitalistic imperialism, one after the other…Anything bad about America and good about socialism – I was asked to read it in college.
A few years ago, I went to business school where I read just about everything I was assigned. True, I was passionate about the subjects. But I often quip that it was fortuitous that I tuned out during my college years and avoided liberal indoctrination, and tuned in at the school where I learned about capitalism.
But really – it is terrifying what is happening in our schools. I feel grateful that my parents raised me to love this country, believe firmly in self-empowerment, individualism, and limited government. And I feel so grateful that I just happened to choose to drink more in college than study and avoid possible indoctrination.
Drinking vs. studying in college is – as Obama likes to say – a false choice. That should not be the choice! The other option is to get these gd progressive scoundrels away from our children, or at least completely countered by the other viewpoint (which I, at least, did not get in college). And make sure that those of us who are parents or might be in the future prepare our kids for the nonsense they will be asked to read in college. And now in high school and grade school.
Thomas Sowell and David Horowitz write a lot about the indoctrination in schools.
Horowitz takes this on in a book called One Party Classroom.
http://www.amazon.com/One-Party-Classroom-Professors-Indoctrinate-Undermine/dp/0307452557/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265070984&sr=8-1
Sowell has also written books about this, and writes articles about choosing the right college.
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/09/23/choosing_the_right_college?comments=true
NYT did a semi-interesting article a couple of weeks ago about why professors are so liberal. The solution – conservatives need to step up to the plate! In policy and in the classroom.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/arts/18liberal.html
February 1, 2010 at 8:55 pm
WHITE HOUSE ORGANIZING FOR OBAMERIKA
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/
COMMUNIST PARTY ORGANIZING FOR OBAMERIKA
http://www.cpusa.org/
February 1, 2010 at 10:06 pm
Give me a break, Benaiah, have you ever lived behind the iron curtain?
Being a former citizen of the last Soviet state, I would never live there again
February 1, 2010 at 11:09 pm
tollen,
Obama’s policies are the same as the communist party’s policies…
That is the point I am making by juxtaposing the Obama’s Orgnizing for America website and the Comunist party website.
Understand now?
Benaiah
February 1, 2010 at 11:22 pm
We get it, but the repetition is a bit much.
February 1, 2010 at 8:12 pm
Been there. Done that. I think this is an commendable idea, but I would strongly urge anyone considering such a move to read the book:
School Corruption: Betrayal of Children and The Public Trust (Paperback – Sep 2005) by Armand A. Fusco.
It will give you some tools you will need to fight corruption.
I would also strongly urge you to find a partner who will volunteer to videotape every school board meeting. If your town has a public access channel, be sure to lock in a time and make sure that you never edit the video. Put titles on at the beginning prior to taping. Let the public determine whether or not they like how their tax dollars are being spent on “education.”
It would also be good to find some trusted individuals with time on their hands who can help you research documents. These trusted individuals may be senior citizens who remember the Great Depression and will look for ways to cut out the fat.
The administrators are sly. With their PHDs (Piled Higher and Deeper?) degrees, they can easily persuade others on the school board that their way is best. They have been trained how to successfully avoid common questions asked by school board members and members of the public.
I considered being a school board member a full time job. I used to go into the classrooms and talk with teachers. I once had two big administrative goons follow me so that they could report back to the Superintendent what I was doing. I was quite the threat, with my four year old in tow.
Be prepared to be continually mocked at the “absurd” questions you might ask. They are not been used to having to be accountable to the public.
Always remember that the public schools belong to us, the taxpayers. In light of these recent revelations, it is even more imperative that parents learn what is going on in their children’s classrooms.
February 1, 2010 at 8:21 pm
Right.
Get on the board and go to the classrooms. There is no reason these public school classrooms shouldn’t be public.
My mother is a teacher and she can attest the one and only job of administrators is to make themselves look good. After the teachers, there is no one in the public schools who give a tinker’s dam about the kids–Hollywood movies about brave principals to the contrary.
We, as people who love our country, love it’s heritage, love it’s traditions have been dangerously ignorant of the pure evil that is the public schools–they aren’t failing, they are performing exactly as designed.
February 1, 2010 at 9:29 pm
My mother was a public school teacher for twelve years and she has a ton of “bad principal” stories. I got sent to private school from kindergarten on up.
