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[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]

As much as I feel bad for what happened in that school, you don't report a crime by getting violent at a school board meeting.  Take it up with the police.  That is what the school did - they reported it to the police and followed procedure.  The right wing screamed about "coverup" but the reality was that they were NOT LEGALLY ALLOWED to divulge details of what transpired.  I think the rapist kid should have been expelled and arrested rather than ending up in another school but the lack of arrest is on the police, not the school.  Also, I think this has less to do with being trans than it does about the rapist kid being a predator.  Being trans does not somehow automatically make one a predator and rapist.  He probably would have raped someone even if he wasn't trans.

And again, Loudoun school officials were getting dozens of horrific, violent threats every single day.  That's horrible and unjustifiable.  https://wtop.com/loudoun-county/2021/10/loudoun-co-school-board-receiving-violent-threats-school-says/  The people making threats are still making threats even today, and the calls come from all over the country.

[b]Also, I recall reading about numerous far right activists who were identified disrupting Loudoun school board meetings lying and pretending to be parents who were from as far away as North Carolina.  Some of them also turned up tied into the January 6th attack on the US Capitol.  I recall the far right woman who was first questioned about the Moore County NC incident involving the transformers that were shot ahead of a drag event also was involved in the Loudon County protests.  These are not nice people and were not "concerned Loudon parents" - they are extremists and domestic terrorists.[/b]

But people like Benny Johnson don't acknowledge any of that part of the story at all.[/quote]

Links?[/quote]

Stop wasting everyone's time - you're just going to say "meh not credible" regardless of the source and continue gaslighting like the denialist liar that you are.[/quote]

So no links, got it.  Moving on...[/quote]
There are tons of links with evidence of violent threats to school board members in this thread here: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/30/1059940.page[/quote]

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