Assault on education

[skinsmarydu]

44 minutes ago, GhostofSparta said:

You got nieces and nephews? That's where all my **** is gonna go. Same thing my childless uncles are doing.

All grown & doing their own dumb ****. 

[China]

Spotsylvania School Board Appoints Chair Who Backed Burning Books, Fires Superintendent

 

The Spotsylvania County School Board wasted no time Monday making its mark in the at-times contentious first meeting of the year, which included fiery jabs at the new chairman and squabbles between members.

 

It began with a vote to name Livingston district member Kirk Twigg the new chair. Twigg supported banning and even burning some sexually explicit books from school libraries in November. His win gives conservatives a majority on the school board. 

 

The move to appoint him drew the ire of the outgoing chair, Dawn Shelley, who delivered a scorching criticism of Twigg.

 

"He has spoken about confidential [human resources] matters in open session. He is constantly using his AOL account to send and read emails throughout school board meetings. He wants to burn books," Shelley said.

 

Twigg’s first action as the new chair was to call an unscheduled closed-door session to make good on a promise to fire the well-regarded Superintendent Dr. Scott Baker, who had already signed an agreement to leave at the end of 2022.

 

The board voted 4-3 in favor of ousting Baker over protests of the minority members who said the action was taken illegally. It is still unclear who will serve in that role while the search for a replacement begins.

 

"You have not stated any justification or ability to fill the position. You cannot even properly chair a meeting, but yet you're going to terminate a superintendent for no reason," Nicole Cole, a member from the Battlefield District, said. "How is this good for the students, the children of Spotsylvania County? How does this make sense? Spotsylvania citizens please recognize that you have not been given any valid reason."

 

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[China]

So she's introducing a bill to teach kids not to use their first amendment rights?  

 

"Congress shall make no law ... abridging ...the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

 

 

Edited January 13, 2022 by China

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[China]

 

Fox News Host Warns Satanism Is ‘Lurking in the Halls’ of School, Says It’s ‘Much More Terrifying’ Than Covid

 

On Friday’s Fox News Primetime, host Rachel Campos-Duffy ran a segment on Satanism in public schools that was reminiscent of the satanic panic of the 1980s.

 

“For two years, the left has claimed that schools are unsafe for children due to Covid,” she said. “But there’s something much more terrifying lurking in the halls of one school in Illinois.”

 

The host informed her audience that a Satan club – sponsored by the Satanic Temple – had held its first ever meeting at an elementary school in Illinois. “That’s right – a Satan club.”

 

Campos-Duffy cited a letter released by the school stating that no school employees were involved and the institution is not allowed to discriminate against different religions.

 

“But that isn’t an isolated incident,” Campos-Duffy said. “Satanists are taking up cultural space all across America, like in the Illinois state house where they successfully put up a statue of baby Satan. And you have heard of Comic-Con, right? “Well, there’s a Satancon taking place next month in Arizona.”

 

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[Larry]

 

[@DCGoldPants]

15 hours ago, China said:

 

Fox News Host Warns Satanism Is ‘Lurking in the Halls’ of School, Says It’s ‘Much More Terrifying’ Than Covid

 

On Friday’s Fox News Primetime, host Rachel Campos-Duffy ran a segment on Satanism in public schools..... 

 

Whenever I hear her name, I'm taken back to childhood and remember...... Rachel ****ed Puck on the Real World. 

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[China]

Book bans are back in style

 

School districts from Pennsylvania to Wyoming are bowing to pressure from some conservative groups to review — then purge from public school libraries — books about LGBTQ issues and people of color.

 

Why it matters: A pivotal midterm election year, COVID frustrations and a backlash against efforts to call out systemic racism — driven disproportionately by white, suburban and rural parents — have made public schools ground zero in the culture wars.

 

What they're saying: "I've worked for this office for 20 years, and we've never had this volume of challenges come in such a short time," Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, told Axios.

