So the voters of Dover PA woke up and realized that the school board members they elected to office weren't as concerned about improving public education as they were using the back door to instill a radical right religious orientation in the schools.
Now they are gone in Dover, PA (but they set up a nice little house on the prairie in Kansas where they can force science to bend to their theology.) We should celebrate, right? America has seen through to their real agenda, right?
Maybe, maybe not.
The problem will now be the following:
As the tension builds between the wing-nuttry and basically everyone else, those already in office will possibly be seeing the handwriting on the wall. That means they have to move and move fast to get other communities to leap forward, build enough time between that action and the next election and then turn their attention to...real school problems, failure rates, collapsing infrastructure, little cash due to their own philosophy of no taxes for public instutitions.
So as we more forward for the next year or two, they will step up their efforts to undermine the separation of church and state. They will see whatever time they have with a Rethug majority in the House and Senate as their last chance to make everyone drink the Kool-aid. They will backdoor the efforts, under play their personal efforts in the matter (just like in Kansas) and then try to separate themselves from the issue - or distract folks from the issue - with lies, half-truths and distortions.
If we want the wing-nuts off the school boards, we need to be ready to run for office, confront their decisions and keep the heat on in every school district across America.