Larry NolanMay 15, 2024
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She Campaigned for a #Texas School Board Seat as a #GOP Hard-Liner. Now She’s Rejecting Her Party’s Extremism.
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Courtney Gore, a Granbury ISD school board member, has disavowed the far-right platform she campaigned on after finding no evidence that #students were being indoctrinated by the district’s curriculum. Her defiance has brought her backlash.

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https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-granbury-isd-school-board-courtney-gore

She Campaigned for a Texas School Board Seat as a GOP Hard-Liner. Now She’s Rejecting Her Party’s Extremism.

Courtney Gore, a Granbury ISD school board member, has disavowed the far-right platform she campaigned on after finding no evidence that students were being indoctrinated by the district’s curriculum. Her defiance has brought her backlash.

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May 15, 2024 at 2:43pmWeb
Show threadProPublicaMay 15, 2024

Also from today:

Former Far-Right Hard-Liner Says Billionaires Are Using School Board Races to Sow Distrust in Public Education

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-tim-dunn-wilks-brothers-vouchers-courtney-gore

Former Far-Right Hard-Liner Says Billionaires Are Using School Board Races to Sow Distrust in Public Education

The largesse from billionaires Tim Dunn and brothers Farris and Dan Wilks has made its way into local politics across Texas. Courtney Gore, a Republican school board member in Granbury, says it’s part of their strategy to build support for vouchers.

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Show threadPaul ArmstrongMay 16, 2024

@ProPublica The right wing (and especially the far right) have been ruthlessly targeting school boards, local councils and all the other base level political infrastructure for a couple of decades.

It's nice that more light is being shined on it. The lack of general political literacy and low voter turn out by the general public are making it way easier than it should be for the far right to do significant damage to society.

Show threadStationkeeperMay 15, 2024

@ProPublica @JeremySchwartz

Educating people works. I mean, it's better if they aren't indoctrinated or wrong to begin with. Failing that, I do have to respect people who are presented with evidence they hadn't seen, or had just been taking peoples word for it, and have the courage to actually change their minds *publicly*.

It's why I'm not in favour of "they're all stupid". I wouldn't always disagree, but it makes it harder to reach people and change their minds.

Show threadNegative12DollarBillMay 15, 2024

@ProPublica @JeremySchwartz

This is a fascinating story, but, uh, why couldn't she go through the curriculum BEFORE getting elected to the school board?

Show threadIncognitimMay 15, 2024
@ProPublica @JeremySchwartz
They saw how well the Lost Cause strategy worked for the Daughters of the Confederacy
https://www.facingsouth.org/2019/04/twisted-sources-how-confederate-propaganda-ended-souths-schoolbooks
TWISTED SOURCES: How Confederate propaganda ended up in the South's schoolbooks | Facing South

Though better known these days for erecting statues to Confederate veterans during the Jim Crow era, the United Daughters of the Confederacy also promoted white supremacist Lost Cause propaganda through their campaigns to control history textbooks used in the South's public schools. That miseducation continues to haunt our politics today.