"We're sort of algorithmically set up to run to the far corners of our positions instead of finding the middle ground," she says.
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As for calls for federal law enforcement to investigate school board meeting outbursts, Maron says:
"Offering your opinion at a public meeting in a public setting is a quintessentially important American thing to do," she says. "It's a protected right, and it's something that we absolutely need to make sure is not ... stopped or intimidated."
While parents are showing up concerned about what their kids are learning at school, politics are also at play at school board meetings across the country.
“Right-wing groups have often returned to public schools as a culture war battleground," Peter Montgomery says. "But it is also clearly an attempt to rile up and mobilize."
This hour, On Point: Inside the school board culture wars.
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