After scanning through the file from the SAU16 DEIJ brainstorming session, I have to ask, are parents now a threat or a weakness to their children? Under families in the screenshot below, there are two categories you fit in as a parent in SAU16.
Either you are a strength and offer your children opportunities or you are considered weak and even a threat.
Where have we heard about putting people in two categories (one good one bad) and then applying shame and blame if you are in the bad category?
When I hear from medical professionals or police officers who share information about the neglect and abuse they see, I have a pretty good idea of who is an actual threat to children. When you hear the stories of neglect, abuse, and babies born with multiple drugs in their system, you have no doubt who is an actual threat to children.
Related: SAU16/Exeter: Keep Your Kids Out of Our Schools! That Was the Message Last School Year
So, this business with the school is very serious.
Any labeling of parents as a “threat” should be backed up with evidence and should not be applied to caring parents like we are seeing in this district.
Ann Marie Banfield SAU 16 DEIJ Leadership – Brainstorming (1)Look at how the people working as part of the DEIJ team now label parents in SAU16- weak or a threat. Weak parents? Weak because they may not go along with the district’s narrative on Critical Race Theory?
Parents may put up resistance to the district trying to change their child’s worldview. CRT is a worldview that shames a child, and in turn, can cause them mental health issues. This was explained in this video by Dr. Gary Thompson. Are the parents really weak or are they trying to protect their children from the psychological damage that comes from a Superintendent that insists on changing the values in the children who attend school in SAU16?
DEIJ is code for Critical Race Theory in SAU16. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice may be words that have value to all of us, but in reality, it’s just CRT in SAU16. I read the book they bought for middle school children and it’s full of blame and shame towards children who are born with white skin. It has nothing to do with an appreciation for diversity because it’s full of prejudice and stereotyping. It teaches children to become racists.
The screenshot indicates families who reject this new fad engulfing the district are considered weak or a threat.
No wonder they don’t trust you to decide if your child should wear a mask, you are a threat to your child if you teach them values contrary to their worldview.
Keep in mind, their worldview teaches that you are a white supremacist not based on your actions, but based on the mere fact that you are white. You are either weak or a threat if you exhibit colorblindness. If you are not comfortable being labeled as an oppressor or a white supremacist, you are also weak and/or a threat.
It is a strength and an opportunity if you are respectfully curious and inclusive. We heard about how well inclusion is working in SAU16.
One student was told to remove the Thin Blue Line Flag he was wearing and another parent reported that his kids were told to keep their religious views at home.
While abortion was being discussed in an English class, the student was told he was wrong about his pro-life views. The parent rightfully identifies the problem in the district, the leadership. In other words, inclusion is a joke and the parents know it. (1:26:20).
Colorblindness to many people means, treating people equally regardless of race. You may have changed your worldview on this, but parents raising their children are not a threat or weak because they still believe in equality versus the worldview coming from the administration that teaches self-hatred, shame, and prejudice.
Finally, there are a few pages of comments on the January 6th incident where rioting took place at the U.S. Capitol. Many of us were disgusted by the actions of the crowd who forced their way into the Capitol that day.
There were other events that happened during the year that brought similar condemnations that were not brought up in this brainstorming session. The looting and burning by Antifa and other left-wing extremists. There are no notes posted that show any condemnation of those horrible events that happened in cities across America. We saw businesses burned to the ground, innocent people assaulted and killed in those riots too. All violence should be condemned. Or can we conclude that some violence can be ignored?
This brainstorming session never focused on how to make sure that children of color are served well in the district by working to make sure that they are learning the core academic content. Nothing in this brainstorming session is focused on uplifting the academics or literacy of the student body. It’s all focused on shaming parents who disagree with their radical political agenda.
It’s bad enough that children in this district were the target of shame; this brainstorming session shames good parents who simply want their children to grow up with compassion, understanding, and kindness for all people including black and brown children.
If you really care about social justice, the best thing you can do for black and brown children is, educate them. That’s what you’ve been tasked to do, do your job. Help them to succeed in life by giving them the best public education available. Set them up for success, because this current path is watering down the academics and that hurts all children who attend these public schools.
GRIEVANCES as expressed by parents in the district:
1) School Shut down (Rectified when the Governor ordered the district to reopen)
2) Critical Race Theory agenda
3) 2 Revolutions (not needed, masks poor academic performance, and also has a divisive agenda)
4) Ignored federal laws governing mental health assessments of students
5) Surveillance of students via Social Sentinel
6) Branding of students at the Prom
7) Denial of free speech to a student who wore a thin blue line flag T-shirt
8) Mocking students religious views in class
9) $95,000.00 + benefits to a DEIJ Director BLM member and community organizer ( Political hire, not needed and not focused on academic excellence)
10) The hiring of Tonja Neve as Principal who has disparaged parents in her former school.
11) Possible conflict of interest by Board member Kimberly Meyer when she voted to shut down the school which funneled students and money to the YMCA where she serves as CEO.
12) Political bias in the classroom.
13) BrainPop (another vendor pushing CRT)
14) Lack of transparency
15) Lower rankings
