Looking at election results this month, did you feel a little bit like I told you so?

Well, I don't think it's, I don't think I'm the only historian who tries really hard not to say I told you so out loud.

Adam Lots is a historian of the U.S. educational system.

Like, you know, every other historian, I try not to break out in sweat marks when I hear someone say the word unprecedented.

You're like it's all precedented.

Well, pretty much.

For Adam, what was especially precedented on election day was the way conservative educational ideas,

which are really animated Republican politics over the last couple of years,

seemed to lose at the ballot box.

Several political groups endorse various candidates in the race,

but now the board will be held by a progressive majority.

You may have noticed this in one election after another,

candidates who ran for school board on a platform of parental rights,

tanked.

These were candidates in Pennsylvania, in Iowa.

These were candidates who were endorsed by the notorious Mama Bears at

Moms for Liberty. The group did successfully push for book bands, school

vouchers, barring, teaching about LGBTQ plus topics topics but performed poorly on election night.

And while this seemed like a real neck wrench to me, it made perfect sense to Adam.

He spent the last year or two writing article after article with headlines like

Moms for Liberty is riding high it should beware what comes next and 2022 saw

conservative gains on education issues, but they may be short-lived.

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