School Board Officer election - just around the corner

Get ready for the 2022 school board race right here in Richland County. Two trustees will be up for re-election: Manning and Caution-Parker. And you can count on trustees-elect McKie and Holmes to run again. 

The big problem? McKie and Holmes aren't even legitimate members of the Richland 2 school board.

Holmes said a while back that she wants to be board chair. It would be nice if she became a legitimate board member first. Will The Squad elect Holmes as Board Chair on June 29?

Perhaps one day soon the S.C. Supreme Court will address the usurping of public office by McKie and Holmes, who have never taken the oath of office legally. 

Contact school board members now, and ask them to be responsible in their election of Board Officers on June 29. 

Decide for yourself which trustees (or trustees-elect) have gone "woke" and elect responsible, conservative replacements in November 2022. 

Learn the dangers of Critical Race Theory and to what extent it is being implemented in Richland 2. Are the elements of it present, but it's just not being called by its name?

Watch out for the smoke-and-mirrors routine. All you have to do is attend (or watch) a couple of school board meetings. If a question is to be answered or an explanation give, you can be certain that if 15 words will suffice, a dissertation of 3-5 minutes will magically appear.

Last Tuesday's board meeting was over 3 hours. Inexcusable!!!

Support Shannon Braun

Fixer-Upper co-hosts Chip and Joanna Gaines are catching a lot of heat from the liberal media for their $1,000 donation to anti-Critical Race Theory school board candidate Shannon Braun in her race for the Grapevine Colleyville (Tex.) ISD. (www.GCISD.net)  Shannon just happens to be Chris' sister.

Shannon understands the dangers of Critical Race Theory. Do you?

For more on the Fixer-Upper story, click here.

Take a look at her dynamic website. www.shannonforgcisd.com  There is donation information there, if you want to kick in a few dollars to help Shannon get elected.

Braun's election will be decided in a June 5 run-off. It takes $$$ to win. Help her win. Every $5-10-25 helps.

May 25th Board Meeting - Three-plus hours!!!

I was shocked to see the length of the May 25th school board meeting. Another marathon!!!

The board should hire an expert to teach them how to conduct efficient board meetings. I didn't watch any of it live. Had I been a board member, I'm sure I would have walked out a long time before the end of the meeting.

Trustee-elect Teresa Holmes skipped the meeting, with James Manning explaining that she had a personal matter. I guess I don't really care what personal matter came up, unless it was her own death. School board meeting dates are announced a year in advance, and it's her obligation to attend every one of them. Manning should have explained to the board and the public what the nature of the "personal matter" was.

Why in the world the board tolerates a 2 min. 45 sec. introduction of the inspirational-moment speaker by trustee-elect Amelia McKie, I have no idea. Her introduction could have been limited to 20-30 seconds. The speaker was the Principal of Bridge Creek Elementary, and she took 4 minutes, including a video in which it was very difficult to understand any of the students or staff because of loud background music and their wearing of masks.

Several people signed up for Public Participation. One topic was transparency about a program at CFI - I know that stands for something, but I couldn't easily find it in the Schools run-down.

Did anything important happen at the meeting? Were there any important decisions?

How Dangerous is The Left's Censorship?

Read this article about an interview with attorney Alan Dershowitz on attempts by The Left to silence opposing thoughts and speech.

Click here or here:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/dangerous-new-wave-of-censorship-culminating-in-the-us-dershowitz_3831339.html?utm_source=News&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2021-05-26-1&mktids=a7c426572c53457edec386b386955c79&est=n7qB%2Fi%2BIOruqSAv8mR1Xp2kJZhCOnCjGaw0pBvsdvN4DimmS8NIGs9Zr9AnFpA%3D%3D

How dangerous is it when you cannot speak out without fearing losing of job or being doxxed?

I was recently threatened with a harassment complaint by a Bloomington, Ind. school board member, just because I wrote to complain about her vote and the board's decision to disarm SROs. Sure, I don't live in that district, but I have every legal right to address the board and comment on its decision that is dangerous to the safety, health and lives of students, staff and parents.

