Posted on 12/04/2023 8:41:23 AM PST by Red Badger
Montgomery County, Maryland teacher and union official Angela Wolf / LinkedIn / Montgomery County Education Association
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A Maryland teacher is on leave while the school system investigates her for a string of anti-Semitic social media posts that included creating a list of wealthy Jews in her county, claiming they horde wealth while contributing nothing to society, and calling for “class war.”
Angela Wolf is head of the English Language Development department, which caters to immigrant children, at Takoma Park Middle School, in the most leftist enclave of liberal Montgomery County. Though she was temporarily removed from school, she remains a board member of the Montgomery County Education Association, one of the largest teachers union locals in the country representing 14,000 staff.
Her Facebook posts included a drawing of an Israeli tank pointing a tank’s gun at babies in a hospital NICU, and saying “enemy in sight!” As the war wages against the Hamas terrorists who murdered over 1,200 Israelis on October 7, she has posted frequently against Israel. On November 16, she commended “bus operators at Dulles who refused to transport Zionists to the pro Israel rally,” adding that “their solidarity with the victims of Israeli genocide should be commended.”
On October 28, she shared a post saying, “It is not a war — it is a slaughter. Israel determined to make Gaza uninhabitable.”
Last December, well before the conflict in Israel, she wrote:
Four of the five of the billionaires she named are Jewish except Saul, who happens to have a common Jewish name.
In response to criticism, she claimed — referring the the group of people with names like Rubenstein — that she had “no idea these billionaires are Jewish or that my word choice had an [sic] historic significance for the Jewish community. The diatribe against these two words has turned the discussion into a fallacious attack … People are angry at teachers or a particular politician or the poor. I have read no attacks on the 1% … who have NOT ‘earned’ ‘their wealth.’”
She said “they use their accumulated wealth to further their own interests” and blamed their hoarding for students falling behind while teachers unions refused to work because of COVID. “There should be little question that staying home should NOT equal mental health crises for kids and communities angry because school staff also need to be home,” she wrote.
When someone else criticized her for her anti-Semitic posts, she responded by calling former President Donald Trump a “scumbag” and said, “Fear is leading to censorship. I hope this person gets anti-imperialism and joins us in the struggle … No war but class war!”
On November 30, Takoma Park Middle School Principal Erin Martin wrote a letter to parents “to address a series of antisemitic online posts that appear to have been made by a staff member at our school.”
“I was extremely saddened and disappointed by the contents of these posts and strongly condemn the views expressed as they do not align with our school’s values of inclusivity, respect and acceptance,” Martin wrote.
We “have begun an investigation into the matter” but “any actions resulting from an investigation will be considered a personnel matter. Due to employee privacy laws, MCPS and Takoma Park Middle School are unable to provide further details on the personnel matter,” she wrote.
Teachers unions — like the one of which Wolf is a board member —a re largely responsible for such policies making it hard for to discipline a teacher or for the public to have transparency. Unions advocate vociferously for teachers accused of such wrongdoing to be reinstated.
Neither the union nor Wolf responded to a request for comment.
Her union is a far-Left organizing group with a heavy focus on race and diversity, equity and inclusion. There are indications that anti-Jewish sentiment is baked into DEI, including in Montgomery County Public Schools. DEI often casts whites as “settlers” and “colonizers” of America, and paints Jews in a similar light.
At nearby Tilden Middle School, Sabrina Khan-Williams, the “team leader/diversity, equity and inclusion teacher,” promoted outlandish conspiracy theories, such as the idea that Jewish people kill Palestinians to sell their organs, and that the well-documented attack in which Hamas paraglided into a rave was actually a hoax that never happened.
On November 9, another Montgomery County school, Clarksburg High School, approved an anti-Israel demonstration on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, and emailed parents to let them know of the opportunity to join the protest. It was “approved by school leadership” and “Absences due to the participation in the walk-out will be excused,” Principal Edward Owusu wrote.
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> do you see any changes that could be made to state laws to blunt some of the worst stuff liberal education unions are doing? <
As bad as they are, the unions have no control over what is being taught in the schools. And they have no control over discipline procedures. Unions can huff and puff. And they can put out position papers. But the real power rests with local school boards and the state.
In my school district, things changed around the year 2000. Our school board started to bring in liberal consultants to write courses of study. And so we ended up with nonsensically woke curricula. Most of us teachers hated it. But teaching the new courses of study wasn’t optional. The best we could do was try to mitigate the damage as much as possible.
On the state level, laws were passed to make it very difficult to discipline disruptive students. Classes became more chaotic.
So while it’s easy to kick the unions (and they deserve to be kicked), real change must come by winning school board elections and state legislature elections. I live in a Democrat-leaning state. So am not optimistic about that.
And some of us were naive enough to think that anti-semitism died with the nazi party of Germany back in 1945!
Not surprising that school officials are calling for revolution etc.
This is what the Montgomery County Public Schools have been reduced to.
I know several teachers in the MOCO public schools.
I could tell you stories that would amaze you how bad it is.
I’d be interested in the demographics of the teacher’s union. I’m betting a significant number of racist poor mouthed blacks.
‘We are going to do an “investigation”. But the results of that will be buried and remain top secret. IOW, it will be a cover up because we agree with her.’
Class war; give her a gun and tell her to go forth and begin the war. After first telling her which end to point downrange.
If they ever make a movie about Groucho, he would be perfect...............
I now return you to more substantive discussion.
“Thieves, thieves; Gluttons and Thieves!
We'd hear it from the teachers in the town.
They'd call us
Thieves! Thieves! Gluttons and Thieves!”
Cherilyn Sarkisian would be on the side of the teacher................
How zealous would she be for “class warfare” if a group of poor whites who are angry at teachers for the mental (and sometimes physical rape) of their children were to confront her and/or march on her residence or workplace?
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Angela Wolf supports “Kristallnacht in America.” Coincidentally “Wolf” is a German name.
She needs to spend a night locked up in one of the death showers at Auschwitz to soak up the ambiance there.
Maybe she would convert to being a human instead of a Nazi.
She should not be allowed any where near a school system.
The Lord of the Flies
I was one of those people.
There was a time ( graduate school) when all my friends were Jewish. One wanted to marry me. My heart is breaking.
Jews are starting to discover that, in the DEI universe, they are "privileged white people" and Israel is a "colonizing entity".
Welcome to the party, pals.
The first step in winning school board elections is to move the election to November, so more people show up to vote.
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