Today's FTT motivated me to find out what I could about MFL by visiting their national website and the one for Mecklenburg County. I have to agree, Belle, they don't provide much information about what they do exactly, when they meet, their specific goals or why meeting their goals would have a positive impact. There were several topics which when clicked upon showed blank pages; however, the information about how to donate was very clear and user friendly.
I found the explanation for the creation of MFL on the national website nebulous.
"Our founders are Tiffany and Tina, moms on a mission to stoke the fires of liberty. As former school board members, they witnessed how short-sighted and destructive policies directly hurt children and families. Now they are using their first-hand knowledge and experience to unite parents who are ready to fight those that stand in the way of liberty."
After reading the explanation my immediate thought was, " I wonder what the the short-sighted and destructive policies were that Tiffany and Tina witnessed and specifically how these policies hurt children and families.
never trust an organization with the words liberty or freedom! i just wrote more than 200 postcards to voters in my community and i am now a little ashamed i used the word”patriotic duty” about our voting rights!
of course i absolutely adore the entertaining and important information we receive from the Frog Trouble Times
For real! Or go to any school with those words in the name! Maggie Nelson actually wrote about the co-opting of the word "freedom" in her book, On Freedom, which I loved.
or the word “mom” mom arrested for embezzling little league fund! mom killed in freak accident! mom thwarts would be bank robber! mom robs bank! never refers to a man as dad!
I'm a former English teacher and now a school board member, and the so-called Moms of Liberty if successful will really damage our public school system, which of course is part of their agenda. The right has always wanted vouchers for private school or choice, which in turn would bleed public schools dry. Our local Moms of Liberty is having a little trouble gaining traction, but then again I live in New England. Nevertheless, it's hard not to see them as larger than life and to act prematurely and narrow-mindedly (IMO). We all have a fight ahead.
Bless you, Julia! I have in mind a couple of parents who I think would be great school board members--I imagine it to be pretty time-consuming work though? How did you make the decision to run? Totally agreed about vouchers and "choice."
It's time-consuming in ways you might not think -- including sorting through how to build support for what you care about. As a former teacher, I knew I could contribute, and the 2016 election showed me it needed to be in ways outside the classroom. George Floyd's death of course was another reckoning.
Today's FTT motivated me to find out what I could about MFL by visiting their national website and the one for Mecklenburg County. I have to agree, Belle, they don't provide much information about what they do exactly, when they meet, their specific goals or why meeting their goals would have a positive impact. There were several topics which when clicked upon showed blank pages; however, the information about how to donate was very clear and user friendly.
I found the explanation for the creation of MFL on the national website nebulous.
"Our founders are Tiffany and Tina, moms on a mission to stoke the fires of liberty. As former school board members, they witnessed how short-sighted and destructive policies directly hurt children and families. Now they are using their first-hand knowledge and experience to unite parents who are ready to fight those that stand in the way of liberty."
After reading the explanation my immediate thought was, " I wonder what the the short-sighted and destructive policies were that Tiffany and Tina witnessed and specifically how these policies hurt children and families.
So well-said, Anne! I think their tagline, "fan the flames of liberty in your community," really says it all.
never trust an organization with the words liberty or freedom! i just wrote more than 200 postcards to voters in my community and i am now a little ashamed i used the word”patriotic duty” about our voting rights!
of course i absolutely adore the entertaining and important information we receive from the Frog Trouble Times
For real! Or go to any school with those words in the name! Maggie Nelson actually wrote about the co-opting of the word "freedom" in her book, On Freedom, which I loved.
or the word “mom” mom arrested for embezzling little league fund! mom killed in freak accident! mom thwarts would be bank robber! mom robs bank! never refers to a man as dad!
I'm a former English teacher and now a school board member, and the so-called Moms of Liberty if successful will really damage our public school system, which of course is part of their agenda. The right has always wanted vouchers for private school or choice, which in turn would bleed public schools dry. Our local Moms of Liberty is having a little trouble gaining traction, but then again I live in New England. Nevertheless, it's hard not to see them as larger than life and to act prematurely and narrow-mindedly (IMO). We all have a fight ahead.
Bless you, Julia! I have in mind a couple of parents who I think would be great school board members--I imagine it to be pretty time-consuming work though? How did you make the decision to run? Totally agreed about vouchers and "choice."
It's time-consuming in ways you might not think -- including sorting through how to build support for what you care about. As a former teacher, I knew I could contribute, and the 2016 election showed me it needed to be in ways outside the classroom. George Floyd's death of course was another reckoning.