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| The Main Thing Is Not To Get Excited  |
Well Done, or rather well started. I served two terms on our school board and as you might guess because I'm here, I wasn't one of the in crowd but I'm fun at a party so it went reasonably well. I have always been glad I did it. ON one memorable Wednesday though, the morning after the Tuesday meeting, I was carried in my local fish wrap as "A Barbarian at the Gates" and in the larger paper covering the county was referred to as "A welcome voice of reason". School boards and the Marines aren't much alike except for the old saying: "If you can't take a joke you shouldn't have signed up." _______________________ | |||
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| Big Stack |
It's a slippery slope. First school board, then town/city/county council, then mayor, then governor, then senator. You don't know what you've gotten yourself into. And as an aside, I think I remember the Zykan was the name of your business. I didn't realize it was your actual last name. My last name starts with W. I though I suffered from discrimination by alphabetical order. ZY? You take it to a whole different level. You must have been last in line for everything. | |||
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chickenshit |
Good luck Frank! ____________________________ Yes, Para does appreciate humor. | |||
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| Distinguished Pistol Shot |
Good luck! Don't forget it is the school board that sets policy for the district. Too many school boards rubber stamp the decisions made by the Superintendent (remember PhD just means piled higher and deeper). | |||
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Good on you for getting involved, it's so important to have someone with common sense and a level head on school boards. | |||
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| A day late, and a dollar short  |
Well...keep your paws out of my pockets!!  ____________________________ NRA Life Member, Annual Member GOA, MGO Annual Member | |||
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| Husband, Father, Aggie, all around good guy!  |
Thank you for pulling the wagon now! May you have success in instituting foundational US principles in the schools you govern. HK Ag | |||
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Best of Luck! | |||
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Good luck and remember a new broom sweeps clean. | |||
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safe & sound |
Thank you all for the kind words and well wishes. Here in Missouri we had a recent lawsuit against a health department, and the judge found that the closures, masking, quarantining, etc. was unconstitutional (state constitution). The state's health director asked our attorney general to appeal the ruling, and he refused. This left it up to the health director to appeal using third party representation. He decided not to. As a result the attorney general sent letters to every health department as well as every school district. He instructed the health departments to cease all action. He informed the schools that the health departments no longer had authority in this matter, and further pointed out that the public schools also have no authority themselves to mandate masks, quarantine students, etc. The majority of the districts in my area have decided to ignore all of this, and carry on with business as usual. This in turn resulted in the attorney general setting up a snitch line and e-mail address for reporting and submitting evidence of unconstitutional school actions. In less than 24 hours he has responded to schools in violation with cease and desist letter, a record demand, and a litigation hold. Has this stopped the schools? Of course not. It's not their money being spent on legal fees. As a result of all of this many parents have sent their children to school today. They are ignoring the masks. They are ignoring the quarantines. They are ignoring the testing. I am hearing reports of students being segregated. Threats of retaliation. Police being called to several schools. This is insane. I was contacted by two parents this morning who were sending their kids in "violation" of the school's demands. They did not send anything in writing, and I had about 2 minutes to get something typed up and sent along with my son as they all share the same class(es). I instructed him to stand up for his friends against any flak from other students or the teachers themselves. I told him that I have his back on any resistance he involves himself with, and should he get called to the office I'll be there to deal with it myself.  | |||
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| You don’t fix faith, River. It fixes you.  |
Well done! Local, Local, Local. It matters and our kids see it. ---------------------------------- "If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.." - Thomas Sowell | |||
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| safe & sound |
Although we had many conservative victories in neighboring counties here in the St. Louis area, it was not meant to be for us. At least not this year. 
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Fire begets Fire |
^^^ Good on you brother! Fight the good fight. "Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
a1abdj: Thank you for running. We did have several conservative candidates win in the St. Louis area, particularly in Rockwood, but it was also not meant to be for us in Lindbergh and Mehlville. I'll share a little bit of what I told Ben Droney, who worked hard and ran a great race, last night: I think we need to make school board elections take place in November. Let's face it, there's nothing non-partisan about this process. At least conservative candidates would stand a better chance of winning. I'm simply disgusted with so-called conservatives who can't be bothered to come to the polls ... The unions are going to get their people out. We don't stand much chance in an April election because so many of the older voters don't really think the school board races apply to them because they don't have kids in school and many of them don't follow what is going on. They vote in much greater numbers in a November general election. Thank you for putting yourself out there, for raising awareness of important issues and please continue to do so. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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