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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ever since Glenn Youngkin squeaked to victory on a bad-faith platform that exploited suburban fears about public schools, Republicans everywhere have been adopting the playbook. Yell about “parental rights” and attack the phantom CRT menace. Lambast “equity” programs, especially if commitments to those can be juxtaposed against changes to academic programs that are tailored to higher-achieving students like honors classes.

Obviously we all know beyond being a cynical attempt to win elections, the real agenda behind this attack on education is to dumb down the future electorate since poorly educated people tend to vote more conservative. It’s also about trying to redirect taxpayer dollars to fund public schools to for-profit companies that run charter schools and also to religious-based private schools.

In Florida, Ron DeSantis has taken it a bit further and, in the name of protesting “liberal indoctrination” at post-secondary education (something that doesn’t actually exist, like CRT being taught in grade schools, but the dumbed down and frightened electorate doesn’t grasp this) but deliberately doing things like trying to turn a public school into a bastion of right-wing, reactionary education (see what’s happening at the New College).

But this has all gone completely meta now. Even as Republicans complain that the focus on equity in K-12 is resulting in things like honors programs being emphasized, DeSantis (whose policies and rhetoric are copied as much as Youngkin’s) is planning to do with AP courses IN THEIR ENTIRETY in Florida high schools. Because they’re too woke or something.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/02/18/4-things-know-about-ron-desantis-idea-slash-ap-courses-florida/

Make it make sense. [/quote]

Not only that, Youngkin sent out a bat signal and got far right activists from all around the country to converge on NoVA school board meetings pretending to be local parents shrieking about everything and anything including imaginary CRT, resulting in school board members and school officials receiving horrific threats to rape and murder them and their children, burn their houses down and so on.

Calling it bad-faith is too gentle.[/quote]

You are willfully ignoring what happened. Read the Grand Jury report. [/quote]

The rape and how it was handled was bad, yes.  But the far right also willfully ignored a lot of other aspects of the case that were out of the district's hands and made a lot of wrongful accusations, along with their far-right CRT lies and everything else.  And despite the rape, NOTHING warranted those far right loons storming meetings lying and falsely pretending they were district parents, and making horrific threats to rape, torture, burn alive, murder school board members, school officials and their families.  That was utterly disgusting, terroristic behavior by the far right and you may not willfully ignore that either.[/quote]

This is what I remember about the parents who "stormed" the meeting.

[twitter]https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1447949000292904962[/twitter][/quote]

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Can you imagine being the parent of a girl who was raped - and then being treated like this?  Just disgusting.  The PP is repulsive.[/quote]

Stop it.

The rape is one issue.  It was horrible and was badly mishandled.

BUT.  The violent threats are a separate issue, absolutely NOT justified by the first.  And the violent threats weren't just about the rape, since school boards in many other places around the country were also accosted by right wing extremists.  The violent threats have been over CRT and every other delusional fever dream of the far right.[/quote]

Okay. Go ask the FBI to investigate all those terrorist parents.

Oh wait. [/quote]

The FBI was in fact called in.  https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-addresses-violent-threats-against-school-officials-and-teachers

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So no indictments.  As we were saying, girls actually got raped at Loudon schools due to callous behavior by school officials. Violence against school officials never occurred.  [/quote]

I have no idea if there were indictments or not but the threats of violence definitely happened.  I had a number of bookmarked posts when I was still on Twitter, that included recordings of phone messages, screenshots of text messages and emails, photos of notes received by mail and even placed at their houses.  There were a LOT of threats, and many were grotesque and disgusting.

FBI and local police investigated (I also recall seeing posts from Loudoun County Sheriffs Department about it), but as often is the case, the perpetrators likely just off with a warning, despite it being a felony in most jurisdictions to threaten to harm people or destroy their property under terrorstic threat statutes.

It's truly bizarre that you are SO invested in lying, denying the threats occurred, repeatedly attempting to gaslight posters by calling them "insane," dismissing articles as "not credible" and so on.
Nobody here ever denied the rape happened.  Why are you so invested in your lies and denials?[/quote]

I'm invested in the notion that Youngkin won bc parents correctly perceived that the school board was out of line. I'm sure there were some crazies at the meetings and some threats of violence. However, I dont believe your narrative that parents who want things like safe schools and normal history lessons are violent right wing extremists. And the fact that there were no indictments really casts doubt on your version of events, in which school officials suffered violence. Kids suffered violence in those schools. And no trans children were involved whatsoever, so the political narrative is a total red herring by the left to villanize the parents.  [/quote]

Turns out there were in fact arrests and indictments of people who made threats over the Loudoun County Stone Bridge High School rape.  https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/alexandria-man-31-charged-with-making-threats-to-loudoun-high-school/article_83bd263e-5337-11ec-a1b4-5b0a55b44cc4.html

That, combined with the fact that the far right did in fact make it about trans bathrooms, casts doubt on YOUR version of events.[/quote]

DP.  So, you realize that ONE arrest =/= "arrests and indictments of people," right?  One person was arrested.  Are any of your posts truthful?[/quote]

Same pp claimed that the people at the Loudon school board meetings were also at the Capitol on Jan 6. Probably has a wall with red string and pics of randos.  [/quote]

:lol:  :lol:

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Ahhh I see you've sent us a picture from your basement wall of how Joe Biden is in league with China and George Soros and the plan to eliminate all police to help the mexican cartels that secretly work for Sleepy Joe to help him bring the fentanyl and illegals in because he gets a cut of the drug money which he is using to buy adenochrome harvested from millions of abducted children, and he uses the rest to fund the World Economic Forum's plan to have you live in a pod and eat bugs while he and Bill Gates implant you with microchips, which will make you magnetic and control your brain so that you become unaware of the secret Ukrainian bio labs that produce covid and mutant soldiers created by dangerous mRNA, while the secret Dominion satellites orbiting above change your ballot or some shit...     It's so damn hard to keep up with all of the constant barrage of right wing crazy....[/quote]

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