February 2, 2010 at 8:05 am
I was both a teacher and an administrator. There are good and bad of each. While I agree that there are admin. who are only there to look good or “move up” to the district level, there are many very dedicated as well. Often, teachers do not understand the demands made of an admin., so they assume they’re doing nothing or doing it poorly. The days of the admin. being an instructional leader are long gone, and many teachers do not understand this yet.
Let’s all be careful not to stereotype.
If you don’t want to run for a school board, another option is to get on a textbook adoption committees. Textbook companies are also run by very liberal people and have been proven to distort many facts, especially historical. Textbook adoption committees have to review several different books and make a recommendation to the board for approval or purchase. This is a good place to fact check the books and make sure that decent books are being put in our childrens’ hands. Although, be aware: depending on the state,the textbook companies already have monopolies set up. For example, you may only get to look at three examples, and they’re all from the same basic companies, all liberal, all factually distorted. It’s still a good way to make your viewpoint known and doesn’t take as much of a time commitment.
February 1, 2010 at 8:15 pm
I could not agree with you more on this subject. It is an opinion I have personally held for several years. Begin with the end in mind. One of the things that you guys could help with is organizing a specific platform of thought that anyone considering a run for local school board would be able to consider using.
My suggestion for one such idea is as follows. “If elected I would ammend the district charter to include the following provision”… “In order to be a member of the school board you MUST have a child in the public school system, of the board you wish to serve”. You are ineligible to run for such office if you do not meet this requirement.
I think that would shudder the majority of opinions, provide a solid “makes sense” approach, and garnish the support of any parent who truely cares about the quality of the education within the district. It is a simple standard that requires a vested interest.
Any down side?
You brilliant boyz put a template platform together. You might be surprised at how effective a useful tool like that would be in getting awesome patriots to consider.
February 1, 2010 at 8:25 pm
Won’t work.
What about someone like me, who has no kids? All of us, regardless of children, have to pay taxes to support the beast.
‘Course, I’d gladly give up my right to run for school board if it meant I never had to pay school taxes.
February 1, 2010 at 10:34 pm
Hey! The schoolboard needs a represenation of everyone in the district. Plus it is your tax money they are spendidng. I have served for 6 years on my local board. There is a man that is a prison guard with no kids. He brings a perspective of what happens to kids that aren’t dealt with when they are in trouble.
Our board is mostly conservatives, but a board should represent the entire community. Business people are desperately needed to keep the administration to a strict budget. I was a PTA president, and volunteer within the district for many years. I bring the parent/student perspective. In Pennsylvania it is an unpaid position, and long hours, but it is worth it when you do positive things for the students.
Get out and start talking to people at local events at your school, church or community. It is a grassroots type of campaign.
February 1, 2010 at 8:34 pm
I understand where you are coming from but there are many good people who might give consideration to running, eventhough they might not have children in public schools. My children do not attend public schools but I pay taxes which makes me a stakeholder. I care deeply for my country and see what a huge problem we face with education in this country. Please don’t rule out good candidates who might run. There are many reasons why my kids do not attend public schools. I want to make a difference in my district / county because if people don’t step up, the situation will only get worse.
February 1, 2010 at 8:34 pm
I must disagree with your suggestion to amend the charter. This presumes that one who does not have a child in the school district is not concerned about education. Sometimes one who does not have a child in the public school actually has a more balanced perspective on what really is important in education.
The parent on the board can actually harm the way things are done because of the emotional attachment to her own child. The argument, “But, it’s for the children,” has done more harm to critical thinking about how tax dollars should be spent to educate a child. Many things are presented as having been done, “for the children.” This is a favorite phrase of administrators and teachers.
What must be kept in mind is that there are often competing interests in public schools. For example, an argument can be made that smaller classrooms are necessary for children to learn best. On the flip side is that smaller classrooms mean less work for teachers. With limited tax dollars and an aging population, it is even more critical that all education dollars really are spent on educating children.
February 1, 2010 at 9:12 pm
I agree with you as far as emotional attachment parents’ have for the kids. I worked with a woman that went to parents’ day at school and all of her son’s teachers were saying that her son was doing great . . . except one. That one told her that her son was having trouble reading and in math my coworker started getting really belligerent and told her that how could he be having problems readingwhen the history teacher told her he was doing great?
