(follow-up to Oct. 8 post)
Local school boards across America have their own state associations, and the state associations belong to the National School Boards Association (NSBA). The national association is run by executives and staff, all of whom answer to its own Board of Directors . . and that board made a huge course correction last Friday.
In a September 29 letter to the White House which was written by NSBA executives, parents who protest the policies of their local school boards are compared to violent "domestic terrorists" and the executives wanted the federal government to take action against them.
Parents across the country were understandably shocked and angry.
The course correction came in a letter from NSBA's Board of Directors to all its association members saying they "regret and apologize" for the Sept. 29 letter, and that "there was no justification for some of the language included in the letter.”
So the corrected position of the National School Board Association is that parents who lift their voices at local school board meetings are not to be called terrorists. A step back from the brink.
from NYPost
(cont'd tomorrow)
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