A Nevada school board member said he had thoughts of suicide before stepping down amid threats and harassment. In Virginia, a board member resigned over what she saw as politics driving decisions on masks. The vitriol at board meetings in Wisconsin had one member fearing he would find his tires slashed.
In his letter of resignation from Wisconsin’s Oconomowoc Area School Board, Rick Grothaus said its work had become “toxic and impossible to do.” -AP
"When I got on, I knew it would be difficult," Grothaus - who resigned Aug. 15, told AP. "But I wasn’t ready or prepared for the vitriolic response that would occur, especially now that the pandemic seemed to just bring everything out in a very, very harsh way. It made it impossible to really do any kind of meaningful work."
2/2 Williamson County Sheriff's Office Sgt. : "I am begging ya'll to be peaceful" -hundreds of protesters earlier-School board voted to require masks for elementary schools until 9/21/21. FPD also on site. #williamsoncountyschools #franklintn @WilliamsonHmPg
— Matt Masters (@formvscontent) August 11, 2021
This is Courtney Ann Taylor, a mother in Georgia. She’s one of the many parents who’ve HAD IT with mask mandates, especially for young kids in school.
— Errol Webber (@ErrolWebber) April 22, 2021
According to National School Boards Association interim executive director, Chip Slaven, the charged political climate 'has made a difficult job even more challenging, if not impossible.'
It's not just pissed off parents, either. Earlier this month, a Virginia teacher quit her job at a school board meeting, saying that she refused to “be a cog in a machine” that forces her to transmit their “highly politicized agendas” to children.
“Within the last year, I was told, in one of my so-called equity trainings, that white, Christian, able-bodied females currently have the power in our schools and that ‘this has to change,'” said the elementary school teacher Laura Morris during the public comment portion of the board meeting.
“School board, I quit,” she said.
“I quit your policies, I quit your training, and I quit being a cog in a machine that tells me to push highly politicized agendas on our most vulnerable constituents—the children,” Morris added.
At one Veil, Arizona school board meeting, angry parents alternated between blasting officials over masks, vaccines, and CRT - while the board has no intention of addressing and acting on any of those topics.
After the board attempted to shut down the debate, more angry parents stepped up to drag their noses back on topic.
"There is starting to be an inherent distrust for school boards, that there’s some notion that we are out to indoctrinate children or to undermine parents or things like that, when we are on the same team," said Vail, AZ board member Allison Pratt, who's been on the board for six years.
Pratt said she strives to view issues from the perspective of even the most extreme members of the community, and she has no plans to resign. But she has stepped up security at her home.
Police have been called to intervene in places including Vail, where parents protesting a mask mandate pushed their way into a board room in April, and in Mesa County, Colorado, where Doug Levinson was among school board members escorted to their cars by officers who had been unable to de-escalate a raucous Aug. 17 meeting. “Why am I doing this?” Levinson asked himself.
Kurt Thigpen wrote in leaving the Washoe County, Nevada, school board that he considered suicide amid relentless bullying and threats led by people who didn’t live in the county, let alone have children in the schools. “I was constantly looking over my shoulder,” he wrote in July.
In several states, board members who won't resign are facing recall efforts. According to Ballotpedia, 147 school board members are up for recall across 59 campaigns in 2021. Among them, Vail board president Jon Aitken - whose critics say the mental and physical health of students in his district has declined amid pandemic restrictions.
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>>14497443 pb >according to the National School Boards Association (NSBA) interim executive director, Chip Slaven… Re: the communist indoctrination play book for our children in public schools here is the Mother Lode. Went to their website. They are made up of all states, every state in the U.S. plus the Virgin Islands has a School Boards Association. Checked out one, the Pennsylvania School Boards Association (PSBA). The arrogant dummies spell their deranged programs out. They are proud of them. Let the parents keep up their good work in holding their local school board members and local superintendent to account. We can back them up by sending dank memes and truthful texts to the National & State School Boards Associations. You know, very friendly, very truthful exposing what they are doing and humbly pointing out how bad it is for the children.
>>14499825 This why General Flynn keeps encouraging citizens to get involved locally, local parent groups and boards, local county councils and every local organization. > We can back them up by sending dank memes and truthful texts to the National & State School Boards Associations. You know, very friendly, very truthful exposing what they are doing and humbly pointing out how bad it is for the children. This is how to fight and get our lives back to normal.
>>14499837 That's right. I'm older than dirt but I'm going to my next school board meeting. I'm going to check out my State's School Boards Association beforehand. Am thinking that it might be a good idea to have a squad, maybe a company, of skilled anons putting out the news about what the National and individual state School Boards Associations are putting out. Qresearch in the news now. The average person would be shocked if they saw their own state's school boards association's website.
