Calling all voters, and we mean all, the BOE primary is just around the corner.

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We are going to try our best to do just that for you today!

On May 14th you have a very important job to do! And that job is pick the most qualified, compassionate, intelligent people to be a part of our BOE. You get to vote for 3 (there’s thankfully many more than 3 to choose from this year) and 6 get to go on to the general election in November. And remember that your lack of party affiliation does not prevent you for voting for these candidates as it is a non partisan election!

We’ve created three categories for you to peruse today. The first category will be our approved candidates. The second will be those that passed the Yokel muster, but didn’t exactly make it to the approved category mostly due to a lack of information or because we felt their stance on the various issues was not well articulated. And finally we have a pile of rejections! Thankfully the approved category vastly outnumbers our rejections this time around.

Your Lady Yokels made our decisions based on a few criteria. First the issues on their websites, in news articles, video interviews, and in-person forums had to match what we thought was important in a candidate. We like to see candidates mention making all students feeling welcome, a support for teachers and paying them what they deserve, a focus on student mental health, inclusion of all kinds of people and events in school libraries and the curriculum, and a commitment to teaching children with scientifically approved methods and not educational fads. If there is any hint of a candidate discriminating against children OR advocating for the removal of accurate history or sexual education, they went immediately into the rejection pile! We know your code words people! They aren’t hard to crack!

Click here to discover how we found all the candidates.

We went in alphabetical order, not by who we liked the most.

Below is our approved list of candidates along with a link to their website so you can see what they have to say for yourself!

  1. Jerry Alexandratos- in our original post we stated we couldn’t find his website, he has since contacted us with a link, and we have since moved him to the approved column!
Jerry N. Alexandratos, Ph.D.

2. Josh Bokee

https://www.joshbokee.org

3. Veronica Lowe

https://www.veronicaloweforfrederickcountypublicschoolsbo.com

4. Janie Monier

https://janiemonier.org

5. Cecelia Reider

https://celiareidler.com

6. Navian Scarlett

https://www.navianscarlett4frederick.com

7. Angie Vigliotti

https://www.votevig.com

8. Chad King Wilson, Sr.

https://www.chad4boe.com

These 8 would all make great members of the board! It’s so nice to see so many qualified people running this year.

The next set of candidates have a lot of promise, but some of them lacked information about what they would do as school board members. However, we didn’t feel as though they warranted an outright rejection.

  1. Manesh Aitha
About Mahesh Aitha

2. Paul Fairfield- we really like a lot of what he had to say, but some of the issues are very one school specific.

https://paulforboe.info

Now our tone is going to change folks! The four candidates on this list must be avoided like the plague. We’ll give you some more details with each one for our rejection.

  1. Colt Black, yes the same Colt Black that ran for Congress but now wants to be on the school board. Here’s something on his website that really got to us:

Protect Parental Rights

As a parent, you don’t cede your rights to guide and parent your child at the school door. So often times parents are treated as the enemy by teachers and administrators of schools. Spoken down to and disrespected. Enough is enough. It’s past time to ensure parents are respected by teachers and administrators and treated as a partner in their child’s education. Whether you are dealing with a student with special needs and are working to get your student the services they are entitled to or a disciplinary issue which is being taken too far. Or perhaps there is something your student or yourself object to on the basis of religious or philosophical thought which is causing the conscience to be violated and in turn violating your rights, parents need an advocate on the board who will stand up to ensure that every child receives a quality education.  

Yeah, we had to read through that a few times as well.

So parents are the enemies of the teachers and administration? And why is that, because the parent doesn’t agree with what is being taught, or their kid misbehaved and actually faced some consequences? And what’s this nonsense about parents being abused?

We’re going to drop this right here for Mr. Black and anyone else who is curious:

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/17/1087137571/school-violence-teachers-covid

His website is full of code words we’ve learned to avoid, but here it is anyway:

https://www.coltblack.com/meet_colt

2. Jaime Brennan is our Moms For Liberty candidate, she posted a series of videos that explain her position on the issues.

