A "by the way" additional thought: I live in the wokest of the woke-ass deep blue zones, and when my small town school board voted to return to in-person schooling, so many parents showed up to give public comment that the meeting ran past midnight, with a huge crowd still waiting to speak. So they....
....adjourned until the next night, then came back again to a second meeting to make sure they heard from EVERY. SINGLE. PERSON. who wanted to speak. Then, and only then, did they vote.
Virginia is in the direct orbit of the Imperial Capital. This school board is merely expressing its open contempt of the citizens, an emotion that lives in the hearts of the ruling class in the Beltway for everyone who is not “them..”
They think the parents are scum and so are their children. Their only value is monetary. But, I don’t discount the pseudo sexual thrill the Board gets get from dominating and humiliating the public. They are beyond contempt.
I hope the parents pool their money and start buying billboard space to make their public comments really PUBLIC.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Once on the page, scroll down to the first and second embedded videos of the protest. I could not find a direct URL for the videos. Note that some of the signs are in both videos.
TRANSCRIPTION OF SIGNS AND T-SHIRT SLOGANS DISPLAYED BY PROTESTORS - 2 VIDEOS
FIRST VIDEO
[Except where noted, sound on this video is of traffic, guitar playing, and the hum of background conversation. Please note, not all signs and T-shirt slogans could be transcribed, only the ones shown to the camera]
SIGN: FAUCI LIED
SIGN: FAUCI LIED PEOPLE DIED
SIGN: FAUCI LIED
SIGN: NO MORE MASKS
SIGN: FAUCI LIED
SIGN: FRAUDCI$ $CIENCE $UCK$
SIGN: FORCED CONSENT IS RAPE NO JAB NO JOB
T-SHIRT: WHERE THERE IS RISK THERE MUST BE CHOICE NO MANDATES
SIGN: PROSECUTE TEFLON TONY
SIGN: FAUCI HAS BLOOD ON HIS [picture of two red hands]
T-SHIRT: Goolag
SIGN: Gain of Function is Bio-Weapons Research Vaccines are Countermeasures
SIGN: FAUCI LIED
SIGN: FAUCI LIED 1000S DIED
SIGN: LIES LIES LIES YEAH!
SIGN: TELL ME SWEET LIE$
SIGN: HOLD FAUCI ACCOUNTABLE
SIGN: VACCINES ARE NOT PLACEBO SAFETY TESTED
SIGN: EBENEEZER FAUCI NO CHRISTMAS JUST JABS
SIGN: COVID-19 VACCINES HAVE NO LONG TERM SAFETY DATA
SIGN: FAUCI IS A MURDERER
SIGN: FAUCI LIED PEOPLE DIED
SIGN: FAUCI KILLED AIDS PATIENTS
SIGN: WE DO NOT COMPLY WITH FAUCI'S LIES
WOMAN WITH BULLHORN: Because of Fauci many, many people died
SIGN: JAIL FAUCI
WOMAN WITH BULLHORN: With his lies we won't comply. Because of Fauci many, many people died.
1:19
[END]
SECOND VIDEO
[Except where noted, sound on this video is of traffic, guitar playing, and the hum of background conversation. Please note, not all signs and T-shirt slogans could be transcribed, only the ones shown to the camera]
MAN'S VOICE: Trust me, I'm a doctor!
T-SHIRT: MEDICAL MANDATES ARE A VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
SIGN: COVID-19 VACCINES HAVE NO LONG TERM SAFETY
SIGN: HOLD FAUCI ACCOUNTABLE
SIGN: FAUCI LIED
SIGN: LIES LIES LIES
SIGN: TELL ME SWEET LIE$
SIGN: READ THIS BOOK THE REAL ANTHONY FAUCI [shows image of the cover of the book by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.]
I think your experience is the exception that proves the rule. A huge percentage of students believe restricting citizen speech based on content is OK. A high percentage of “Progressives” believe the same thing. The only left-of-center group that DOESN’T are 60’s liberals who supported the ACLU’s original purpose.
