What Michels Should Prioritize

Here's a strong suggestion for Tim Michels:  prioritize public school reform.

We understand that the Department of Public Instruction is headed by an elected failure (look at the results!!) and your influence is limited.

But the bully pulpit will be yours for several months after your election, and so will the budget.

Want a reason?

...PEN America has documented 2,535 individual challenges that school districts have made to books between July 1, 2021, and June 30, 2022. Often these books contain sexually explicit content that educators would otherwise oppose in school plays or movie viewings. However, many of these books document their LGBTQ authors’ queer or transgender experiences.

But these books are not innocent stories of marginalized voices, as the left tries to argue in tandem with the mainstream media, framing the parents and administrators opposed to the texts as fascist book banners who want to silence minorities. They testify to the far-left’s sexualization of education as an act of ‘resistance’ against cultural norms and social institutions including the nuclear family and religion, which progressives increasingly associate with right-wing politics....

While many districts import this sewage into their libraries and curricula, beginning with 2nd graders in the case of Wauwatosa, they are supported by DPI in the form of CESA Districts and--of course--funding.  Not direct money, which is legislature-controlled; but "soft" money for meetings, seminars, conferences, "training" sessions.............you get the picture.

As  you know, Tim, under the leadership of Evers and Underly, actual academics have been on the slow slide to hell over the last 20 years.  Worse, what's passed off as "American History" is usually Howard Zinn fiction.

While Ms. Underly's constitutional position cannot be disturbed by the Governor, her budget can be.

Do the necessary thing--which in this case is also the right thing--defund DPI and put the dollars into "Choice."