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pipistrelle wrote: ↑Mon Aug 23, 2021 11:19 pm “Dan” repeatedly said they would have to touch the daughter. Hoping for a clear excuse to sue.

...Gallien was not prepared for the experience of attending a school board meeting in St Tammany, a rural parish that is significantly whiter, richer and more conservative than nearby New Orleans. “I didn’t know it was going to be like that,” she said. “When I pulled into the parking lot, it was a Trump rally.”

Dozens of parents, dressed in red to “demonstrate their anger”, according to the local paper, stood outside the school, holding signs with slogans such as “My Child, My Choice” and “Unmask Our Children”. Shouting matches broke out between the pro- and anti-mask camps as law enforcement officers attempted to keep the sides separate. One man told Gallien, who is Black, to “go back where you came from”.

The tense standoff in Slidell is just one of dozens that have unfolded at local school board meetings across the US in recent weeks as schools debate how to return to in-person instruction amid the resurgent threat of the Delta variant. From Anchorage, Alaska, to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, school board meetings have become the stage for the latest act in America’s culture wars over education, one with roots in the country’s deep racial and political divisions.

“School boards are a uniquely vulnerable spot in the culture war landscape, because they’re open to everyone and they’re not really prepared for it,” said Adam Laats, a Binghamton University professor who studies the history of education in the US. “You can go down to the meeting at 7.30pm on Thursday and yell at someone rather than just feeling adrift in a changing culture.”

Parents get coached on how to escape mask and vaccine rules
by Gillian Flaccus, Jaine Har and Sara ClineSunday, August 22nd 2021

ALSEA, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon school superintendent is telling parents they can get their children out of wearing masks by citing federal disability law. A pastor at a California megachurch is offering religious exemptions for anyone morally conflicted over vaccine requirements.

And Louisiana’s attorney general has posted sample letters on his office’s Facebook page for those seeking to get around the governor’s mask rules.

Across the U.S., religious figures, doctors, public officials and other community leaders are trying to help people circumvent COVID-19 precautions.

While proponents of these workarounds say they are looking out for children’s health and parents’ rights, others say such stratagems are dishonest and irresponsible and could undermine efforts to beat back the highly contagious delta variant.

Mask and vaccine requirements vary from state to state but often allow exemptions for certain medical conditions or religious or philosophical objections.

In Oregon, Superintendent Marc Thielman of the rural Alsea School District told parents they can sidestep the governor’s school mask requirement by applying for an accommodation for their children under federal disabilities law.

Thielman said he hit upon the idea after the governor’s mandate generated “huge, huge pushback” from parents.

“The majority of my parents are skeptical and are no longer believing what they’re told” about COVID-19, said Thielman, whose district in the state’s coastal mountains begins classes Monday. “I’ve got a majority of my parents saying, ‘Are there any options?’”

In a letter to educators this past week, Democratic Gov. Kate Brown said she was shocked that Thielman was undermining her policies by “instructing students to lie” about having a disability.



https://weartv.com/news/local/parents-g ... 08-21-2021

Volkonski wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 3:44 pm https://twitter.com/RiverheadLOCAL/stat ... 32993?s=19

Man who blurted out 'Heil Hitler' during school meeting on mask mandates fired from tennis instructor job
Sky Palma
August 24, 2021

A man accused of giving a Nazi salute and saying "Heil Hitler" during a board of education meeting in Detroit has lost his job as a tennis instructor at a local health and fitness club, the Metro Times reports.

Speaking to the Metro Times, the owner of Sports Club said that Paul Marcum's bio has been taken off their website after news got around that he flashed the salute during a heated debate at the Aug. 17 meeting regarding mandatory masks in schools.

Marcum allegedly made the gesture toward Suzanne Busdiecker, who is Jewish, and two African-American women. All three women supported mask mandates, Deadline Detroit previously reported.

"It's a hate crime and it happened on school property," Busdiecker, a mother of a student entering middle school after a year of virtual learning, told Deadline Detroit. "I'm not taking it lightly."

Marcum was removed from the meeting by security after the incident.



https://www.rawstory.com/paul-marcum-nazi-salute/

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 9:34 pm WTF Utah?

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 9:43 pm

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 9:34 pm WTF Utah?

University of Texas at Austin.

Volkonski wrote: ↑Mon Aug 23, 2021 6:46 pm

On Wednesday, a student approached Bauman and said “I’ve had enough for four days” and attempted to grab his cellphone as he was recording, according to the arrest report.

Bauman pushed the student in the shoulder and then “grabbed her hand and twisted her arm in an aggressive manner,” according to the report.

He was immediately taken into custody and has been charged with aggravated child abuse.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 9:34 pm WTF Utah?