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2021-10-08 -Great Cultural Revolution
Schools boards, bastions of local democracy, persecute dissident parents
[NYPOST] American parents are organizing to fight racist critical race theories being taught in their kids’ schools. Attorney General Merrick Garland
...Attorney General of the U.S., who classifies indignant parents as domestic terrorists. The is the respected legal scholar Obama nominated for the Supreme Court...
, once touted as a moderate, has responded by asking the FBI
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
to treat them as domestic terrorists. As befits the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
, this over-the-top authoritarianism is accompanied by the stench of corruption, as it turns out that Garland’s son-in-law is in the business of selling educational materials on CRT.

Garland’s self-dealing and thuggery are grounds for resignation. But that isn’t the worst thing that’s happened. Bad as it is, the Biden administration’s poisonous combination of graft and authoritarianism can be remedied by getting rid of the administration — something that, if polls are any indication, is eminently doable.

The bigger problem is that school boards all over America seem to be growing ever more authoritarian themselves. Instead of serving as bastions of small-scale representative democracy, boards seem to regard themselves as above accountability to the voters and parents.

It was, after all, the National School Boards Association that, citing shaky claims of "threats," asked the administration to investigate anti-CRT parents as "domestic terrorists," specifically invoking the Patriot Act in its letter.



Posted by Fred 2021-10-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 [Breitbart] Exclusive: Lauren Boebert Demands DOJ Show Data Behind Decision to ‘Attack American Parents’ Who Oppose CRT

DOJ Being Weaponized Against Critics of ‘repulsive and racist ideology’
Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-10-08 00:16||   2021-10-08 00:16|| Front Page Top

#2 School Board elections usually areignored by most people eligible to vote. Only the teachers, administrative staff and employees and those in the PTA vote, so the boards are generally pro teacher and pro status qup. Where most students are bussed from afar, and most parents hardly know where the schools are, parental contact with the schools occurs mainly through complaints by parents who are unhappy with their children's progress. Teachers tend to hate that contact, and do not realize that teachers and parents should be working together.
Posted by Goober Choluque6459 2021-10-08 03:02||   2021-10-08 03:02|| Front Page Top

#3 
#2, Not so much in my district.
The pro-union board is getting stiff opposition this year. Mask mandates and remote learning had a lot to do with the opposition.
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2021-10-08 06:23||   2021-10-08 06:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Daughter of Attorney General who ordered DOJ to probe angry parents for domestic terrorism is married to founder of education group that promotes Critical Race Theory: Merrick Garland accused of a conflict of interest
Posted by Skidmark 2021-10-08 07:20||   2021-10-08 07:20|| Front Page Top

#5 When I was a newspaper reporter, sometimes people would say to me "Oh, that must be such an interesting job!" I'd respond "Wanna cover a school board meeting for me?"
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-10-08 09:18||   2021-10-08 09:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Mark Levin had the right take - that this is the hill we die on. We're fighting for our kids now and must win. Otherwise, there is nothing left to fight for.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2021-10-08 09:25||   2021-10-08 09:25|| Front Page Top

#7 USA Today op-ed blasts Biden DOJ for getting involved in school board meetings: 'Outrageous'
Posted by Skidmark 2021-10-08 11:08||   2021-10-08 11:08|| Front Page Top

#8 #FJB
#FDOJ
#FMG and his corrupt family and the pony he rode in on
Posted by Flomoque Pelosi7438 2021-10-08 11:13||   2021-10-08 11:13|| Front Page Top

#9 From "bastions of local democracy" to bastards of local democracy.
Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-10-08 14:12||   2021-10-08 14:12|| Front Page Top

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