Prior Covid.... school board meetings were polite local affairs where generally people were polite and considerate to one another and respectful when addressing school board members. The parents and protestors did not threaten school board members, direct death threats at them, and harass the board members families. The unhinged anti-vax & anti-mask crowd brought an end to this era of local civility.
What should be done about the MAGA terrorist threat?
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Prior Covid.... school board meetings were polite local affairs where generally people were polite and considerate to one another and respectful when addressing school board members. The parents and protestors did not threaten school board members, direct death threats at them, and harass the board members families. The unhinged anti-vax & anti-mask crowd brought an end to this era of local civility.
you conveniently skipped over the deranged CRT mobs outraged over nothingburgers.
Let me ask --- find us an example of a CRT protestor at a school board meeting who threatened a school board member or school official with violence, harassed them in the parking lot, or protested at private residences. This is not happening in Loudoun or other locations. Sure the school board meetings may get loud -- but I don't see the violence coming from parents protesting CRT-based curriculum. The problems are with the anti-vax and anti-mask crowd -- many who show up aren't even parents --- and many of these Covid-deniers tend to be violent.
Garland mobilized in response to request from aid from the National School Board Association. This is the stochastic terrorism your spread of misinformation foments. You should own it.
This stems from a letter (PDF) from the National School Board Association. They’ve asked for help as teachers, board members, and school staff across the country face threats and harassment from parents who are angry over mask policies and the critical race theory (CRT) they wrongly believe is being taught in classrooms.
https://nsba.org/-/media/NSBA/File/...ic-schools-and-school-board-members-92921.pdf
NSBA believes immediate assistance is required to protect our students, school board members, and educators who are susceptible to acts of violence affecting interstate commerce because of threats to their districts, families, and personal safety. As our school boards continue coronavirus recovery operations within their respective districts, they are also persevering against other challenges that could impede this progress in a number of communities. Coupled with attacks against school board members and educators for approving policies for masks to protect the health and safety of students and school employees, many public school officials are also facing physical threats because of propaganda purporting the false inclusion of critical race theory within classroom instruction and curricula. 1 This propaganda continues despite the fact that critical race theory is not taught in public schools and remains a complex law school and graduate school subject well beyond the scope of a K-12 class.
1 The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), “Fact Sheet: Demonstrations over Critical Race Theory in the United States,” July 14, 2021, https://acleddata.com/acleddatanew/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/ACLED_Fact-Sheet_CRT-Demos_2021.pdf
In New Jersey10, Ohio11, and other states12, anti-mask proponents are inciting chaos during board meetings. In Virginia13, an individual was arrested, another man was ticketed for trespassing, and a third person was hurt during a school board meeting discussion distinguishing current curricula from critical race theory and regarding equity issues. In other states including Washington14, Texas15 , Wisconsin16, Wyoming17, and Tennessee18, school boards have been confronted by angry mobs and forced to end meetings abruptly. A resident in Alabama, who proclaimed himself as “vaccine police,” has called school administrators while filming himself on Facebook Live.19
13 Drew Wilder, Jackie Bensen, Andrea Swalec and NBC4 Washington Staff, NBCWashington.com, “‘The Meeting Has Degenerated': 1 Arrest, 1 Injury at Loudoun Schools Meeting on Equity,” June 22, 2021, Updated June 23, 2021, https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/...ransgender-student-policy-raceequity/2708185/.
15 Talia Richman and Brayden Garcia, The Dallas Morning News, “‘Critical race theory’ roils Fort Worth school board meeting as Texas braces for continued fight,” June 22, 2021, https://www.dallasnews.com/news/edu...d-meetingas-texas-braces-for-continued-fight/.
Other groups are posting watchlists against school boards and spreading misinformation that boards are adopting critical race theory curriculum and working to maintain online learning by haphazardly attributing it to COVID-19.20
20 Nick Surgery, Documented, “TPUSA launches project targeting school board members,” August 20, 2021, https://substack.documented.net/p/tpusa-school-board-watchlist
You have a point and citations.
Let me mention that I support this federal measure to stop the threats and abuse of local school board members and officials. Parents protesting at school board meetings should be polite and respectful -- not a violent mob.
Similarly the federal government needs to step in to stop the violent threats against election officials, poll workers, and other volunteers involved in elections. The "voting fraud" nonsense has given rise to an absurd level of unhinged behavior against these people involved in running our elections.
And of course we have this idiot.
And this is a typical example of anti-mask & anti-vax idiots intimidating a school board member's by protesting outside their house, demanding she come out, etc. Intimidating a school board member or public official at their home should not be allowed and should be an offense leading to immediate arrest.
These people can address their grievances in public meetings on government property. They can also protest outside government buildings. Intimidating a school board member in their home should is unacceptable -- similarly these clowns are using a bullhorn to disturb all the neighbors.
These people can address their grievances in public meetings on government property. They can also protest outside government buildings. Intimidating a school board member in their home should is unacceptable -- similarly these clowns are using a bullhorn to disturb all the neighbors.
