Talk about tone deaf...
GOLDEN, Colo. - Three conservative Jefferson school board members voted to approve a curriculum review committee Thursday night with a compromise of including students and parents against the fierce opposition of the two other board members.
Opponents in the packed room booed and chanted, "Recall! Recall!"
The boards' conservative majority -- Ken Witt, Julie Williams and John Newkirk -- passed the resolution against the opposition of Jill Fellman and Lesley Dahlkemper.
See my
previous diary for background information.
I'm on my way to bed, but I will update in the morning with community reaction.
Other highlights from the board meeting:
This is America. Stop calling us names when we exercise our rights.
Lisa Cooke, a mother of two students. (referring to being called "pawns" of the teachers' union)
Let me say to Ms. Williams, thank you for your lesson in civil disobedience. What I have learned from you is there is a time and place for civil disobedience and that time is right now.
- Eric Temple, Student
What’s next? Are you going to choose science? Are you going to take down English? We already have two committees that do just this, they review the curriculum for the district.
- Jackson Curtis, Student
We know what we stand for and what we want. We find it insulting that you and others would say we’re pawns of anyone else. It is our education that is at stake.
- Ashlyn Maher, Student
I think that’s why it’s raised so much concern among our parents, our community, and our students, because the question then becomes, ‘What really is the agenda behind this resolution?’ And I can’t answer that question.
- Lesley Dahlkemper, Board Member (Dem)