School Board member allegedly tried to destroy a critic

American Thinker.com ^ | October 6, 2021 | Andrea Widburg

[Kaslin]

Shakopee is a suburb of the twin cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. That’s a region that likes to pride itself on being “Midwestern nice.” However, according to a Minnesota state representative, Shakopee school board member Kristi Peterson and Superintendent Mike Redmond weren’t Midwestern nice at all. Instead, he alleges that they tried to get a single mom fired from her job for daring to call Peterson out for her rudeness. If this story is true, those two seem to be the living embodiment of Mark Twain’s statement that, “In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”

The Shakopee School District has seven board members, one of whom is a woman named Kristi Peterson. She seems to be the quintessential Minnesotan, a woman who was raised in, educated in, and now works in Minnesota. She has a nice smile and is an almost a compulsive volunteer.

And then there’s Superintendent Mike Redmond, who has a Jill Biden degree; that is, an Ed.D. If Ph.D.’s were bikes, Ed.D.’s would be tricycles. He too is a native Minnesotan who’s spent his entire life in the field of public education. For some reason, he was willing to team with Peterson as they tried to destroy a woman’s life and family.

So what did the woman, known only as Tara, do to put her in Peterson’s and Redmond’s crosshairs? According to State Representative Erik Mortensen, who posted about the incident on Facebook, Tara, having attended a public board meeting, then posted a public comment on social media saying that Peterson was rude when a mother was speaking about trying to mask a child with a disability.

According to Rep. Mortensen in his own Facebook post, what happened next was nothing less than vicious:

[mware]

The FBI will be right on that.

[SES1066]

Does anyone know who Tara’s employer is? There may very well be a relation or other back-story as to why the employer caved here. If this is the modus operandi of this school district, then a school-cleaning of them should be considered!

[mewzilla]

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/facebook-post-reported-by-shakopee-superintendent-could-cost-bankers-job/89-87f23721-6798-44f4-8931-aeb3d4566398

I think that bank might be in a helluva lot of hot water.

[neverevergiveup]

Totalitarianism - the natural and eventual result of giving leftists power.

[Joe Boucher]

Worthless that group be.
“Brightest and best”, my ass.

[Fury]

People need to run for the school board. It’s not hard to do.

[Magnatron]

So the Superintendant, Mike Redmond, writes this to Tara’s employer Hometown Bank:

“If this same post were made by an employee of Shakopee Public Schools, it would be considered insubordination, and the event would be referred to our Human Resources Department for appropriate disciplinary action."

But then tells the media in a statement:

”No one in the school district ever requested the subject in the letter receive any disciplinary consequence.”

Redmond is a damned liar and should have employment consequences of his own…

[eastexsteve]

There’s a big time lawsuit here. Been there and done that.

[metmom]

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