How bad was Attorney General Merrick Garland’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday? It was so bad that 24 hours later the NSBA has openly retracted and apologized for the content of the letter that triggered AG Garland to activate the FBI.
Facing serious and unrelenting public backlash, and large numbers of Red State school boards dissolving their relationship with the national organization, the NSBA writes:
Posted in 1st Amendment, Big Government, Big Stupid Government, Dept Of Justice, Education, FBI, media bias
Apparently, the Executive Director of the NSBA sent the letter without consulting the board or so the story goes. If true, the remedy is firing the ED and other staff who may have been involved. If the NSBA is like other such organizations, the staff are swamp creatures.
the remedy is PUBLICLY firing. The public assault should be publicly remedied, imo.
These behemoth (NSBA) organizations need to go away! They end up costing us unnecessary money through tax money given them by these huge bills passed with no scrutiny.
Yes, and they would if the local orgs would quite paying their national dues.
… another Orwellian alphabet monstrosity.
The remedy is to get rid of the department of education, then there would be co need for the NSBA!
+100 likes. The ‘need’ for federal guidelines on who ‘graduates’ wouldn’t mean squat if the colleges charging EXORBITANT sums suddenly found out that not everyone needs to take EVERY class type for what they do. And that not EVERY citizen needs ‘college’ at all. Liberal arts don’t mean squat to an electrician, a welder, a trucker, a plumber or more- unless that student/person WANTS it to.
When Trump comes back as President, he needs to destroy the Dept. of Ed. Give all the powers back to the States, where it belongs.
There is no legitimate purpose to their existence now.
Notice they won’t be sending a retraction letter to the DOJ’s AG though. It is now too late to apologize for what they seemingly and singlehandedly created. Nowhere do I see any move to undo the damage they created. None. That is a damning nullification of any apology letter they’ll ever give for this. Nothing but empty, worthless words from the NSBA. Thanks for nothing.
“Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration – Feb 2, 2010 By Soomo Publishing” – 3:21 minute video clip here:
Is that an AR 1900? Black powder special?
I think it is a representation of the defiance of some colonists who thought Britain was NOT the soon to be United States. And that the North was NOT the South and that as bad as slavery was (and still IS and is RAMPANT in China, by the MILLIONS)- it’s ok to be different- and the Civil War had LITTLE to do with slavery, at all. It just helped end it.
And agree on some very simple, lawful, wholesome principles to work together with, between the states, counties and towns/cities.
But, just a thought. It’s a nice piece, though.
In the 20th century- an AR 15 may be a better example of the representation, but I’m just guessing.
Perfect post.
Why? They’ll just hire another Marxit to replace him. The solution is dissolution. The states should drop out in toto from this org all at once. Money talks.
“We’re the Government. We don’t do accountability here.”
It would be nice if the person were fired. However, this is public education where a tranny can rape a girl in the girls bathroom, and the school board will call it a “lesson learned” and “everyone makes mistakes”.
In a sane world, the letter-writer would be fired, and the DOJ employees and AG would also be fired for obviously conspiring to defraud the Public.
But we live in Crazyland.
I would bet the Fan Belt Inspectors directed this letter to be written for the head fake and they will keep up with their intelligence operations against Americans every chance they get.
That’s the way they work, they never stop, just change the tactic, e.g., change the name of their goal of ‘world communism’ to that of ‘globalism,’ it’s all the same.
Yep!
Any expression of remorse from Marxists is only for
purposes of continuing deception.
Sorry we got caught
That’s all
I just posted almost EXACTLY this below! Sorry I didn’t see yours first.
At this point, any apology or retraction without a corresponding resignation and/or firings is simply lip service, and totally inadequate.
Swamp creatures don’t get fired, they get promoted.
This is nothing but chaff and countermeasures…The Marxist school board isn’t sorry and they don’t regret it.
To paraphrase Reese’s cups, “Not sorry, Bolshevism.”
