From the dais, the board members beamed back at the parents, and when a lone trustee protested that they should address a conflict of interest that appeared to undermine the entire proceedings, the audience burst into laughter and the trustee's colleagues, amid jokes, voted her down. One father was moved to talk about sunsets in explaining how the school's mission was uniquely equipped to guide children toward goodness, beauty and truth.
One former homeschooler said she'd always sworn to keep her kids out of public school, but the one they attended now had changed all that. Instead, mother after mother, with young children in tow or on their hips, came to the podium to say that their kids used to cry before going to school, but now were filled with confidence and wonder that they had found a transformative community among the school's other moms that the teachers were giving their children "the best education in the entire country." The parents who rose to speak at the monthly meeting of the Orange County Board of Education weren't shouting about mask mandates, vaccine requirements, trans kids on sports teams or books about racism. But this time they'd come out, on a mild Southern California evening, not to let the board know how angry they were, but how delighted.
2 was more love bomb than fire bomb: yet another school board meeting packed with impassioned parents. This is the first of a three-part investigation of Hillsdale College, its charter school network and its connection to the national struggle over education.
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