I have another long post I've written but not published about how national politics has absolutely ruined Evanston politics. Instead of being a community working together, it's a lot of paranoia and national fights happening on the local level.
IтАЩd like to see that. The D65 parents Facebook page is awash in controversy at the moment due to elements of the Equity Army posting Hamas slogans in the group.
There is very little difference between the MAGA yahoos showing up at school boards yapping about trans textbooks and the Evanston Equity Army.
Both groups are obsessed with pushing a narrow identity politics at the expense of rational thinking, tolerance, and focusing on the mission of actually educating kids on basic skills like maths and writing.
I think this is a national problem is all of the United States, that we've poisoned what used to be pretty boring school district elections with political activists (on both sides). One of the major challenges with electing activist candidates is that they're usually not capable administrators, so everything devolves into political street fights while the intended audience gets ignored. This is why I ban any national political conversation from this comment section - there are lots of places to have these national fights and our local institutions are not the right place.
Can we start a new Facebook or google group for D65 caregivers? That one is so toxic. I feel bad for the new parents to town that post very simple questions in that group and have to deal with those toxic "lady dog whistle" postings or now all the stuff about Hamas.
I'm not a facebook user but there are other facebook groups that are not quite as combative, I just don't know what they're called. Someone can chime in.
Cynically, I think the D65 board stopped caring about TWI and the Hispanic community after the last presidential election changed who was in office.
I have another long post I've written but not published about how national politics has absolutely ruined Evanston politics. Instead of being a community working together, it's a lot of paranoia and national fights happening on the local level.
IтАЩd like to see that. The D65 parents Facebook page is awash in controversy at the moment due to elements of the Equity Army posting Hamas slogans in the group.
There is very little difference between the MAGA yahoos showing up at school boards yapping about trans textbooks and the Evanston Equity Army.
Both groups are obsessed with pushing a narrow identity politics at the expense of rational thinking, tolerance, and focusing on the mission of actually educating kids on basic skills like maths and writing.
I think this is a national problem is all of the United States, that we've poisoned what used to be pretty boring school district elections with political activists (on both sides). One of the major challenges with electing activist candidates is that they're usually not capable administrators, so everything devolves into political street fights while the intended audience gets ignored. This is why I ban any national political conversation from this comment section - there are lots of places to have these national fights and our local institutions are not the right place.
Can we start a new Facebook or google group for D65 caregivers? That one is so toxic. I feel bad for the new parents to town that post very simple questions in that group and have to deal with those toxic "lady dog whistle" postings or now all the stuff about Hamas.
I'm not a facebook user but there are other facebook groups that are not quite as combative, I just don't know what they're called. Someone can chime in.