Why Can’t I Get A Hold of Janice “I’ve Been Trained to Interrupt You “Starkey?

by
Skip

It has been two weeks since I wrote “CRT: If School District Staff Have Been Trained to Interrupt Parents Who Trained Them and Who Paid For That?” about Janice Starkey and her outburst to a parent who simply expressed support for HB544 during the call.

“I’m interrupting you. You are not allowed to talk. People like you that have views like you are not allowed to do what you’re doing, I’ve been trained to interrupt you.” 

This feels like that famous Roadhouse movie line. “Be nice, until it’s time to not be nice.” I’ll be patient….until it’s time to not be patient. If Janice doesn’t wish to talk, I’ll start climbing up her food chain.

 

—— Original Message ——
From: “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
To: april.veracka@hanovernorwichschools.org
Sent: 5/21/2021 10:06:49 AM
Subject: Janice Starkey

Good morning,

I am reaching out to you about Janice Starkey as I am working on a story on what she allegedly said to a parent during a PTO Zoom meeting:

I’m interrupting you. You are not allowed to talk. People like you that have views like you are not allowed to do what you’re doing, I’ve been trained to interrupt you.“

The parent was simply relating that he was in favor of HB544 when the above happened.

I have been trying to reach Janice for a while now and it always seems that she’s unavailable.  Searching the District’s website and knowing her function, may I ask if she reports to you?  If so, may I ask you a few questions about the training that she seems to have been put through and now is using on parents that seemingly disagree with her?

And if you are not, can you direct me to the person that is her manager?

Kindest regards,

-Skip Co-Founder, co-owner
GraniteGrok.com
NH’s largest and most influential political blogsite in NH

 

See, I can be polite.

April Veracka is the Finance Manager as I mostly am. But there are a few more people to contact. Jamie Deague, for example, is the Business Administrator, and Amy Tallman the HR Resources Coordinator. Robin Steiner who is the Assistant Superintendent and lastly, Superintendent Dr. Jay Badams.

ONE of these folks will have the answers to the questions that I asked in my original posts:

  • Who trained this District Staff person to interrupt a parent at an open meeting simply for expressing his viewpoint?
  • Was she trained to interrupt any male (you know, that whole Toxic Masculinity dealio), only white males (should Mr. Richards have made it clear that he identifies as Black like Rachel Dolezal?)
  • What was the cost?
  • Who provided the training?
  • Who AUTHORIZED the training?
  • Did the School Board vote on the expenditure for the training?
  • And if so, who voted Yea or Nay?
  • Has the Hanover School District decided that Staff always has the right to interrupt anyone whose taxes pay their salaries? Especially when Staff members detect a world view that is in opposition to the mandated “Government Speech”?

And where does the School District get its Power to cancel someone else’s speech – are they applying this new notion that “Government Speech” outweighs any person’s speech?  That last one seems to be the most difficult one for School Districts to answer. Funny, that – it is rather a fundamental issue for NH-based Civics. I wonder why…

I’ll keep at this but the speed and intensity are about to ramp up.  If this District will do this, how soon will it be that others will follow the same behavior?

To be continued…

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  • Skip

    Co-founder of GraniteGrok, my concern is around Individual Liberty and Freedom and how the Government is taking that away. As an evangelical Christian and Conservative with small "L" libertarian leanings, my fight is with Progressives forcing a collectivized, secular humanistic future upon us. As a TEA Party activist, citizen journalist, and pundit!, my goal is to use the New Media to advance the radical notions of America's Founders back into our culture.

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