At the March 8, 2022 school board meeting in Wicomico County, the citizens exposed the immoral behavior of school leadership. In response, the WCBOE crafted a new policy to obstruct the First Amendment right of citizens, simply because the board did not like being called out and held accountable before the people. If you did not see the exposure of the WCBOE’s use of sexually explicit materials in our schools, you can view this past article, which has a video of the exposure.
The WCBOE created a policy called Board of Education Public Comment Protocol Policy BOE-GEN-PL-010 as an act of retaliation to further restrict citizens from addressing their concerns before their officials.
With great disappointment, the new Superintendent presented this totalitarian policy before the board for their vote. This is not a good start for the Superintendent, who stated: “It is my intent to make every effort to foster a culture of connection, collaboration, and transparency to ensure the continued success of our students, schools, and community.”
Time to clean house and start fresh. Re elect NO ONE should be our new motto. If you re elect any of these wanna be’s you are accepting their lack of transparency as normal.
Absolutely vote out. This censorship mindset is not befitting any local, county, state or federal entity.
Should also make life miserable for this mindset….seems that is happening across the nation already. Monkey see monkey do?
(snicker snicker!)
Dear readers,
I would encourage all interested parties to review both the video and previous article which features an exerpt from “All Boys Aren’t Blue”. Now limiting input and ignoring the constituentcy and its legitimate concerns over pornogrphic materials in WCBOE schools is censorship. Of that, there is documented proof via the video. I would most strongly suggest that inteested parties contact Ms. Kristen K. Waggoner, General Council or Mr.Gregory S. Baylor, Senior Council at 1-800-835-5233 or via email on their contact page at: https://adflegal.org/contact-us.
Kind Regards,
Paladin
Observation & then comment:
The policy shows that Legal Review occurred in April which suggests the concept was discussed and forwarded to Counsel before that date. Probably dovetails with timeline of Merrick Garland equating parents coming to board meetings with terrorists. May also have been an idea coming from state school board’s safe place. Nobody wants a mob scene ever, but education issues loom large due to financial and philosophical differences in the eyes of stakeholders. Better to let those viewpoints get a chance to be heard than to suppress discussion. Very few of us have a pipeline to the truth.
IMHO, on what is known so far, this policy is overkill. We want informative, mature discussion at Board meetings, and Board members should not be throttled either. Interested members of the public should have both more time allotted, and more should be permitted to speak. There may well be more than 10 serious topics deserving discussion in a particular month; to ‘randomly’ choose which get a chance to be aired is a disservice to all. They can craft a better mechanism, and they should.
To create a silly hypothetical about random selection, someone concerned that milk cartons in cafeterias are too hard to open without spilling may get to speak while someone concerned about bullying or violence issues loses the opportunity.
Imagine if teachers limited the number of students who could raise their hand, and then chose who could answer via a random draw.
WCBOE, your first draft needs revision. Do your homework!
and these are the most highly-“educated” amongst us…
Mr. Palmer seems to be the only Board Member with any concern for the public’s input. I have heard from him many times asking for help from the public in supporting him against these types of needless policies. He’s asked for help so why don’t we give it to him?
WCBOE should be WCBOG Wicomico County Board of Groomers
Before you criticize he BOE, view the March meeting.When students are unruly, teachers have rules in their class room When people are unruly at BOE meetings–same rules apply. There were three candidates for BOE that were part of the audience.that created the problem.
Anyone critical of the BOE during their meetings gets shut down/ mic off – people are frustrated by this sick of the pornographic material in schools and want it removed – Micha, get your act together and have your schools remove this mess before the general public sinks your already sinking ship.
the schools are out of control, go spend a day at one of the local schools and see what is going on for yourselves!
oh and if you are sending your kids to them then you are the problem! not the schools!
6:38 – do you care to explain why parents sending their children to public school are to blame for this? Have you considered that your haphazard statement completely overlooks the fact that any other educational choice may not be a reality for families? Maybe you should go back and re-examine your comments in light of this, and get back to all of us when you have a real world, working solution that doesn’t include a tin foil hat.