To suffice, I asked him once how many times does ten go into 70 and he could not answer. He was in seventh grade at the time. He also could not read at his grade level.
February 2, 2010 at 6:29 am
I am a potential entrepreneur who will need to hire qualified employees from the local pool. If my school system produces poorly-educated graduates, I then have to go outside, and that will affect my bottom-line. Thus, it is in my best interest to see that the local pool has the best education possible and that these graduates can think logically and build on their acquired skills. So, your proposed amendment will need to be modified.
February 1, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Great post and suggestion Boyz. All politics are local…and there is nothing more immediate than your local School Board or your local “commission.”
I have attended quite a few of each. I would highly recommend anyone to see where their tax dollars are dispursed and use decided.
February 1, 2010 at 8:23 pm
Argh! There is so much work to be done, the NEA is recommending reading Saul Alinsky, I hate to think of what is on school reading lists but I intend to find out. http://www.nea.org/tools/17231.htm
I did find this article which might be a good place to start, we’ve got a lot of homework to do to take back our schools.
“A Few Things All Educators Should Know
About the National Education Association
But the NEA Won’t Tell Them
Most public school teachers, whether they are members of the National Education Association or not, are aware that in many respects the NEA is a controversial organization.
Many teachers regard their union as something apart, something in which they have little or no interest. They see union officials and union staff and the activities of their union, whether at the local, state or national level, as something over which they have no influence. They regard union dues as just part of the cost of having a job.
One of the things that makes the NEA so controversial is its use of confrontational tactics advocated by Saul Alinsky and codified in his book “Rules for Radicals.”
Saul Alinsky didn’t invent radicalism any more than Isaac Newton “invented” gravity. What Alinsky did was to study it and put it in a system others could use. He literally “wrote the book” on radicalism.” read on here http://www.psrf.org/issues/alinsky.jsp
February 1, 2010 at 8:29 pm
This is something I’ve been talking about since the AsAMom.org site started. I was talking to a friend of mine (our daughters are friends) and she is a high school teacher. She told me I really should run for the School Board…the lady who runs it is a complete moron and she said it would be easy to get elected…no one else ever runs. I am still planning on going to the monthly Republican Election Committee meetings, but I’m not sure they would be helpful in that regard. They are the ones who choose what Republicans get put up for election. In any case, I’m up for it. Osceola County, FL.
February 1, 2010 at 8:47 pm
In CT, we have minority representation on school boards. So I only had to beat out another Republican candidate in order to get a seat. I could not count on my Republican Town Committee to help me. It’s a funny thing about Town Committees. They are always looking for candidates, but then tell them to “get your people together” to run the campaign. Uh, shouldn’t the Rep. Town Committee BE MY PEOPLE?
For me, getting elected was much easier than expected. Introduce yourself to the local reporter and give her some original ideas that you can expound on. If your League of Women Voters has a debate, be sure to go in with your viewpoint, hopefully a Constitutional perspective. Don’t forget to read the FL State Constitution and be ready with what your state says about education, especially the parental responsibility portion.
February 1, 2010 at 9:04 pm
GOOD POINT!!! I really do need to read up on the FL Constitution! I know a lot about FL history from going to a FL History museum with my daughter’s class. But understanding the gov’t is something I really need to be more “schooled” in (sorry for the pun).
February 1, 2010 at 9:21 pm
You should also take a good long look at the FL state statutes. I easily found them on-line by Googling FL state statutes. Education is at the bottom of the list of Titles. That is where you should focus your attention, even more so than the FL Constitution because the district will be following state statutes.
February 1, 2010 at 9:28 pm
I went to my first Republican women’s group last week (Polk County) and one of the women who was there is running for the school board. She’s got 4 kids just like you, and at least one sounded on the young side. [This group is also supporting Rubio.] I’m not familiar with Osceola (other than knowing where it is) but it sounds to me like you’re catching the vision to get involved. Let me know if I can help you research anything!
February 1, 2010 at 8:48 pm
I remember reading recently, if you have children and you are not running for your local school board, you are part of the problem.
