In the first wide-ranging analysis of school board unrest, ProPublica found nearly 60 incidents that led to arrests or criminal charges. Almost all were in suburban districts, and nearly every participant was white.

In the first wide-ranging analysis of school board unrest, ProPublica found nearly 60 incidents that led to arrests or criminal charges. Almost all were in suburban districts, and nearly every participant was white.

  • TheHighRoad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    I really fucking hate the assholes that do shit like this. I know they’ve always existed, but it seems like every single issue they come up with was resolved decades ago. America is backsliding HARD and I have no intention of going down with it.

    • laylawashere44@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      It’s kind of wild reading about turn of the 20th century progressive activists. Everything that they advocated in 1900 is still considered radical today, 100ish year later. The American south was a hotbed for literal communism back then.

  • Skaryon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    So glad this shit doesn’t exist in my country. It’s mostly just another place were bigots and otherwise unimportant people can go on a power trip, by the looks of it.

  • reddwarf@feddit.nlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Imagine a country where qanon Karen’s are roaming the land, seeking schoolboards and are able and allowed to fuck things up for those schools and their students.
    How are parents that actually have some investment in these schools allowing this to happen? I don’t want to sound ‘tough’ or whatever but in my country you would face some serious issues with parents. Forget school staff or government, you’d have to deal with the parents and it will not be pretty if some qanon karen started wreaking havoc in the school system.

    But then again, our system will not allow parents these roles and power anyway so, problem solved!

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      You can show up to school board meetings and yell at them. The deer in headlights look makes it worth it. One time I got to see one arrested which was fun.

      Plus if you get bored you can always ruin anything they advocate for. Oh they want to ban some book? When it is your turn go ahead and argue for a ban on the Bible.