Meet The Parents Taking Over School Boards

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🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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For decades, parents have been passionate about what their children learn in school. In 1970s West Virginia they protested over diverse textbooks, in 2022 it’s the handling of the pandemic and issues of gender and race. In this episode, Audie talks to two parent activists turned elected school board officials about what motivated them to run for office and the changes they hope to make while in power. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, before we start, a little bit of personal history.
0:04.6	My mother was an elected school board member.
0:07.8	And in my small hometown outside of Boston, and this was back in the mid-90s, that meant
0:12.2	she spent long nights at meetings in salary fights with teachers' unions or with parents, angry
0:19.3	over a lot of things.
0:21.8	Fast forward to today, and I have a kindergartner, and I can't get these images out of my
0:26.4	head of parents raging at school board members last year.
0:32.8	Thank you.
0:33.7	We failed.
0:34.5	We have no one.
0:35.8	Your time is up.
0:37.0	My time is never up because I am a parent. Your time is up. Your time is up. My time is never off because I am a parent.
0:44.3	This wave of parent activists were upset about how schools handled the pandemic,
0:50.0	handled teaching gender identity, handled issues of race.
0:54.7	Diversity is a code word for anti-white.
0:59.3	Since when did the public school system take it upon itself to become the moral authority
1:03.3	from which our children learn their values?
1:07.1	After so much deception, radical politics, and eruptions of violence, we are pulling our son today from this school district.
1:14.7	Who will be taking responsibility?
1:18.5	But the thing is, it wasn't some pandemic-induced moment.
1:22.6	It's the latest chapter in a long-running movement.
1:25.9	And the historians who study this stuff say school battles
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