Folks, this is appalling. A school board in rural Adrian, Oregon, fires the superintendent of schools — a 37-year educator — because he follows state law and implements a mask mandate as he is required to do to protect students and the community. https://t.co/lsEHzLkhnd
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) September 1, 2021
I am a scholar of Fascism and this is breaking my brain. https://t.co/JSCS0viq26
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) August 31, 2021
School board meetings have become emotional battlegrounds for parents and local officials who disagree over mask and vaccine mandates as children return to brick-and-mortar learning. https://t.co/xZjqLkJw48
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) August 31, 2021
Another form of compassion fatigue. People will simply walk away from thankless, draining jobs. (And school board folks are usually only doing it out of love and part-time.) https://t.co/wuaK7isLCa
— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) August 30, 2021
To those who continue to say people disrupting school board meeting are all just actors:
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 1, 2021
1. For months I watched Charlie Kirk, Scott Pressler, Michael Flynn and others traveling around the country organizing these. Read their social media posts. I saw the enabling subgroups form
Well I just gave testimony at my first school board meeting and the guy after me tore off his mask in the room and called out “MY BODY MY CHOICE”
— Esther Choo MD MPH (@choo_ek) September 1, 2021
Take This: Tempers flare and fists fly over a school mask mandate in Florida’s Lee County. @donlemon has the shocking video from inside and outside the school board meeting. Watch: pic.twitter.com/n38kxLhXbZ
— Don Lemon Tonight (@DonLemonTonight) September 1, 2021
This good “Christian” threatens to kill school board members, cops etc. Jesus saves, huh? pic.twitter.com/EQaveJ4M8H
— Andy Ostroy (@AndyOstroy) August 31, 2021
Out in Bucks County, PA today, reading about the school board members who faced death threats for supporting masks in schools. "I'm done with the bullying," one member said after resigning pic.twitter.com/OrZF4ZgV4j
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 5, 2021
Woman at the Seminole Co (FL) school board meeting today covers concentration camps, ivermectin, Bill Gates, Fauci, NIH, FDA, CDC, Pfizer, then finishes off with Abagail Adams. pic.twitter.com/bAklHQV5XO
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 2, 2021