If you are interested in hearing someone bash kids and promote the removal of books from the school libraries (didn’t we already solve this?), go ahead and waste 6 minutes of your life. A friend of the Yokel sent us his rendition of her campaign sign that we think you will enjoy:

So much better than the original!

https://www.brennanforboard.com

3. Rayna Remondini

This lady tried last time around, and we need to reject her this time around as well. She’s a homeschooling advocate and lists on her website that she’s received the endorsement of an organization called Power 2 Parent, which is just as awful as you can imagine:

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They have a nice little link where you can report your kid’s school!

We don’t know why these homeschooling advocates are always trying to get on our public school boards, but they must be rejected at every turn.

4. Patti Lee Worsley AKA Gumption the Dragon. Yes you read that right:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDdHo_RCG3V0PSEkjoMJbvA

We also wrote about her when she defended the Scientologists when they were trying to make their fake drug rehabilitation clinic up in Thurmont:

Have you seen Gumption the Dragon?

She also writes on her website that schools should be run like businesses, which is always a turn off for us.

https://www.votewisely4worsley.com/meet_patti

The blood of Patriots sponsored this? Ummmā€¦

UPDATE: In our original post we werenā€™t able to find a lot of info on Tabitha McLoughlin. After looking at this graphic designerā€™s nightmare of an attempt at political propaganda weā€™ve decided to move her to the do not vote for column.

There’s still a few more forums for you to drop in on should you like to hear the candidates for yourself. Check out the League of Women Voters website for more details:

https://my.lwv.org/maryland/frederick-county

There’s lots to avoid this election season, the orange menace is back, and Dan Cox is trying to get into Congress, but don’t underestimate the importance of these school board elections.

We don’t need any more fresh hells! A Yokel primer concerning the consequences of elections!

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Ever since the birth of this website in 2015, we’ve tried to sound the alarm about the consequences of elections. They have countless unforeseen effects that many folks don’t consider when choosing a candidate. We’ve decided to illustrate this concept through a nice flowchart that hopefully makes it easy to see the connections between elections and their aftermath:

WHOOPS! We forgot that sometimes flowcharts don’t always make sense, especially when you set #kirbydelauter loose with some construction papers and markers! Here’s the right one:

Hopefully this illustrates our point nicely!

We’ve got to be more careful with our government and institutions. Real people are being hurt in our country all because a snake oil (or hideous sneaker) salesman convinced enough people that he actually gave a shit about them. (Spoiler alert: he most certainly does not.) At the Constitutional Convention way back in 1787, folks waited anxiously to find out what type of government would replace the too weak Articles of Confederation. When it was all hashed out a woman approached Ben Franklin to enquire of what path the new country would take. His reply:

The “if you can keep it” part should give us all pause…

In case you’ve isolated yourself with a Netflix subscription and a delivery from Naked Wines (No Judgement!), we need to pull you back into reality. Women’s health is in danger. Women’s self-determination is in danger. Women’s ability to decide when, if, and now how to have a child is in danger. And for those of you who don’t think that’s a big deal, try to imagine if you were stripped of all bodily autonomy. Try to imagine that the one thing that you wanted more than anything else in the world was now blocked from you because people could not be bothered to figure out simple cause and effect relationships work. It isn’t funny or wise to tell over half the country’s population that they can’t make their own major life choices. There is nothing in the Bible or any other ancient religious text that discusses when life begins. The folks who wrote these books had no idea what a sperm, egg, or embryo even was! You would also be hard pressed to find a scientist that says that life begins at conception. It’s all made up!

At the Yokel, we’ve tried to maintain a focus on the local. And of course we still will. However, all politics is local. When the nation declares a war, our local men and women go off to fight. When our nation fails to support our allies against evil we endanger not only ourselves, but the entire world. To illustrate the cause/effect relationship once more, when we don’t take dictators seriously because we want to score political points, we also make self aggrandizing, pompous pieces of shit think it’s okay to normalize dictators and war criminals.

This is really worrisome (and also extremely stupid) because there is a certain segment of the population that will buy into this crap. And they vote!