Chris, as far as you know has your (blue) town been open to parents' comments in the past? Cuz it's pretty remarkable that they scheduled a second meeting, hopefully they really were interested in hearing what parents were thinking (I wonder if some attending parents spoke against reopening schools, but even in a heavily blue area I'd imagine most parents recognize an epically awful brutally bad train wreck policy when they see it adversely impacting their own kids, and not just the kids living in, say, a US border town or Martha's Vineyard for those recent brutally terrible 48 hours, before the national guard parachuted in to restore sanity to this lovely quaint little seaside town, may I recommend sipping a yummy pumpkin spice latte from Elizabeth's as you search their bright sandy beach for sea glass! Fun!
Not at all, and to a surprising degree. We're a small town with an affluent center of historic Craftsman homes, a half-mile from a giant hospital, so the town has a disproportionate number of doctors. The doctors were the parents who turned out to say OPEN THE DAMN SCHOOLS, YOU IDIOTS. Several pediatricians saying they were treating many more children for depression and anxiety than they did before the lockdowns, but that Covid-19 was meaningless for children.
Walk away and build your own school. These idiots are the minority, the parents and kids are not. Destroy them by excluding them from any discussion or influence. They lose.
The best way to screw them over is to enroll in school, and maybe a week or two into the year have a mass un-enrollment, with your kid never showing up. If you can get say 10% of a school to do this, it would really screw them up.
You can but then your kid is "in the system" and you've rustled their jimmies so they'll take a very personal interest in whether your child is being properly educated or, perhaps, neglected or abused. I'm not against fucking with vicious bureaurats and their petty fiefdoms but be very careful about using your children as bait. The CPS system is a kafkaesque nightmare and resentful school administrators often use it as a weapon.
The problem is you pay no matter what. If you take your kids out, you still pay into the system. But a massive exodus from government schools is the only way. At this point it seems fixing the existing system is out of reach.
How about this K12 exam essay question: "why does the teaching profession disproportionately attract leftist groupthink personality-types? Please give examples".
Holly McC , I was on a hospital quality review board about 10 years ago and spoke out like this gentleman, about the care that was occurring and death rates ect … I got kicked off that committee. Then spoke out as a staff physician during Covid and got fired , I sued and lost … “at will contract “. I realized one by one all the honest physicians left the area , retired or changed careers. Schools and hospitals have been corrupt for years . We need alternative hospital and school systems someway somehow .
Our small rural school district had an enrollment of 6000 and now hovering at 4000+ due to parents flocking to home schooling. Even here, the union poison like gender “fluidity” seeping in.
Look. It’s no accident that these petty functionaries behave this way. Like everything else in this country, it’s no longer the phenomenon that counts, it’s the epiphenomenon. Eduction for the masses, which is why we have taxpayer funded public schools, it doesn’t matter. The schools fail at teaching math and reading and grammar. What matters is that the educational system provides the Left with the perfect opportunity to aggregate impressionable young people and indoctrinate them, get their fellow travelers jobs, control large pots of money which they can misappropriate toward political ends, and create massive bureaucracies to strangle well, education. Not an accident. Everything is like this now. The military loses all its wars, spends lots of money and hires lots of bureaucrats to make rules while they lose wars and waste your money. The border patrol does what now? The treasury does what exactly now? The Congress, the courts, and all the three letter agencies do what now?
They hate you, waste your money, are incompetent and malicious, try to damage you in whatever way intersects with their nominal chartered functions, and ignore your concerns.
You can’t negotiate with people who hate you. You can’t emerge victorious when you get the crumbs once in a blue moon, while they get the whole cake all the time.
There are maybe 5 million of these people in the country. There are 330 million of us. They are destroying the country with maybe another I don’t know, let’s say 1-2 million in media, university academics, and Hollywood. They are literally destroying America. It is not accidental. It is purposeful. If you aren’t in a public “school” in Baltimore, you can do the math. We take back our freedoms or we are slaves. There is no in between. Sorry, that’s the reality.
They're not wasting your money. They just have different priorities than you do. Toward those priorities the money is well-spent. Want to know what the priorities really are? Just ignore the labels and stated purposes and look at the outcomes.
