Posted on 02/22/2018 12:17:23 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
When homeschooling mom Sara Valle volunteered to spend a day at the South Dakota Capitol promoting equal sports access for homeschoolers, she expected a battle.
What she didn’t expect was that the opposition to her advocacy would include far more than just arguments on the Capitol floor.
Sara had been asked by South Dakota Christian Home Educators (SDCHE) to testify in support of H.B. 1120, a bill which would allow homeschool students to participate in public school sports. As a homeschooling veteran and mother of three, she was happy to advocate for more opportunities for homeschool students. She had also spoken the year before in a hearing about a similar bill.
On February 12, Sara left the capitol after a long day of debate on H.B. 1120 (which had ultimately been voted down). Her 13-year-old daughter was with her, and they were already late for the girl’s ice skating lessons. When they arrived at the skating rink, Sara and her daughter heard a strange sound coming from their car.
Upon closer inspection, Sara discovered the broken-off blade of a box cutter embedded in one of the tires, which had been steadily losing air.
At first, Sara said, she was in denial. She was hoping she had just run over the blade on the road—she couldn’t believe that someone would have slashed her tire. But when she and her husband took the car to the repair shop, the mechanic was certain this was not an accident, because the tire was slashed as well as punctured. Later, a friend of hers who is a police officer and a homeschooling dad pointed out that whoever had jabbed the blade into her tire had done it in such a way that it wouldn’t start deflating until she began driving.
For Sara, the realization that her tire was intentionally slashed was both shocking and infuriating. “I had my daughter in the car with me, driving with a punctured [tire],” she said. “I’m not okay with that. My kids are in that car. That’s the car I use for my children.”
Later that night, Sara reported the incident to the police.
Unpleasant Surprise Sara knew going in that getting H.B. 1120 passed would be challenging. Public school superintendents from across the state had already been putting tremendous pressure on the legislature to abandon the bill. Several representatives told Sara and her allies that they believe in equal access for homeschoolers but couldn’t vote against the superintendents. And during the debate on the Capitol floor, Sara said, “the testimony got very passionate.”
“I really had realized that the people opposing the bill were not going to play nice with us,” she continued. “But I just didn’t realize that it would come in the form of stabbing my tire. I did not see that coming. It really made me feel unsafe . . . [especially] because two of my children are in public school. I’m around the schools, and I’m around these people—they live in the same city that I do.”
When it comes to advocating for more opportunities for homeschool students, however, Sara remains as determined as ever. “It makes me feel unsafe—but it doesn’t make me want to quit. I am not going to let their intimidation tactics work. If anything, this has made us band together more strongly as a homeschool community.”
Fascists don’t mess around — they play for keeps.
More understanding and compassion from the left.
Did she think Progressive Liberals were nice people?? Where in the hell would anybody ever get a crazy idea like that?
I live in the freak People’s Democratic State of Maryland. I’ve learned, as have many others, that to put something like a Trump sticker on your car is to invite SIGNIFICANT vandalism.
Government schools don’t like competition.
Resistance is futile.
It really proves everything homeschoolers say and promote
The people who slashed her tires are promoters and advocates of public schools. Send your children there at your own risk.
Yes, "I might have had a flat!" is often fatal.
California was like that, too. I was even a little afraid to put a Marines magnet on the back of the car, but I did anyway. Happily no vandalism because of the magnet. But you never know.
Took my son to an event for kids interested in attending one of the military academies. Parked our pristine classic Jaguar sedan in the school parking lot several rows out from the signs for the event.
No one near the parking place. When we came back out, I saw that someone had obviously dented both doors on driver side. They had to have kicked their own doors into ours as the vertical dents were 9-12” long and bent in an inch wide.
No one was near the car again when we came out.
It appeared obvious to me that it was related to the event, but it is possible they just wanted to mess up a nice car.
Obviously there are @$$wipes everywhere
“More understanding and compassion from the left.”
language decoding of a leftist-fascist :
- he says he has some quality => he has none of the quality. Example : he says he is progressive => he is against progress (check GMO, pesticides, nanotech, fracking, vaccines...). He says he is tolerant => he is the most intolerant control freak on the block (check climate change, gun control, religious freedom...).
- he says you have some defects => he projects his own defects on you. Example : you are disrespectful => he is disrespectful (check their daily trashing of Pdt Trump). You don’t care about facts and science => he doesn’t care about facts and science (check climate science, pollution scare, peak-oil...).
Like the time the son of a Milwaukee democrat slashed multiple tires on Republican vans that were taking people to the polls. Yeah, but it could’ve been a coincidence that multiple vans had flat tires.
Should have added that it was at a public school. Not our private school.
Typical union goon tactics. She’s lucky they didn’t shoot her with ball bearings from a slingshot.
So wait until a leftist parks his car and then go attach a Trump sticker to it.
just kill the people who have different ideas...
there must be web cams if this was govt property....they should get the cretin who did this...
That happened to us some years ago. Parked our brand new Triumph (still had the temporary paper license taped in the window) in a lot where there were no cars within a hundred spaces. Came back from breakfast to find a nice big dent in the driver side door. Still not a car anywhere near us.
Had to be some pr**k with a jealous streak.
Ten bucks says the perp was a member of teacher’s union.
It is as Scott related. The perp has not been found. Camera coverage of the parking area is good but when someone is kneeling between two cars it is difficult to determine much of anything. Lot was full at the time due to a number of important bills being considered.
The victim is concerned that she is well known in a small town, but that will not deter her in the future.
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