Incoming SC education superintendent Ellen Weaver's Palmetto Promise Institute released a report today on "indoctrination" in schools that lists every major teacher advocacy group as part of a "constellation of the left." She sees them as her enemies.
palmettopromise.org/worldviews/?mc… The introduction includes a shoutout to the parents and far-right activists who spent the last 3 years screaming at and threatening school boards. Says NSBA wants them treated like domestic terrorists for "speaking out against leftist ideology in classroom instruction."

I'm at the Berkeley County School Board meeting to speak against censorship. Streaming video link here -->

I'll share notes in this thread.

https://twitter.com/Paul_Bowers/status/1592515111327268870

Republican State Sen. Larry Grooms swearing in the newly elected school board members.

🚩 Censorship is on the agenda tonight at the Berkeley County School Board meeting. 🚩

Come out if you can. 5:30pm, 107 East Main St., Moncks Corner.
go.boarddocs.com/sc/berkeley/Bo… Trying to figure out how to register for the public comment period. In the meantime, here's where you can email the school board members: bcsdschools.net/domain/5347

If you include the emails I reviewed last year via FOIA, the South Carolina superintendent of education has received at least 73 complaints about "critical race theory." I would encourage you to consider what those complaints actually said, though. 🧵 Complaints 1-30 are here. These were sent to Superintendent Molly Spearman's campaign account: documentcloud.org/documents/2158…

Our school board did the right thing today and voted to enforce its mask mandate again, thank god. The pandemic booster club is Big Mad. There's a network of these groups fighting tooth and nail against all safety measures during the pandemic in South Carolina. They're opposed to:

* mask mandates
* mask encouragement
* vaccine mandates
* vaccine incentives
* covid testing
* contact tracing
* quarantining

It's fruitless to point out the hypocrisy of ostensibly christian governors at this point, but I'm still occasionally stunned by the way guys like Henry have perverted and profaned the way of Jesus

https://twitter.com/AdamNewshound12/status/1437556304466391040

While defending a nominally Christian homeland against an imagined exogenous threat, he looks for inspiration to a son of God who taught us to lay down our lives for our neighbors — and promises we won't be inconvenienced in the least to protect our most vulnerable neighbors.

THREAD: On June 3, South Carolina's head of K-12 schools issued a blanket condemnation of "critical race theory." She didn't define the term. I sent in a records request to see what she was talking about behind the scenes.

Today I publish my findings.
brutalsouth.substack.com/p/blueprint-fo… This was the statement. She only described CRT as "an ideology" that "has no place in South Carolina schools and classrooms."

https://twitter.com/Molly_Spearman/status/1400515013966811136

Here's a letter I sent to the leaders of my kids' school district @CCSDConnects about their shameful capitulation to the governor and his gaggle of anti-mask crybabies pxbx.medium.com/letter-to-the-… To review, the Charleston County School Board passed a mask mandate on Aug. 16. Then they walked it back with a mealymouthed statement Aug. 23, saying they have a rule but they aren't going to enforce it.

Any other parents up grinding their teeth tonight? Hahaaaaa but seriously This describes where I'm at. We have 3 kids under 12 in public school in a state whose legislature banned mask mandates. My wife is a nurse who works w/ immunocompromised patients. I come home to work my day job after dropping the kids off & I scream.
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Useless. postandcourier.com/news/charlesto… They're not even reading their own policy correctly. This is still on the books, @CCSDConnects.

Eric Mack in particular, grow a spine, man. boardpolicyonline.com/?b=charles&s=9…

Dorchester 2, the school district that helped raise me, lost 3 people to Covid in the past week. My former GATE teacher from Spann was close with Clair. My friend in the neighborhood provided the flowers for her wedding. Grief is rarely more than 1 degree away.