Okay, don't read on if you get easily offended. You may want to watch the school board debate as you may think I am absolutely off base. I invite you to do your own research on the topics below.
School Board Debate Rebuttal:
**I couldn’t address all the questions but here the ones that hit my nerves the most.
Read Feely-Indigenous blah blah blah active ally-history of lands you occupy-every student recognized, respected, and included (while only pointing to one group).
-I am done with a white woman speaking on behalf of Indigenous people. Let an Indigenous person come and speak on this occupied land acknowledgement. If a group you are speaking for is offended let them speak for themselves. We do not need lectures from puffed up “we know what is best for you” people to speak for a group that is perfectly capable of making their voices heard. If they are not saying anything then take a seat.
Lie # 1: How are you going to address book banning?
-No one is asking for a book to be banned, but are asking that books be vetted for age appropriateness.
-Just because a book is not on the shelves of public schools doesn't mean it is banned (ban means all places like public libraries, homes, etc..not to exist in society).
- Parents can go to the public library and check out all the porn they want for their kids.
- It is the access to porn that is being disputed and should not be found on public school library shelves. If the book has an explicit sexual scene in it then it should not end up on the shelf in the 1st place.
-No one is banning books on indigenous history-that is an outright lie on the part of these school board members answering that question.
-It is not regulation 6150 that required librarian teachers to be certified but it is regulation 6160.
-Regulation 6150 was an addition to regulation 6160. It was made on purpose to be an anti-parent anti-community regulation. The opposition is not about the diversity of authors but the issue is if the book is sexually explicit.
Ex. from a book on the shelf at Arbor View High School, “The Court of Mist and Fury”
"His tongue swept my mouth again, in time to the finger that he slipped inside of me. My hips undulated, demanding more, craving the fullness of him, and his growl reverberated in my chest as he added another finger. I moved on him. Lightning lashed through my veins, and my focus narrowed to his fingers, his mouth, his body on mine. His palm pushed against the bundle of nerves at the apex of my thighs, and I groaned his name as I shattered. My head thrown back, I gulped down night-cool air, and then I was being lowered to the bed, gently, delicately, lovingly."
-If librarians are vetting books then how are books that include sex scenes being allowed on the shelves?
-Just because you ignore it, gloss over it, or try to mask it as racism, the promotion of word and picture pornography is occurring in our public schools.
-If veteran school board members were part of writing regulation 6150 then that exposes those who are anti-parent and anti-community involvement.
**Be honest that regulation 6150 has been and may continue to be anti-parent.
-The focus of the policy is to protect the librarians and the school? Why is that?
-Why do we need a policy that has protocols for parents to follow? Shouldn’t it be the reverse?
-Are we going to see in legislation a revival of AB445 that protects librarians from civil or criminal liability on what is going on in these public school libraries?
-Are we going to see in legislation a revival of AB416 that punishes a parent or community member with a Class E felony for asking that books and curriculum be vetted for age appropriateness? It outlined that objections would have to go through the courts for materials to be removed.
Lie #2 Lower income neighborhoods get nothing
-Pitting neighborhoods against each other is not the function of a school board member.
-School board members are lying when they claim that lower income Title 1 schools don’t get the same educational opportunities as those in Summerlin.
-Claiming certain demographics who have no access or opportunity is untruthful and pits people against each other.
Here is how I know this is a lie:
-truth: My husband worked in tech and Title 1 schools received the best technology 1st.
-truth: Summerlin schools had to do upgrades and tech upgrades with their budget. My son went to the school that did not get upgrades in Summerlin while my husband was upgrading all Title 1 schools.
-truth: Title 1 schools get more money per pupil (Summerlin schools don’t get extra money per pupil).
-truth-Title 1 schools get more money to pay teachers (incentive pay to work in Title 1 schools).
-truth: More money is poured into Title 1 neighborhood schools, so if there is no change then it is the leadership and waste of funds that is the problem, not the socioeconomics of the neighborhood (the poor vs. rich argument is just that placating optics).
Bragging about how many times one has been elected says a lot when in that seat nothing has changed. Just keep reverting back to pitting neighborhoods against each other as the strategy to keep winning the seat. Just repeating the disparities of black and brown is placating to what people may want to hear, but doesn't make it truthful.
Stop voting for people who hide behind excuses, take no responsibility, use race as the dividing factor of everything, proclaim they are the saviors for every group labeled as oppressed, and are blatantly anti-parent while spouting how pro-parent they are.
"Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: 1. Compared to what? 2. At what cost? 3. What are the hard facts?" (Thomas Sowell).
"Not since the day of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of 'race, class and gender.'" (Thomas Sowell)
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