A Student Ran For School Board … and Won
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🗓️ 21 September 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Public schools have become hotly debated—what’s on the curriculum and what isn’t; which books are allowed and which aren’t. But one voice frequently missing from these debates is that of the people most affected: students.
One high school senior in Idaho decided to speak up by running for school board, and he won by unseating an incumbent who had been endorsed by right-wing extremists.
Guest: Shiva Rajbandari, senior at Boise High School and recently elected member to the Boise School District Board of Trustees
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| 0:00.0 | Sam Mendes presents Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, an audible original drama. |
| 0:05.6 | The young gentleman's name would be... |
| 0:08.3 | Oliver. Oliver Twist. |
| 0:10.7 | ...with Brian Cox as Fagan. |
| 0:12.9 | What have you seen? Street boy. |
| 0:14.9 | Nicola Cochlan as Nancy and Daniel Caluia as Bill Sykes. |
| 0:19.3 | Oh, look at me like a hound of my noise! |
| 0:21.3 | I love you, baby! |
| 0:22.3 | ...with original music by Dan Gillespie Cells. |
| 0:25.7 | Subscription required, see audible.co.uk for terms. |
| 0:36.7 | How many school board meetings have you watched over the last couple of years? |
| 0:41.2 | School board meetings where parents yell about COVID? |
| 0:45.0 | Time! Take these masks off of my child! |
| 0:48.8 | Yellow-about-critical race theory. You created a curriculum of Black Panther |
| 0:55.6 | indoctrination. |
| 0:57.0 | Man, you use tax payers' dollars. |
| 1:00.1 | School board meetings where parents try to remove library books. |
| 1:03.7 | Of the schools have vivid pornography in it and these cops will do anything about it. |
| 1:10.2 | You're demoralizing them by teaching them communist values. This is still America, man. |
| 1:15.4 | I have no problem having a peaceful discussion. This is not a peaceful discussion. |
| 1:20.1 | No, that's your opinion. See here we go again. |
| 1:22.4 | Now, imagine watching those same school board meetings as a teenager. |
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