Florida, Tennessee SBAs Withdraw From National School Boards Association
Seventeen states have severed ties with the NSBA after it labeled concerned parents as domestic terrorists.
Florida and Tennessee are the latest states to discontinue memberships to the National School Boards Association (NSBA) after the latter described concerned parents as domestic terrorists. God forbid the parents don’t want Critical Race Theory in the classrooms with teachers telling white kids they should feel guilty because of their skin color.
Seventeen states have severed ties with the NSBA (including Illinois!) after the NSBA asked the Biden administration to investigate these parents. AG Merrick Garland announced he would sic the FBI and other DOJ departments on them. But the states know that parent involvement is a must and local law enforcement can handle any problems.
(Where are you, Oklahoma?!?)
Florida
The Florida School Boards Association (FSBA) officially left the NSBA on December 1:
FSBA did not submit payment for 2020-2021 dues to NSBA which were due July 1, 2021. FSBA was clear about reassessing the value of the affiliation with NSBA due to concerns surrounding NSBA’s governance, leadership, transparency, and failure to embrace non-partisanship.
FSBA’s decision to let membership in NSBA lapse was necessary, but not made lightly. The decision to allow our membership to lapse was made in response to a persistent pattern of dysfunction within the NSBA organization and among those charged with its governance.
During the FSBA Board of Directors meeting on 11/30, the board voted unanimously to officially allow its membership in the NSBA to lapse. This means that as of December 1, 2021, FSBA is no longer a member of NSBA.
Learn more here: https://t.co/NrMLfFVJvs pic.twitter.com/QZm9Wr7yPw— FLSchoolBoardsAssoc (@FLSchoolBoards) December 2, 2021
Gov. Ron DeSantis applauded the decision:
“I support what the Florida School Board Association did. I think it was the right thing to get out of the National School Board Association. The National School Board Association was using its association to advance a partisan narrative and agenda,” DeSantis said.
“And they created this letter to try to get the FBI to start basically running interference at school board meetings. You know, they’re not interested in having the FBI go after the guy in Waukesha, Wisconsin, which was an intentional act of terrorism,” he observed.
“But they somehow think a parent who is upset that there is bad curriculum being put in school or forced masking or all these other things, if they speak out, that they are a domestic threat? Give me a break,” the governor said, noting that he remained opposed because he knew what they were doing.
“They were trying to intimidate parents. They did not want parents to be speaking out. And I can tell you in Florida, parents should speak out,” he said, explaining that the Sunshine State has great people in law enforcement who will hold actual criminals accountable.
“But going and speaking your mind is not that, and it was absolutely an attempt to intimidate,” DeSantis said.
“And I would say there is a divide now, between some of these elites, people that align with the teacher unions, and parents where they say that parents really don’t have much of a role in what goes on in school. I disagree with that,” he added.
Tennessee
The Tennessee School Board Association (TSBA) withdrew on Friday.
TSBA Assistant Executive Director Ben Torres told The Tennessee Star: “Our board decided to leave NSBA because NSBA’s advocacy efforts are focused more on contentious issues that divide the membership instead of educational issues that should further the mission of our state associations.”
TSBA Executive Director Tammy Grissom mentioned parent involvement:
“TSBA believes that parental and family involvement in the education of each child is essential to academic success,” Grissom said via email.
“Local boards of education should make every effort to enhance communication between parents and schools and remove any barriers that prevent them from teaming with school boards, administrators, and teachers to improve student achievement,” Grissom said via email.”
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These people seem to be oblivious to the likelihood that they are destroying the public school system. Are there any schools, public or otherwise, taking a non CRT stand to market their schools?
Also, everything Affirmative needs to be banished. A big part of the current problem is promotion of affirmative hucksters.
Now if they would only discontinue the unions.
Lest any readers here still aren’t aware of the pole dance being performed here…
“Biden Admin Gave School Board Organization President Plum Education Appointment Two Days After She Issued Bogus ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Letter”
NSBA President Viola Garcia used the NSBA’s name to do what Merrick Garland needed an “independent” stooge to do for him (“Oh, he’p me, he’p me sir, I’ze bein’ vierlated by dese racemist parents!”). Then she set the whole place on fire as she waltzed out to the fancy federal limousine waiting to take her away from all that. It was a slow fire to be sure, one still burning, as week by week, state after state withdraws its support from the group, which is quite possibly already dead but just doesn’t know it.
(This post certified non-racist. Viola Garcia is as white as Mitt Romney. In fact, she’s a dead ringer for Ben Franklin — hairstyle and all — only with lipstick.)
It sure would be nice if all teachers contracts required voter approval.
And a strike penalty.
GARLAND MUST RESIGN OR BE REMOVED
WORST ATTORNEY-GENERAL IN HISTORY
Or jailed.
Nix the quotation marks around “our” on the sign They could increase the font size, make it bold, etc.
The sign at a nearby recycling center says:
Open “7” days a week.
Who pays for the NSBA? Is it the federal government or local school boards or something else????
They’re a dues-paid membership organization. And the blowback has carved them quite a bit.