You are absolutely correct. All behavior makes sense in context . But the uses of the monies do not correspond to the original mission of a given agency or department. And much of the money is spent on illegal activities. The border policy of the Biden administration is illegal. The suppression of free speech by the government is illegal. Again, more and more of what time and money are used for by the government, breaks the nation’s laws and damages the citizens.
Worse yet, often the lie is in the original mission statement. Whenever you feel the need to ask, "why aren't they doing their jobs?" check that their job ever was what you've been lead to believe it is. The FBI for example is functioning as intended from the get go.
You can also go on strike... the schools are paid per child per day. If a whole lot of parents strike together, it shouldn't take long for them to start listening.
You could strike but not familiar with that state’s law, truancy charges, CPS and whatever the demorats in charge can fake up -and will do the 1/5 plan on parents - cost you the parent a million in lawyers and take 5 years to prove it was illegal. Play their game but better and where it hurts starve them of money-nothing says after they eat owl shit and wake up (the school district) and change their ways reenter the kids if you want. But so many great homeschool support and options now. It is all too centralized and little taxpayer money pits and fifedoms - need one room schoolhouses in each subdivision with cameras for videos and sound for parents to monitor at all times.
Exactly. The thing is, they lie. They cheat, and they are without scruples. It is well known that they lie about the number who qualify for school lunches, why wouldn't they lie about actual attendance?
Good point! A trickle of school withdrawals could and should turn into an avalanche - and hard to say attendance is 90% when 2 kids show up - even for these lying bastards! 😳 long chess game isn’t it? Ugh
It’s time to start naming names and publishing the exact responses these people give. Who is the “executive administrative assistant” who responded? Publish the email. Publish EVERYTHING, with no edits or redactions. These people must be exposed and suffer the public scorn that they deserve for their actions. What were the names of the teachers who gamed the system and didn’t speak? Publish it all.
So frustrating. There must be expensive and timely lawsuits, but there are winning in some of thse things across the country. There should be an absolute limit on the number of teachers signing up to speak.
Our city assembly continued having meetings during the lockdowns without the public able to attend, except via zoom, which doesn't accommodate everyone. These people will be voting the way they want regardless of public commentary and they hate having to sit through it, now they don't have to! We had one assembly person say, "Sorry, folks, we are going to vote the way we were going to vote regardless of what you say!." So nothing changes their minds, not logic, not emotion, not math, they are clueless.
They’re NOT clueless! They utterly detest the “ignoranti,” and they’re signaling it as strongly as they can. There’s a reason the Blue states are losing record numbers of residents to Red states.
That's an interesting way to interpret it, but not the way it was interpreted at the time. There's been a consistent feeling ranging between hostility and coldness between the parents and the teachers union, to the point that they sit on opposite sides of the room during school board meetings and don't interact. But I've asked PWEA to explain what they intended, and will post their response if they send one.
Understood, I’m open to being mistaken. To see teachers dismissive of parents is appalling after all the good will engendered from those locked down parents who watched good teachers do their best with the surreal zoom restrictions.
MERIANNE JENSEN: My name is Merianne Jensen and my address is on file. I know there are many educators who want to protect children. This goal is not different from my own. Our implementation preferences may differ, but we want the same thing, to get through covid without harm. Unfortunately, politics leads us to believe there is only one solution, masks.
Yet thousands of schools around the country have been open during the entire pandemic without masks, and no corresponding rise in serious illness. There were not child coffins lined up as some educators in this county suggested would be the case.
In fact things have been going pretty much as normal. Kids are getting sick despite wearing masks. We are forcing healthy children home for [makes air-quotes with fingers] exposure, despite them wearing masks. And we are segregating children by vaccination status and religious exemption status—
WOMAN'S VOICE: [unintelligible]
MERIANNE JENSEN: — despite the wearing of masks. So I ask you, if masks work, why don't they?
[applause and cheering]
I'd now like to cover the facts, not policy as determined by the White House, not CDC recommendations, which I remind you is still policy, policy I might add that changes by the day without any basis in science at all.
So here are the facts that are available to any one of you.
Over the course of the pandemic 49,000 children have died of all causes, 331 of those were covid-related, yet we have turned kids lives upside down at school for what is essentially a non-risk.