February 1, 2010 at 9:05 pm
Maybe the PTA, but the school board? Not all parents can (or should) be on the school board. Maybe they mean going to school board meetings? I’m part of the problem but I have four of them and one is still a toddler, so my time is limited (I work full time too).
February 1, 2010 at 8:48 pm
I was just on my local school board site.
How do you run? I see they serve for 4 years. Its only a couple nights a month.
Hmmm. I will have to do some research.
February 1, 2010 at 9:06 pm
In CT, members serve for four years. You have to contact your Rep. or Dem. Town Committee and state that you would like to run for the BOE. They have a nominating committee which recommends candidates for various positions. In July, there is a caucus where your name is voted on. If you win there, your name will be placed on the ballot to be voted on in November, unless there are others in your party who also want to run. In that case there would be a primary. This is only a remote possibility. You can campaign as aggressively as you desire.
By the way, it is a lot more than a couple of nights per month. There are a variety of subcommittees that meet every month. Conceivable you will be out at least five nights per month just to attend meetings. And none of this includes the mountains of paperwork you will have to read.
I am not trying to discourage you from running. But, to do the job in a worthy manner, you will need to be able to devote a large amount of time to be a school board member.
February 2, 2010 at 8:20 am
It is a big time commitment, depending on where you are and what’s happening in your area. Yes, you have to commit to meetings, once or twice a month. You should also be prepared to attend a variety of school functions, since every school in your district will invite you to things and expect you to attend. Attendance means you care and are actually concerned about the children you represent, so you have to pick and choose and be equal. You will also be asked to go to some state level school board conference so that you can educate yourself more thoroughly on what a SB member should actually be doing. They oversee the budget and set policy; they do not evaluate teachers or get embroiled in issues that occur at site levels. You will also be contacted by phone and email from many people. Some will just give you an opinion on a certain issue, some will expect you to get involved in some sort of problem going on with their kid or their teacher; you can’t do this, but can advise them of the “chain of command”.
The good school board members I have known in my career have put in a huge time commitment. The bad ones are obviously not seen anywhere but at the meetings, and are judged to have been elected for some reason other than helping the schools they represent.
If you’re really interested in running, contact a couple of SB members in your district and ask them about their time commitment. Then you’ll get a picture of how it will be for you.
February 1, 2010 at 8:49 pm
OT, did you know that Chuck DeVore (gonna give Boxer the boot!) is having a money bomb today?
https://chuckdevore.com/donate/?ref=ChuckDeVore
February 1, 2010 at 8:54 pm
Sorry off topic, but I need to ask a dumb question.
What does it mean if you find a commenter’s screen name set up as a “hot link” and when you click it to follow the link it takes you to some government web site – say the Department of Labor web site – but that said web site does not allow visitors to leave any comments at all, let alone make up commenter/user names?
February 1, 2010 at 9:13 pm
Perhaps the commenter whose screen name is hot linked wants to refer people to the government website…
February 1, 2010 at 10:33 pm
Thanks.
February 1, 2010 at 9:05 pm
Great suggestion! I ran for my school board November 2008. That is when I started following politics and reading great blogs like this one. I have enjoyed the last year fighting the more liberal members of the board and have loved every minute. I love to spend time in the class rooms and more and more I hear teachers complain how the teachers union uses their dues for political purposes.
February 1, 2010 at 10:05 pm
Maybe you could send some SB campaign tips to the Boyz to put into a future blog post…it helps to hear from someone who has been successful at it.
February 1, 2010 at 9:16 pm
Not on topic — I wonder how big a scandal the latest expletives from Rahm Emanuel’s mouth will precipitate. (Actually for a minute I had a flashback to O’s choice words for the Cambridge, Massachusetts police department last summer, and the controversy that resulted.) Possibly quite a large one, as Palin is on the case:
http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=24718773587
February 1, 2010 at 9:22 pm
Great idea! I have been advocating this for several years now when I finally woke up and realized I was swimming in a sea of sharks. Also, if I might add, there are a lot of mother’s here. If you really want to make a difference in a long term significant way, encourage your children to become the teachers. We are the front line. I have administrators come in and out periodically and one evaluation a year. Other than that I can pretty much make my own lesson plans. I of course integrate literature such as “1984″ and “Brave New World” into Photo class. If I can do that you can understand how open it is. Please, lets infiltrate the system with conservative ideology. School boards now and teachers in the making. It is seriously the only long term way to make a major impact. The liberals have been doing this since the 60′s. We have some catching up to do. I will say that students are not blind when it comes to the debt they are inheriting. They understand that at least.
