Conservative Common Sense
After reading the Wednesday, May 19, Summit Daily News, which many Summit County conservatives avoid, I found it hard to determine who is more un-American: the Breckenridge Town Council for considering usurping individual property rights in the name of workforce housing or the Frisco Town Council for embracing critical race theory by calling the Declaration of Independence a racist document.
Over the past year, these socialist town councils were implementing draconian policies for mask mandates, business closures, Black Lives Matter murals, rat telephone lines to law enforcement, thinly veiled threatening messages from unelected bureaucrats at the Summit County health department and other more subtle gestures to spread fear as a means to control our local population.
Kim McGahey wrote about the May 13 Summit School District Board of Education meeting in his column “School board should not have silenced parents,” the parents being people opposed to the board’s proposed equity policy.
I participated in that meeting by Zoom, and I find McGahey’s version of it lacking in credibility. To test his claim that some attendees were deliberately silenced, I examined the recorded transcript of the online chat comments, which were received at the meeting. I tallied comments simply as “for” or “against” the equity policy, allowing only one opinion per writer. The result was 64 for and 75 against the policy. Most participants made simple, brief comments. Some, however, chiefly from the against camp, ignored brevity, interrupted others and spoke often without being recognized. There was a sharp contrast in behavior among the two groups in that regard. Among those who favored the equity policy, only eight wrote two or more times while 31 of t
The Summit School District Board of Education’s newly appointed director, Lisa Webster, will take her oath of office at the board’s special meeting Monday, May 24. Webster was appointed to the position after interviews during.
The Summit School District Board of Education was split on who should fill its vacant seat at a meeting Thursday, May 13. In the case of a split vote, the board president appoints the candidate,.
The Summit School District Board of Education is scheduled to vote to adopt a proposed new equity policy for local public education at the Thursday, May 13, board meeting. The proposed Just and Equitable Education.