Let's put that risk into context. Last year fewer kids died of covid-19 than have heart disease, cancerous tumors, suicide, homicide, and drownings. Have the protocols, have the schools stopped serving hamburgers and french fries? Have we put up tin foil on the ceilings to block power lines? Do we even address the growing incidences of suicide during the pandemic? No! We play politics with kids faces by placing restrictive fabric over their noses and mouths that the CDC itself has said don't do anything and it's for their safety.
This is asinine. This is blatant political theater and it needs to end.
[applause and cheering]
Finally, regarding that, and I need to point something out that has been bothering me. On November 15th of last year I had the privilege of speaking with Dr McDade* for 10 minutes following the CRT town hall meeting. During that discussion which was friendly and cordial, I asked what she, as superintendent could do to get the kids out of masks. Dr. McDade told me that she would if she could, but that her hands were tied by then Governor Northam's executive order mandating face coverings.
[loud groaning from audience]
And if it weren't for that, things would be different. Well, tonight things are
different.
[applause and cheering]
But I'd like to ask you Dr McDade tonight, what has changed? And what do you plan on doing now that your hands are untied? I'm in fact, I'm asking all of you to step up the way other leaders who have, and are ending covid restrictions by the day. What [hits podium with fist], when [hits podium with fist], will you, what [hits podium with fist], will it take?
You are on the losing side of history and it's time to make that right before these children now.
[applause and cheering]
3:21
[END]
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: After it immediately racked up nearly a million views, this video was removed by YouTube, and then subsequently reinstated. Merianne Jensen gave an interview about this to Clay Travis and Buck Sexton about this censorship and related issues on February 9, 2022, see:
A "by the way" additional thought: I live in the wokest of the woke-ass deep blue zones, and when my small town school board voted to return to in-person schooling, so many parents showed up to give public comment that the meeting ran past midnight, with a huge crowd still waiting to speak. So they....
....adjourned until the next night, then came back again to a second meeting to make sure they heard from EVERY. SINGLE. PERSON. who wanted to speak. Then, and only then, did they vote.
It's possible. The fight for openness goes on.
Virginia is in the direct orbit of the Imperial Capital. This school board is merely expressing its open contempt of the citizens, an emotion that lives in the hearts of the ruling class in the Beltway for everyone who is not “them..”
They think the parents are scum and so are their children. Their only value is monetary. But, I don’t discount the pseudo sexual thrill the Board gets get from dominating and humiliating the public. They are beyond contempt.
I hope the parents pool their money and start buying billboard space to make their public comments really PUBLIC.
But, parents shouldn’t have to BUY billboard space to make their views known. That’s the purpose of the school board meetings.
If I may offer a correction, Cathleen, that WAS the purpose of the school board meetings. Once.
😢
I'll see your billboard strategy and raise you:
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken
Stand up speak out !!! LOUD
I wish I could have been at this protest, logistics made it impossible, so instead I made this transcript:
Protesting Anthony Fauci's Speech in San Mateo, California, October 4, 2023
Posted October 5, 2023
https://kirschsubstack.com/p/tonight-on-vsrf-live-healing-vaccine
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Once on the page, scroll down to the first and second embedded videos of the protest. I could not find a direct URL for the videos. Note that some of the signs are in both videos.
TRANSCRIPTION OF SIGNS AND T-SHIRT SLOGANS DISPLAYED BY PROTESTORS - 2 VIDEOS
FIRST VIDEO
[Except where noted, sound on this video is of traffic, guitar playing, and the hum of background conversation. Please note, not all signs and T-shirt slogans could be transcribed, only the ones shown to the camera]
SIGN: FAUCI LIED
SIGN: FAUCI LIED PEOPLE DIED
SIGN: FAUCI LIED
SIGN: NO MORE MASKS
SIGN: FAUCI LIED
SIGN: FRAUDCI$ $CIENCE $UCK$
SIGN: FORCED CONSENT IS RAPE NO JAB NO JOB
T-SHIRT: WHERE THERE IS RISK THERE MUST BE CHOICE NO MANDATES
SIGN: PROSECUTE TEFLON TONY
SIGN: FAUCI HAS BLOOD ON HIS [picture of two red hands]
T-SHIRT: Goolag
SIGN: Gain of Function is Bio-Weapons Research Vaccines are Countermeasures
SIGN: FAUCI LIED
SIGN: FAUCI LIED 1000S DIED
SIGN: LIES LIES LIES YEAH!
