Hamilton County Republican voters in Tuesday’s primary election opted for older and less strident voices in their Hamilton County Board of Education candidates.
That may mean they want their school board members to keep watch on the ability for parents to be involved in their children’s schools and with the books that are part of the curriculum and in the library but not micromanage such decisions.
We’re not saying the losing candidates in those primary races did that necessarily, but they were more outspoken than those who ultimately triumphed.
In District 6, for instance, candidate Cindy Fain, 50, who finished second by 47 votes, identified herself as a member of Moms for Liberty, which has looked into curriculum and library book issues across the country. As the mother of a biracial elementary school student, she said her daughter was taught in kindergarten about being a victim and that issues of gender identity were coming up on the playground.
She said parents were worried about the schools becoming toxic, that students and teachers were being bullied and that too much social-emotional learning was replacing study on the basic subjects.