Defeat These Three Candidates For School Board
There will no doubt be others who join the fray before the filing deadline, which is Friday, March 4. In at least one race, there had better be. For now, these three will suffice.
We have two ‘parental rights’ anti-vaxxers/maskers running in Milford:
Ashlee Connell is running for an At-Large seat in Milford. If you go to her Facebook page, her image is enclosed in a circle with “I stand for medical freedom. Stop the mandate” inscribed on it. Lest there be any doubt that she’s not referring to, say, abortion, it also has a drawing of injection needles on it. She is running against Danielle Deinert, who was a very popular teacher who is now Assistant Principal at Stokes Elementary School in Caesar Rodney. You can check her out here.
Jennifer Massotti is running in Nominating District B in Milford. She currently has no opponent. She should, she must. Let me just quote this entire letter that Massotti sent to then-Secretary of Education Susan Bunting:
Dear Susan Bunting:
You are infringing upon our rights as parents. We should decide what is best for our kids not you. You have no science to back up your claims. If you did, please share with the public your links. We know that children are not super spreaders. We know that children <19 have a 99…..% survival rate. You are abusive in your power. This is just political. You are not for the people but for your selfish gain. How do you sleep at night. Why don’t you share the numbers that have recovered from COVID? It’s because your a fear mongering fool. This virus is here to stay. 100% vaccination rate will get rid of the virus. Why don’t you share the science in the vaccinated people testing positive and dying.
Jennifer Massotti
Houston Delaware 19954.
All misspellings, grammatical errors and non-sequiturs are hers, not mine. I mean, I can’t even…somebody needs to step up and challenge her.
Finally, we have a long-term incumbent, who is a long-term incumbent for no apparent reason. Ralph Ackerman is once again running for reelection to the Brandywine School District Board from Nominating District C. Here’s all you need to know about Ralph Ackerman:
If teachers can’t handle the risk of being back in the classroom, they should seek a new career, a Brandywine school board member wrote in an email to a district elementary school teacher Thursday morning.
“Teachers are first responders to our future,” board member Ralph Ackerman wrote to fifth grade teacher Abby Sipress. “If they cannot handle the risk, seek a new career.”
Up until that line, Sipress said she could tolerate her and Ackerman’s differences in opinion about reopening schools.
Sipress, like so many other teachers across the country, worries for her health and safety, as well as for that of students and co-workers. Ackerman warned of the damage to society should school buildings stay closed.
But when Sipress got to the final line of Ackerman’s email, telling her she should be willing to put her life on the line, Sipress, who’s taught for 18 years, said she had never felt so hurt.
“To come out and say that teachers are the new front line and if we’re not willing to take that risk we should get a new job? That’s so harsh,” Sipress said. “Putting teachers on the front line, you’re also putting students on the front line. If I’m in school, so are they. Should they be the sacrifice?”
Nominating District C includes much of my 7th RD, excluding the Ardens and Ashbourne Hills. We have a lot of great young progressive voices on our committee. Maybe one of them will run. If not, how about you? Here is the map of the nominating districts.
I’ve got more names to research, and there will be new candidates filing. If you know of a candidate who we should warn the public about, please share. Until then, this should keep you busy for awhile.
DEGOP is really trying to turn Milford into Delaware’s Florida.
Let’s hope! Florida is freedom’s paradise!
Move there then. Fuck off.
Why? It’s America. We should all be free like Florida. Why don’t YOU move to California?
Because I live in a place where people like you are outvoted. Logic dictates that you move, not me, though I already spend half the year out of your shithole country.
For a second there I thought you were being sarcastic.
Then I realized what your moniker is short for.
Patriots 4 Delaware puts up shitty candidates, endorsed by none other than our Chris Kenny lapdog and mini-me Brian Shupe.
Don’t forget Matt Butcher’s role in this. He won election to the MSB last May. on a platform of recreating Desantis’ policies in Milford. He will never be bipartisan. He is chairman of a the local GOP district committee in North Milford, District 33. He is not above intemperate outbursts in public, like the one last fall during the Riverwalk festival.
What I love is that this attempt at a smear campaign is directed at three people who are clearly free thinkers with common sense who had enough vision to know that “the science” was incorrect. In fact, masks do NOT work according to the science of 2023, kids who were forced to stay home are WAY behind and have academic and anxiety issues like never before, and rhe vaccine doesn’t work.
