There is a fairly lengthy article at Triad City Beat about the Take Back Our Schools advocacy group here in Guilford County. The article makes the audacious claim that the school superintendent, Sharon Contreras, has been threatened.
However, as you read through the lengthy article, I do not see any text that substantiates any kind of physical or violent threat. There might have been some edgy techniques or language, but no discrete, palpable threat.
Contreras and the school board ratchet up the anger of this group by refusing to hold in-person public meetings despite the fact that the COVID vaccine has been available to at-risk populations for many months; and despite the fact that we are near herd immunity. And their previous refusal to re-open the schools likely was an aggravating factor also.
The Chicken Little-like routine from some lefty school board members and administrators in response to the group is likely an effort to shut them down before they even have the opportunity to participate with in-person meetings.
Many groups similar to Take Back Our Schools are challenging local school boards throughout the country over the transgender mess and Critical Race Theory. The local group initially was interested for the most part in school safety and discipline; but it now has expanded its interests to the contagion of Social Emotional Learning within North Carolina public schools.
I support what this group is doing; and heartily encourage them to continue applying pressure.
And while Triad City Beat obviously enjoys highlighting the concerns of those within the system regarding this group, we know that the paper and the lefties they quote likely are not nearly as concerned about all the violence and destruction and murder caused by BLM, Antifa and the numerous other Marxist groups that have been on the march over the last several years. They weren't nearly as concerned about what happened even here in Greensboro a year ago during the protests.
If that makes them look like hypocrites, it is probably because they are. But remember that appearances of hypocrisy do not constrain the left, because they can get by with it.
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