February 1, 2010 at 9:27 pm
Great advice, that is certain. I feel a bit of guilt and regret that I did not do more when my children were young. Now that they have children of their own I want to save the country. There were too many instances when they were in school that I just blew off as ridiculousness and political correctness. I should have been the pain in the ass at the school board in those years. I should have never put up with it.
February 1, 2010 at 9:35 pm
My husband has been telling me this for years! I’ll think about it.
February 1, 2010 at 9:39 pm
If your husband is supporting you in this, you should absolutely run! It’s when the husband is NOT suppportive that you should have cause for concern. Sounds like your husband thinks very highly of your ability to do a great job. Go for it, Maria!
February 1, 2010 at 10:12 pm
I’ve been there, done that, but I am willing again. My neighbors are teachers, lovely people, totally disagree with their politics and Obama bumperstickers.
Next time there is a chance I am also running for city council
February 1, 2010 at 11:19 pm
tollen,
Obama’s policies are synonymous with the Communist Party’s policies.
WHITE HOUSE ORGANIZING FOR OBAMERIKA
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/
COMMUNIST PARTY ORGANIZING FOR OBAMERIKA
http://www.cpusa.org/
Benaiah
February 1, 2010 at 11:34 pm
Thank you, thought you were one of the sarcastics:):)
February 1, 2010 at 10:14 pm
This is what I’ve been thinking for about the past 18 months. Thanks for putting it out there for everyone’s consideration.
February 1, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Great suggestion Boyz…
to all you have been thinking about: GO FOR IT!
to all you can’t, encourage OTHER conservatives you know to GO FOR IT!
good luck
February 1, 2010 at 10:31 pm
OT:
Are You Capable of Decency, Rahm Emanuel?
Today at 5:32pm
The newly-released mind-boggling, record-smashing $3,400,000,000,000 federal budget invites plenty of opportunity to debate the merits of incurring more and more debt that will drown the next generation of Americans. Never has it been possible to spend your way out of debt. So… let the debate begin.
Included in the debate process will be opportunities for our president to deliberate internally the wisdom of this debt explosion, along with other economic, military and social issues facing our country. Our president will discuss these important issues with Democrat leaders and those within his inner circle. I would ask the president to show decency in this process by eliminating one member of that inner circle, Mr. Rahm Emanuel, and not allow Rahm’s continued indecent tactics to cloud efforts. Yes, Rahm is known for his caustic, crude references about those with whom he disagrees, but his recent tirade against participants in a strategy session was such a strong slap in many American faces that our president is doing himself a disservice by seeming to condone Rahm’s recent sick and offensive tactic.
The Obama Administration’s Chief of Staff scolded participants, calling them, “F—ing retarded,” according to several participants, as reported in the Wall Street Journal.
Just as we’d be appalled if any public figure of Rahm’s stature ever used the “N-word” or other such inappropriate language, Rahm’s slur on all God’s children with cognitive and developmental disabilities – and the people who love them – is unacceptable, and it’s heartbreaking.
A patriot in North Andover, Massachusetts, notified me of Rahm’s “retarded” slam. I join this gentleman, who is the father of a beautiful child born with Down Syndrome, in asking why the Special Olympics, National Down Syndrome Society and other groups condemning Rahm’s degrading scolding have been completely ignored by the White House. No comment from his boss, the president?
As my friend in North Andover says, “This isn’t about politics; it’s about decency. I am not speaking as a political figure but as a parent and as an everyday American wanting my child to grow up in a country free from mindless prejudice and discrimination, free from gratuitous insults of people who are ostensibly smart enough to know better… Have you no sense of decency, sir?”
Mr. President, you can do better, and our country deserves better.
- Sarah Palin
February 1, 2010 at 11:24 pm
Go Sarah, go
February 1, 2010 at 11:35 pm
Boyz, I think this is one of the most important ‘challenges’ you’ve put out there EVER.