When women’s personal health choices are taken out of their hands it shows that the government only views us as incubatorsā€¦ at best! It also very stupidly prevents what these ideologues claim to want–people having children. Just look at this poor dear, the “esteemed” Senator from Alabama, struggle to backtrack on the Alabama decision when he finally realizes that IVF treatments actually cause children to be born:

Just stunning…

If you have a friend in Alabama, maybe pass this post along to them, since these rulings seem to have a trickle down effect. Every election, be it at the federal, state, or local level has consequences. Let’s creep back into the local scene and envision a hypothetical situation that could happen here in Frederick County. We’ll stick with a flowchart since we are in a visual aid kind of mood this evening:

What if college doesn’t fix their worldview because they go to a Florida State university and we are stuck with even more generations of this nightmare???

If we’ve learned anything over these last nine years, it’s that you cannot be careless with your vote. You need to pay attention. It matters. We matter. The world, our country, and our county all depend upon the way we vote. Thinking of all the possible consequences is exhausting, but that doesn’t excuse us from doing so.

What state do we live in again? This legislation will not do!

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Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever……

In the 9 years we’ve been doing this, we’ve tried to keep our focus on the local scene. There’s only so many hours in the day and so much sanity your Lady Yokels can expend, but sometimes we do need to expand our geographic purview. Today we need to talk about some legislation that’s made its way to Annapolis. For as Tip O’Neill liked to say, “All politics is local.”

We’ll start with HB0047, which thankfully (for the second time) was voted unfavorably in committee yesterday. However, just because it was shot down a second time, doesn’t mean that these folks won’t keep coming back. Let’s explore the bill together:

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That may take a couple of readings to really digest. It’s not only a very discriminatory and nasty bill, it’s also an enormous government overreach! Did you notice that this bill applies not only to public schools, but also to private schools and intramural sports?! Which party is supposedly the party of big government again? It’s so amusing to us how situational some people’s values are!

Wait, what are my values?
Besides trying to hurt kids, we really aren’t sure!!!

If you follow our Facebook page, you saw the link to this NY Times article we shared this morning:

What kind of world are we living in folks?

The next bill, HB0025 (at least as far as we know as of this morning) has not been voted on just yet. But someone is happy about the prospect of it passing!

Trying to have banned? You were rejected and will continue to be rejected!

Let’s explore the language of this very bad, vague bill!

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Who gets to define sexually explicit materials? Cindy? Here’s the rating system that most of these groups are using these days from the website, https://booklooks.org/ratings-system:

We have never had such a hateful reaction to a chart before! Who defines moderate, explicit, excessive, mild, aberrant, obscene?! Who has the right to tell the rest of us what our children should read? Where’s the evidence of harm in a 3-5 rated book? What studies do they have? What the hell is wrong with these people?ā€‚Man, we don’t like to get all worked up this early in the morning!

At the bottom of this post we are going to give you a nice list so we can all email our local delegation to make sure they don’t vote for this very bad bill should it come before the entire delegation. Let’s divert, for just a moment, on why it’s so important that kids and adults read books:

See what we highlighted there?

Maybe we should put forth a bill that everyone has to read at least for an hour a day! That’s probably the best way to fix this problem.

Here’s your list:

https://frederickcountymd.gov/DocumentCenter/View/340074/Frederick-County-Delegation

The final countdown of 2023!

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Another tradition at the Yokel is a recap of our top 10 posts of the year. If you haven’t checked out our In and Out list ,be sure to take a gander at that as well.

Let us begin….

10. Indicted sheriff, bored retirees, and attempted book bannings! What a summer we are having in OldeĀ Fredericktowne!

At #10 is our summer lament about the High Sheriff claiming he got tricked, horrible “transparency” groups who seem hell bent on hurting the youngins, and the Reconsideration Committee that had to be formed due to Cindy’s uneducated complaints.

9. Reconsideration Committee Instructs Cindy to ReconsiderĀ Everything!

Speaking of that Reconsideration Committee, at #9 we all got an early Christmas present in that we got to see exactly what Cindy and friends wrote and said in their complaints about the so-called offensive books, PLUS the committee’s notes on the books in question. It really is a quite a treat.

8. Local Yokel Legislating Time! Time to Fight Back Against the PearlĀ Clutchers!

Amen!

