Book Bans Are a Conservative Plot to Destroy Public Schools, Says Randi Weingarten
“The teachers union head denounced the “extremist strategy,” which also includes voucher campaigns and manufactured outrage over critical race theory.”
Opinion A nasty fight in a rural Virginia school district unearths dark truths
“BEAVERDAM, Va. — The same school board in rural Virginia that censored “To Kill A Mockingbird” in 1966 removed at least 20 books this year after granting itself sole authority over library content. Last spring, it renamed a school christened after a Black historical figure from the state. Now, the Hanover County School Board is swept up in the widespread right-wing movement to reshape public education — and a bipartisan group of parents is fighting back.”
They are being told to be mad:
He Became Convinced the School Board Was Pushing “Transgender Bullshit.” He Ended Up Arrested — and Emboldened.
“Jensen didn’t come up with the idea to target the school board on his own. He’d volunteered to help two women connected to the state chapter of a national group that was rapidly gaining followers through social media sites and YouTube channels promoting the convoluted QAnon conspiracy theory.”
““Parental rights” means strategically harassing public schools”
“Funding: more than just T-shirt sales”
“Moms for Liberty has serious GOP connections”
“Other right-wing and far-right affiliations”
“Becoming right-wing media sweethearts”
‘Terrorism and hate crimes’: School boards say death threats, unruly meetings require FBI
https://defenseofdemocracy.org/
School boards get death threats amid rage over race, gender, mask policies
Where is the money coming from?
Koch Connections and Sham Grassroots of Parents Defending Education
Koch, ALEC, Tucker Carlson and TPUSA are telling parents to be angry
Koch Network Infiltration of Public Schools ‘Harms Students, Teachers, and Our Democracy’: Report
This is not a grassroots movements and the parents!
A look at the groups supporting school board protesters nationwide
“The toolkit further says activists don’t need any evidence that “critical race theory” is currently being taught in their local schools in order to mount a campaign against it: “It’s important to note that whether CRT is currently in your school system is mostly irrelevant to the purpose of this document.””
Koch Connections and Sham Grassroots of Parents Defending Education
“Parents Defending Education is corporate school privatizers going hard right to attack school boards, superintendents, principals, and teachers. It’s a dirty game and it’s about as grassroots as say, a Koch political operation.”
SAD:
She is reading a script prepared by Turning Point USA:
This is sad:
A teacher shortage twitter thread:
High schools could lose AP classes if they ban ‘required topics’ from being taught
“As a host of state legislatures and school districts across the country vote to ban certain books and subjects from being taught in schools, the College Board announced in a new statement of principles this week that any high schools that ban “required topics” in their Advanced Placement classes could lose AP designation.”
Update: Page County woman charged after comments made at school board meeting
During the public comment period, King said, “No mask mandates. My child, my children will not come to school on Monday with a mask on. Alright? That’s not happening. And I will bring every single gun loaded and ready.”
The school board cut her off for exceeding her three minutes and she responded with “I’ll see you all on Monday.””
Sad:
Parents protesting ‘critical race theory’ identify another target: Mental health programs
Sad:
Some good news!
This is SAD:
This is SCARY!
“At TPUSA event, audience member asks Charlie Kirk: “When do we get to use the guns?…That’s not a joke….How many elections are they going to steal before we kill these people?””
Turning Point USA Targets School Boards Over ‘Evil’ Mask Requirements and ‘Radical’ Training on Bias and Inequality
“Turning Point USA, an organization that trains and mobilizes right-wing college students, launched a project targeting public school boards on August 15, the Documented newsletter reported. TPUSA’s “School Board Watchlist” urges right-wing activists to submit anonymous tips about “radical and false ideologies endorsed by school boards and pushed in the classroom.””
Garland defends school violence memo against GOP criticism
The Memo does NOT contain the words “parent” or “terrorist”
MEMORANDUM FOR DIRECTOR, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION DIRECTOR, EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR U.S. ATTORNEYS ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL, CRIMINAL DIVISION UNITED STATES ATTORN
Attorney General Never Called Concerned Parents ‘Domestic Terrorists’
This is a great example:
An example of how the protesters are thinking:
A counter-argument:
WOW!
Kids get Covid
Teachers, Administrators and others at school get Covid
17 Employees at One Florida School District Have Died From COVID Since August, Officials Say
We Feel Your Grief: Remembering the 1,000 Plus Educators Who’ve Died of COVID-19
Ankeny School Board election heightens tension over mask mandates
Mother of girl, 10, who died 5 days after showing Covid symptoms: ‘Covid is real’
“”While I was sitting next to my dead daughter, there was a Chesapeake School Board meeting and people were saying, ‘This does not affect healthy people. This does not kill healthy people. It is not going to take out children. It’s over,'” Nicole Sperry told NBC affiliate WAVY in Virginia. “Well, I am here to tell you it is not over.””
