On Tuesday, April 25, Westfield will be holding an election for three Board of Education seats—the only town in NJ7 holding school board elections before November.
This election is of extreme importance.
Now that the GOP has trashed the judiciary, undermined trust in the voting system and attacked the credibility of our federal institutions, they’ve set their sights on the American public education system. To the GOP, our public schools are infected by “woke” liberal values and are where the “deep state” promotes an anti-religious and anti-American worldview.. Book bans, curriculum “reviews,” and threats to teachers are just a few of the tools of their anti-education trade.
And even Westfield, a town that rallied to support Tom Malinowski in 2022—even Westfield—has Board of Education candidates running in the April 25th election who want to exert control over what our children are taught and what our children can read in our public schools. Westfield is not immune from the degradation of public education happening in states around the country. It can happen here.. And it will, unless we take the school board elections as seriously as the MAGA GOP does.
Westfield is Congressman Tom Kean, Jr’s hometown. You can be sure who he will vote for. Elite, private-school educated and Ivy-League degreed, Kean is an avowed supporter of school “choice.” He proudly promotes his support for the Republicans’ “Parents’ Rights Act,” a benignly-named bill that deftly hides its true goal—to use the force of the state to muzzle any classroom speech that differs from the Republican Party worldview. Make no mistake, this legislation is just the first step down a slippery slope to erode and eventually destroy the American public education system. As we learned from the decades-long effort to overthrow Roe v. Wade, the Republican playbook is to use a series of small, sometimes innocuous-seeming steps that eventually lead to horrific long-term consequences. The time to oppose this systemic attack on our public education system is NOW.
Let’s defend and protect our stellar public schools—which are ranked #1 in the nation—from any attempt by Kean and his cronies to do them harm.
In Westfield, it starts at the ballot box on Tuesday. Defend our public schools.
Vote for Kent Diamond, Brendan Galligan, and Charles Gelinas. Numbers 1, 4 and 5 on the ballot.
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