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HENRY COUNTY, Ga. — After a court victory, a former teacher who sued her school district is hoping for a victory at the polls. A jury awarded former Cotton Indian Elementary teacher Sheri Mimbs six-figure monetary damages after she says she was fired for not giving students grades they didn’t earn. “It was like a sigh of relief. A weight off my shoulders,” Mimbs told Channel 2′s Tom Jones about the six-year battle against the Henry County School System, and a jury reaching a verdict in her favor. “That’s a victory for me. That’s a victory for these teachers,” she...

The Loudoun County School Board has a concerning parallel to George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth in 1984. After voting to turn off the cameras during public comment this week, the district’s school board members are now considering additional measures to further limit and silence dissent during their meetings. The majority of the school board members would like to teach their beliefs, such as the acceptability of allowing males to use females’ school bathrooms and locker rooms, and suppress parents’ ability to say otherwise. On Thursday, Democratic-endorsed school board member April Chandler outlined more ways they might restrict parental input. Claiming...

This is a story you won’t see in the mainstream media. If this can happen in a rural Indiana town of only 15,000 people in a Republican “fly-over” state, it can happen in your town. A brave 11-year-old girl spoke out at a Lebanon, Indiana school board meeting earlier this year on January 16, 2024 in which she describes how she and other girls are forced to share a locker room with a boy while at school. “I’m here to discuss the matter of a male being in the female locker room. Imagine this is you -- you’re an 11-year-old...

Grandpa RIPS this school board to shreds.

Billionaire Harvard donor Bill Ackman is calling for the resignation and replacement of the school's board, which he says is just as much to blame for its problems as ousted president Claudine Gay.Gay resigned yesterday, finally bowing to calls to stand down a month after her calamitous congressional testimony about campus antisemitism and amid growing accusations of academic plagiarism throughout her scholar career...Unsatisfied with Gay's resignation, he says the school's leadership is so deeply flawed that it requires a total overhaul.'The Corporation Board should not remain in their seats protected by the unusual governance structure which enabled them to obtain...

A Maryland county claims under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, it can create a school board seat that only illegal immigrants can vote for, according to reports. The Washington Times reported that Howard County officials appeared before a federal court of appeals last month and defended its current process of having a school board seat occupied by a student, in which only public school students are allowed to vote for. Some Howard County residents are challenging the practice on the basis of it being unconstitutional discrimination in voting, particularly against the county general electorate and students at religious...

In a move that has raised eyebrows and stirred controversy, Fairfax County School Board member Karl Frisch was recently sworn into his second term on a stack of homosexual-themed books, a deliberate choice that diverges from the traditional practice of taking an oath on a religious text. Among these books, one notably included graphic content featuring children. This act, symbolic of Frisch’s stance, is a manifestation of the broader debate surrounding the inclusion of such books in school curriculums and libraries. This incident provides a window into the ongoing discourse regarding the appropriateness of LGBTQ-themed books in educational settings. Books...

Taking a sworn oath of office on a Bible meant that you were imperiling your immortal soul if you lied or broke your oath. What in the world are you committing to when you swear in on erotic quasi-fiction for pederasts and groomers?Well, I can’t answer that question, but Karen Smith, an incumbent school board president for Central Bucks School District in Doylestown, Pennsylvania sure could! Last week, Smith was reelected to “serve” as head of the board, and instead of ceremoniously swearing in on a Bible, she opted for a stack of “banned” books, including at least three controversial...

A school district in Lynchburg, Virginia, has received multiple death threats after the Washington Post published an article that claimed the board created a “blueprint for how to belittle, betray and dismiss kids” because it refused a $10,000 donation from a radical LGBT-pushing group. The Lynchburg City School Board voted 7 to 2 against the creation of LGBT “safe spaces” in its schools – designed to take children out of lessons and allow them to talk about their feelings in “comfortable chairs, blankets and low light” – with funds from the charity “It Gets Better.” The rejection infuriated Petula Dvorak...

A parent school board meeting in Brooklyn descended into hate and chaos as more than two dozen people, including many Israel supporters, were tossed from the virtual event. The Wednesday meeting was the first for the Community Educational Council for District 14, which covers Williamsburg and Greenpoint, since its controversial promotion of a Nov. 9 pro-Palestinian rally in which hundreds of students walked out of school, including some who yelled “f–k the Jews!” A father who questioned the organizations CEC 14 partnered with for the walkout, including Youth for Palestine, was told by Vice President Marissa Manzanares, “Redirect yourself or...