SIGN: TELL ME SWEET LIE$
SIGN: HOLD FAUCI ACCOUNTABLE
SIGN: VACCINES ARE NOT PLACEBO SAFETY TESTED
SIGN: EBENEEZER FAUCI NO CHRISTMAS JUST JABS
SIGN: COVID-19 VACCINES HAVE NO LONG TERM SAFETY DATA
SIGN: FAUCI IS A MURDERER
SIGN: FAUCI LIED PEOPLE DIED
SIGN: FAUCI KILLED AIDS PATIENTS
SIGN: WE DO NOT COMPLY WITH FAUCI'S LIES
WOMAN WITH BULLHORN: Because of Fauci many, many people died
SIGN: JAIL FAUCI
WOMAN WITH BULLHORN: With his lies we won't comply. Because of Fauci many, many people died.
1:19
[END]
SECOND VIDEO
[Except where noted, sound on this video is of traffic, guitar playing, and the hum of background conversation. Please note, not all signs and T-shirt slogans could be transcribed, only the ones shown to the camera]
MAN'S VOICE: Trust me, I'm a doctor!
T-SHIRT: MEDICAL MANDATES ARE A VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
SIGN: COVID-19 VACCINES HAVE NO LONG TERM SAFETY
SIGN: HOLD FAUCI ACCOUNTABLE
SIGN: FAUCI LIED
SIGN: LIES LIES LIES
SIGN: TELL ME SWEET LIE$
SIGN: READ THIS BOOK THE REAL ANTHONY FAUCI [shows image of the cover of the book by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.]
SIGN: YOU ARE THE CARBON THEY WANT TO REDUCE
SIGN: FORCED CONSENT IS RAPE NO JAB NO JOB
SIGN: FAUCI LIED
SIGN: FAUCI LIED PEOPLE DIED
SIGN: FAUCI LIED
SIGN: FAUCI: MERCHANT OF DEATH
SIGN: FAUCI PHARMA PROSTITUTE
SIGN: FAUCI LIED
T-SHIRT: SAFE & EFFECTIVE IS A LIE
SIGN: FAUCI SUCKA YOU
SIGN: FAUCI LIED
SIGN: FAUCI LIED PEOPLE DIED
SIGN: WANTED FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
SIGN: LIES
0:46
[END]
We need things like this worldwide Transcriber B!
I think we have more of this going on than we realize, since the mainstream media won't touch it. (One reason I transcribe!)
Thank you for doing so Transcriber B . 😉😘
I think your experience is the exception that proves the rule. A huge percentage of students believe restricting citizen speech based on content is OK. A high percentage of “Progressives” believe the same thing. The only left-of-center group that DOESN’T are 60’s liberals who supported the ACLU’s original purpose.
Chris, as far as you know has your (blue) town been open to parents' comments in the past? Cuz it's pretty remarkable that they scheduled a second meeting, hopefully they really were interested in hearing what parents were thinking (I wonder if some attending parents spoke against reopening schools, but even in a heavily blue area I'd imagine most parents recognize an epically awful brutally bad train wreck policy when they see it adversely impacting their own kids, and not just the kids living in, say, a US border town or Martha's Vineyard for those recent brutally terrible 48 hours, before the national guard parachuted in to restore sanity to this lovely quaint little seaside town, may I recommend sipping a yummy pumpkin spice latte from Elizabeth's as you search their bright sandy beach for sea glass! Fun!
Our town has been very, very, very closed to disagreement most of the time. Very.
But I’m guessing all those people wanting to talk were against opening. There’s always time to hear from people that promote the narrative.
Not at all, and to a surprising degree. We're a small town with an affluent center of historic Craftsman homes, a half-mile from a giant hospital, so the town has a disproportionate number of doctors. The doctors were the parents who turned out to say OPEN THE DAMN SCHOOLS, YOU IDIOTS. Several pediatricians saying they were treating many more children for depression and anxiety than they did before the lockdowns, but that Covid-19 was meaningless for children.
