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Schools forced to divert staff amid historic flood of records requests

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What exactly is this post about? The opinion post focused on an evolving important topic. The stupidity of MAGA parents.
 
They have been nonstop complaining over parents becoming more involved in their children's education.

Parents don't know a damned think about education.

Could a person off the street walk in off the street walk in and do your job?

Most people in my same profession could not walk in and do my job. Never mind those who would walk in off the street and think they could.
 
Parents don't know a damned think about education.

Could a person off the street walk in off the street walk in and do your job?

Most people in my same profession could not walk in and do my job. Never mind those who would walk in off the street and think they could.
Considering the results of our education system they don't have much credibility on the topic of education.
 
Whiney Baizuo Progressives don't like when parents take an interest in their children's education.
Someone should have taken more of an interest in your civics education……………
 
So why not post all of it, instead of whining about having to respond to information requests?
All I can speak for is the local district where I live - they have their entire PreK-6 curriculum available on their website. As does the local regional high school.

You should take the time to look at your own district and ask them that question.
 
All I can speak for is the local district where I live - they have their entire PreK-6 curriculum available on their website. As does the local regional high school.

Are they being flooded with information requests?

You should take the time to look at your own district and ask them that question.

No time. Don't care.
 
They have been nonstop complaining over parents becoming more involved in their children's education. I think it's fair to conclude from that the Stalinist Baizuos are unhappy
Being more involved in the education of a child requires more than simply sending OPRA requests to the school and screeching at board meetings.

Doing the ACTUAL day-to-day work takes time and the ability to form relationships and communicate effectively.

I've not seen any of that at a local level. Just screeching from a group that seems to have made their social life attending various board meetings and can't keep track of what school they are at.
 
To the tune of it costing them tens of thousands of dollars, according to what they have stated.

Wait, your school is putting that on their website, and they're still getting flooded with requests to the tune of it costing them tens of thousands of dollars? How's that possible?
 
Wait, your school is putting that on their website, and they're still getting flooded with requests to the tune of it costing them tens of thousands of dollars? How's that possible?
Well, if you listen to the videos streamd of the the BOE meetings, these people simply do not believe that they've received ALL the information and are convinced the school district is lying, etc.

And so they've OPRA'd emails, internal communications, teacher copies of lessons, "optional" lessons that are included in the curriculum (but the district has stated clearly are not being taught), etc.

Many of these people aren't even parents in the district, it is a handful of about a dozen individuals that go from one local school board meeting to another - with their topic du jour of the month. Then OPRA requests are sent for every and anything they can think of related to that topic.

The entire thing serves no purpose other than to be disruptive - and this group is part of a larger group across the state. They have an email distribution list, they have various topics that they plan to bring up, etc. I'm sure there are other groups in other states and areas doing the same thing.

Out of that dozen, there are maybe 2 that are actually FROM my town and parents in the district. Most are not.
 
Well, if you listen to the videos streamd of the the BOE meetings, these people simply do not believe that they've received ALL the information and are convinced the school district is lying, etc.

And so they've OPRA'd emails, internal communications, teacher copies of lessons, "optional" lessons that are included in the curriculum (but the district has stated clearly are not being taught), etc.

Many of these people aren't even parents in the district, it is a handful of about a dozen individuals that go from one local school board meeting to another - with their topic du jour of the month. Then OPRA requests are sent for every and anything they can think of related to that topic.

The entire thing serves no purpose other than to be disruptive - and this group is part of a larger group across the state. They have an email distribution list, they have various topics that they plan to bring up, etc. I'm sure there are other groups in other states and areas doing the same thing.

Out of that dozen, there are maybe 2 that are actually FROM my town and parents in the district. Most are not.

So why don't they just tell those busy-bodies that everything is on the web, and that they can f&%k right off?
 
Being more involved in the education of a child requires more than simply sending OPRA requests to the school and screeching at board meetings.

Doing the ACTUAL day-to-day work takes time and the ability to form relationships and communicate effectively.

I've not seen any of that at a local level. Just screeching from a group that seems to have made their social life attending various board meetings and can't keep track of what school they are at.
You want them to communicate and form relationships with the people that told them to sit down and shut up when they tried to do that and even went as far as accusing them of being domestic terrorists. Educators had their chance for civil communications and they rejected it. Parents are now exercising their legal rights and implementing the reforms they feel will benefit their children.
 
You want them to communicate and form relationships with the people that told them to sit down and shut up when they tried to do that and even went as far as accusing them of being domestic terrorists. Educators had their chance for civil communications and they rejected it. Parents are now exercising their legal rights and implementing the reforms they feel will benefit their children.
Nah, wackos are costing schools money because they have a vendetta.

Then when the schools have to make budget cuts going forward to make sure they have the resources to accommodate wackos- they’ll complain about that also.
 
Nah, wackos are costing schools money because they have a vendetta.

Then when the schools have to make budget cuts going forward to make sure they have the resources to accommodate wackos- they’ll complain about that also.
What vendetta do you think parents have?
 
Good. Our schools have been an abysmal failure for the resources we dump into them, and in some cases are harmful.
Yeah, so we should destroy them and give the taxpayer money to private and religious schools? That seems to be the Republican plan. They like to say they are giving it to the parents or taxpayers, but that’s not where it stays and the architects of this plan, like Devoss, know this.
 
What vendetta do you think parents have?
I don’t think it’s a vendetta on the part of the architects to get rid of public schooling in favor of corporate schooling, but some of the parents are just acting out a LARP of this faux outrage—or maybe some of them believe it. Idiots.
 
Paper terrorism, technique stolen from Putin AND the sovereign citizens.
Flood the zone with shit, this is not about persuasion, this is about disorientation.

Flooding the zone works.
In the U.S. it's called "flooding the zone."
In the Russian setting, it's known as the "firehose of falsehood."
This method attacks journalism at its weakest points. And it is working.
It erodes trust on all sides, persuades people they aren't getting the truth, repels all but the most determined listeners, turns politics into ugliness.
Neither the small-d democrats nor the Big J journalists have an answer for it. It is running free.

Well, guess what, it also works with school boards.
 
You want them to communicate and form relationships with the people that told them to sit down and shut up when they tried to do that and even went as far as accusing them of being domestic terrorists. Educators had their chance for civil communications and they rejected it. Parents are now exercising their legal rights and implementing the reforms they feel will benefit their children.
What are you talking about.

Parents at school board meetings were NOT accused of being domestic terrorists.

Only people who threatened school boards with violence were.

Stop believing all the lies.
 
Yeah, so we should destroy them and give the taxpayer money to private and religious schools? That seems to be the Republican plan. They like to say they are giving it to the parents or taxpayers, but that’s not where it stays and the architects of this plan, like Devoss, know this.
They just need to be significantly reformed. Transparency is part of that.
 
The answer to this is simple, of course. Put the requests into the stack that slowly turns into coal, and get back to work.
 
Probably a lot now. Especially since they’ll be reading all the emails
This sounds like an excellent chance for malicious compliance. When finally compelled to show their mail to the world, they undelete everything, move everything from their junk folders into the inbox, and give up a few hundred thousand emails, most of which will be ads.
 
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