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> Or maybe that crank parents arguing crank causes is super productive and they should have lots of forums to do it in. Yep, it's that. The author is not argui
by maxsilver 4y ago
> Or maybe that crank parents arguing crank causes is super productive and they should have lots of forums to do it in.
Yep, it's that. The author is not arguing in good faith (IMHO), and is mad that crank causes can't easily subvert a school district, if the school district is sufficiently large enough to resist it. The big tell is that the author won't actually list what "community values" or "will of citizens" they think are missing in these democratically-elected school district boards (because if they admitted it honestly, it would be immediately obvious why districts resist it)
And this isn't just a thought-piece, this is a real battle happening at the local level in Michigan right now, during the past election, something like 60% of the candidates for each random district are that district's crazy cranks from school board meetings, intentionally running in bad faith, just to push minority-held crazy religious/political-extremist beliefs onto children via the school board). Districts can't kick them out of the meetings, if they are on the board themselves.
- logicchains 4y ago> The author is not arguing in good faith (IMHO), and is mad that crank causes can't easily subvert a school district And you're not arguing in good faith, by referring to the values of people you disagree with as "crank causes".
- maxsilver 4y agoSure, that's fair. I should have labeled them as people who are "deeply concerned about their entirely-imagined usages of cat litter boxes in classrooms". (source: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/urban-myth-litter-boxes-schools-became-gop-talking-point-rcna51439 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/urban-myth-litte... ) I apologize for referring to concerns like these as "crank causes"