Thank you for lending your powerful voice and platform to my story @chrisbray. It has been a surreal experience. I am going to keep going and hopefully at some point the school board members will comply with their legal duties. The only way we keep this from happening again is to ensure transparency and accountability for misconduct by public officials.
Oct 20, 2023·edited Oct 20, 2023Liked by Chris Bray
Chris, this is an interesting article. But I have to fault you for not naming names. You say, "In an affluent, deep blue community in the Philadelphia suburbs..." Which community is that? Can we be specific? You say "In August of 2020, during a Zoom meeting to decide on a mask mandate for the soon-to-begin school year, the nine-member Unionsville-Chadds Ford school board muted Williams when he asked about the legal basis for the mandate." Who are the members of that school board? What are their names? These are public officials. Name them. Otherwise, this article is only interesting in a "Some people, somewhere, did something bad. Oh, well" sort of way. Let's get specific. Person X, a member of the school board, probably the board president, called for these actions. Who is that person? These were public meetings. So, let's make sure the people responsible for these actions receive the sunlight that is due to them.
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We stop it by imposing consequences on these "public" officials. Harsh ones! Like they are stripped of their jobs, their reputations, sued into the poor house and jailed. AND removing your children from government schools.
One of Saul Alinsky’s rules; power is not only what you have, but what your enemy thinks you have. The school board pretended to have power. Regarding the fearful friends; if you take the cowardly path you become cowardly, if you take the courageous path you become courageous.
There are three parties included in a Bond Agreement:
Bondholder – All elected public officials are required to be bonded and they must sign an oath to uphold the Constitution of their State as well as the Constitution of the United States for America. Companies, contractors, and even unions are also required to have a surety bond.
We the People – The community for whom the bondholder is OBLIGATED to serve.
Surety Bond Company – This is the company that guarantees that the bondholder will serve the people.
If a claim is filed against a bondholder, the Surety Bond Company is responsible for accepting the claim(s), notifying the bondholder, demanding that the bondholder address the claim and starting an investigation if the bondholder does not resolve or rectify the situation.
How do we break that habit? The "elite" school critters consider us to be dog poop under their shoes. That isn't going to change. I suppose if everyone takes their kids out of public schools, something might change.
The area around Philly is lost. There is so much corruption, elites with their heads up their asses and cheating during elections that no sane conservative will go near it.
You can’t break cowardice. It is ingrained now in our Western society. There needs to be a cultural shift. Easy times create weak men. It looks like we may just break that cycle soon with a WW upon us.
You're not to imagine yourself better than we are.
You're not to think you know more than we do.
You're not to think you are more important than we are.
You're not to think you are good at anything.
You're not to laugh at us.
You're not to think anyone cares about you.
You're not to think you can teach us anything.
Perhaps you don't think we know a few things about you?
(The eleventh one at the end is a sort-of penal code)
Courtesy of Aksel Sandemose, from his 1933 novel 'A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks'. Highly recommended and the above "laws" have a great sociological bearing and are based on precisely the negative kind of small-town mentality you talk about.
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We break that habit of enabling tyrants by seceding from their institutions rather than naively attempting to reform them. To "tell you how this ends," it ends when -- and only when -- we stop playing by their rules and start living by our own. My wife and I have put skin in the game by homeschooling our daughter instead of trying to mitigate the harms of a crooked system. It was a difficult decision at first, requiring some additional work and sacrifice, but it has turned out to be one the best decisions we ever made.
What if Chad Williams had taken all the time, money, energy and expertise he wasted fighting the school district and directed it into homeschooling his children instead? He only ended up proving the district's absolute authority while his children were forced into masks and all that comes with that.
In my area, Los Angeles, I am seeing more and more services and accommodations popping up to serve the growing homeschool population. But those services and accommodations only come into existence as people break with reformers like Chad Williams and simply say no to the irretrievably corrupt public school system.
Thank you for lending your powerful voice and platform to my story @chrisbray. It has been a surreal experience. I am going to keep going and hopefully at some point the school board members will comply with their legal duties. The only way we keep this from happening again is to ensure transparency and accountability for misconduct by public officials.
I've invited school district officials to respond, and will publish their response if I get one.