At #8 we are sticking with the theme of fighting against the book-banners. In this post you can read all about our suggestions for future book banning complaints.

7. Vote for your new Frederick County Flag: YokelĀ style!

For #7, we had a little fun with the new flag contest. In our completely scientific poll our flag design won! Be sure to check out the other selections. It’s a stroll down memory lane.

6. Weā€™ve written about some stupid shit, but damnā€¦ā€¦

You probably already guessed from the title that this post is about Dan Cox. Remember when he tried to get Jenkins’ co-defendant off by complaining that one of the agents involved in the investigation was of Ukrainian descent?ā€‚We also had some fun with Cox’s last name.

5. Asshole shortage causes assholes to import Pennsyltucky assholes to FrederickĀ County.

This town could be a sitcom. If you don’t remember when the bag pipers from Gilead came to our school board meeting be sure to read this post. As we’ve said many times over the almost 8 years we’ve been writing this blog…we couldn’t make this shit up if we tried.

4. Heā€™s running for Congressā€¦..wait no heā€™s notā€¦..oh yeah he is! When will we ever be rid of thisĀ Cox?!

Never Forget!

We can’t explain why Dan behaves the way that he does. But here we are. Let’s hope for another defeat for this theocratic nincompoop.

3.ā€‚The Moms of Coercion Have Made Progress in Carroll County. We Canā€™t Let That HappenĀ Here.

So far we’ve rejected all attempts from these people to infiltrate our school board. But we must not get complacent as one of the two filed candidates for this year’s election is one of these so-called “Joyful Warriors”.ā€‚Expect them to rebrand soon as a result of some their recent sex scandals.

2. Breaking News!

This was our post that informed the public over the High Sheriff’s indictment. Hopefully we’ll see how this all turns out soon.

And now for our #1 post of the year….

  1. Happy 1st Day of Schoolā€¦orĀ not!

Our most popular post of the year was about a so-called Joyful Warrior attempting to to ruin the first day of school because she didn’t like a question on a teacher’s “All About Me” form. She was egged on by Cindy Rose, who of course shows nothing resembling joy in her interactions with the school system.

We hope that y’all see a theme here. We really need to be on guard against these book banning, anti-joy people. This year is going to be stressful when it comes to politics, but we will be with you every step of the way!

Reconsideration Committee Instructs Cindy to Reconsider Everything!

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Boy did he ever!

It has been a banner evening over at Yokel headquarters as we turned the pages of today’s Reconsideration Committee report! What a treat we have for you, dear readers, as sanity once more wins out in our nice county!

For a long time now we’ve tried to tell Cindy and al. that they don’t understand what the word pornography means. (Here’s the link in which we tried to educate) What we came to see, as we perused this report, is not only were we unable to dissuade her of this erroneous definition, but she and her two minions took their misunderstanding to a whole new level. These books are apparently illegal because of their very poor understanding of the meaning of that word.

We have a real vocabulary problem here folks!

Before we get to some examples of the evaluation of these books, we need to share some more of the written and verbal testimony from both Cindy and current board member (!) Nancy Allen!

Let’s start with why Cindy doesn’t believe that she actually has to read the books:

How’d you like that logic! Let’s keep going….

Does she not know that everyone can read this? Love the characterization of middle schoolers as hormonal, irrational beasts based on one anecdote that we are 100% positive her granddaughter did not want her to make part of the public record!

She continues on her journey…..

UMMMMMMMMM.. This shouldn’t have become political? From the women who strives to make everything political?!
It sure as hell is!

Now, we aren’t just going to focus on Cindy’s misconstructions, as we also have evidence of current board member (!) Nancy Allen’s problems with definitions:

Child pornography!!!!! Remember that when you get to the evaluation section of our post.

Now, let’s talk about that Miller Test because that is the standard the hard working people who spent hours actually reading and discussing these books used to evaluate these books:

Now, scroll back up and see if Cindy’s interpretation matches. If you don’t want to, we’ll save you the time and say it absolutely doesn’t.

Now let’s look at a couple of examples from committee applying The Miller Test to the books Cindy found so offensive.

