And who are you to tell me
what I can and cannot do?
Never accept the school board
meetings used to be boring.
Throwing it down my throat and
everybody else. I am very ******
they were the place to discuss buying
software or installing water fountains,
monsters. You're all monsters.
Not anymore. I cannot believe
you can sit up here with a smug
smile on both of your faces.
Why it's happening is more
complex than many think
leftists are sending out propagandized
students into the world as angry.
Ignorant Stormtroopers ready to
do their radical bidding.
I'll tell you right now, our kids
are watching what's going on. Robert
Seward is no stranger to
school board meetings.
He spent nearly 30 years on Midstates
board and used to lead the state
group overseeing all Texas school
boards. What you're seeing is
that intensity increase more
than I've ever seen it increase
some members of the public will look
to the school board as the customer
complaint department. That doesn't work.
It feel gore with the Texas
Association of School Boards,
trains new board members,
but lately many have won it out.
That's something I probably hear
on an average of once a week.
This is not what I signed up for,
right? They didn't sign up to
be yelled at, screamed at,
he says hostile meetings,
mostly in the suburbs.
Stop touching your math
or evidence. The issue isn't local
policies, it's national politics.
All of this kind of generated
the parent interest to come
out and say, wait a minute,
this district belongs to me.
I'm a resident here.
I pay taxes here and here is how I
want my values to be displayed. You
know, Jonathan Butcher has served on
several school boards and is now a
fellow at the Heritage Foundation,
a national conservative think tank
and one of many groups providing
parents resources on how to be
involved in board meetings.
When do we want it? Yeah,
it is a moment where people are upset
about what's happening in schools,
but it's also a great opportunity. It's
a great opportunity for us to
hear what parents have to say,
but in the last few months we found
it's not always parents inside the
district that have something to say. CRT
is a poison. It's a poison to the mind.
Blanca Martinez.
Indidual Mason spoke at a Fort
Worth ISD board meeting in June.
They were at a Frisco ISD
meeting a week earlier.
This is not even a vaccination.
This is an experimental. Whatever
there is killing our children dearly,
and in September a jewel used
a different name but spoke
this time at Arlington ISD.
This is about control.
COVID policy pushed the
tension to new levels.
These disposable
masks are all made in China,
is child abuse and I will never
allow my child to wear a mask,
but it started years ago with debates
over critical race theory or CRT.
I've seen critical racist theory
enter the school. You hear some
of the same language and phrasing
being used, so there's this way that
communities are being coached to respond.
Doctor Aaron Atwood researches and
teaches about education leadership at TCU.
Both she and Seward say CRT,
a university level legal subject,
is not taught in K through 12
schools and Texas lawmakers
passed a bill they say bans
it. We've never taught it
in Texas and it's politics.
People trying to take catch phrase
and make it something that it's not.
The rational response from the other side is,
well, we're not teaching.
That's a very simple message that doesn't,
you know, catch fire so it's how
do you sort of build coalition
around the the other side.
But coalitions of parents are
now flooding board meetings,
pushing to ban everything from
classroom lessons to library books.
Politicians are now joining
and encouraging the fight
is. It's not just math and reading,
right? And we're talking about
how history should be taught.
We're talking about what should
be contained in social studies
in South Lake. A pack has raised
hundreds of thousands of dollars,
and its candidates have overwhelmingly won.
The last three Carroll ISD seats.
It says its mission is to protect
our traditional way of life,
which is currently under
attack by extremists.
We will work every seat
on this board until each one holds
a strong conservative. When I
hear the word values to me,
that's code word for partisanship.
School boards need to be comprised
of individuals that value
students value their community,
and value that collective moving forward.
Not a partisan agenda.
Moving forward,
these kids are not titled Republican,
Independent or Democrat. They are kids
making kids students.
The focus is one thing everyone
agrees is the way out.
But in this environment,
can that even happen in Fort Worth?
I'm William joy.