Where we are in Texas the school boards are being taken over by anti-education anti-intellectual conservatives backed by PAC money. These are largely rich bored housewives who think LGBT and CRT are worse than Hitler. Some have formed a group (Mothers for Liberty or something like that) who train other rich bored housewives to scour teacher social media for any sign of LGBT sympathetic posts and then work to discredit them and run them out of the school. They’re cancelling book fairs and not allowing librarians to buy new books because Scholastic is some “woke” agent. The ideological fearmongering is really bad here and no teacher would want to put up with it.
I know this post has veered into the dreaded political realm, but in this instance it is clearly vocal members of one party (that I happen to be registered as) who are being idiots and causing the problems. It’s moved beyond embarrassing and well into terrifying.