Pop quiz for school boards and candidates

Education

Pop quiz for school boards and candidates Guy Ciarrocchi September 24, 2025 September 23, 2025

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Since schools are back in session, and school board elections are taking place, it’s time to discuss what’s happening — and isn’t happening — in our local public schools.

Parents might be surprised — and taxpayers stunned — to learn what’s happening in the classroom and how budgets are growing. How things often were intentionally, radically, purposefully changed over the last five to ten years.

Lower standards. Falling test scores. More “sex education,” much sooner. Bigger budgets. More administrators. Parents ignored at best, pushed away at worst. “Gender” discussions, and men in girls’ bathrooms