The Buncombe County Board of Education has demonstrated its lack of regard for the opinions of parents, grandparents, and taxpayers on many occasions. You need not observe more than one or two of their public meetings to reach this conclusion for yourself. Sure, some board members may invite you to reach out to them to discuss concerns and ideas individually. Still, our experience with one of those board members (Amy Churchill – Roberson District) resulted in little more than elevated blood pressure readings. She was much less interested in listening than preaching. She appeared to find it challenging to understand how her constituents could hold such incorrect viewpoints on issues such as mask mandates and leftist indoctrination of children in the public schools.
Please don’t take our word for it, though. Engage with your elected school board “representative” and see for yourself. The point is that many of us who are not left-wing radicals consider that some of the school board members are. Addressing them in designated 3-minute public remarks segments set aside in these meetings to appease us is nothing more than a waste of our time. The only way to redirect the public education system toward traditional values is for conservatives and moderates to roll up their sleeves and get in the game.
Not everyone is up to running for a seat on the school board, but we are thankful for those who are! What can the rest of us do? Participate in the P.T.A./P.T.O. or the Advisory Councils in your child’s school.
These meetings may be a place where you can begin to understand what is going on in your schools and what kind of people work there. You can use these gatherings as an opportunity to meet other parents and begin building an army that can protect the children from the lunacy of the left.
Plan on the likelihood that you will meet some left-leaning parents and teachers at these meetings, also. They have been burrowing into every aspect of “the system” for decades. Whether you can develop working relationships with some of them or not, you need to understand that they are there. You also need to know what they are doing. They are probably unopposed. Yes, you will have to stand up against them. Do you honestly believe that the embedded woke folks will get bored and eventually go away? Or is it more likely that they will need to be driven out?
What is it? Advisory Council to the Buncombe County Board of Education
Are you already participating in a P.T.A./P.T.O. or on an Advisory Council? We’d love to hear from you about your experience! Do you feel that these organizations are helpful? Are they making a difference? Does it make sense to work on building an alliance of moderate and conservative parents who can infiltrate and use these existing organizations to drive change from a grassroots level?
