{"id":1389841,"date":"2022-03-19T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1389841"},"modified":"2022-03-19T16:59:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T20:59:51","slug":"exclusive-bridget-ziegler-school-boards-use-a-leftist-playbook-to-intimidate-and-bully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-bridget-ziegler-school-boards-use-a-leftist-playbook-to-intimidate-and-bully\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive &#8212; Bridget Ziegler: School Boards Use a Leftist &#039;Playbook&#039; to Intimidate and Bully"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-bridget-ziegler-school-boards-use-a-leftist-playbook-to-intimidate-and-bully%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1389841&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Conservative Sarasota County School Board member Bridget Ziegler, who has been battling the left\u2019s monopoly on education for years, told <em>Breitbart News Saturday<\/em> that school boards across the country follow a \u201cplaybook,\u201d which furthers their monopoly. She urged fellow parents to push back, because they are \u201con the right side of history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ziegler, who works in the private sector, has served on the Sarasota County School Board for eight years \u2014 something she previously never thought she would do, not having thought about running for public office, although she said she has always been passionate about children\u2019s issues. When a vacancy came up in the school board in 2014, her husband urged her to run, and that is when the true fight began.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhen I stepped off that ledge, you know, I went full throttle,\u201d the mother of three said.<\/p>\n<p>To her surprise, many of the \u201ccommon sense\u201d issues she ran on were \u201ctaboo,\u201d including parental rights, limited government, and school choice. And, as a result, the teachers\u2019 union \u201cwent crazy.\u201d Her eyes were opened even further at a National School Board Association meeting, where speakers bashed the governor, the legislature, and programs \u201cwhich we as conservatives were very vocal about supporting,\u201d she said.\u00a0\u201cIt didn\u2019t make any sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ziegler said it is especially important to highlight that \u201cthere is a playbook, and, what I think so many people have now realized, as the result of the great parent awakening after COVID, the same playbook that happens in Sarasota County happens across the state and happens across the country. And it\u2019s largely based on indoctrinating local policy officials all the way down to professional development [given] to the educators, and that trickles down to indoctrinating our students with a very left, progressive agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The left\u2019s tactics to push this agenda forward, she explained, involve silencing and intimidation. However, parents are now waking up and realizing what is happening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis past year and a half has dramatically changed that, and that is what we\u2019re seeing across the country, where we really can turn back the tide and make education \u2026 make them [students] successful productive members of society that know how to critically think, not be indoctrinated by the very alarming leftist agenda that is being pushed,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>LISTEN:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Notably, Ziegler was one of the first individuals to push the Parents\u2019 Bill of Rights, which is now a national talking point. She battled for it in 2018, after noticing a number of unnecessary roadblocks that prevent parents\u2019 involvement in different aspects of their children\u2019s education. The \u201ctransgender bathroom\u201d was one of the controversial issues at the time, and she witnessed firsthand how the left moved to sneakily incorporate gender diversity guidelines without the knowledge of parents. At the time, she said, the superintendent worked with Equality Florida, a \u201clarge lobbying group\u201d for LGBT activists, and circumvented elected officials to institute guidelines about students changing their gender pronouns without alerting parents. Ziegler finally brought it to everyone\u2019s attention and tried to pass an amendment to ensure parental notification, but the effort failed 3-2, as the board was progressive. So from there, she focused on working with legislators directly.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI was yelling in a crowded room and no one would hear me in 2018, and it was a taboo topic. A lot of people weren\u2019t comfortable talking about it, because you\u2019d be called a bigot or you\u2019d be called racist or you\u2019d be called misogynistic. I\u2019ve been called it all,\u201d she said, noting that politicians too often \u201ccave to the mob mentality.\u201d However, she said she is glad to see it is shifting, because it is paramount for people to speak up for children.<\/p>\n<p>Ziegler encouraged other parents to speak out and get involved, but she emphasized the importance of knowing the mission, as well as having a firm grip on what one believes and is championing. You cannot back down, she said, warning that leftists use \u201cvery dirty tactics, because they want to maintain control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we don\u2019t step up, they take over. So my plea to everyone else is to understand this is worth fighting for,\u201d she said, also warning people against allowing the left to fool them with their language, using their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/04\/desantis-debunks-falsehoods-on-so-called-dont-say-gay-bill-does-the-truth-matter-or-not\/\">lies<\/a> about Florida\u2019s Parental Rights in Education Bill, which critics have smeared as \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay,\u201d as an example.<\/p>\n<p>There is \u201cno level of low for them,\u201d she said, noting they even accuse her of politicizing education. \u201cAs a conservative, I want politics out of education,\u201d she refuted the claim. They will use \u201cintimidation and bullying tactics to shut you down,\u201d she said, explaining that they do not want civil discourse, as that is not part of their playbook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat messaging [intimidation tactics without civil discourse] is being pushed down all the way throughout and I think that\u2019s really scary and \u2026. something we\u2019re pushing back on,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re seeing that playbook across the country,\u201d she said, adding, \u201cDo not let that succeed, because we are on the right side of history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also left a pointed message for politicians, urging them to maintain their backbone, rather than simply pretending to have one when trying to get elected.<\/p>\n<p>Read Breitbart News\u2019s profile on Ziegler, <em>America\u2019s Fight: Conservative School Board Member Blows the Lid off Inner Workings of the Left\u2019s Monopoly on Education<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/14\/americas-fight-conservative-school-board-member-blows-the-lid-off-inner-workings-of-the-lefts-monopoly-on-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative Sarasota County School Board member Bridget Ziegler, who has been battling the left\u2019s monopoly on education for years, told Breitbart News Saturday that school boards across the country follow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1895997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1389841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1895997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}