Since we have learned by way of idiot Merrick, that the nsbe colluded with the white house on the content and language of the letter, I believe the wh was the sole instigator in the references to domestic terrorists, as well as the doj. All these people are liars, liars, and damn liars.
Susan Rice? It has the Obama era corruption stink all over it. Just like the IRS targeting the tea party.
Clueless Merrick Garland appears to be a figure head only. Lisa Monaco, Deputy Atty. General, actually runs the show.
with George W. Bush on 9/11/21 calling people like Ashli Babbitt “domestic terrorists” that must have been like another green light to the NSBA, Terry McAuliffe and the AG Merrick Garland, that they could do this to parents appearing at school board meetings . . .
My Bible tells me that from the mouth comes the heart. They were surprised by the response from us all, and now are”sorry” for their stance. Like heck they are. Apology NOT Acceptable
Yea, they got caught so NOW they are sorry!
If I had known that it only took a letter to have a group of people immediately targeted by the FBI and threatened with legal action, I would have written my letter to the White House about Antifa and BLM months ago. Who knew that’s all it took. ask Uncle Sam for anything and it’s yours! Kinda like Santa.
Of course I live in the very Virginia county that the now infamous Gavin Grimm of the trans bathroom fame gained its attention. With the Supreme Court awarding him millions of dollars that we as local taxpayers made happen. Sickening.
please vote for Youngkin!
So Red State school boards are dropping out of the NSBA.
Question: Why were they members in the first place?
However now we know what they fear most: Losing power. Divide and Conquer.
Exactly! Why do local boards want or need interference from national boards? I am unsure how much it costs to belong, but remember reading that on state board was withholding dues because of the letter. Take the dues and upgrade your local boards for citizens of your own communities.
All part of nationalizing the educational system/taking away local control, starting when the feds established the Department of Education.
It’s herd mentality. Everyone else is doing it so we will too.
BTW in my opinion the only way to upgrade school boards is for parents to run for the positions on the school board. There must be hundreds even thousands of parents in many of these districts who want a different direction for the education of their children, surely at least a half a dozen could run for the positions. School boards is just one more political apparatus we’ve ignored while the left took them over.
Shockingly PA was one of the states that dropped out. Not exactly a red state but I guess that was even too much for them. Small victory.
Letter simplified “Sorry we got caught. We will do better next time covering our tracks”.
They will say whatever they think you want to hear to placate you, and then keep doing whatever they are doing. They lie and think nothing of it because the end result is all that matters to them. It’s what they do. It is their nature. And this mindset is everywhere, in every institution. Believe nothing they say as they try to disarm you, because later they will steamroll you and then smugly and self-satisfyingly smile and wink at each other.
I reject the premise that NSBA serves a purpose.
Put a fork in em! They are done. Local school board and superintendents have a consistent and long record of ignoring parents. Ditto for the insecure stupid teachers who complain that parents are not involved but really only want $.
Undervalued post is undervalued. Spot on.
People – if you love your children or care about the young people around you in your community – be active with the school board and in the schools. You intimidate many of them by participating. That should tell you the truth about your school district. The degree of which they are brainwashing and propagandizing they children will be revealed by the level of fear and anxiety they have by your participation. Truth has a way of doing that.
Participation means action to replace the school boards that have replaced education with indoctrination to immoral and other un-necessary ways of teaching the essentials of real education. Their actions won’t be stopped by just going to board meetings.
The only “specific improvements” that would be effective would be dissolving the association. It brings absolutely no value to education in America.
And dissolving the federal Department of Education!
My vote is screw them,
Its time to take back our country and create everywhere Patriot networks and associations in all industries for example…….
Patriot Police Association
Patriot Teachers Association
Patriot Nurses Association
Patriot Doctors of America Association
Patriot Truckers Association
Patriot Pilots Association
And ultimately take over the Republican Party, ousting all RINO’s and changing the party name to the……..