 

"In my former district, we might have one big challenge like every two years," Carolyn Foote, a retired Texas librarian of 29 years, told Axios. " I have to say that what we're seeing is really unprecedented."

Details: The Spotsylvania County School Board in Virginia in November ordered staff to remove “sexually explicit” books from libraries after a parent raised concerns about their LGBTQ themes. “I think we should throw those books in a fire,” school board member Rabih Abuismail said during a meeting.

 

That same month, the Goddard School District in Kansas demanded staff remove 29 books from the district’s school libraries. The list included “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood and “The Bluest Eye” by Nobel Prize-winning Toni Morrison.

The Washington County School District in Utah voted last month to ban “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas and "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez, two novels tackling racism, following parent complaints about profanity. The superintendent cast the deciding vote.

Texas school districts are scrambling to review and ban some library books after state Rep. Matt Krause, a former candidate for state attorney general, asked school superintendents to confirm whether any books on his list of 850 titles were on their shelves.

By the numbers: The ALA has not yet released a full accounting of its data for banning attempts in 2021, but Caldwell-Stone said the ALA tracked 330 challenges just from September through November 2021 and hasn't tallied all the titles yet.

 

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[The Evil Genius]

Um..

 

 

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[China]

House committee in Florida passes 'Don't Say Gay' bill

 

A Florida House committee on Thursday passed a bill seeking to ban discussions of sexuality and gender identity in school classrooms, which LGBTQ+ advocates say will effectively “erase” LGBTQ+ history, culture, and students.

 

The Parental Rights in Education bill, also known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, passed Thursday in the House Education and Employment Committee largely along party lines.

 

“This bill is about defending the most awesome responsibility a person can have: being a parent,” Florida state Rep. Joe Harding (R), who first introduced the bill, said Thursday. “That job can only be given to you by above.”

 

Harding’s bill, along with its companion bill introduced Tuesday by Florida state Sen. Dennis Baxley (R), would block teachers in Florida from talking about LGBTQ+ topics that are not “age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students.”

 

According to the bill, parents may take legal action against their child’s school district and be awarded damages if they believe any of its policies infringe on their “fundamental right to make decisions regarding the upbringing and control of their children.”

 

Chasten Buttigieg, the husband of transportation secretary and former presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, after the bill had passed called out Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for making Florida a more hostile place for LGBTQ+ youth.

 

“This will kill kids,” he wrote Thursday on Twitter. “You are purposefully making your state a harder place for LGBTQ kids to survive in.”

 

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[Larry]

The GOP seems to have discovered a new "right".  

 

The "right" of one parent to demand that an entire school cannot mention the existence of something that the parent doesn't want their kid to know about.  

 

I think we need a law that makes it a criminal offense for any school employee to mention that Santa Claus doesn't exist.  

[China]

30 minutes ago, Larry said:

The GOP seems to have discovered a new "right".  

 

The "right" of one parent to demand that an entire school cannot mention the existence of something that the parent doesn't want their kid to know about.  

 

I think we need a law that makes it a criminal offense for any school employee to mention that Santa Claus doesn't exist.  

 

They could also rant some more about big tech...

 

 

 

[China]

Pennsylvania school board member tells parents 'I don't work for you'

 

One Pennsylvania school board member has a message for parents: "No, I don't work for you."

 

York Suburban School District school board member Richard Robinson wrote an op-ed in the York Dispatch explaining his claim.

 

Robinson wrote that local school boards require a public comment opportunity for parents and other members of the community to voice their opinions about issues related to school, but there has been a major shift recently.

 

"This provision gives residents of a school district the chance to vent their spleens about exorbitant taxes or demand subjects be taught properly the way they were during the most frigid period of the Cold War. In the past, more often than not, nobody showed up," Robinson said. "Not these days. As social media outlets, national news broadcasts and our local newspapers tell us, school boards are now the new battleground in the fight for America’s future."

