There are efforts underway in the Legislature to make school board elections more democratic.

Democrats who are constantly harping “preserving our democracy” are the one who are threatening democracy in their stubborn support of the timing of school board elections.

(By the way, America is a republic, not a “democracy.”)

Most public school districts schedule school board elections in the dead of winter apart from any other votes (exception school bond elections). This clever tactic holds down voter turnout and makes it easier for liberal educators to elect school board members and defend the status quo.

Turnouts for school board elections – even in Tulsa and Oklahoma City – are pitiful.

It would be vastly different and more “democratic” to hold them in November when we vote for president or governor and lawmakers.

Not only would this get more input from common citizens but it would save county taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars by avoiding the expense of an election when no one wants to get out to vote.

If they are so bad, who wants winter elections?

The Oklahoma State School Boards Association, the United Suburban Schools Association, the Organization of Rural OK Schools, the Cooperative Council for Oklahoma School Administration, and the Oklahoma Association for Career and Technical Education oppose making the change because it could upset their apple cart.

Right now, almost every school board is dominated by progressives who care more for their liberal ideology than the proper education of children.

Voting in November would give normal citizens a chance to win seats and instill the traditional values of teaching reading, writing and arithmetic.

This change is needed. The lives of our children are at stake.