Superb idea!!!
And it’s heartening to see so many Buzzers eager to get involved, as well as the wonderful suggestions from people like CTmom.
It’s a big ship to turn around, but as the Boyz say, we have to start SOMEWHERE.
February 1, 2010 at 11:38 pm
We’re serious too.
If any of you run for school board, we’ll do everything we can to help you. We will make you an Action Item. Hell, if you’re close enough, we’ll airlift in, in person, to campaign for you on the ground.
Sarah Palin ran for the PTA board. Before she became mayor of her town. It all starts somewhere.
If any of you run for something, why wouldn’t we use this platform to help you? Just think: Sarah didn’t have something like this when she ran. You’d get instantaneous national support for a school board race.
We hope that tempts some of you to run.
Because the children, and America needs you.
Think on it.
February 1, 2010 at 11:50 pm
Hmm, funny. I’ve seriously considered running for our school board.
I just happened onto this site and consider this a sign perhaps.
February 2, 2010 at 12:25 am
I’m torn on this one. On the one hand, I’m currently in school with aspirations of being a US History teacher precisely because our school system does such a horrible job in this area. I was lucky enough to have one teacher who truly opened my eyes to thinking and researching for myself and now that he’s retired, I feel his shoes need to be filled.
However, the local School Board is so against this; they hated the school I went to and did everything to underfund it (yet we consistently pulled some of the top scores in the state!). That sort of thing needs to stop.
I’d like to help out where I can be of most use and I’m not entirely sure which is. Running for school board would entirely be an option, but would I be able to help more youth think for themselves as a teacher?
Still, the more people of sense we can get in at any level, the better off we are!
February 2, 2010 at 12:28 am
Amy: send us the intel you have on the trolls attacking you. HillBuzz@gmail.com
If we all combine what we can gather on these people, we can expose them, sue them for libel in cases where that applies, and in the discovery process of those suits we bet it will be revealed whom at the DNC is directing all of this.
February 2, 2010 at 12:34 am
Susan,
That’s a decision for you to make.
We’d like to see you on a school board. Then you’d have the power to see to it that more teachers in your mold are hired and employed teaching those kids.
So, along that line of thought, you’d have the power to impact all classrooms in your district, and not just the one you’d physically be in.
If you run, tell us how we can help you.
We’re serious.
February 2, 2010 at 7:05 am
Anyone seriously considering running for the school board (or any other position) should also be familiar with Robert’s Rules of Order. So many shenanigans occur when those who know RRO trip up those who don’t know RRO.
There is a book that teaches you how to avoid the traps. It is:
The Guerrilla Guide to Robert’s Rules by Nancy Sylvester (Paperback – Dec. 5, 2006)
If you are going to lead, you must know the rules. My experience has been that superintendents (usually in cahoots with school board presidents) must be trained in RRO because they always seem to find a way to manipulate motions to their advantage.
February 2, 2010 at 9:04 am
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February 2, 2010 at 10:29 am
Hillbuzz, you got a liberal education? In Ohio? On what planet do the liberals control education?
Except for universities, the education in this country is as right wing as it gets. I suppose the madrassas might be more right wing. . . . but that’s about it.
And why are universities liberal? Because smart people are liberal. . .
February 2, 2010 at 11:21 am
Smart people are conservative too. They just tend to be out in industry producing and doing, rather than in academia thinking. The only place where liberals have the monopoly on “smarts” is in their own minds.
February 2, 2010 at 11:42 am
You are joking, right? My son had a teacher(actually 2) last year who went to the convention here in Denver. The teacher who cried when Obama was inaugerated(sp)… Who didn’t have a coherent thought in his head when we had back to school night(it was the week of the Dem convention), who had an O sticker on his bulletin board…
Teachers are unions, unions are democrats… Get a clue.
February 2, 2010 at 11:43 am
Smart people are liberal??? ROFLOL.. That is the joke of the century.. One thing I do, they have NO COMMON SENSE…
February 2, 2010 at 11:40 am
We had a school board election here in December and with our grass roots organizations(changeforchange, 9-12 project, etc.) we elected 4 new conservative board members.. YEAH
February 2, 2010 at 11:45 am
Also important, is to get behind a conservative secretary of state, that is Soros project, get radical progressives in as SOS.. So they can rule on close elections, that is what happened in Minn.
