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#SchoolBoards #Georgia

"A Georgia mother was forcibly removed from a school board meeting Tuesday night after saying just one word out of turn.

Lena Kotler, a mother of three, was manhandled by four police officers at a recent City Schools of Decatur Board of Education meeting for speaking out against proposed changes to the district's diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. Kotler shouted 'Cowards!' at the board members, after which a recording of the meeting shows Board Chair Carmen Sulton asking her to leave.

'I said one word, I have already stated I have no intention of speaking again until public comment,' Kotler said. 'I'm going to sit here, I have offered that if it makes the board feel comfortable you as a security employee are welcome to sit next to me. If I speak again outside of public comment, I will leave. I have the right to be here, I have not used harsh language or threats.'

The officers then approached Kotler, who remained seated, and forcefully lifted her out of her seat before dragging her out of the room."

advocate.com/news/georgia-moth

Advocate.com · Georgia mother forcibly removed from school board meetingBy Ryan Adamczeski

#education #censorship #DEI #CRT #Texas #SchoolBoards

"In 2022, conservative groups celebrated a 'great victory' over 'wokeified' curriculum when the Texas State Board of Education squashed proposed social studies requirements for schools that included teaching kindergartners how Rosa Parks and Cesar Chavez 'advocated for positive change.'

Another win came a year later as the state board rejected several textbooks that some Republicans argued could promote a 'radical environmental agenda' because they linked climate change to human behavior or presented what conservatives perceived to be a negative portrayal of fossil fuels.

By the time the state board approved science and career-focused textbooks for use in Texas classrooms at the end of 2023, it appeared to be comfortably in sync with conservatives who had won control of local school boards across the state in recent years.

But the Republican-led state education board had not gone far enough for the conservative majority on the school board for Texas’ third-largest school district.

At the tail end of a school board meeting in May of last year, Natalie Blasingame, a board member in suburban Houston’s Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, proposed stripping more than a dozen chapters from five textbooks that had been approved by the state board and were recommended by a district committee of teachers and staffers.

The chapters, Blasingame said, were inappropriate for students because they discussed 'vaccines and polio,' touched on 'topics of depopulation,' had 'an agenda out of the United Nations' and included 'a perspective that humans are bad.'

In a less-publicized move, Blasingame, a former bilingual educator, proposed omitting several chapters from a textbook for aspiring educators titled 'Teaching.' One of those chapters focuses on how to understand and educate diverse learners and states that it 'is up to schools and teachers to help every student feel comfortable, accepted and valued,' and that 'when schools view diversity as a positive force, it can enhance learning and prepare students to work effectively in a diverse society.'"

propublica.org/article/texas-c

ProPublicaA Texas School Board Cut State-Approved Textbook Chapters About Diversity. A Board Member Says Material Violated the Law
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Again, please run for a school board position to prevent the idiocracy from doing things like banning AEDs from schools:

“The Vancouver school board’s decision to reject an AED for our school despite our fundraising efforts is both illogical and lacking in compassion for everyone on school grounds who may face a cardiac emergency,” Zhang’s Dec. 19 letter says.

6.8: Fighting the Far Right's Attack on Public Education with Dr Sam Myovitch

Across the USA, the far right candidates have been getting themselves elected to local and county school boards. Their goals include financially choking public schools by diverting government funds toward charter schools, often religious in orientation. Tune in to hear what Dr Sam Myovich, retired history teacher turned school board candidate campaign field coordinator, has to say about what’s at stake, the far right’s deployment of fascist tactics in their fight to destroy public education, and what we ordinary citizens can do to fight back against them, save our schools, and protect our very democracy itself.

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Here's how we #saveAmerica for our kids:

Stop funding private #schools with public money.
End the #propertyTax funding model.
Make #civics and critical thinking classes mandatory at every level.
Ensure our kids have enough to eat via school lunch and breakfast programs, and make the resources available to intervene when they need help.
And stop giving #schoolBoards the power to deny our children the #education they need in order to build a thriving #democracy

#blueWave2024

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[thread] Michael "Mike" Flynn
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_

* Christian Right
* xenophobic, Islamophobic
* QAnon/MAGA/Trumpist political operative
* ex-U.S. Army general
* psy-ops expert

persagen.org >>
"michael flynn"
"Michael Flynn's Holy War"

Frontline/transcript: Michael Flynn's Holy War
persagen.org/docs/frontline-20

en.wikipedia.orgMichael Flynn - Wikipedia

“To force school board candidates to pick a partisan side in what is already such a hostile and complicated political climate is the worst thing we could do for our students, teachers and educational stakeholders.”
#K12 #SchoolBoards #Florida #education
aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/l

Al Jazeera · Lawmakers, teachers clash over upcoming Florida constitutional amendmentBy Al Jazeera