Will VA be like Florida or PA?

[K Graham]

Were there threats of violence or violence toward educators?

Yes, of course, but Cult and Ajax never mentioned that part because it disrupts their narrative. Threats have been made and that is the reason Garland got involved. Calling people who threaten to do harm to educators domestic terrorists will only offend those who are siding with them.

[K Graham]

School boards are under siege. It's going to get worse.

Washington (CNN)Heckling, protests, even death threats. Welcome to school board meetings in 2021.

For months now, school boards across the nation have been targeted with angry protests over masks and vaccines, joined more recently by concern about critical race theory, the oft-misunderstood concept examining the role of institutional racism in American history.
Elections have become so vitriolic and divisive that the National School Boards Association asked for help from the federal government to investigate threats.

But the issue over school governance isn't going away. In Virginia -- where the next governor will be decided on Tuesday -- Republican nominee Glenn Youngkin has made what he calls parental rights key to his campaign, even releasing an ad last week that made the teaching of Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Beloved" the latest fight in the culture wars.

And he targeted critical race theory -- which is not taught in commonwealth schools -- earlier this month at a rally in Culpeper, seizing on a comment from Democratic opponent Terry McAuliffe in a debate earlier this year that he didn't think "parents should be telling schools what they should teach."

"We've seen parents saying, 'Tell us what material is being used in the classroom and the library, just tell us so that we can choose if we want it in our kids' lives or not.' Because guess what? Parents have a fundamental right to be engaged in their kids' education," Youngkin said. "We're going to stand up for parents. We're going to stand up for students. And we're going to stand up for so many teachers that have just been asking for help."

And it's not just Virginia. School board debates are being amplified in early campaigns from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt, as national Republicans focus on cultural issues to rally conservative voters heading into the 2022 midterms.

For help understanding what's driving the focus on school boards, CNN turned to Daniel Domenech, executive director of the American Association of School Administrators. Our conversation, conducted over the phone and lightly edited for length and clarity, is below.

[K Graham]

"I will find you. We know where you live."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuTlBvCJSqg

Threats to New Jersey school board members over masks, COVID rules

'Real threats': School board president writes White House letter for protection

This is what Trumpism has done to America.

[Cultellus]

"I will find you. We know where you live."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuTlBvCJSqg

Threats to New Jersey school board members over masks, COVID rules

'Real threats': School board president writes White House letter for protection

This is what Trumpism has done to America.

Dancin with Myself!

[ajax18]

I want to know if there were actually threats of violence or violence towards educators.

Merrick Garland admitted to Congress that he didn't even investigate if there were actual threats of violence. He just took the teachers union's word for it and labeled these parents a domestic terrorist threat.

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

But I think the push to make parents who oppose critical race theory in the curriculum …

Circling back to this for a moment. Name three schools in the, what was it, Loudon County school district, that teaches critical race theory.

- Doc

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

I want to know if there were actually threats of violence or violence towards educators.

Merrick Garland admitted to Congress that he didn't even investigate if there were actual threats of violence. He just took the teachers union's word for it and labeled these parents a domestic terrorist threat.

Do you even damned read?

“F”.

- Doc

[ajax18]

As an aside, Ajax once again has expressed his desire for secession. He is not a patriot.

- Doc

No I am not.

[ajax18]

But I think the push to make parents who oppose critical race theory in the curriculum …

Circling back to this for a moment. Name three schools in the, what was it, Loudon County school district, that teaches critical race theory.

- Doc

I don't know what semantic games you're playing with the definition of critical race theory but I've already posted Governor McAuliffe using the exact words critical race theory as an educational ideal. As Shapiro said, nobody has ever said you can't teach about slavery and the civil war. But when you teach that every inequity between black and white people today is due to slavery or Jim Crow and has nothing to do with personal decisions of the individual, you're teaching critical race theory in schools as far as I'm concerned.

And what should disturb you more is the fact that some of your fellow centrist Democrats in Virginia seem to agree with me.

[K Graham]

I want to know if there were actually threats of violence or violence towards educators.

Merrick Garland admitted to Congress that he didn't even investigate if there were actual threats of violence. He just took the teachers union's word for it and labeled these parents a domestic terrorist threat.

There is literal video footage of threats made against schools board members, by domestic terrorists you're prone to defend.

Ben Shapiro is a disingenuous hack who never honestly presents the sources he's pretending to refute and he relies on ignoramuses like you to just relay his idiocy to the web. Case in point, Merrick Garland never called parents domestic terrorists. He even tried to make that point perfectly clear when he was being questioned, but the Republican female who was interrogating him just said, "Well that's your opinion. Perception is reality."

WTF?

Either the memo says it or it doesn't. Just because someone "perceives" something doesn't make it true, and the only reason this "perception" exists is because Right Wing media heads have been misconstruing the memo to talk up more outrage and persecution complexes among idiot Trumpers like you. Here is the memo in full: https://www.justice.gov/ag/page/file/14 ... ovdelivery

So go ahead and point to us where he says anything about parents being domestic terrorists.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, October 4, 2021

Justice Department Addresses Violent Threats Against School Officials and Teachers

Citing an increase in harassment, intimidation and threats of violence against school board members, teachers and workers in our nation’s public schools, today Attorney General Merrick B. Garland directed the FBI and U.S. Attorneys’ Offices to meet in the next 30 days with federal, state, Tribal, territorial and local law enforcement leaders to discuss strategies for addressing this disturbing trend. These sessions will open dedicated lines of communication for threat reporting, assessment and response by law enforcement.

“Threats against public servants are not only illegal, they run counter to our nation’s core values,” wrote Attorney General Garland. “Those who dedicate their time and energy to ensuring that our children receive a proper education in a safe environment deserve to be able to do their work without fear for their safety.”

According to the Attorney General’s memorandum, the Justice Department will launch a series of additional efforts in the coming days designed to address the rise in criminal conduct directed toward school personnel. Those efforts are expected to include the creation of a task force, consisting of representatives from the department’s Criminal Division, National Security Division, Civil Rights Division, the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, the FBI, the Community Relations Service and the Office of Justice Programs, to determine how federal enforcement tools can be used to prosecute these crimes, and ways to assist state, Tribal, territorial and local law enforcement where threats of violence may not constitute federal crimes.

The Justice Department will also create specialized training and guidance for local school boards and school administrators. This training will help school board members and other potential victims understand the type of behavior that constitutes threats, how to report threatening conduct to the appropriate law enforcement agencies, and how to capture and preserve evidence of threatening conduct to aid in the investigation and prosecution of these crimes.

Threats of violence against school board members, officials, and workers in our nation’s public schools can be reported by the public to the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center (NTOC) via its national tip line (1-800-CALL-FBI) and online through the FBI website (http://fbi.gov/tips). To ensure that threats are communicated to the appropriate authorities, NTOC will direct credible threats to FBI field offices, for coordination with the U.S. Attorney’s Office and law enforcement partners as appropriate. Reporting threats of violence through NTOC will help the federal government identify increased threats in specific jurisdictions as well as coordinated widespread efforts to intimidate educators and education workers.

Tom Cotton personifies the mindless insanity that triggers the Right's culture of outrage and racism. LIsten to him whine because Garland didn't issue a memo about BLM last summer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZM5GRzg1M0

Of course, if these parents were all black and they were attacking people because slavery wasn't taught enough, Ajax would be fully supportive of law enforcement taking over.