A 1st-grade teacher in Palm Beach County, Florida, a “River From the Sea Palestine Will Be Free” advocate, is about to find out how decent Americans support each other in times of crisis, and so will the Palm Beach County School District. Lauren Gross of The Gross Family Center For The Study of Antisemitism And The Holocaust has inspired five hundred people to send a letter to Superintendent Burke and the School Board of the School District of Palm Beach County asking for the dismissal of Layann Alhunaidi. On Nov. 10, I wrote about Layann Alhunaidi, a local elementary school...

During the public comment section of a recent school board meeting, a Florida mother attempted to share a sexually explicit image featured in a school library book, but she was promptly interrupted, the New York Post reported. Julie Gebhards, a Tampa resident, addressed the Hillsborough County school board, hoping to bring attention to an inappropriate graphic novel in the district’s libraries. Gebhards explained that “Blankets” by Craig Thompson, which features sexually explicit images and passages, was approved unanimously by Plant City High School’s seven-person panel, despite being challenged by parents. “This is in children’s libraries here in Hillsborough County,” she...

What would you call a person who refused to honor the victims of 9/11 and now opposes honoring the victims of Hamas’ brutal attack in Israel? The answer? A Fairfax County school board member. ... Glenn Youngkin is governor of Virginia today because northern Virginia school boards have veered so far left that they engage in conspiracies to hide trans-“women” raping girls in their bathrooms, and terrorist sympathizers oppose condemning terrorists. Fairfax and Loudoun Counties both abut the District of Columbia and are filled with government workers and contractors who form the core of the Democrat coalition, which means they...

VIDEOOMG Productions presents... "CHARIOTS OF IRE" starring JAMES O'KEEFE. Filmed entirely in scenic Williamson County.Co-Starring Josh Brown as the Mute Pfizer Vice-President. Dan Cash as the incredibly cranky school board member. And Angela Durham as the Know Nothing School Board Chair.Appearing soon at a School Board near you.Audio: "Chariots of Fire" by Massimo Bossco (No Copyright Music) "Chariots of Fire" de Massimo Bosco está posteada bajo una licencia Creative Commons."WATCH: OMG questions Josh Brown, Pfizer National VP, Govt. Relations at Williamson Co. School board" https://youtu.be/4ODmSZGoPDU?si=2RySmU8rblEVjC3G

Today in insanity, James O'Keefe's O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) recently released nearly 20 minutes of police bodycam footage, obtained through FOIA requests, which showed New Jersey school board officials calling the police on citizens who they claimed looked “Trumpish.” “The police colluded with school officials to scan license plates of school board meeting attendees who looked different,” OMG head James O’Keefe said. Because, you know, the Left doesn’t like those who look “different.” Or think different. In fact, progressives want to persecute anyone who looks “Trumpish.” And they are actively doing so to Trump and his supporters. One might state,...

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Sunday granted an “absolute pardon” to the father who was arrested at a school board meeting after the superintendent lied about his daughter’s rape by a skirt-wearing boy. The pardon says that in June 2021, Scott Smith “exercised his constitutional right to attend a public meeting of the Loudoun County School Board to observe the proceedings, during which time a community member threatened to spread false and malicious information about Mr. Smith’s business with the intent to damage his reputation.” “After an ensuing verbal confrontation, Scott Thomas Smith was charged with Obstruction of Justice and...

A pastor in Florida was forcibly removed from a school board meeting when he attempted to read aloud pornographic passages from a book that was available to children.The man was one of around 30 parents at the Monday meeting at the Indian River County School Board.Pastor John K. Amanchukwu Sr. began to read from the book titled 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher, but he only got one sentence in before the board shut him down.“As if letting him finger me was going to cure all my problems,” the pastor read, prompting one board member to yell into the microphone...

A brilliant strategy, rooted in both common sense and law, has resulted in a victory for both decency and parental rights. Moms for Liberty, a conservative group dedicated to defending parents and students against government overreach, capitalized on a new Florida statute and compelled a school board to bypass its own procedures by voting immediately to remove obscene literature from school libraries. The group’s strategy unfolded in a dramatic way at a school board meeting on Monday in Indian River County, Florida. According to WEAR-TV in Pensacola, Florida, parents and others affiliated with Moms for Liberty selected books from the...

A man was forcibly removed from a Texas school board meeting Tuesday while attempting to speak out against an LGBTQ book banned from school libraries. Mike Cee was seen on video, while holding a microphone used for public comment, quoting the book Flamer by Mike Curato, which is a novel about a teenager discovering his sexuality. The book had already been removed from the district's elementary and middle school libraries during the summer. He, at one point, reads off the line of one character asking: 'Who wants my hot wiener?' Cee was met with one board member slamming her gavel...

The woke are really insufferable