We read this one over and over and over again. And we laughed and laughed and laughed! The word “mate” really got to us.
Hide your kids!!!

Here’s another one we enjoyed:

“We did not see the above things in the book”!!!! What a colossal waste of everyone’s time this was!

So, the committee gave two recommendations:

And…

The one book they removed had a similar YA version, so the committee felt as though that book would suffice. But it looks like your Lady Yokels need to start reading Ellen Hopkins’ books!

Overall, a resounding victory for intellectual freedom and sanity. So how is our friend Cindy doing on her day of resounding defeat? NOT SO GOOD…..

Well, we know someone isn’t eating from that tree!

Also, FCPS is going to start allowing parents to prohibit their child from checking out books they don’t want them to read. Therefore, if this is really about protecting their children from themes they don’t believe they are ready for and not about marginalizing groups of people and opinions they find offensive, then this case is officially closed.

Don’t come back again!

He’s running for Congress…..wait no he’s not…..oh yeah he is! When will we ever be rid of this Cox?!

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We are so sorry to have to break this to you, but Dan Cox is actually running for Congress. We say “actually” because if you remember back to July he reported his own “false filing” that was done by an employee of his.

https://news.yahoo.com/gop-candidate-reported-own-false-010952121.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANbGfMnG11PW-JcS7_4MXH2J5z-yQDm6BT4hw9bGajVlAbXSDKolEgtov3ldKWxjMdMqr4Mfwbh4bcsTxEAzIXkDRCecObH3pRmq_E9C2C4i9hOKNCsEd0z7tLmFTUYQmeejjGrXKKt4gRZf7j_qTWEqJTucAZwzpmE9KS0l4-8f
We are still super confused about this because apparently he told this guy to file for him and then he took it back and now he’s taking it back again.

An alert reader sent us this bizarre video he posted on his Facebook page announcing his run, take a lookie:

https://www.facebook.com/delegatedancox/videos/970172620748006/

The most amusing part of this low rent announcement is the dog trotting back and forth and the sounds of a cat growling in the background. Seems like the Cox pets even know this run is bullshit.

If you can’t stomach the video we can paraphrase:

We need to close the border because all the criminals crossing over and killing everyone in District 6 with the Fentanyl. We are the only ones with “reason” and “kindness” and we need to be the ones with “valor” and must have “faith over fear”. So go to his website, except don’t go to www.coxforcongress.com ,because it’s so much better.

Let’s remind y’all what kind of “reason” and “kindness” Dan practices in case we have some memory lapses.

First of all Dan Cox is a product (and a former teacher) of Wellspring (formerly Walkersville) Christian School that his father started in the 1980s. You can read the whole Washington Post article here, but we are going to focus on a couple of passages:

In a videotaped lecture posted online for a course entitled ā€œBiblical Foundations for Family Life,ā€ Gary Cox tells students that ā€œthe protection of the wife from satanic destruction is by being tucked under the headship of her husband as God ordained it.ā€ Referring to Paulā€™s letter to the Ephesians, he adds: ā€œThereā€™s a picture here of someone ruling and someone being ruled ā€¦ a picture of voluntary submission. Itā€™s important that the wife, again, desire to be under submission. Itā€™s pretty much impossible to rule over somebody that doesnā€™t want to be ruled.ā€

Read that a couple of times if you need to. Dan was brought up to believe that women must submit to their husbands. S-U-B-M-I-T! How’s that reasoning for you ladies?! Shall we have a guessing game as to what kind of laws Dan would vote for that we would have to submit to?

Let’s continue on our journey:

Coxā€™s connection to the world of religious home schooling remains as much personal as political. Among the private security guards ā€” wearing bulletproof vests and holstered pistols ā€” who turned journalists away from a recent rally at a farm in Carroll Countywas a graduate of Walkersville Christian Family Schools.

It was Josiah, the candidateā€™s son, who at his 2015 graduation ceremony had listened with his classmates as Dan Cox urged them to take seriously the words from Romans 14:8: ā€œWhether we live or whether we die, we are the Lordā€™s.ā€

Whew! Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. That’s just downright chilling.

