Illinois
Related: About this forumCUSD 200 extremist candidates
These four candidates are running on an extremist agenda:
Amanda “Amy” Erkenswick
Spencer Garrett
David Sohmer
Kimberly Hobbs
Buzz words and dog whistles include a call for lessons that are “ideologically neutral” and “free of political bias” and for creating “opt-in” policies
Article at:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/elections/ct-school-board-elections-conservative-movement-20230326-hjfirbfrwjedzf5bmd4ytk4ovy-story.html

Freethinker65
(11,177 posts)They have a chance of winning. I have never gotten so many mailings for school board.
Cadfael
(1,342 posts)Those poisonous AWAKE people are popping up everywhere. And Vallas has been flirting with them. Shameful!
Cadfael
(1,342 posts)on the “Defend Our Schools” website, but even the Chicago Tribune recognizes them as “extremist”….so forewarned is forearmed
raising2moredems
(732 posts)And there is a huge effort (locally) to make it loud and clear. Couldn't find much on two of the three BUT the one I did is a "traditional values" and what I term "some parents rights". Pissing and moaning about tampon machines in the boys bathroom - which she went into, mind you, to see for herself. Icing on the cake - she's a private school teacher.