Patriot Party and we dump the elephant and adopt the Lion symbol
And finally PT becomes known as our George Washington of the Patriot Party
YES. Have a good Sunday, Patriot. May God and the Light bless you- and your family and friends. And us all.
Great idea. I’m so ready! Too bad the Refuge doesn’t have a ‘connection’ link where Patriots could connect.
Oh well. It is o.k. then…if you are sorry….you petty, racist, hateful tyrants.
So that’s all it takes, is it?
Cowardly bullies confronted publicly by determined, rage filled patriots who are well past sick and tired of the labeling and being called what we obviously are not.
I think we have our war plan for all the rest of their face stomping and life destroying agenda. Come on then…BRING IT!
I’m glad to hear that school boards are dissolving their relationship with the national organization. With blue politics as snakey (yeas, snake not sneak) I think any and all organizations that have become nationalized should take a really hard look at the processes, procedures and especially the politics of their boards and hq personnel. Nationally isn’t always they best way to go and doesn’t necessarily give organizations the added power they thought they would get by going nationally.
Here’s the problem. These national boards were formed to give the locals a seat at the table when money is doled out. “A voice in Washington” it is called. That should be the job of those we elect to serve in DC. Just more dereliction of duty by the elected.
embedded snakes in every big organization in order to do dirty dealing. Sounds like President Trump’s snake story.
This likely has been stated but it becomes painfully obvious to me that if Boards and other public accountability organizations, elected or otherwise, can’t take the heat then they should consider a different career or volunteer choice. For the most part they are there at the indulgence of the public that ‘feeds’ them, they must be willing to put up with that public even if it is uncomfortable, Lord knows we have to put up with their output even when we have to hold our noses. Correct me if I am wrong but these people are usually handsomely paid individuals.
“We should have had a better process in place to allow for consultation on a communication of this significance.”
Bureaucratspeak–exactly what’s wrong with everything the government touches. “We should have…”–heck I’ll translate it for you: “We didn’t realize just how angry the public is about this and we didn’t realize how weak and incompetent a showing the Attorney General would make in trying to defend us.”
Our education system is in deep trouble when school board associations–its leaders–can use so many words to say nothing.
So, they got caught in one act. So, they might fire their ED.
But what about their great sin? Since the founding of the Education Department in 1980, the budget for said department has grown by an AVERAGE of 8%/year – far outpacing inflation and other budgets. At the same time, the level of education provided to our kids has gone down so much that the US has gone from #1 in the world to about #30 in the world.
A negative correlation.
The Ed dept and the NSBA should all be dissolved, and every member should be forced to take 5 years of math, science, and logic courses.
An un-signed letter looking like a policy statement from an anonymous author….
Blood in the water! Blood in the water! Blood in the water!
When THEY apologize, go for the goal. Don’t let up. Don’t accept their apology. Force them to give you more. THIS IS WHAT THEY DO WHEN WE “MESS UP”. WE MUST DO IT TOO.
I expect to see parents making even more demands, and getting them. They are WEAK.
You do not make peace with evil, you destroy it.
NSBA’s 2019 Form 990 reveals ~$17 million in revenue for ‘services/program revenues. Then check out their website: activism, DEI, opposition to vouchers & choice. One suspects they are entirely funded by fees paid by various school boards across the country… so, taxpayers fund the progressive agenda.
And the salaries for executive staff: mid to low 6 figures.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/362210015
Until WE demand that 95% of these NGO’s are defunded and driven out of DC on a rail, nothing is going to change. They’re a dime a dozen and they do not serve any interest but their own.
Wow!! I watched the highlights of Garlands testimony and thought he was a rude,unprepared, sanctimonious wind bag. Par for the course, but he was awful. If these guys are apologizing then he was truly disastrous.
He reminded me of cross between Mueller and Biden.
Sounds like, “Sorry, it sorry”
Too little too late of course. But MSM will cover for them. I suggest we stop using the term “public schools” and instead refer to them as “government schools”. A relatively minor tweak, but accurate, and confidence in “government” generally is plummeting. Words matter, as the left has shown us.
