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> School board elections have very low turnout usually, and the people elected to them are disproportionately ideologues who treat engaged parents with contempt

by vuln 3y ago

> School board elections have very low turnout usually, and the people elected to them are disproportionately ideologues who treat engaged parents with contempt for being "privileged." Not only the School Board but the Teachers Unions and the United States Government are anti parents attending School Board meetings to support their children. Red or Blue, 6 or 600, it doesn’t matter when the USG decides to make parents the enemy of the state. https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/chairman-jordan-expands-investigation-biden-targeting-parents-school-board https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/chairman-jo... https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/29/garland-school-board-memo-fbi/11561422002/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/29/garl... https://apnews.com/article/merrick-garland-school-boards-violence-daaff3f659981354b7a9a536db5cf2e2 https://apnews.com/article/merrick-garland-school-boards-vio...

thebooktocome 3y ago
Parents are merely exercising their First Amendment rights when they threaten violence against school teachers & staff? That’s an interesting position.
declan_roberts 3y ago
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- ambicapter 3y ago
  I find it hard to believe that you find it hard to believe that law enforcement was called in to deal with individuals threatening violence on others, regardless of whether these were parents at a school board meeting.
- insanitybit 3y ago
  The article cites a parent physically attacking a school board member and your response is shock that authorities were involved?
ryandrake 3y ago
I dunno--if you want to see America's mental illness problem on full, public display, just do a YouTube search for "school board meeting outrage". It's great when concerned, non-ideological, rational parents show up to have a voice in how the school is run, but the flip side of that coin is ugly, belligerent, and counter-productive.
- whatwhaaaaat 3y ago
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  - pwthornton 3y ago
    What the hell is "trans ideology?" This is just a nonsense sentence.
    - whatwhaaaaat 3y ago
      The ideology that it is possible for a human male to transition to a human female (or the inverse). Not everyone believes in this and that is ok. I choose to respect the wishes of adults around me for social cohesion. I draw the line when we’re talking about children.
      - feggle 3y ago
        Even worse, most people don't believe in it, the ones that do are typically just following a popular fad. Which is a truly awful reason to permanently disfigure the children and adults who have been caught up in this nonsense.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3y ago
  For some of the decisions these boards make, outrage happens to be the only rational response anyone who cared could possibly have. If they were crippling my children for the rest of their lives, I wouldn't get up in front of the room and drone on in monotone about how there are more reasonable choices to be made. No one could do that in full confidence that it could work even some of the time, nor do anything but react when it was proven to you that it didn't ever work. As for ideology, I doubt it's possible to be non-ideological. I have children not because they are accidents or the abortions my wife didn't bother to have. Not even because we just didn't know any other way to go through life. We had children because children are a good thing unto themselves. So good that I hope they grow up to have their own and enjoy that experience. Schools are hostile to that and seem to be doing what they can to encourage sterility.
OGWhales 3y ago
I’m confused, your comment talks about schools and the government making parents the enemy and being anti-parent but your linked articles are about parents making threats over things like Covid mask policies. What exactly is your point?
- ihsw 3y ago
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insanitybit 3y ago
> “We are coming after you,” a letter mailed to an Ohio school board member said, according to the group. “You are forcing them to wear mask — for no reason in this world other than control. And for that you will pay dearly.” It called the member “a filthy traitor.” Ah yes, this is clearly a 'both sides' issue where parents are the victims.

by vuln 3y ago

thebooktocome 3y ago

Parents are merely exercising their First Amendment rights when they threaten violence against school teachers & staff? That’s an interesting position.

declan_roberts 3y ago

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ambicapter 3y ago
I find it hard to believe that you find it hard to believe that law enforcement was called in to deal with individuals threatening violence on others, regardless of whether these were parents at a school board meeting.
insanitybit 3y ago
The article cites a parent physically attacking a school board member and your response is shock that authorities were involved?

ryandrake 3y ago

I dunno--if you want to see America's mental illness problem on full, public display, just do a YouTube search for "school board meeting outrage". It's great when concerned, non-ideological, rational parents show up to have a voice in how the school is run, but the flip side of that coin is ugly, belligerent, and counter-productive.

whatwhaaaaat 3y ago
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- pwthornton 3y ago
  What the hell is "trans ideology?" This is just a nonsense sentence.
  - whatwhaaaaat 3y ago
    The ideology that it is possible for a human male to transition to a human female (or the inverse). Not everyone believes in this and that is ok. I choose to respect the wishes of adults around me for social cohesion. I draw the line when we’re talking about children.
    - feggle 3y ago
      Even worse, most people don't believe in it, the ones that do are typically just following a popular fad. Which is a truly awful reason to permanently disfigure the children and adults who have been caught up in this nonsense.
NoMoreNicksLeft 3y ago
For some of the decisions these boards make, outrage happens to be the only rational response anyone who cared could possibly have. If they were crippling my children for the rest of their lives, I wouldn't get up in front of the room and drone on in monotone about how there are more reasonable choices to be made. No one could do that in full confidence that it could work even some of the time, nor do anything but react when it was proven to you that it didn't ever work. As for ideology, I doubt it's possible to be non-ideological. I have children not because they are accidents or the abortions my wife didn't bother to have. Not even because we just didn't know any other way to go through life. We had children because children are a good thing unto themselves. So good that I hope they grow up to have their own and enjoy that experience. Schools are hostile to that and seem to be doing what they can to encourage sterility.

OGWhales 3y ago

I’m confused, your comment talks about schools and the government making parents the enemy and being anti-parent but your linked articles are about parents making threats over things like Covid mask policies. What exactly is your point?

ihsw 3y ago
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insanitybit 3y ago

> “We are coming after you,” a letter mailed to an Ohio school board member said, according to the group. “You are forcing them to wear mask — for no reason in this world other than control. And for that you will pay dearly.” It called the member “a filthy traitor.” Ah yes, this is clearly a 'both sides' issue where parents are the victims.