The battle over the nation’s children – from flagrant indoctrination to forced masking – has emerged in the national spotlight during the last two years, becoming a widely-known issue as parents take matters into their own hands after years of the left maintaining a monopoly on the educational system, doing their best to keep the leftist agenda moving forward...........
When you get up there and are elected, you’re automatically part of this association and they tell you that your job is to support the superintendent. [It’s] not about protecting, supporting, representing taxpayers or focus on financial stewardship or … it as very much about no dissenting, very much groupthink, get in line,” she said, as this same tactic appears to be the common theme in school boards across the country. Many people, she continued, subscribe to it, even though they claim to be “conservatives.” But when they get on these boards, they “lose their backbone.”..............
And then you have the media that plays that role and protects the progressive left agenda that are being pushed in there, and also everyone wants to hide the — you know we can’t say anything negative about the school because then you’re anti-public school. It’s not about correcting issues,” she said. “It’s about, your job as a school board member is to be a cheerleader, not to be someone that serves the public,”................However, that could soon change...........To Read More....
My Take - This isn't just about education, it's about corruption and the corruption of the leadership nation wide including corporate boards, industry associations, the military and every element of government. So-called conservatives, like John Kasich, Mitt Romney and Liz Chaney, get there and crawdad, back peddling to keep their jobs or to be "someone". But maybe, just maybe, they weren't really conservatives in the first place. I see that same kind of crawdadding everywhere.
My Rules For Leadership.
- Heterodoxy isn't for the faint of heart. But it's essential for real leadership. A real leader must be willing to stand up and say, "you're all wrong, and I'm going to tell you why". It's that willingness, and persistence, to stand up to the massed forces against what's right that will ultimately win the day.
- Real leadership requires the willingness to be unliked, and for long periods of time in order to overcome these seeming insurmountable forces.
- Being "reasonable" never overcame insurmountable obstacles.
So, are you a leader, or merely a manager who's organizing the direction everyone wants to go? I'll have more on this piece later this week, in the meanwhile, here's one of my favorite quotes from one of my heroes, Thomas Sowell.
"Life is all about tides. There are those who catch the tide and those who row against the tide. Those rowing against the tide will always go in that direction no matter which way the tide is moving. The rest have no direction and will simply follow the tide. Those who row against the tide are in better shape than those who go with the tide. Not only physically, but intellectually, emotionally and psychologically! When the tide changes direction, and it will, guess who will be in the lead?" Thomas Sowell
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