February 2, 2010 at 12:17 pm
Just last night my local Smart Girl Politics group welcomed a guest who is fed up and running for the school board. She and her husband are both practicing physicians – so it is a really big sacrifice for her to do this. If she can do it, we can do it. She said she was shocked and PLEASED at the support she has already gotten (1 week in) from people she has never met. That is encouraging!
February 2, 2010 at 3:17 pm
ACTION ALERT:
Oppose Obama’s Race to the Top Education Program
The Race to the Top (RTTT) is a competitive grant program that pushes Obama’s comprehensive education reform package and its dictates onto school districts that volunteer to be grant recipients. For many school districts that have already suffered financial cutbacks, the temptation to sign up and forego local oversight in exchange for a subsidy and mandates is great indeed.
President Obama is set to ask Congress for an additional $1.35 billion to expand the program, with one senior official saying, “you could envision this going on until we felt like we’ve made significant progress across the country.”
The Race to the Top is, in reality, a program that would centralize education further than it already is, taking control away from local elected school boards and the state, placing it squarely under the dictates of the federal government via a national curricula, standardized testing, longer school days, a closer partnering with community-based organizations for expanded influence, expanded database systems, and added emphasis on students’ emotional and social development along with their personal health care.
Meaningful reform will happen only after we abandon the assembly line, one-size-fits-none pedagogy and return to the true basics of education controlled by elected school boards with parental input at the local level.
Contact your representative and senators in Congress today and insist that they refrain from further funding RTTT. Also contact your state legislators and your state governor, letting them know that withdrawal from federal money and control is the only solution to retaining any amount of local determination in educational matters. Then you can engage your local school board members in a discussion to help educate them on the issue, alerting them to the dangers of the unbreakable chains that come with federal money.
Thank you,
Your friends at the John Birch Society
February 2, 2010 at 10:34 pm
The reason obama wants 1.35 billion more is because the Gov. of Texas has said he wouldn’t sign on for a federal takeover of education and Obama was saying it wasn’t fair that all Texas schools should have to suffer simply because the Gov. wouldn’t participate. Now the race is open to individual districts even if their state is not on board. 4o states have signed on. The process is moving so fast, by the time people wake up, it is going to be too late!
February 2, 2010 at 10:29 pm
I’m a Conservative elementary teacher in one of the largest school districts in MO. I have been trying to get anyone in the St. Louis area to speak out against Rt3. This is socialized education. On page 9 of the executive summary it states “equitable distribution of effective teachers to low achieving/high povert schools within their own district.” Teachers in my building have worked our butts off since NCLB to keep up with AYP and now 99% of Missouri school districts have signed on for a chunk of the money. Gov. Nixon has already added $750 million into our education budget even though the money hasn’t even been awarded. Our district as well as others are blindly following the “free” money and no one will discuss this. I have rounded up a group of very vocal parents informing them of the entire RT3 program and we have decided that since our district and school board has neglected to ask anyone for input on this, we will start picking off school board members one by one starting with our April 6th election. Two seats are up for grabs and we are attempting to set up a forum for questions and are willing to campaign all in for those who will stand up for this. Missouri districts are selling their souls to the devil.. I can’t even get the teachers to listen. The funny thing is they all suffered from obama euphoria on inauguration day and now according to race to the top could be out of a job after two years when arne duncan takes away their tenure!
February 14, 2010 at 10:58 am
http://libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com/2009/02/australia-arson-suspect-arrested-muslim.html
April 3, 2010 at 8:59 am
I am thinking of running for the school board in Manatee County. The seat open is held by a Democrat and here is the breakdown in our district. 13,238 dems, 21,078 reps, 7,407 NPA, 3,032 other, for a total of 44,755 registered voters. Last election, Barbara Harvey won with 63% (24,775 votes) to 37% (14,357 votes) for a turnout of 39,132 (87%). I think I have a great chance running on a conservative platform. My only thought for now, is that I back merit pay for teachers, a hot topic in Florida, and I need to prepare for the backlash from the Teacher’s Union to bash me. What are your thoughts?