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Woke School Board Members Resign. Can't handle the heat of parents
Posted on 8/31/21 at 8:24 pm
Posted on 8/31/21 at 8:24 pm
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/school-board-members-resign-toxic-debates-crt-mask-mandates
School board members resign following 'toxic' debates over CRT and mask mandates
Angry parents and activists growing tired of mask mandates , the teaching of critical race theory , and other progressive ideas have flooded school board meetings across the country. They've raised their voices, aired their grievances, and taken educators to task.
The intense scrutiny has led to a wave of resignations of school board members who say they are done being the proverbial punching bag for people upset with the system.
Things got so bad that Kurt Thigpen, a trustee for the Washoe County School Board in Nevada , said he considered suicide amid a relentless barrage of bullying and threats leveled not only by parents but by people who didn't even live in the county or have children attending school.
"At one point, I didn't want to leave my house anymore," he wrote in an opinion piece about his resignation. "I was constantly looking over my shoulder. The anticipation alone of attending another board meeting, being in the same room with folks who likely would be happy if I dropped dead, triggered severe emotional responses for me."
He added that he walked into every board meeting fearing for his safety and not knowing what might happen next.
Thigpen said he had already made himself a target by speaking up for LGBT students and added that during his seven months as a trustee, he received "endless emails, texts, phone calls, and social media messages with all sorts of hateful things, well beyond what is to be expected from the role of a public servant."
"It had finally reached a point for me when I started having some serious health problems, both mentally and physically," he said. "It started with suicidal ideations. I didn't want to exist anymore and felt things would be better if I just disappeared."
He said he made the tough decision to resign but holds out hope that one day, "we can all put down our swords and come together as one community regardless of political leanings."
School board members resign following 'toxic' debates over CRT and mask mandates
Angry parents and activists growing tired of mask mandates , the teaching of critical race theory , and other progressive ideas have flooded school board meetings across the country. They've raised their voices, aired their grievances, and taken educators to task.
The intense scrutiny has led to a wave of resignations of school board members who say they are done being the proverbial punching bag for people upset with the system.
Things got so bad that Kurt Thigpen, a trustee for the Washoe County School Board in Nevada , said he considered suicide amid a relentless barrage of bullying and threats leveled not only by parents but by people who didn't even live in the county or have children attending school.
"At one point, I didn't want to leave my house anymore," he wrote in an opinion piece about his resignation. "I was constantly looking over my shoulder. The anticipation alone of attending another board meeting, being in the same room with folks who likely would be happy if I dropped dead, triggered severe emotional responses for me."
He added that he walked into every board meeting fearing for his safety and not knowing what might happen next.
Thigpen said he had already made himself a target by speaking up for LGBT students and added that during his seven months as a trustee, he received "endless emails, texts, phone calls, and social media messages with all sorts of hateful things, well beyond what is to be expected from the role of a public servant."
"It had finally reached a point for me when I started having some serious health problems, both mentally and physically," he said. "It started with suicidal ideations. I didn't want to exist anymore and felt things would be better if I just disappeared."
He said he made the tough decision to resign but holds out hope that one day, "we can all put down our swords and come together as one community regardless of political leanings."
This post was edited on 8/31/21 at 8:25 pm
Posted on 8/31/21 at 8:26 pm to Jack Carter
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"It had finally reached a point for me when I started having some serious health problems, both mentally and physically," he said. "It started with suicidal ideations. I didn't want to exist anymore and felt things would be better if I just disappeared."
The world would probably be better off for it
Posted on 8/31/21 at 8:26 pm to Jack Carter
How do they always look the exact fricking same?
Posted on 8/31/21 at 8:26 pm to Jack Carter
We need 100x more of this.
Posted on 8/31/21 at 8:27 pm to Jack Carter
Good.
frick these worthless counts.
frick these worthless counts.
Posted on 8/31/21 at 8:28 pm to Jack Carter
quote:
School board member Allison Pratt told the Associated Press that if she weren't already on the school board, she would drop any aspiration to be, given the current charged climate.
"There is starting to be an inherent distrust for school boards, that there's some notion that we are out to indoctrinate children or to undermine parents or things like that, when we are on the same team," she said.
Posted on 8/31/21 at 8:30 pm to Jack Carter
Stop pushing your ideologue agenda and machinations upon our schools a-hole.
Posted on 8/31/21 at 8:30 pm to Jack Carter
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At the Aug. 17 meeting, the in-person portion of the school board meeting ended after parents demanded School District 51 Superintendent Diana Sirko either resign or be arrested. The police were called, not for an arrest but to escort board members to their vehicles.
"Why am I doing this?" Doug Levinson, a school board member, asked.
In Wisconsin, the vitriol got so intense that three Oconomowoc Area School Board members resigned on Aug. 15, claiming their work environment had become too "toxic."
Posted on 8/31/21 at 8:30 pm to Jack Carter
I honestly think electronics have turned our society in to a huge tub of useless goo.
Posted on 8/31/21 at 8:31 pm to Jack Carter
He looks like he loves kids…but not in the way God wants us to.
Posted on 8/31/21 at 8:34 pm to Jack Carter
quote:
"At one point, I didn't want to leave my house anymore," he wrote in an opinion piece about his resignation. "I was constantly looking over my shoulder. The anticipation alone of attending another board meeting, being in the same room with folks who likely would be happy if I dropped dead, triggered severe emotional responses for me."
no wonder these people hated Trump, force masks, and think there is such a thing as white supremacists. they are legitimately scared of nearly everything.
Posted on 8/31/21 at 8:34 pm to Jack Carter
Boo fricking who…..they got no issue canceling and ruining peoples lives for their own agendas……just remember…snowflakes always melt
Posted on 8/31/21 at 8:37 pm to Jack Carter
The La. BESE Board should all resign after the bullshite that they pulled concerning masks.
Posted on 8/31/21 at 8:37 pm to Jack Carter
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when we are on the same team,
Nope
Posted on 8/31/21 at 8:38 pm to Jack Carter
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well beyond what is to be expected from the role of a public servant
Public servants...
They are only serving their agenda, not the public.
Posted on 8/31/21 at 8:38 pm to Jack Carter
I wonder if this thought has gone through their head:
Posted on 8/31/21 at 8:41 pm to Jack Carter
This soy retard brought it on himself.
Posted on 8/31/21 at 8:41 pm to Jack Carter
Glad to see some good news for a change.
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