When school boards actually listen to the taxpayers who put them there instead of pretending they’re Ivy League prophets sent down to Earth with a DEI clipboard—that’s news. Chalkbeat Colorado just covered the latest in Mesa County where District 51 said “nah” to a CEA-backed, teacher-recommended social studies curriculum. Translation? Parents spoke, board listened, educratic agenda got benched.
The Bullet Point Brief
- Teachers recommended a new social studies curriculum and the board said, “Yeah… hard pass.”
- Parents got loud and local—you know, engaged democracy—and the board paid attention like it’s supposed to.
- DEI and ESL buzzwords weren’t enough of a sales pitch for a conservative-leaning district that values actual education over activism.
- No surprise: CEA and their echo chamber are clutching pearls at the idea of parental input.
- Mesa County showed other school boards what doing your damn job looks like.
My Bottomline
This right here? This is what public participation is supposed to look like—not activist teachers unions pushing education flavored Kool-Aid while parents get told to sit down and shut up. The folks in Mesa County hashed it out in public meetings, elected reps sided with parents over politics, and suddenly we’ve got something resembling democracy again. Shocking, I know.
I’m what they call a “parental rights extremist”—which just means I believe mom and dad outrank some DEI consultant holding a MacBook and pronouns in their Twitter bio. So hats off to Mesa County—proof that when people speak up locally, they can shove bureaucratic nonsense right back where it belongs: in the reject pile next to Common Core.
Parents have gotten lazy and can’t be bothered to stop the nonsense these school board members push on us. Good for Mesa County!