If this isn’t enough, don’t forget about his copy and pasted law suits during Covid, his absolute trouncing during the last gubernatorial election, and the fact that though he and his children have never seen the inside of a public school as a student, he thinks that he not only knows that goes on there, but he should legislate about it.

We’ll leave you with a gallery of dumb dumbs from his Facebook page for you ponder:

And the piece d’ restitance:

Lock all those filthy teachers up! Hopefully there will be a strong enough Republican candidate to knock him out of the primary come May, but we aren’t holding our breath.

If you’ve got some extra time, go ahead and look at our past posts about him:

https://fredericklocalyokel.com/?s=cox

#NeverForget

Asshole shortage causes assholes to import Pennsyltucky assholes to Frederick County

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Yesterday evening, as you have probably seen, there was a Board of Education meeting in which Policy 443 was featured in public debate, both inside the meeting and out on the sidewalk. This is basically a policy that allows students to be addressed by the pronouns they prefer and use the facilities they find appropriate for their gender. If you have been following our Facebook posts this will be redundant information, but to no one’s surprise more than ours, we again agree with Cindy Rose about something. These concerned parents couldn’t be bothered to notice when this policy was adopted, so now they think their inattention constitutes some kind of emergency (and perhaps it does, but that kind of deadbeat parenting is a home thing, not a school thing). Most of the deadbeats seem to be affiliated with Moms for Liberty and the coalition with Tom Neumark–whatever it is that thinks he is doing. Think of him as the general in charge of handmaids.

If you attended this and felt like there were a lot of assholes represented at this event, that’s because theyurntfrumheere. There was a large and noisy group of mercenaries in this culture war who look shockingly like the creeps who follow Bob Roberts in the brilliant 1992 film that we are afraid to rewatch because satire of that era probably pales in comparison to our current reality. They are very weird–the Crusaders from Pennsylvania, we mean. Not unimportantly they do use the term Crusade, like the Medieval thinkers that they are. They have been doing “important” “work” for years like protesting the Da Vinci Code film. That seems like time well spent. Basically they are the Catholic analogue of the Westboro Baptist Church. And here they are finding fellowship with the Moms for Liberty and Tom Neumark. Gross.

You simply must take a look at the photograph in the Frederick News Post for a good look at these crazy people. The one next to the bagpiper looks exactly like Jack Black here…oh, yeah, there were bagpipes. And drums. And then a group broke away to chant the rosary and encircle the building. And people think sĆ©ances are weird. I mean, we are also people who think that, but we also think sĆ©ances seem like fun, and this…doesn’t.

Anyway, the whole big deal is stupid. Yes, a lot of people are hearing a lot about transgender people for the first time in their lives. Look, gender really is a social construct and those constructs have changed over time and now women wear pants and get short haircuts and are in the military and go to college, and men change diapers. Man, that Barbie movie really did have it right. Seems like men could do a little more…Perhaps the social construct is changing a lot right now in ways some people find difficult and confusing. But you know what? Acting like an asshole isn’t actually going to stop that, and unless you can turn off the internet and the rest of society for an entire generation, you aren’t going to affect it by being mean to people who feel like they would be happier with these changes in their life. Just be nice, FFS. (P.S. We know we are preaching to the choir.)

Happy 1st Day of School…or not!

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This is not going to be a good story folks!

Today was supposed to be a day of new beginnings. A time when students and teachers get to know one another and start building those relationships that will flourish throughout the year. However, one teacher at Linganore High is going to be rethinking their career choices because of one very dumb complaint.

A alert reader let us know some nonsense was afoot on the Moms of Liberty Frederick page, and sent us some very disturbing screenshots. Let’s start with what one parent posted on the group:

Hmmm. Let’s break this down… why would a kid prefer to be called another name? Maybe a Christopher likes Chris, or a Jennifer, Jenny? And yes, there’s a small portion of kids who are exploring their gender identity and may not want to tell Mom and Dad just yet. If you are so worried, why not try having a conversation with your kid?!

Anyone who has been to a doctor’s appointment, or actually signed up for school, knows that this is what is asked. But apparently it caused such an uproar amongst these ladies they decided to publish the teachers name and demand retribution! And just who do you think pushed this person over the edge? You know who…

OH PLEASSSEEE! She doesn’t hate to say it, she takes great joy in it! And now, on the 2nd day of the school year, educators and administrators need to take precious time to deal with the nonsense.

