School board meetings used to be boring. Why have they become war zones?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The organization's publications warned that public schools were actively teaching students to "embrace racism, fascism, or any other 'ism,' including cannibalism."
57% : At moments when American culture has taken some progressive turn, conservatives have consistently blamed a single culprit for indoctrinating vulnerable youth with radical ideas: public schools.
54% : Whenever activists and parents have feared for the souls of their children, they have engaged in the kind of disruption that we're seeing today, wreaking significant havoc on the short-term functioning of public schools.
41% : In 2020, in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests, one Tufts University survey found that over a quarter of respondents aged 18 to 24 said they had attended a march or demonstration.
40% : Conservative parents "must stop trusting public education," one Heritage Foundation writer demanded in 1978, and they must attack and disrupt their local school boards in any way they could.

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