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| Howard County, Maryland, School District Implements Busing Over Near-Unanimous Opposition |
| 2019-11-25 |
| [DAILYCALLER] The Howard County, Maryland, school board voted to implement a massive, 1970s-style busing program Thursday, despite overwhelming opposition. After one vote failed, members went into a back room, and when they came out, one of the members who voted "no" was crying. They did a do-over and she changed her vote. Board member Jennifer Mallo lectured to constituents who voiced displeasure, saying it was a "privilege" that they got to witness the meeting, admonishing them not criticize her on social media, and complaining about her salary. Im |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Immigrants from China and the former Soviet Union said that what they were witnessing reminded them of the totalitarian regimes where they grew up. I hear this comparison made frequently these days by immigrants from the former USSR and those old enough to remember the Cultural Revolution. What's most astonishing to them is the eerie resemblance between the 'woke' practice of denouncing thought-criminals and what they and their parents endured -- sometimes with terrible consequences -- in Mao's China or under Soviet Communism. Truly terrifying that it's happening here. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-11-25 11:00 |
| #2 County Executive Calvin Ball, a Democrat, has a “chauffeur and personal security,” while the school system is spending on more buses instead of educational programs, Steil said. “Ball sat in the audience of his church while the pastor talked about sending black children to ‘white schools’ — we do not have ‘white schools’ in this county since the student population is only 35.8% white. FARMs students is only 18.9% of the county,” she said. No, reeeeally. Calvin Ball? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-11-25 06:53 |
| #1 It's tough when they throw out real history in school and replace it with 'studies' - We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-11-25 06:31 |