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Rhode Island Lawmakers Consider Law to Advance DEI Ideology In Public Schools

Posted by Jane Coleman on March 11, 2024 14 Comments

RI H7722 requires the department of education to develop DEI materials for public school curricula. But it's up to local school committees, which will be under enormous pressure to adopt this state policy....

Parents Push Back Against Making Rhode Island A Sanctuary State for Childhood Trans Surgeries And Pharmaceuticals

Posted by Jane Coleman on March 08, 2024 17 Comments

Nicole Solas , Bob Chiaradio, Ramona Bessinger, and others testify in RI Senate hearing against the “Healthcare Provider Shield Act” which would insulate Rhode Island doctors and their patients from civil and criminal complaints filed in other states....

DHS Is Training Teachers To Develop Student ‘Disinformation’ Informers – I Know, I Took The Training

Posted by Ramona Bessinger on February 19, 2024 68 Comments

I'm a Providence, Rhode Island, high school teacher. You may remember me from when I blew the whistle in July 2021 on how a new Critical Race Curriculum was creating racial hostility in the Middle School where I taught at the time, and the subsequent retaliation and harassment. I'm blowing the whistle again, this time as to Department of Homeland Security funding for training of teachers on combatting so-called "disinformation" as part of supposed "media literacy" programming through the University of Rhode Island, called Courageous RI. The training is not what it purports to be. It's all about training teachers to teach students to become "disinformation" informers. I know. I took the training.

Whistleblower Teacher Ramona Bessinger Targeted For Viewpoint Discrimination At Providence High School Even Before Arrived, Records Reveal

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2023 25 Comments

Records obtained by Legal Insurrection Foundation reveal that when Bessinger was involuntarily transferred to Classical High in late August 2022, after her middle school whistleblowing retaliation, an influential teacher already was organizing against her based on Bessinger's viewpoints....

Providence (RI) Schools Bow To Radical Mob, Remove Whistleblower Ramona Bessinger From Teaching Position

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 08, 2022 84 Comments

The Ramona Bessinger story is beginning to remind me of the Gibson's Bakery story.

Providence (RI) Whistleblower Teacher Ramona Bessinger Threatened At School By Student Protest Leader

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2022 34 Comments

Activists within and outside Classical High School are trying to get Bessinger fired and incite people against her, and now it has spilled over into a threat screamed at her from a student leader in school this morning, according to Bessinger: "F-you, F-you, I want...

Judicial Watch Demands Providence (RI) Schools Cease and Desist “Retaliation and Harassment” Of Ramona Bessinger

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 30, 2022 28 Comments

On day of organized protest against Bessinger at school, JW writes to Superintendent: "Ms. Bessinger has been subjected to a continuing campaign of retaliation and harassment related to her protected First Amendment expression," we call on district to "immediately put an end to the inappropriate...

Whistleblower Providence (RI) Teacher Ramona Bessinger Under Attack Again, Teachers Helping Organize Student Protest Against Her

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 29, 2022 53 Comments

Bessinger targeted for a protest on September 30, organized by Classical High School students Bessinger asserts are "lead by activist mob teachers" with instructions for students to cover their faces to avoid identification. ...

If We Don’t Tell Their Stories, Who Will? – Legal Insurrection Summer 2022 Fundraiser

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 03, 2022 1 Comment

Giving voice to people under attack is one of the things Legal Insurrection does best. We bring light to the darkness of wokeness and cancel culture, and elevate heroic parents and educators to national prominence so that millions of people hear their stories. To help us help others, you can DONATE HERE.

Victory – I’m A Teacher Who Blew The Whistle On CRT In Schools, Suffered Retaliation, But Now I’ve Prevailed

Posted by Ramona Bessinger on July 24, 2022 30 Comments

After spending 9 months in a windowless basement after involuntary transfer to a school that didn't want me, the Providence School District has given up fighting my legal grievance. Starting September I will have a permanent classroom assignment. Now, I can continue to teach children...

Parents Are Fighting A Racialized ‘Equity Audit’ In North Kingstown (RI) And So Far We’re Winning

Posted by Ramona Bessinger on March 10, 2022 32 Comments

My name is Ramona Bessinger, I am a mother and a teacher. I’ve been teaching for 23 years; over 12 years at Middletown High School, and 8 years teaching English Literature grades 6 through 12 in Providence, Rhode Island.

If We Don’t Tell Their Stories, Who Will? – 2021 Legal Insurrection Year-End Fundraiser

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2021 0 Comments

As we approach year-end, I just sent out my third year-end letter to readers and supporters who subscribe to our newsletter. It's quite different from my prior two letters - I don't do all the talking, I let 'canceled' people whose stories we covered tell their story about Legal Insurrection. Here it is:

Middle School Teacher Ramona Bessinger On Racialized Curriculum: “I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 29, 2021 16 Comments

"All of the books had the same sort of narrative, the oppressor versus oppressed narrative."...

Under New Critical Race Curriculum “White People, Historic Figures, All Look Like Buffoons or Aggressors” – Providence (RI) Teacher Ramona Bessinger

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 21, 2021 21 Comments

On Megyn Kelly Podcast: "Not to speak out is to deny students and children that very crucial comprehensive education that they're entitled to as American children."...

Providence Anti-CRT Whistleblower Teacher Ramona Bessinger Hit With Suspension And Transfer

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 18, 2021 26 Comments

Bessinger wants an apology from the district, and that the district address the hostility against her stoked by staff without suspending her without pay and transferring her as punishment for speaking out against the racialized curriculum....

Leading The Fight Against CRT Fall 2021 Fundraiser

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 17, 2021 2 Comments

The Legal Insurrection Foundation is in the center of the fight not only to save education, but also the nation. It's why we are focused so much on telling the stories of people who are standing up to tyranny, like Ramona Bessinger. You can DONATE HERE to help us continue and expand these efforts.

Providence Anti-Critical Race Whistleblower Teacher Ramona Bessinger Taunted In Troubling Schoolyard Incident

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 16, 2021 32 Comments

After an administrative "pre-disciplinary hearing" that the Wall Street Journal has called a "pretext" to punish Bessinger for publicly criticizing the district's Critical Race curriculum, Bessinger found herself isolated and surrounded in a circle by 10-12 male students who were taunting her....

WSJ Editorial: Providence (RI) Schools Seeking “Pretext” To Fire Teacher Ramona Bessinger For Opposing Critical Race Curriculum

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 15, 2021 12 Comments

"Education Horror Show, Continued - A teacher is targeted after she described the baleful effect of critical race theory."...

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