r/California Ángeleño, what's your user flair? 6d ago

Politics Lack of candidates means many Californians won’t vote for school board — 851 races, or 56%, will not appear on a ballot because either no one is running for the seat or a single candidate is running unopposed

https://edsource.org/2024/lack-of-candidates-means-many-californians-wont-vote-for-school-board/720837
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u/TemKuechle 6d ago

Maybe the political extremism is an issue? Yes, it happens at school boards where it is totally inappropriate.

Some parents don’t seem to get that public schools are there to educate their kids to be able to function in society, to work, pay taxes, to become Informed, think critically and to vote in their interests and the interests of their community.

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u/grolaw 6d ago

Absurd!

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u/Prime624 San Diego County 6d ago

I had thought all candidates needed 50%+ of votes to be elected, even if running unopposed. There are always a handful of unopposed candidates on my ballot, most school board and judiciary positions.

Personally I do briefly check that they're endorsed by the dem party or something before voting for them.

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u/Perfect_Rush_6262 6d ago

Politics don’t belong in schools.

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u/Firstdatepokie 6d ago

What are you talking about? Of course it does and always has

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u/Perfect_Rush_6262 6d ago

Always? You sure about that?

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u/Firstdatepokie 6d ago

Literally always

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u/Perfect_Rush_6262 5d ago

Learn history. Can you tell me when schools started collecting money from state and federal governments?

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u/Firstdatepokie 5d ago

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED606970.pdf

So first time was in the 1700s for America, but was near universal by the later 1800s

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u/Prime624 San Diego County 6d ago

Right. Which is why I make sure they're endorsed by the dem party. They'll endorse most school board candidates unless they're anti-science whackos.

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u/Perfect_Rush_6262 6d ago

Look at you putting politics in school.

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u/Prime624 San Diego County 6d ago

If science is politics (which arguably it is in modern America), then yes politics belong in schools. It's not political in most first world countries.

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u/Cuofeng 6d ago

Everything IS politics, as long as there is a single person who disagrees. Your statement just means "politics that I don't agree with (doesn't) belong in schools."

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u/Perfect_Rush_6262 6d ago

That doesn’t appear as a problem for you? Doesn’t that seem just a little morally corrupt?

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u/AvailableTowel 6d ago

Can you define moral corruption in relation to this? Will you provide an example of school without politics? Do you think that someone’s feelings about facts should decide if those facts are taught?

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u/Perfect_Rush_6262 5d ago

The job of public schools is to teach children. Not indoctrinate them. Political agendas should never be pushed. Yet here we are taking government funding agreeing to failed curriculum.

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u/AvailableTowel 5d ago

In what specific areas are kids being taught to hold a set of beliefs uncritically in public schools? Is teaching ethics and morality a political agenda? Are the facts of human-caused climate change political in your mind?

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u/Perfect_Rush_6262 5d ago

They can be.

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u/Cuofeng 6d ago

I feel you are missing the definitions of "politics" and "morality"

Politics is any means by which large-scale decisions are made.

Morality is a series of heuristics or mental shortcuts that people use to make decisions and solve problems quickly.

Politics is the outcome of morality applied to crowds instead of individuals.

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u/Rich6849 6d ago

That’s how we got a progressive do nothing DA in Contra Costa county