I recall a hearing before the election commission in McHenry County, Illinois, when a hearing was held on a voting regulation (fraud) complaint. The candidate's attorney asked the hearing officials to award legal fees; in other words, to pay his fees. The complainant's attorney spoke about the chilling effect that such an award would have on the filing of future complaints. The candidate's attorney was just grand-standing, but the hearing panel could have ruled favorably. It didn't. 

Email to School Board trustee = harassment?

Jacinda Townsend Gides, a school board member in Indiana, appears to be so afraid of guns that she voted to disarm School Resource Officers in the school district where she is on the board.

I emailed Jacinda Gides about her position opposing SROs, based on her fear of guns. Today, May 23, 2021, she replied: "Heh. When you're going to try to harass me with something I said, at the very least, get the quote right."

Notice her instant leap to "harassment".

I wrote back, stating that addressing a public official about official business is not harassment. 

She replied: "I am an attorney, actually. And you misquoted the Herald [sic] Times, which misquoted me. But your google is as good as mine. You can find the original H/T article and read that mangled quote for yourself. I'm asking you not to contact me, so if you contact me further, that is, in fact, harassment."

The newspaper is actually the Hoosier Times. There are two articles there on the vote by the Monroe County Community School Corporation (www.MCCSC.edu). 

There must be a national training for school board members that advises them to threaten citizens with harassment, when a citizen objects to official positions. It was about two years ago that I was similarly threatened right here in Richland 2 School District by a school board member (or, actually, by a woman usurping public office and pretending to be a school board member). 

The case here was that the trustee-elect (who has never, in 2½ years, taken the oath of office legally) was the recipient of emails addressed to all board members as a group. Yet she flexed her muscles and threatened me with harassment. Of course, it came to nothing. She threatened legal action more than once. She must have conferred with a good attorney, who told her she didn't have a case.

School Board disarms SROs

No, not the Richland 2 School Board (yet).

The Epoch Times reports that the Monroe County (Ind.) Community School Corporation (Bloomington area) has voted to disarm School Resource Officers (SRO).

Trustee Jacinda Townsend Gides lied in a meeting, when she said, “There has been no instance where an SRO prevented a school shooting with the discharge of a weapon.” See the article for the explanation of her lie.

"Gides also said she supported disarming officers because seeing the officers with guns in the school 'causes quite a bit of fear in me.'” I wonder if she has ever considered therapy. Do oncoming cars worry her? Many are operated by impaired or drunk drivers.

There's your typical view from the Left, and I hope that Monroe County students, parents and staff don't pay a high price for her stupidity.

Schools are known as Gun-Free Zones (GFZ), often considered easy pickings for criminals. A SRO is the first line of defense. One of the reasons that so few schools are sites of mass shootings is that SROs are armed.

This image appears are her Facebook page. Maybe voters will take to heart at election time. They are stuck with her until 2024.

June 29th - board officer election

Now is the time to start lobbying board members to elect the right people to officer positions on the School Board. The board will elect three officers for the 2021-2022 school year on June 29th.

Who should be elected?

Chair? #1 choice is Lindsay Agostini for Chair. She has strong business sense and good leadership skills. I think you can count on shorter meetings and closer following of Robert's Rules of Order. The introductions for Inspiration Moment speakers will be shorter and the Inspiration Moment will return to a "Moment", instead of a long-winded speech.

#2 Vice Chair? Monica Scott (formerly, Elkins)

#3 Secretary? James Manning.

Lindsay and Monica carefully read the board packets before meetings. This is obvious from the questions they ask and the points they raise.

McFadden was elected last November and is learning the ropes. It's too soon for an Officer position.

Caution-Parker is a "fixture" on the board, just keeping a seat warm. 

No one should be elected an officer who is not a legitimate member of the board. This rules out McKie and Holmes. Neither has ever taken the oath of office legally. Plus McKie still owes $51,000+ to the S.C. Ethics Commission.

McKie should be replaced as the District's representative to the South Carolina School Boards Association, for the same reasons.