The unions and the classroom bureaucrats (teachers) are one and the same. Too few people understand that. And you’re right they have a death grip on the political hacks.
They turn out in mass to vote out anyone who tries to fix the schools and they use their position in the classroom to spread the union’s socialist line.
A few years ago a friend of mine pulled his kids out of government schools after his son’s classroom bureaucrat told the kids that people against a school tax increase were trying to ruin the schools and ruin the quality of education in town.
When he told me, I just laughed and asked, “what did you expect when you dumped your kids in a socialist school?”
Too few people are willing or able to home school, but I've never met a person who criticized the home school curriculum - real math, real grammar, phonics and quality reading materials and history that recognizes the truth behind the success of America (& Western Civ): Christianity, Liberty and the Free Market.
We'll win, but we have to do it incrementally, use technology to our advantage, and stay positive. We want RINOs, Dems and independents on our side - It is for the children afterall!