Cooper: Stop bullying the school board
You heard the genius right. Shut your mouth while the elected puppets of the unelected public school administrators continue to do the bidding of the superintendent and his staff – NO QUESTIONS ASKED.
Ironically, COVID helped raise the activities of school boards and school board elections from a political after-thought to the top of everyone’s minds. The man-on-the-street began to see the COVID authoritarianism and the critical race theory nonsense up-close-and-personal. People are getting upset over the fact that the folks they elected to be their eyes and ears are nothing more than rubber-stamps for unelected bureaucrats.
It used to be customary for voters to gloss over school board races if they didn’t have kids in the system.
Protests are apparently only a problem if conservatives do them. (We don’t burn down cities like some on the other side like to do.)
Apparently, according to Roy Cooper, demanding that your elected officials actually listen to you and respect your wishes is bullying. (The folks in power sure do hate it when the little people start getting in the way. So, if that’s bullying, what do you call endangering people’s workplace promotions, pay raises, pay checks, and actual employment if they don’t get a vaccination you want them to get?)
Apparently, the protests are making service on local school boards way too hard. Apparently, a lot of people are bailing out of their posts on the various boards — fearing alleged “threats” and “intimidation.” It’s actually not a surprise that people are getting angry once they’ve discovered what their elected officials have been doing to them and their children. At least the liars in Raleigh and DC can use their geographic distance from their constituents as a safety / buffer zone.
School board members have to actually live and work among the people they are fleecing and lying to.
I feel very fortunate to have a school board that listens to the parents here in Union County. We are one of the few mask-optional school districts in NC.
The insane quarantines and contact-tracing have also been passed on to the local health department as the law requires. This was key to keeping masks optional because the quarantine rules passed down from the state DHHS incentivize mask-wearing. Now that the local DHHS have to take on these duties, they won’t have the resources to cause the same havoc that we had when the schools were doing them.