This is not an apology, this is we got caught and had not been prepared for the backlash it caused. The NEA, and teachers union are doing everything they can to brainwash our children and dumb them down. Remember “NO Child Left Behind” compliments of the Bush presidency, don’t forget “New Math”. The public schools have failed us badly, it is nothing more than a paycheck mill. As long as teachers do not get caught looking at porn on their computers, or sexuality interacting with kids, they have a paycheck for life. That is the current system, they do not need to demonstrate any form of value or how our kids excelled in their class. This is all by design, non of this happens by accident.
It’s as plain as day that Garland is another cardboard cut-out, just like FJB and Camal-a. Obama and his operatives don’t want any thinking person with a spine to interfere with what his operatives are doing, ergo empty headed cowards as figureheads only.
Why are students always the last of their concerns? Second paragraph, second sentence. “To be clear…”
Ooooo, they apologized. That makes it all better, doesn’t it?
They got skunked by the White House. When Mark Levin first disclosed that NSBA was working with the administration, he had some correspondence or evidence that made it sound like this was all plotted and initiated by the White House. The powers that be reached out to this organization because they more obscure. They didn’t want to use the “usual suspects” like NEA.
A non-apology, apology. If the NSBA had any conscience in doing the right thing they’d publicly send another letter retracting their request to AG Garland. But they didn’t, did they? Nor will they ever do the right thing in this instance. This is the typical sociopathic act of apologizing to the person they just stabbed in the back. So sorry, oops! Did I just stab you again? My most sincere apologies! Another? I just am not able to control my arm holding the knife, but you can be assured we’ll most proactively correct it. Darn, there it goes again.
THAT is the perfect response.
Dave Jose (DaveCaresForYou on the tube and Odysee) puts out vids to teach how to use our Constitutions to show where the actual ‘power’ resides. He worked with Josh Barnett to educate the people in Maricopa County on the what they could do to get the audit. There are people in every state coming together to send notices and affidavits-individuals’ sworn testimony (remember all those Rudy talked about in the committee hearings) to schools, legislative bodies, governors, sheriffs, and even Garland. It’s not appearances on media shows spouting promises of some future action but learning what the government can’t do and the steps to take to stop them. Sundance, what you faced trying to get anyone in Congress to even look at evidence tells me they think they are immune to consequences and by combining our ‘pens & papers’ we will wield the sword to show them how wrong they are.
THE CYA program to cover their existence. Why do we need a federalized school board in a free state America to begin with? $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Didn’t see this take when scrolling which is what came to mind when I saw this originally.
Like everything else they can get their hands on the marxist left needs to destroy education entities like this one. By getting conservative members to leave & criticize them, they make the organization a more left ” body”. So then, the next time they do something like this, they’ll say it’s with veracious support because ‘our members will become vocal when they don’t support it” but never mention they lost the vocal membership.
We’re sorry for robbing 12 banks and killing many in the process, We won’t do it again…
This is the most insulting trash I’ve ever seen. They all need to resign and the organization’s IRS Status needs to be investigated.
I’ll bet it’s a 501C3 Corporation…who are forbidden from any political involvement, PERIOD. That’s not what we see here!
NOTUCE your corrupt AG, SCOTUS, FBI, CIA, DOI, IRS, BLM (bureau of Land mismanagment) EPA, DEA, DOJ, NSA, TSA, HOMELAND SECURITY, Marble Mouth Chinese owned Mitch Mc, Emperor Hussein Rspct haven’t apologized.
Dear NSBA, Thank you for your letter recognizing the gross errors made and we appreciate your offer to self govern and correct this, however We the People, most especially the Parents who have the God Given Responsibility to take care of their children, will take your corrections under advisement noticing how such adjustments proffered up are to be made within your organization devoid of Parental Input or consent. It’s time we removed your powers that were given in good faith in light of these recent developments.
Given, in good faith- taken over, in bad lack of faith.
