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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (54908)	8/20/2002 12:26:20 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

X seems to think it's very political with the "far right" extremists trying to take over. Message 17895972 Obviously, your experience is different.

To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (54908)	8/20/2002 12:30:33 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

There were several articles last year on grass roots Christian organizations that were attempting to organize in communities across the country, to take school boards over to promote creationism, and squash the teaching of the theory of evolution. One district got in the news because I think its school board tried to throw out the teaching of the theory of evolution. The attempt led to a lot of media attention and the ouster of the board members- if I recall correctly. But the same thing is being tried nationwide. I'm sure if you do a search, you will find news reports. That is what I was speaking about. The city of Berkeley is frequently in the news for strange liberal decisions it takes- but aside from Berkeley I'm not aware of a huge organization of liberals working on school boards in any organized manner.

To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (54908)	8/20/2002 5:00:47 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

In our community, there was an attempt in the election about eight or ten years ago by the religious right to get three candidates of theirs elected, though they carefully avoided identifying themselves as such. But we know who is who. The attempt was a dismal failure, at least from their point of view (a success from the community's point of view in identifying and rejecting the attempt for what it was). There has been nothing like that since. I know four of the five board members quite well, and none of them are politically active. They all tend to be more liberal than otherwise, but I haven't seen that affect any school decisions, which, as you point out, are mostly financial and dealing with such issues as school bonds, deferred maintenance, when to get a new school bus, etc.