Walk away and build your own school. These idiots are the minority, the parents and kids are not. Destroy them by excluding them from any discussion or influence. They lose.
I used to laugh at Jesse Kelly’s Twitter mantra (“Get your kids out of government schools.”). But it is the way.
The best time to do this was before your kid's first day of school. The second best time is any time after that.
The best way to screw them over is to enroll in school, and maybe a week or two into the year have a mass un-enrollment, with your kid never showing up. If you can get say 10% of a school to do this, it would really screw them up.
You can but then your kid is "in the system" and you've rustled their jimmies so they'll take a very personal interest in whether your child is being properly educated or, perhaps, neglected or abused. I'm not against fucking with vicious bureaurats and their petty fiefdoms but be very careful about using your children as bait. The CPS system is a kafkaesque nightmare and resentful school administrators often use it as a weapon.
Jesse has been beating the same drum for years. We missed a great chance in AZ.
The problem is you pay no matter what. If you take your kids out, you still pay into the system. But a massive exodus from government schools is the only way. At this point it seems fixing the existing system is out of reach.
-- YOUR BLATANT NEGATIVITY IS
DEADLY ... !!!
This kind of thing makes me apoplectic
It is so nakedly unfair
Same.
-- S A M E R E P L Y ...!!!!!
-- BACK OFF N O W ...!!!!!
--MAKE ROOM FOR THOSE WHO
HAVE POSITIVE POWERS ... !!!
WATCH ! AND, L E A R N ..!!!
This is one instance where the phrase "They hate us for our freedoms" legitimately applies - applied to the school board.
And the union.
--- SATAN JEALOUSLY HATES GOD, THE EARTH, AND, ALL
H U M A N I T Y ...!!!
Total amount given to Democrats by teachers unions in 2021-2022: $4,067,442
Total amount given to Republicans by teachers unions in 2021-2022: $24,000
How about this K12 exam essay question: "why does the teaching profession disproportionately attract leftist groupthink personality-types? Please give examples".
-- W H Y ... ??
Don't forget these types of people are also the best surveillance system for the State.
Two sides of the same coin.
Who are these people?
They are the people that take your voice when you self-censor.
Won't be too long before the detection of self-censorship is proof positive that you need to be "reported".
“Who are these people?”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/javjF2xljAi7/
Here’s my fave video on public comment at school board meetings: https://youtu.be/i9GcDK0zBkU?si=y21IFHXPKcTUlMJT
Holly McC , I was on a hospital quality review board about 10 years ago and spoke out like this gentleman, about the care that was occurring and death rates ect … I got kicked off that committee. Then spoke out as a staff physician during Covid and got fired , I sued and lost … “at will contract “. I realized one by one all the honest physicians left the area , retired or changed careers. Schools and hospitals have been corrupt for years . We need alternative hospital and school systems someway somehow .
Always
That was awesome.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Homeschool. Stop feeding your children to the Beast.
Our small rural school district had an enrollment of 6000 and now hovering at 4000+ due to parents flocking to home schooling. Even here, the union poison like gender “fluidity” seeping in.
Look. It’s no accident that these petty functionaries behave this way. Like everything else in this country, it’s no longer the phenomenon that counts, it’s the epiphenomenon. Eduction for the masses, which is why we have taxpayer funded public schools, it doesn’t matter. The schools fail at teaching math and reading and grammar. What matters is that the educational system provides the Left with the perfect opportunity to aggregate impressionable young people and indoctrinate them, get their fellow travelers jobs, control large pots of money which they can misappropriate toward political ends, and create massive bureaucracies to strangle well, education. Not an accident. Everything is like this now. The military loses all its wars, spends lots of money and hires lots of bureaucrats to make rules while they lose wars and waste your money. The border patrol does what now? The treasury does what exactly now? The Congress, the courts, and all the three letter agencies do what now?
They hate you, waste your money, are incompetent and malicious, try to damage you in whatever way intersects with their nominal chartered functions, and ignore your concerns.
