School Board Forced To Apologize

I came upon this story on Daily Kos. A school board in California had a hastily called meeting to ban the showing of Obama’s school speech in classrooms. Community members fought back and forced the school board members to apologize at a school board meeting:

The board meeting opened tonight with Halgren and Duff again apologizing. “I’m so sorry for my actions to vote to delay President Obama’s speech,” board prez Halgren iterated.

Then Rick Winet spoke. “I’m not apologizing – I think we could have crafted a better resolution,” and then describing how grade 3 teachers agreed with him.

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Speaker after speaker moved up to the podium. All but one derided the Board and their decision. A couple of sixth graders spoke – they said they were disappointed in the board. Others called for those who voted to block the speech to resign. Then the speakers got more specific – they demanded that Rick Winet resign. Chants of “resign! resign!’ accompanied by thunderous applause broke out several times.

Some called for the board to issue an apology to the students. Some suggested that racism was at the bottom of the vote.

This is how we’ll stop the nonsense, by fighting back and by letting people know this is not acceptable.