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I did. It was the Republicans who produced the hate campaigns, trolls, and the like. The Democrats did none of this.
People went to the polls asking for the handouts to tell them who to vote for and got upset that since COVID was occurring during the May election, they didn’t know who to vote for. It wasn’t just one precinct either.
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I honor you for running. It takes guts and resources whether conservative, progressive or neither. Conservatives regularly face organized opposition from teachers associations who feel that they will get less oversight and more money from liberals.
And either can be bullied. See the story of the Loudon County school board member below.
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Captain Sherlock, if you follow the story of John Beatty of the Loudoun County School Board you will see why it is near impossible to be a conservative voice and ask questions that deserve answering. Beatty has essentially been silenced.
All he did wrong was ask some questions and give his insights during an equity training session for the school board. What a spider’s web this man walked into. He probably should have said it different but I do believe Mr. Beatty to be a fair minded man trapped in a “gotcha game”
https://www.loudountimes.com/news/update-msaac-member-calls-for-loudoun-school-board-members-resignation-after-alleged-racial-insensitivity/article_5eef9194-58a6-11ea-9dc0-db105fe9e73b.html-
I’m sure there were very fine people on both sides of that issue…
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We need to stop kidding ourselves.
Free Speech is dead in Virginia. Dead as a door nail. Free Speech is dead in Virginia’s schools. Free Speech is dead in its colleges and universities. Free Speech is dead in its Government. Free Speech is dead in its large places of employment, both public and private. In the main, Free Speech is dead in most of America, too, most particularly in most of our large cities, always said before to be havens of creativity. No More! Free speech has been dying for decades. The roaming street mobs, and internet mobs, is now finishing off Free Speech for good in the USA.
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It takes real conviction to wade into the swamp that is education politics. But it will never get drained if good people do not. I note that Mr. Beatty sits on the school board’s Select Committee on Equity (perhaps a clue to his virulent racism?), which is apparently why he was at the meeting that got him in trouble. After this incident, I suspect he will be literally irreplaceable on that panel by anyone not officially woke. And they better keep their mouths shut.
The testimonials to Mr. Beatty’s character in comments on the article you linked are telling.
He said he was trying to make a point about the evils of Jim Crow laws, which his accusers verified.
It is utterly preposterous to think that any public official or in fact any relatively sober human being attending a meeting with something called “Loudoun County Public Schools Minority Student Achievement Advisory Committee (MSAAC)” would intentionally voice support for slavery. I don’t believe it. And neither do his accusers.
Speaking of whom:
Wande Oshode, who chairs MSAAC’s Membership Committee, called for Beatty’s removal from both School Board committees on which he sits and that he leave the board altogether.
Katrece Nolen, who chairs MSAAC’s Executive Board, opined Beatty “lacks empathy and shows no respect for the African American community,” asked he participate in a “restorative practice circle” with the community. Nolen stopped short of calling for Beatty to step down.
“If the School Board does not immediately condemn Mr. Beatty’s public statement, every School Board member is complicit,” Nolen finished
These evil, racist Loudon school board members approved a list of books for kindergarteners that can be found at https://www.lcps.org/cms/lib/VA01000195/Centricity/Domain/20/GRADE%20K%20Diverse%20Book%20Collections%20with%20Annotations.pdf.
You owe it to yourself to check it out and see what you missed in kindergarten. Makes my point about woke “educators” reaching down into kindergarten to grab 5 year olds before it is too late.
One final note, a “restorative practice circle” sounds like a tenth circle of hell. I think may be is banned by the Geneva Convention.
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I remember Big Bob and Little Bob books caused quite a stir from some parents. I don’t know Mr. Beatty personally but school board watchers seemed to like him because he questioned the superintendent and made him defend his arguments, especially in the area of spending. What is happening in Loudoun needs to be followed. Could come soon to a school near you.
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First of all, it has been a long time since my daughter was kindergarten age. Second, none of these books are familiar to me (no golden oldies). Which are the ones you find objectionable?
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Nice try, Dick. I did not say I found them objectionable.
There are major religions in America that find some expressions of sexuality sinful. I don’t belong to any of them, but the adherents to those religions have the right to raise their children to their own moral codes without the public schools pulling them in a different direction.
Loudon County has a very well constructed and informative opt-out program available for Family Life Education.
On the subject of books available in classrooms, Loudon does not appear to have the same parental control mechanism. It has an active program for challenges and reviews of individual titles by the superintendent and school board. However, Loudon either does not have or does not advertise a program to control access to individual titles in classroom libraries by parental opt-out.
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Big Bob liked fire trucks and Tonka toys. Little Bob liked dolls and makeup. This book did not sit well with conservative Christian minded parents. If you look at the long history of Loudoun it was a very conservative minded county up until the turn of the century. Now they are outnumbered and object to a cultural change in education. But they can’t win and did not. Just one example of children’s books that parents objected too. There was another about homosexuality and so on. Lots of school board drama over this issue.
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