On March 13, 2020, then-Indian River County school board member Tiffany Justice was in shock.
"I was standing in my school district, I was on a school board, and we found out the governor was going to close schools, and it was shocking, I remember feeling like someone ... punched me in the stomach," Justice recalled in an interview with the."A school district doesn't start or stop easily, it's kind of like a cruise ship.
But for Justice, the sudden and shocking closure of schools and the switch to virtual learning offered a silver lining that she says awakened parents across the country to the reality of what was going in the nation's public schools. Prior explained that parental awakening began with concerns that classroom instruction provided by most school districts was inadequate. Frustrations later built over the lack of social interaction for students stuck at home, and finally, alarm at critical race theory and discussions on systemic racism that were supercharged by the riots after the 2020 death of George Floyd following an altercation with Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
As the school closures and concerns over curriculum grew nationwide, a grassroots movement of organized parents began to take hold and provided Justice with a new purpose following the end of her term on the Indian River County school board. And while the advocacy at the local level has been felt at school board meetings in every state, the political consequences of this new movement spilled into state elections in 2021 and beyond.
Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin speaks at a rally outside the Loudoun County public schools building on June 30, 2021.
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