I hope all three of these visionaries, who had the GUTS to stand up to the echo chamber masses, all make it in amd continue to fight for our children’s best interests. Thank you so much for highlighting their foresight.
That’s not at all what the science says. It says there is no clear benefit.
The vaccine greatly reduces the severity of infections.
And you, as an ignorant ass who CAN’T follow the science, are gone.
Awwwww. It’s IS what the science says. Not CNN, honey. Like actual scientists.
There are more people dying from covid who are vaccinated than not.
Statistics don’t lie.
I see you’re really caring about the kids. Why not start looking up cases of suicide and anxiety numbers on teens, especially teen girls? Why not look up pass rates and math stats, specifically? If so, I’d bet you’d realize what all these candidates knew before the masses: lockdowns greatly impacted our children’s health and learning, and some students may never catch up.
Read, dear. Parroting propaganda isn’t a good look on you. And politicizing school boards to suit your own agenda is pretty sick.
Tell me…what do these candidates stand for academically? Isn’t that what matters? Or are masks part of the curriculum now?
No, it’s not. I read scientific journals. I don’t have a TV. The news report on masks might have made it sound to an uneducated person like they don’t matter, but what it actually said is that there’s no clear evidence that they made a difference. And the reason the evidence isn’t clear is that it’s impossible to separate out the effect of masks from the rest of the measures that some places took and others didn’t.
You didn’t read the primary sources. You listened to “news” sources that told you what you want to hear. And you don’t know enough about statistics to use them.
I couldn’t care less about these school board elections, so you’re wrong about that, dearie. Not my problem.
Look up how Sweden did by relying on natural immunity. Letting a new and unknown disease run its course would have been the height of irresponsibility.
The virus is stopped by medical-grade masks. One of the reasons the study you know about said their effectiveness was hard to measure is that many people didn’t wear them properly.
The education losses are real. I never said they weren’t, that’s just your inability to understand what you read, or is it just that you like to make shit up?
I never said the journals were free, either. You leap to a lot of unjustified conclusions — but we could see that already.
Just face facts, lady: Your mind, such as it is, was made up from jump. All the rest is backfill.
We were faced with a new disease that you seem to think should have been treated as if it were the common cold. You didn’t “know” the science was wrong, because the science hadn’t been determined. You didn’t care about other people, and you still don’t.
Yes, I’m old (not 80, but old) and have comorbidities, so I’m glad precautions were taken when they were. You were only concerned about you and your kids, apparently. Fuck the olds and the sick, right?
You’re an asshole, lady. Fuck off.
Then why are you commenting on an article about school boards? Seems like an odd way to spend your time when you could be reading even more journals.
Pray tell, which scientific journals are you subscribed to? (Hint: when you google them, be sure to go past the first and second pages of results so you look authentic.)
Again, you are incorrect about how far behind our students are because of the pandemic. Reading one article to support your theory isn’t enough. You actually have to look at a multitude of data and statistics in order to get the mean ratio and then compare to other years. I know, I know…research is hard. But try.
I’ll ask again, finally, as you did not answer my question: what does a stance on masking have to do with school boards? How does it support curriculum?
Looking forward to your reply. I have my credit card out to subscribe to the same journals you read so I can be as smart and informed (lol) as tou are.
Thanks!
I follow links, I don’t subscribe. I’m commenting on the article because I was countering your disinformation.
I haven’t said anything about how far behind your students are, so I don’t know how I could be incorrect about it. I’m not interested in it.
You made the claim that free thinkers knew the science was incorrect, which was impossible — there was no data to show that when the pandemic broke out. So if you want to talk about who’s incorrect, look in the mirror.
There’s plenty of science to support that people knew the proclaimed “science” was wrong.
Let’s see…
Natural immunity has always been a thing (re: Fauci flu).
The virus is tiny and can easily pass through cloth (re: Fauci masks 2020).
Kids learn better in person (every educational study possible).
Kids aren’t dying from the virus (re: anecdotal evidence from January 2020 – on).
And not caring about whether Kids are behind? My God. I hope you’re 80+ and about to die because these kids will be ruling the world in a few short years. Or maybe that’s when you’ll be full time in your other country…which is it…Venezuela? China?
