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Taxpayers Take School Board to Court for Trying to Silence Parents’ Criticism
American Conservative Movement ^ | October 31, 2021 | Kevin Mooney

Posted on 10/31/2021 12:08:13 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Four taxpayers in Pennsylvania have decided enough was enough after footing the bill for a school board attorney who told them that the school system could limit their First Amendment rights.

The taxpayers filed a free speech lawsuit in federal court that could set a precedent for invalidating policies that shield both school administrators and elected officials from public criticism.

“The left is trying to take over the English language in a way that might appeal to rational people with innocent-sounding words like ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion,’ but it’s really about trying to divide people and distort history,” Simon Campbell, a former member of the Pennsbury School Board, told The Daily Signal.

In their suit, Campbell and three other taxpayers whose children are or were enrolled in Bucks County’s Pennsbury School District ask the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to strike down school board policies used to “censor” citizens who dissent.

The Institute for Free Speech, a Washington-based nonprofit law firm, represents the four plaintiffs. Their suit names Pennsbury School Board officers and other members as well as the board’s lawyers and current and former district officials.

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1 posted on 10/31/2021 12:08:13 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Good. Sue them.

Then vote the Board out and fire that lawyer.

L


2 posted on 10/31/2021 12:10:06 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

make ‘em pay and call em out! We will not tolerate these tyrants! Great to see some spine!


3 posted on 10/31/2021 12:23:16 PM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

OMG, I remember when Pennsbury School system was the GOLD standard in education.

We’ve been away from there for a while, but I cannot believe they fell into the Swamp with all the other schools.

Sic transit gloria mundi.


4 posted on 10/31/2021 12:30:53 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Maris Crane

WISH WE COULD GET THIS A TEE SHIRT

FTA-——“The left is trying to take over the English language in a way that might appeal to rational people with innocent-sounding words like ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion,’ but it’s really about trying to divide people and distort history,” Simon Campbell, a former member of the Pennsbury School Board, told The Daily Signal.


5 posted on 10/31/2021 1:31:37 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: GOP Poet
Unfortunately it is our money and the bureaucrats have a lot of it at their disposal.
6 posted on 10/31/2021 2:00:54 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: GOPJ

H/T Patriot torch

According to the 45 planks of the communist manifesto entered into congressional records in 1963, these are just a few of the goals as written....

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and....cont

https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/watchwomanonthewall/2011/04/the-45-communist-goals-as-read-into-the-congressional-record-1963.html


7 posted on 10/31/2021 2:15:41 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Skip the procedure. Lynch ‘em!


8 posted on 10/31/2021 3:02:05 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: dhs12345

great point!


9 posted on 10/31/2021 3:12:51 PM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They need more than to be sued.

Good luck kicking them to the curb.


10 posted on 10/31/2021 3:36:53 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.I ha)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We need more of this!

Take back our schools!


11 posted on 10/31/2021 3:53:38 PM PDT by Lakeside Granny (Vote RED~R.emove E.very D.emocrat~D&S)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We need to elect school boards that will be accountable to our kids, not our kids accountable to the school board. Time for us to fight back, no more someone else will do it...


12 posted on 10/31/2021 4:18:47 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/21 at the NCGOP conventional)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Good! Investigate them for corruption too.


13 posted on 10/31/2021 4:21:03 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. NEVER be a peaceful quiet slave in a new socialist America.)
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To: Deplorable American1776

Time for the money to be allocated to the students and not the school districts.

The parents choose the school their child’s “public education” dollars will go to.

Competition to government school teachers is like sunlight to a vampire.

PS - Plank #10 of the Communist Manifesto: Free education for all children in government schools.

http://www.laissez-fairerepublic.com/TenPlanks.html


14 posted on 10/31/2021 4:23:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: Liz

That’s quite a statement and the truth. I am amazed that it was printed.

And you want a T Shirt with all that on it.

But who could pull off the wearin’ of it?


15 posted on 10/31/2021 4:37:32 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yes...YES..
This is how you fight these so called people...
They call a cop..
We call a judge..
Cop drags you out of an open meeting..
We call a judge..

Another way to go, find out the number of signatures required to recall them.
Start your statement with, xxxx, remember this number. This is how many signatures it will take to fire you.

Be polite, but aggressive in tone.


16 posted on 10/31/2021 7:42:17 PM PDT by joe fonebone (bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN'Ts are the enemy)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They are being to nice, demand they leave or else


17 posted on 11/01/2021 2:11:50 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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