Posted on 09/09/2021 1:53:28 AM PDT by RandFan
A fight broke out Tuesday evening after a Missouri school board unanimously approved a mask mandate as students return to classrooms.
ABC affiliate KMBC reported that Pleasant Hill Police Department officers responded to a fist fight involving several people in a parking lot following the vote by the Pleasant Hill Board of Education. One individual was handcuffed.
The school district has reported 21 coronavirus cases in the first nine days of the school year, more than all of last year, according to KMBC. The news station also reported that 180 students and faculty are quarantining. Overall, 7 percent of the Pleasant Hill population is quarantining.
The fist fight outside the school board meeting marks the latest violent outburst over local officials imposing mask mandates for schools to help guard against the highly contagious delta variant of COVID-19.
Protect your children from the predators.
Simplest solution...just remove your kid from the public school system (go to home-schooling). Once you get around 30-percent of the kids out, and start dismissing teachers because you don’t need them, someone in the ‘system’ will ask why are we still taxing people at such-and-such rate, if you only need 70-percent of the revenue fund. The chaos just doubles at that point.
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PARENTS MUST protect their children.
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you’re always afraid
Step outta line The Man come, and take you away...
Boom.
Why put yourself in that position? I understand the passion and emotion. Next board meeting, start passing around a recall petition to have the entire school board replaced.
If there is no recall mechanism demand that the city council put one in place. If they don’t, recall them.
Start over.
It’s easy to say that, but the reality for many parents is that they don’t have that option. Many don’t know anyone who home-schools and have no idea how to go about it…or don’t feel that they know enough themselves to teach…or live in states hostile to it, or can’t afford to have one parent or often the single parent stay home with the kids. They shouldn’t be scolded for this or treated with a breezy, “It’s simple,” because it’s not.
Some parents may have the option of sending their kids to a private or religious school that might be better (because they are generally non-union) but others do not. In Florida, the state will provide some assistance to parents who have had to remove their children from school because of masks, etc. but that’s pretty exceptional. So a lot of families are really stuck with that, and if they just stop sending them at all, they risk getting a visit from child protective services and having their kids taken away. It has happened.
What they’ve got to do is fight back, not just with fistfights in the parking lots, but with lawyers. They should see if they can find somebody interested in representing them on a pro-bono basis to challenge this policy, particularly since it was revealed yesterday that Fauci, who dreamed this up, was in heavy correspondence with the teachers union and I think Randy Weingarten herself over this very issue. The teachers union, probably in a last bid not to have teachers have to go back into the classroom, has been lobbying for mandatory masking, and Fauci agreed to do this at their behest. So it has nothing to do with “science” but is a favor to a useless bunch of hacks who are very powerful and huge founders of the Dem Party.
And as for the idea that they’ll be dismissed…never. It is virtually impossible for teachers who are members of the teachers union to lose their jobs, and positions are never reduced no matter how little money is coming into the city treasuries. What teachers are looking for now is a way to do as little as possible in those jobs, since they got used to sitting at home for a year, pretending to teach on line. They like this masking stuff because, aside from reducing the number of children who go to school in the first place, it keeps the little so-and-sos quiet, muffled up, sleepy from lack of oxygen, and generally much easier to ignore. Plus it annoys the parents. What more could a unionized public school teacher want?
I think the solution is to fight back.
The city council has nothing to do with a school district's policies or actions nor do they control them. The school districts are their own entity. People where I live are always contacting the city to DO SOMETHING about the school boards/districts. The school districts within the city limits merely have to follow the local laws but beyond that they have their own elected boards just like the cities have.
Akin to convincing youth to forgo joining the military until the inept wokesters can be weeded out.
Don't participate in any of their organizations. If only the German people in the '30s had thought of that....
people are pretending everybody will just duck and go along with the slow takeover of this country. By people who have never faught for this country. They have awoken a sleeping giant they have waaaay underestimated..
You better stop and ask ‘what’s that sound’!
If they can figure out how to maintain a household, (contract a loan, pay a mortgage, find contractors, etc) they can figure out how to home-school their kids.
If their kids are a priority (and they should be, it's the No. 1 function of a parent), they can figure this out.
Do away with the grown-up toys and cushy vacations, shop for bargains - that's how our parents managed it.
Stop blaming the victim. FReepers, who are of course perfect themselves and would never find themselves in any such difficulty, are very good at that.
These people are paying taxes for a service they are not receiving and are being prevented from receiving. Public schools may be lousy, and parents should have objected long before now, but they’re an established institution, especially in smaller towns where they are not as bad as they are in the big cities, and this is probably the first time anybody has even seen them as the adversary.
Homeschooling is not something you throw together at the last minute. Some states prohibit it or make the requirements - in terms of curriculum, testing, etc. - so difficult that parents are confused and intimidated. And then there’s the issue of sports and social activities: are you going to pull a kid out of his sport and tell him he has to stay home with mama from now on? FL permits homeschooled and private school kids to participate in public school sports, but many states do not.
If the parents are lucky, there may be a homeschooling network in their town, something that enables parents either to hire a teacher who can teach a group of children in their home, or provides support in terms of curriculum and techniques so that the parents themselves, if they are able to stay home, can do the teaching. But these are by no means widespread and take a lot more organizing than just “pulling your kids out.”
People need to fight back. Supposedly the Great Leader is about to announce all sorts of bizarre “mandates” for children in his delirious ravings tonight, and this is going to become a massive problem all over the country.
Excellent points.
Most adult Americans have choices, the issue is where one's priorities are.
Public schools are the way they are mainly because millions of American parents chose to let someone else do the job of caring for their kids.
That's why so many parents were shocked to find what was being taught to their kids during "distant learning", they had no idea because they chose not to know.
The victims here are the children, not the parents.
I understand your points but you cannot fight back when your foxhole buddy is a Communist. I think people are going to have to make sacrifices if they want their country back. Every point you call out can be done if sacrifices are made for things that really matter like Liberty, Freedom, Truth and Justice instead of iPhones, Xboxes, Mercedes, and Wine/Cheese parties.
We need to build our own Patriot culture and economy.
AMEN
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