You can’t negotiate with people who hate you. You can’t emerge victorious when you get the crumbs once in a blue moon, while they get the whole cake all the time.
There are maybe 5 million of these people in the country. There are 330 million of us. They are destroying the country with maybe another I don’t know, let’s say 1-2 million in media, university academics, and Hollywood. They are literally destroying America. It is not accidental. It is purposeful. If you aren’t in a public “school” in Baltimore, you can do the math. We take back our freedoms or we are slaves. There is no in between. Sorry, that’s the reality.
They're not wasting your money. They just have different priorities than you do. Toward those priorities the money is well-spent. Want to know what the priorities really are? Just ignore the labels and stated purposes and look at the outcomes.
You are absolutely correct. All behavior makes sense in context . But the uses of the monies do not correspond to the original mission of a given agency or department. And much of the money is spent on illegal activities. The border policy of the Biden administration is illegal. The suppression of free speech by the government is illegal. Again, more and more of what time and money are used for by the government, breaks the nation’s laws and damages the citizens.
Worse yet, often the lie is in the original mission statement. Whenever you feel the need to ask, "why aren't they doing their jobs?" check that their job ever was what you've been lead to believe it is. The FBI for example is functioning as intended from the get go.
“They're not wasting your money. They just have different priorities than you do. Toward those priorities the money is well-spent.”
A highly provocative opening that I’m sure raised readers’ blood pressure.
Absolutely perfect analysis. 😢
It only takes 10% of parents to pull their kids out and homeschool to bring the ISD to their knees - only 10%!
You can also go on strike... the schools are paid per child per day. If a whole lot of parents strike together, it shouldn't take long for them to start listening.
You could strike but not familiar with that state’s law, truancy charges, CPS and whatever the demorats in charge can fake up -and will do the 1/5 plan on parents - cost you the parent a million in lawyers and take 5 years to prove it was illegal. Play their game but better and where it hurts starve them of money-nothing says after they eat owl shit and wake up (the school district) and change their ways reenter the kids if you want. But so many great homeschool support and options now. It is all too centralized and little taxpayer money pits and fifedoms - need one room schoolhouses in each subdivision with cameras for videos and sound for parents to monitor at all times.
Exactly. The thing is, they lie. They cheat, and they are without scruples. It is well known that they lie about the number who qualify for school lunches, why wouldn't they lie about actual attendance?
Good point! A trickle of school withdrawals could and should turn into an avalanche - and hard to say attendance is 90% when 2 kids show up - even for these lying bastards! 😳 long chess game isn’t it? Ugh
It’s time to start naming names and publishing the exact responses these people give. Who is the “executive administrative assistant” who responded? Publish the email. Publish EVERYTHING, with no edits or redactions. These people must be exposed and suffer the public scorn that they deserve for their actions. What were the names of the teachers who gamed the system and didn’t speak? Publish it all.
This is the way
Most telling, I’m in the area media market and am hearing about this from a Substack guy in California.
So frustrating. There must be expensive and timely lawsuits, but there are winning in some of thse things across the country. There should be an absolute limit on the number of teachers signing up to speak.
Our city assembly continued having meetings during the lockdowns without the public able to attend, except via zoom, which doesn't accommodate everyone. These people will be voting the way they want regardless of public commentary and they hate having to sit through it, now they don't have to! We had one assembly person say, "Sorry, folks, we are going to vote the way we were going to vote regardless of what you say!." So nothing changes their minds, not logic, not emotion, not math, they are clueless.
They’re NOT clueless! They utterly detest the “ignoranti,” and they’re signaling it as strongly as they can. There’s a reason the Blue states are losing record numbers of residents to Red states.
--- J U S T M O N E Y .
“THE LOVE OF MONEY - I S ‘ THE VERY ROOT OF A L L E V I L ‘ ...!! “
Idk if school board members are bonded in Virginia, but if they are, this might be a useful tactic to straighten them out.
https://bondsforthewin.com/
Thanks for clarifying that the teachers' union is no friend of parents or of the public or of democracy.
Has ANY teachers’ union EVER been a friend to anyone but Dem politicians?
It seemed to me that the teachers union was making a point that all the board wants is silence from teachers and parents.