May your fall be good, Cecilia. I hope the sun shines down on you, as the days get shorter <3
damage done… apology pointless. Working as designed.
They are afraid of the little movements. Their ‘Nationalist’ scheme is disassembled when local groups detach from it.
Examples: 1. RIGHT here- local school boards (SMALL, like community level) laid wrath upon the idea that the NSBA or whatever is so important. 2. The “NEA” doesn’t mean squat when parents take their kids to smaller, private schools or even teach at home…which can ALSO be done in small groups- I bet in 5 families you know, 2 parents could teach kids better than 10 ‘teachers’ at schools- my father, a retired teacher knew that 40 years ago. 3. The local police are SO much more trusted than the national police ‘unions’ and the growing ‘national’ policing (from D.C.). Sheriffs, not police government.
Do it small, friends. It will take some work. SO does EVERYTHING good in life.
And everything good in life makes it better.
SMALLER. Get your neighbors together- when 2 or 3 households begin, others WILL want it. And it will win.
<3 to you all, my friends. The REAL America. I hope your Sunday is good. Local churches ae better too, imho.
Less “GIVE ME $$$ TO SAVE YOU!!” and more prayer and love.
A blueprint from one, local guy. But it worked- in 1776. Against tyranny JUST like this.
Governments only get bigger when people let them. From Egypt to Rome to Europe/Asia powerhouses to now- us.
Stop letting them. Live together- and free. And local. Because Arizona is NOT Alaska is NOT Alabama is NOT!! D.C. <edited for multiple Sunday morning typos, ha!!>
I used to go to a church that does exactly. Something like 95% of the parents home school. One day/week they gather at church and each parent, or parent team teaches a specific subject/s in a classroom setting. Some of the most intelligent, well spoken, respectful, well rounded kids I ever met.
If you read the other CTH article in which Putin makes his comments known on this topic, you heard him outline these organizations as flailing retreads from a century ago that ruined civilization for everyone they impacted.
This is a case study in how to beat back Marxism in our schools. First, it’s usually not the entire board. It’s usually one or two vicious Liberals. Second, it has to be called out loudly and publicly. Third, enrollment matters.
The NSBA knows that K-12 enrollment is down AT LEAST 3,000,000 students this year. That is, at an average of $12,000 per student, $36 Billion in funding cuts of the roughly $700B spent on public education each year.
That’s a lot of money.
And you can bet that parents are showing up at school board meetings demanding to be told if they are a “domestic terrorist”, too.
There are good people on the school boards. Maybe not everywhere, but there are people on the boards looking at that crazy, vicious, Leftist, cat lady knowing she is nuts. Those board members need to let the community know who is causing most of the problems so that those people can be forced out.
But, the big hit is in the wallet. Keep encouraging parents who can pull their kids out to do so. If you’re a grandparent and can help financially or help by helping with child care and home schooling so mom can work, do it.
The biggest weapon we have requires no yelling, no anger, and not making ourselves targets of the Police State: walking away.
YES. YES. Your idea (and mine, I agree!!) is spreading like medicine fatser than their “vaccine” (ugh) for a disease they made.
/cheers- I’d buy you a Sunday afternoon pint, wine- or just Iced tea, if I could. But, YES.
Good point. It’s like voting with our wallets…lend most of our support to the likes of Big Ag; or support local farmers, and make their dream of doing what they really love a Full-time reality.
Do they think we the People are bought by a BS letter….their agenda is so open you can run a truck thru it.
Sadly, Bob- they do. And even more depressing- for so many zombies right now- they ARE bought by that BS letter.
But, we are not. And we are GROWING. Let’s go, Brandon!
What are the signatures on the original and retraction?
This is all bullsh*t. They don’t really care. It’s too late for them…the genie is already out of the bottle.
The NSBA is in CYA mode.
Apology not accepted.
This merely confirmed who and what they are.
”(…) numbers of Red State school boards dissolving their relationship with the national organization (…)”
… they needed the House hearings to see through this?!