I’m not sure who thought it was a good idea to label parents attending school board meetings as terrorists, but the National School Board Association (NSBA) has lost roughly $1.1 million in annual dues from states since the announcement.
By the numbers: The 17 state associations that have cut ties with NSBA collectively paid $1.1 million in annual dues to the organization in 2019, according to NSBA records submitted at a recent Florida School Boards Association meeting.
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- That was about 42% of the $2.6 million in dues payments it got from state school boards associations that year, and $1 of every $8 in total dues revenue.
- The group gets more dues income directly from school districts, with more than 1,200 providing nearly $5.3 million this year, according to NSBA records. Like the state associations, some of those districts also have severed ties with the group this fall.
Make note. Your state school board may have cut ties, but are local school boards sending money to the NSBA? In New Hampshire, the NH State School Board Association stopped paying dues but are there other boards or funnels for funding the NSBA?
A question for our Ed folks, and we’ll get back to that – but you may have the same problem in your states. Do you know? If not, find out.
Related: The White House was Probably Behind the NSBA Letter (About Parents Being Terrorists)
The next point popping up in media coverage from the right is that this is some sort of lesson for the NSBA. Did they learn anything from this collusion with the Biden White House, Merrick Garland, and the FBI? Did labeling concerned parents potential domestic terror threats in any way inform future action by this organization?
No, I don’t think so.
Like most left-wing organs, if the Democrats swimming in the swamp decide it is needed, they will fund it. Printing money is to rob you of the value of your work, and your children’s future is at the center of progressive doctrine.
There may already be a line item to refund the NSBA directly through the infrastructure bill or one of its inbound legislative offspring. Money laundered through proxies like NGOs or the Blue States that are still greasing that Machine; that is the only infrastructure that matters to the political Left.
Advance their message and their power.
So, was it a total loss? No. Parents continue to get more involved in local education. They are paying attention, showing up, tuning in, even running for school board or supporting those who do.
The Left’s control depends on the majority control of local boards. Deny them that, making very little difference in what the NSBA has to say. It is also more likely that local funding to the NSBA or similar organs will get trimmed or cut at the local, state, or national level. That and a good deal more waste fraud and misuse of tax dollars on things that have nothing to do with academics.
The NSBA may not feel it in the end. The Left’s stranglehold on local education might.
But it can’t just be for one election. The Dems will regroup and come back to retake lost territory. Republicans tend to walk away after that one victory.
You’ll lose all the ground you gained, if any, and when they swing back into power, they’ll push twice as hard in the other direction.
It’s a long war with a lot of skirmishes and battles, and you can’t win all of them, but you have to try, and once you take the hill, you have to hold it.
Even when the Left makes mistakes they never give up. Never.
HT | The Blaze