That's an interesting way to interpret it, but not the way it was interpreted at the time. There's been a consistent feeling ranging between hostility and coldness between the parents and the teachers union, to the point that they sit on opposite sides of the room during school board meetings and don't interact. But I've asked PWEA to explain what they intended, and will post their response if they send one.
Understood, I’m open to being mistaken. To see teachers dismissive of parents is appalling after all the good will engendered from those locked down parents who watched good teachers do their best with the surreal zoom restrictions.
I don't see it that way. Looks like they just wanted to prevent anyone else from speaking because they didn't get their way.
Thanks for reporting. For those who don't do video:
Merianne Jensen: “If masks work, then why don’t they work?” - Prince William County School Board Mtg [February 2, 2022]
Jim Jeffreis, Feb 3, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cszk-Y8Rkh4&t=6s
Hat tip: https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/throttled-adversarial-logic-silences
TRANSCRIPT
0:05
[applause and cheering]
MERIANNE JENSEN: My name is Merianne Jensen and my address is on file. I know there are many educators who want to protect children. This goal is not different from my own. Our implementation preferences may differ, but we want the same thing, to get through covid without harm. Unfortunately, politics leads us to believe there is only one solution, masks.
Yet thousands of schools around the country have been open during the entire pandemic without masks, and no corresponding rise in serious illness. There were not child coffins lined up as some educators in this county suggested would be the case.
In fact things have been going pretty much as normal. Kids are getting sick despite wearing masks. We are forcing healthy children home for [makes air-quotes with fingers] exposure, despite them wearing masks. And we are segregating children by vaccination status and religious exemption status—
WOMAN'S VOICE: [unintelligible]
MERIANNE JENSEN: — despite the wearing of masks. So I ask you, if masks work, why don't they?
[applause and cheering]
I'd now like to cover the facts, not policy as determined by the White House, not CDC recommendations, which I remind you is still policy, policy I might add that changes by the day without any basis in science at all.
So here are the facts that are available to any one of you.
Over the course of the pandemic 49,000 children have died of all causes, 331 of those were covid-related, yet we have turned kids lives upside down at school for what is essentially a non-risk.
Let's put that risk into context. Last year fewer kids died of covid-19 than have heart disease, cancerous tumors, suicide, homicide, and drownings. Have the protocols, have the schools stopped serving hamburgers and french fries? Have we put up tin foil on the ceilings to block power lines? Do we even address the growing incidences of suicide during the pandemic? No! We play politics with kids faces by placing restrictive fabric over their noses and mouths that the CDC itself has said don't do anything and it's for their safety.
This is asinine. This is blatant political theater and it needs to end.
[applause and cheering]
Finally, regarding that, and I need to point something out that has been bothering me. On November 15th of last year I had the privilege of speaking with Dr McDade* for 10 minutes following the CRT town hall meeting. During that discussion which was friendly and cordial, I asked what she, as superintendent could do to get the kids out of masks. Dr. McDade told me that she would if she could, but that her hands were tied by then Governor Northam's executive order mandating face coverings.
[loud groaning from audience]
And if it weren't for that, things would be different. Well, tonight things are
different.
[applause and cheering]
But I'd like to ask you Dr McDade tonight, what has changed? And what do you plan on doing now that your hands are untied? I'm in fact, I'm asking all of you to step up the way other leaders who have, and are ending covid restrictions by the day. What [hits podium with fist], when [hits podium with fist], will you, what [hits podium with fist], will it take?
You are on the losing side of history and it's time to make that right before these children now.
[applause and cheering]
3:21
[END]
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: After it immediately racked up nearly a million views, this video was removed by YouTube, and then subsequently reinstated. Merianne Jensen gave an interview about this to Clay Travis and Buck Sexton about this censorship and related issues on February 9, 2022, see:
https://www.iheart.com/content/2022-02-09-clay-travis-and-buck-sexton-fired-up-virginia-mom-merianne-jensen-talks-with-cb/
* LaTanya D. McDade, Ed.D.
Superintendant of Schools, Prince William County VA
https://www.pwcs.edu/leadership/superintendent_of_schools/index