There’s more, because of course there is….

Isn’t this a delightful exchange? So, we are going to “play by their rules” and make sure that everyone sees what is happening to our teachers and our schools. These people turned what should of been a nice day into a nightmare. Seriously, we don’t know who is going to want to be an educator with people like this out there. But, don’t forget that is the whole point of the Moms For Liberty, to diminish trust in the educational system so they can demolish it. If you are in the Linganore feeder, maybe send your kids in with some doughnuts and coffee tomorrow…sounds like they are going to need it.

The Moms of Coercion Have Made Progress in Carroll County. We Can’t Let That Happen Here.

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NOOOOO!

Right over the border in Carroll County the Moms of Liberty (snicker, barf), got 39 books removed from CCPS while a Reconsideration Committee decides their fate. You can peruse the whole list here, but of course your friendly Lady Yokels are going to give you some examples.

Yes that Wicked!

Our hearts just hurt watching this. We are going to assume that many of our followers are readers, and we therefore we want you to remember back to your high school days and to that book that changed you. Think about all of the books that have changed you in some way, and then imagine a bunch of non-readers (yeah we are going to go ahead and make that assumption with a whole lotta confidence) tried to take those books away. What part of you wouldn’t exist because you hadn’t read that book?

Moms of Liberty formed as a protest group to all of the Covid-19 restrictions they believed were unnecessary. These so-called “joyful warriors” (yes that’s the same language our very own local book banner, Cindy Rose, likes to use) needed to find another cause to keep that cash flowing when all the restrictions lifted. So, they decided to go after diversity (which they ignorantly call CRT) in the curriculum( or more accurately American History) and LGBTQ+ folks. They’ve pushed themselves into the national spotlight in such a way that Republican Presidential candidates believe they have to court these folks. They even presented Ron DeSantis with his very own liberty sword! How Nice!

When books are written about the collapse of American Civilization, that will be on the cover.

This group of bored Covid deniers have recently been labeled an extremist group by the Southern Law Poverty Center because:

“What we’ve been watching really closely around this particular group… [are] times when they show up with other groups that have explicitly advocated or committed intimidations and violence,” Hiller said. “There are cases at school boards in North Carolina, for example, where Moms for Liberty showed up together with Proud Boys and were part of intimidating the school board.” Carroll Rivas echoed this observation.

“Their organizing is quite concerning for how it harms communities, but also because of the associations with other hard right groups that they’ve really had since their inception,” she said.

Some members of Moms for Liberty chapters have also been accused — and in at least one case, convicted ā€” of harassment.

And, hmmm, weren’t they popping up around here last election…..

Two of those ladies still pop up at school board meetings to promote anti-inclusionary measures.

We need to keep our school board sane as we’ve already heard about some of the folks gearing up for a run next time and IT IS NOT GOOD. Our school system is currently reviewing books because of Cindy Rose et al. and we all need to stand up to make sure this nonsense goes no further. These conservative groups are trying to destroy American education. First, they do things like tell people the schools are making white kids feel bad about themselves, or allowing them to find out that gay people actually exist. Then they sow so much doubt and get people all riled up (remember when folks around here spread the rumor that kindergarteners were being taught about anal sex because we sure as hell do) and then they take over the school board. Afterwards, the curriculum is dumbed down to the point that the kids in that district have a tough time making in the world outside of the county they grew up in.(And if you don’t think this has happened do some reading on the old coal towns. Coal executives sat on those school boards and do you think academics were emphasized by people who needed the local population to go into the mines? Not at all.)Throw on top of that the feeling amongst many elite Republican donors that public schools should all be privatized so they can make a pretty dime on them! It’s all a recipe for disaster!

We sure hope this guy is right:

But, we still don’t want to see things get this far in Frederick County.

There are a couple of groups besides the Moms of Liberty working towards hurting kids and dumbing down our school curriculums. Make sure you stay alert to these threats. We know it’s exhausting, but we can’t let them win.