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Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich, co-founders of Moms for Liberty. (Courtesy of Moms for Liberty) Moms for Liberty, a non-profit education advocacy group, still in its infancy, encourages parental engagement in a growing number of school board meetings across the country to demand a voice in their children’s education, and push back on curricula and policies that they oppose.
Two Florida moms, Tina Descovich of Bevard County and Tiffany Justice of Indian River County, started Moms for Liberty in January 2021. Just 11 months later, the movement has 160 chapters and 70,000 members in 33 states.
“Parents have been involved in the Parent Teacher Association, supporting their classrooms, and building playgrounds. PTA serves a great role. But it doesn’t address policy, and parents should have a role in that,” Descovich told The Epoch Times in a phone interview. “Parents have not been engaged at the policy making level.”
She believes parents have become more engaged because they got a glimpse inside the classroom when COVID-19 mitigation efforts closed schools and moved classes online and kept students at home.
“Parents saw sub-par curriculum and indoctrination,” Descovich said. How It Started
There was no specific event that prompted the creation of Moms for Liberty. It was more of a response to an uneasy climate. Descovich and Justice were school board members with terms ending in 2020 and they were members of the Florida coalition of school board members, where they met with other school board members from districts around the state with similar stories. Parents with concerns about masking or schools being closed were not being heard.
“Some were being mocked by the boards,” Descovich said. Through the coalition, she heard about a parent of a deaf child explaining that masks prevent her child from lip reading, who got no satisfaction and left a school board meeting crying.
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“We’ve seen other groups organize, like Moms Deserve Action. They would come into board meetings with matching shirts and a message, and I’d and watch other school board members just cave on an issue.”
When parents show up in numbers and have a consistent message, boards are more likely to […]
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