We can argue about the detrimental effects of kids being out of school, which is a real thing, and yeah sure maybe even the masks which for kids appeared not to do very much.
But this fucking horseshit about the vaccine being more dangerous than not taking the vaccine? Fuck all the way off with that garbage, motherfucker.
Read:
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/02/us-covid-vaccine-obsession-future-variants/672933/
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2022/two-years-covid-vaccines-prevented-millions-deaths-hospitalizations
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm3425
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673622000897
Also, your kids will never be educated, because they inherited their brains from a dope like you. They’ll be just as stupid as you are. Move to Florida, where they won’t be educated as government policy.
Name calling is the highest form of argument. You really schooled me. I’m so apt to believe you now.
Right honey. I respond in kind.
I don’t care if you believe me or not. You’re the one with a bug up your ass.
At least let us know where you go half the year!
Regular readers know.
By the way, the real, vetted, significant online scientific ans education based journals all cost money. That’s why colleges and universities pay for journal databases for their students like ebsco and credo, for example. Even via Google scholar, the abstracts for peer reviewed science and education articles and studies are simply abstracts that one must pay for.
So now I’m super curious. Which online free journals do you read? I’ve got to get my hands on them! This is great that they’re out there. Please, tell us, and help “dummies” like me be “educated” like you.
Who said they were free? Your reading comprehension is pretty poor for someone so concerned about education.
These maskholes thought the pandemic was their ticket to stirring up the yokels politically, and they are still trying to keep that brief surge of asshole energy alive.
A lot of kids and parents are alive today because kids weren’t crowded into school buildings before vaccines and treatments were widely available. How quickly we forget those dark days when a lot of patients needed ventilators, and there weren’t enough ventilators or hospital beds.
Al, just block that anti-mask, anti-vac psychopath. Engaging those low-IQ in any way emboldens them to believe they are more intelligent than your average blind mole. An affront to blind moles. John Kowalko.
The media, given that it’s made up mostly of communications majors, doesn’t know squat about science, which is why that report on masks was reported the way it was. If you read the source material, it says what I summarized: There are too many variable in play to say whether masks did any good with any certainty.
If M”ON — I think it’s short for moron — wants to play anecdotal evidence game, perhaps she can explain why influenza nearly disappeared when masks were required.
I expect Jason will block her before too long.
Yeah!!!! Block everyone that disagrees with us.
Us?
Every now and then, I let one of these threads go until I sense that the brain cells of our audience are dying. Then, I pull the plug.
This is, after all, a moderated blog.
No, just the assholes. Do you qualify?
No, but block everyone who is willing to put all others health and lives at risk so that they can roll around in the feces of QAnon and Trump acolytes. All of those science deniers can catch the next Comet Kohoutek to the rapture and be free to infect each other. No loss for civilization there.
Retired Representative John Kowalko (fully boosted and mask-wearer 25th District Delaware)
Hey MO’N, (couldn’t help saying that without a Jamacan dialect)
Did somone seriously put the Atlantic as a source? 🤣 That would be like me rebuking that with Fox News!
Didn’t they also write an article “Let’s Declare a Covid Amnesty” wanting forgiveness for the harm caused by their blind cult like following?
I may not be a doctor, scientist, or a biologist – but I have friends of all three. They all got shunned for dare speaking of a dissenting view. Asking questions that were not being asked that would, under any other circumstance, have always been asked. They had something the others lacked – INTEGRITY!
Have any of you listened to a DEMFA medical town hall?
MO’N, Some people are like onions. They have a talking point, you then have a response, to which they also have a pre-scripted rebuttal talking point. Get past that layer using logic, they essentially malfunction and start twitching, screaming, and cursing as you started to see above. Part of having productive conversations is knowing when to walk away, my friend.
You are equating scientific debate with people like MO’N (and possibly yourself) making after-the-fact claims. What she called “common sense” are actually called “guesses.”
The fact is that nobody knew what the right thing to do was at the time. The fact is that the study everyone is jumping on does not say what you deniers think it says. The fact is that the Atlantic is a journalistic operation while Fox News is a propagandistic one, and they have the receipts to prove that.
Some people are like assholes. They spout a lot of shit.