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Democrats started the war over school boards by treating parents as threats

By Zachary Faria
Published November 1, 2023 12:38am ET
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Democrats started the war over school boards by treating parents as threats
Sonja Shaw, president of Chino Valley Unified School District, is applauded at a news conference at the state Capitol on Monday, Aug. 14, 2023, while speaking in opposition to a series of education bills in the Legislature that she says would infringe on parental rights and remove local control in school districts. One of the proposed laws singled out by rally organizers was AB 5, a bill by Rick Chavez Zbur, D-Hollywood, that would require annual LGBTQ cultural competency training for teachers. Shaw's board ejected state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond from a meeting last month when he attempted to speak against a policy that would require Chino Valley officials to notify parents if students come out as transgender. | (Renee C. Byer/The Sacramento Bee/TNS/Newscom)

The fearmongering over Republicans focusing on winning school board victories is a direct result of the utterly bizarre insistence by Democrats that parents should be cut out of the lives of their children at school. That reality can’t be ignored or dismissed.

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