 

"Some members of my community appear to interpret this part of board meetings as the occasion to tell board members why they have the collective intelligence of a village idiot and how the school district ought to be addressing real problems," the school board member wrote.

 

Robinson's essay drew a reaction from Nicole Neily, president of Parents Defending Education, who told Fox News Digital that the school board member was mocking parents.

"Far too many elected officials have shown over the past two years that the 'consent of the governed' is little more than an inconvenient speed bump on the road to advancing their unpopular agendas," Neily said. "Mocking and dismissing the concerns of the community may be cathartic for petty dictators, but it is not a path to electoral success."

 

In his op-ed, the school board member also shared some of his "positions" and said that he doesn't "work" for taxpayers.

 

"With all due respect to the men and women who snarl, ‘I’m a taxpayer! You work for me!’ No, I don’t work for you. I was elected by people who voted to represent you," Robinson wrote.

In the list of "positions" written, Robinson also states that parents don't "always" know what's best for their child.

 

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[Simmsy]

These school board employees need to hire private security (not the sheriff) to handle these people in school board meetings. As soon as they step out of line, have them removed/arrested/charged/etc/. Record it, send it out for the world to see. These people need to be held accountable for their actions, they aren't so they this stupid **** keeps happening.

 

By showing these people acting like fools and facing the consequences, normal people (like us), will want something done about these people. We're the majority here, will Youngkin side with the people who got him elected or with the majority.

[China]

It's amazing how stupid and gullible these people are...

 

Sharrow: 'Furries' are not using litter boxes in Midland school's bathrooms

 

A claim made at a Midland Public Schools board meeting was sharply refuted by the district’s superintendent Thursday.

 

In a message sent out to the MPS community by Superintendent Michael Sharrow, he denied that litter boxes were kept in bathrooms for student “furries.” This rumor was spread after a clip was spread from a Dec. 20 Board of Education meeting where a resident made this claim.

 

“There is no truth whatsoever to this false statement/accusation! There have never been litter boxes within MPS schools,” Sharrow said. “It is such a source of disappointment that I felt the necessity to communicate this message to you.”

 

At the meeting, Midland resident Lisa Kawiecki Hansen said she heard about the litter boxes from kids, and they were for kids who “identified as cats.” She added that she was “really disturbed” by this and that she “will continue to investigate.”

 

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[China]

On 1/21/2022 at 12:47 PM, The Evil Genius said:

Um..

 

 

 

BTW, in case you weren't aware:

 

Mom charged for saying she’ll ‘bring every single gun loaded’ over school’s mask rule

 

A Virginia mother was charged Friday after she said at a school board meeting that she would “bring every single gun loaded and ready” to fight mask requirements for her children. Amelia King later emailed the board to apologize for her choice of words, saying she was not referring to “actual firearms.”  

 

The Luray Police Department said King, 42, was charged with making an oral threat on school property. She has since been released on a $5,000 bond, the department said. 

 

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Michael Butler, a history professor at Flagler College in St. Augustine, was scheduled to give a presentation Saturday to Osceola County School District teachers called “The Long Civil Rights Movement,” which postulates that the civil rights movement preceded and post-dated Martin Luther King Jr. by decades.

He said that he was shocked to learn why the seminar had been canceled through an email Wednesday but that he wasn’t surprised because educators feel increasingly intimidated over teaching about race.

Less than 24 hours before Butler was informed of the cancellation, a state Senate committee advanced legislation Tuesday at the behest of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to block public schools and private businesses from making people feel “discomfort” when they’re taught about race. DeSantis also wants to empower parents to sue schools that teach critical race theory.

 

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[Larry]

I assume there's a point there.  But I can think of so many possible ones.  

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Way to go Virginia

[GhostofSparta]

3 hours ago, Cooked Crack said:

Way to go Virginia

Sounds like it's time for this tip line to get flooded with false leads and tips against conservative teachers. Overwhelm it like that Texas abortion snitch line.