Ah yes, the "Fuck you, that's why" clause of the Constitution that's so popular with lawmakers these days...
Corrected a couple of errors: Got the purpose of the 2020 meeting wrong, and gave the school district a free S in its name.
"How do we break that habit?"
Stop voting Democrat would be a good first step.
Chris, this is an interesting article. But I have to fault you for not naming names. You say, "In an affluent, deep blue community in the Philadelphia suburbs..." Which community is that? Can we be specific? You say "In August of 2020, during a Zoom meeting to decide on a mask mandate for the soon-to-begin school year, the nine-member Unionsville-Chadds Ford school board muted Williams when he asked about the legal basis for the mandate." Who are the members of that school board? What are their names? These are public officials. Name them. Otherwise, this article is only interesting in a "Some people, somewhere, did something bad. Oh, well" sort of way. Let's get specific. Person X, a member of the school board, probably the board president, called for these actions. Who is that person? These were public meetings. So, let's make sure the people responsible for these actions receive the sunlight that is due to them.
Commies gonna fascist🤷🏼♂️
We stop it by imposing consequences on these "public" officials. Harsh ones! Like they are stripped of their jobs, their reputations, sued into the poor house and jailed. AND removing your children from government schools.
One of Saul Alinsky’s rules; power is not only what you have, but what your enemy thinks you have. The school board pretended to have power. Regarding the fearful friends; if you take the cowardly path you become cowardly, if you take the courageous path you become courageous.
Quoting from the linked website:
There are three parties included in a Bond Agreement:
Bondholder – All elected public officials are required to be bonded and they must sign an oath to uphold the Constitution of their State as well as the Constitution of the United States for America. Companies, contractors, and even unions are also required to have a surety bond.
We the People – The community for whom the bondholder is OBLIGATED to serve.
Surety Bond Company – This is the company that guarantees that the bondholder will serve the people.
If a claim is filed against a bondholder, the Surety Bond Company is responsible for accepting the claim(s), notifying the bondholder, demanding that the bondholder address the claim and starting an investigation if the bondholder does not resolve or rectify the situation.
Hit them where it hurts, right in the $$$.
https://bondsforthewin.com/
How do we break that habit? The "elite" school critters consider us to be dog poop under their shoes. That isn't going to change. I suppose if everyone takes their kids out of public schools, something might change.
The area around Philly is lost. There is so much corruption, elites with their heads up their asses and cheating during elections that no sane conservative will go near it.
"...we keep watching institutions stagger from failure to failure..."
It isn't failure, from their perspective. They gained more control, became more unaccountable, that was success for them. It was only failure for us.
You can’t break cowardice. It is ingrained now in our Western society. There needs to be a cultural shift. Easy times create weak men. It looks like we may just break that cycle soon with a WW upon us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
"The ten rules state:
You're not to think you are anything special.
You're not to think you are as good as we are.
You're not to think you are smarter than we are.
You're not to imagine yourself better than we are.
You're not to think you know more than we do.
You're not to think you are more important than we are.
You're not to think you are good at anything.
You're not to laugh at us.
You're not to think anyone cares about you.
You're not to think you can teach us anything.
Perhaps you don't think we know a few things about you?
(The eleventh one at the end is a sort-of penal code)
Courtesy of Aksel Sandemose, from his 1933 novel 'A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks'. Highly recommended and the above "laws" have a great sociological bearing and are based on precisely the negative kind of small-town mentality you talk about.
We break that habit of enabling tyrants by seceding from their institutions rather than naively attempting to reform them. To "tell you how this ends," it ends when -- and only when -- we stop playing by their rules and start living by our own. My wife and I have put skin in the game by homeschooling our daughter instead of trying to mitigate the harms of a crooked system. It was a difficult decision at first, requiring some additional work and sacrifice, but it has turned out to be one the best decisions we ever made.
What if Chad Williams had taken all the time, money, energy and expertise he wasted fighting the school district and directed it into homeschooling his children instead? He only ended up proving the district's absolute authority while his children were forced into masks and all that comes with that.
In my area, Los Angeles, I am seeing more and more services and accommodations popping up to serve the growing homeschool population. But those services and accommodations only come into existence as people break with reformers like Chad Williams and simply say no to the irretrievably corrupt public school system.