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After N.J. district erases all holiday names from its school calendar, angry parents seek resignations
Pennlive ^ | 14 June A.D. 2021 | Jeff Goldman

Posted on 06/14/2021 6:41:35 PM PDT by lightman

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PUSHBACK....is a beautiful thing!
1 posted on 06/14/2021 6:41:35 PM PDT by lightman
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To: lightman

Oh, quit your whining, people! You voted for this! Or didn’t you know that?!?


2 posted on 06/14/2021 6:43:31 PM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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Along with resignations, how about some of these folks run for school board and other boards and finally put some sense back into things. Or at least try.

Might be able to get a firsthand look at just how far and deep the corruption is, even down the most local level.

Finally realize how bad they’ve been getting ripped off by these crooks. Some of those crooks, being their neighbors.


3 posted on 06/14/2021 6:44:05 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: lightman

It is well past time to make the people making these decisions to answer for their crimes.


4 posted on 06/14/2021 6:50:44 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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The Tree of Liberty doesn’t like being thirsty.


5 posted on 06/14/2021 6:52:27 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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While the parents are at it, let them take a good look at the cirriculum.


6 posted on 06/14/2021 6:57:19 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (No audit. No peace.)
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To: qaz123

Just wondering. You may or may not have the answer:
Is the typical elected position on a School Board for a set period of time, say two years, or does it differ with every individual school board?

**Your statement made me think: What if I ever considered running for a local school board? The idea excites me.
But first, I would need to learn more about such positions.


7 posted on 06/14/2021 7:00:54 PM PDT by lee martell
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Push back ... 98% of people associated with government schools need to be fired. It is time to recognize that you don't need an education degree to teach and certainly not to administrate. In fact, education degrees are a negative qualification. Even when I was in college nearly 40 years ago we made fun of education majors. They were bottom of the barrel in intelligence and commonsense. Their classes were a joke and had no rigor. That experience was a primary motivator for me to homeschool my children.
8 posted on 06/14/2021 7:01:16 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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With every religion wanting their place on the calendar, they need a 10-page summary calendar.


9 posted on 06/14/2021 7:04:46 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("Pour les vaincre il faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace")
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"Our actions are somehow being misconstrued by some..."

Yeah, you STUPID RUBES just don't properly construe what your betters are doing here. Just go back to your little hovels and let us run the schools.

10 posted on 06/14/2021 7:07:05 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("Pour les vaincre il faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace")
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Scene at School District Headquarters....

Aide: There are a lot of biological birthing agents mad about their offspring entities not having the old systemic racist holidays outside. And they don’t like our forward looking race theory curriculum.

School Superintendent: So what? I don’t care what they want.

Aide: They have cylinders with fire and are carrying wood chopping tools and they want to get in here.

Boss: What? You mean angry mothers with lit torches carrying axes are breaking in?

Aide: Exactly.

Boss: Screw all the PC stuff, let’s get our azzes the hell outta here.


11 posted on 06/14/2021 7:07:09 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: ConservativeInPA

I agree with you. I dated an education major in college. Very sweet person but dumber than a bag of hammers without a lick of common sense. I was amazed that she was even admitted to college and dumbfounded when she actually graduated. Saw her at a college reunion a few years ago and found out she teaches high school social studies in Tacoma now. That’s just nuts.


12 posted on 06/14/2021 7:14:40 PM PDT by Qui is
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Good for these parents!


13 posted on 06/14/2021 7:15:02 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: lee martell

I don’t know about Joisy but to the west of the Delaware River (PA) School Directors are elected for staggered 4 year terms.

It is purely volunteer. No compensation.

Also allegedly non-partisan. Candidates may cross file for positions on both the Democrat and Republican primary ballots.


14 posted on 06/14/2021 7:15:15 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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“They represent everything that is wrong in education today and are completely incompetent in every aspect of their role.”

I'm old enough to remember when teachers and educators were respected members of the community.

15 posted on 06/14/2021 7:15:27 PM PDT by blam
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“...The board added the changes were simply a matter of condensing a 1-page calendar.”


So in years past the school district managed to create a calendar with the holidays’ names included, but now it can’t/won’t?


16 posted on 06/14/2021 7:16:25 PM PDT by hanamizu
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I have no idea. I don’t have kids and I’m of the belief that whoever is on the school board should have some skin in the game....IE...kids in the school.

As for the money being spent, that’s what the county tax assessor and finance people are paid to do.

One thing I have seen though, which boggles my mind, is folks running for school board. They say all the right things. Have good ideas. Want transparency, no underhanded crap and no critical race theory crap. No common core. No ridiculous new way to do math.

Just Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. Folks agree with them. They NEVER win.

I think folks are just worn down and accepting of property taxes and school taxes, thinking they can’t do anything about them other than pay them and deduct them from their taxes, that they don’t care.

Everything about the system is wrong. Donald Trump was exposing ALL of it and they got rid of him.


17 posted on 06/14/2021 7:17:43 PM PDT by qaz123
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Fairfax Board Member Rails Against The Dangers Of “Excessive Individualism” In High School Graduation Speech
18 posted on 06/14/2021 7:20:26 PM PDT by blam
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The people who have skin in the game are the taxpayers whose “rent to the government” aka property taxes fund the operation.

Parents are largely gimmedats who want to spend, spend, spend. Nothing is too good or too costly for their kiddos.

A good school board has a balance of taxpayer watchdogs and parents.


19 posted on 06/14/2021 7:20:39 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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It is a pushback. The left wants to selectively replace holidays.

This board said no.


20 posted on 06/14/2021 7:22:20 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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