How bad is COVID-19 in kids? See the latest data and charts on kids cases; hospitalizations; deaths
This is what harassment looks like,
‘It’s only going to get worse’: mask war in Arizona schools ramps up as Covid cases soar
Masks WORK!
Cincinnati Children’s study: COVID-19 cases, quarantines lower in schools with mask mandates
Large Study Confirms Masks Work to Limit COVID-19 Spread
In-Depth: A timeline of the mask debate in Williamson County Schools
and Critical Race Theory
A nonprofit run by a Trump administration official is training ‘critical race theory activists’ to overtake local school boards
- “Conservative social welfare group Citizens for Renewing America believes critical race theory will “socially replace” white people.
- Critical race theory was coined by lawyer and legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw.
- Toolkits from Citizens for Renewing America give tips on building grassroots coalitions to stop critical race theory.”
Tennessee parents say some books make students ‘feel discomfort’ because they’re White. They say a new law backs them up
Is QAnon Radicalizing Your School Board?
“When retired teacher Patty Duffy opened TIME magazine last summer to read how members of QAnon are infiltrating and radicalizing local school boards, she was stunned to find one of her own Grand Blanc, Michigan, school board members featured.”
The United States of Outrage
“Across the nation, anger over the handling of the coronavirus has shifted from the federal government to the local school board, where community members are acting out with increasing frequency and fury.
The Memo: Attacks on democracy seep down to school boards, election offices
“The toxic acrimony of national politics is seeping down to the local level — and the consequences look ever more ominous.
In recent weeks, school board meetings across the country have descended into screaming matches, often over mask mandates.”
Masks off: how US school boards became ‘perfect battlegrounds’ for vicious culture wars
“Rina Gallien doesn’t consider herself political, but when the 41-year-old mother of four heard that parents who oppose mask mandates in schools were organizing to attend the 12 August meeting of the St Tammany parish school board in Slidell, Louisiana, she took time off work to attend.
“I didn’t want them to think that they are the only people who care about their kids,” said Gallien, who has three children still in school and strongly supports the mask mandate reinstated by the state’s governor amid soaring Covid-19 cases in early August. “I care about my kids too, and I want them to come home safe.”
Still, Gallien was not prepared for the experience of attending a school board meeting in St Tammany, a rural parish that is significantly whiter, richer and more conservative than nearby New Orleans. “I didn’t know it was going to be like that,” she said. “When I pulled into the parking lot, it was a Trump rally.
IDAHO!
Someone predicted this:
Are Trump voters ruining America for all of us?: Tom Nichols
“First 100 days suggest our democracy is more likely to die in dumbness than in darkness.”
This is AWESOME!
This is sad!
This is next-level-Cray-Cray!
This is Sadder!
Where do people get these strange ideas? HERE:
‘It’s only going to get worse’: mask war in Arizona schools ramps up as Covid cases soar
Masks WORK!
Kids and COVID
Sad:
This twitter thread explains what is going on:
What is the Council for National Policy you ask?
Council for National Policy
“The Council for National Policy (CNP) is a right-wing 501(c)(3) nonprofit group that has been described as “a little-known club of a few hundred of the most powerful conservatives in the country”[1] and “a hyper-secretive Christian Right powerhouse that helps set the movement’s agenda”.[2] Anne Nelson’s book about CNP, Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right, describes how the organization connects “the manpower and media of the Christian right with the finances of Western plutocrats and the strategy of right-wing Republican political operatives.”[3]“
Is QAnon Radicalizing Your School Board?
“When retired teacher Patty Duffy opened TIME magazine last summer to read how members of QAnon are infiltrating and radicalizing local school boards, she was stunned to find one of her own Grand Blanc, Michigan, school board members featured.”
The United States of Outrage
“Across the nation, anger over the handling of the coronavirus has shifted from the federal government to the local school board, where community members are acting out with increasing frequency and fury.”
The Memo: Attacks on democracy seep down to school boards, election offices
“The toxic acrimony of national politics is seeping down to the local level — and the consequences look ever more ominous.
In recent weeks, school board meetings across the country have descended into screaming matches, often over mask mandates.”
Masks off: how US school boards became ‘perfect battlegrounds’ for vicious culture wars
“Rina Gallien doesn’t consider herself political, but when the 41-year-old mother of four heard that parents who oppose mask mandates in schools were organizing to attend the 12 August meeting of the St Tammany parish school board in Slidell, Louisiana, she took time off work to attend.
“I didn’t want them to think that they are the only people who care about their kids,” said Gallien, who has three children still in school and strongly supports the mask mandate reinstated by the state’s governor amid soaring Covid-19 cases in early August. “I care about my kids too, and I want them to come home safe.”
Still, Gallien was not prepared for the experience of attending a school board meeting in St Tammany, a rural parish that is significantly whiter, richer and more conservative than nearby New Orleans. “I didn’t know it was going to be like that,” she said. “When I pulled into the parking lot, it was a Trump rally.””
Masks and Critical Race Theory are being used to energize Trump’s base
