Questions abound about the Palm Beach County School District officials’ troubling use of the Baker Act to handle unruly children — so flagrantly misusing the statute that in a recent
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remember hearing our Governor stating he would not allow CRT to be taught in our schools yet BLM is on the district’s website as well as other biased racial sources. When you click on the BLM tile it takes you to a Brain pop video (a digital educational platform the district uses) which talks about the movement, protesting, and George Floyd). Parents were also sent a letter with the District s equity statement on it which had the words white advantage in it. The Board is having a meeting this week to discuss whether or not to remove the white advantage words but keep all the other equity language only after parents spoke of the blatant discrimination (which goes against school board policy). Who holds the school district accountable? So far the Governor hasn t or the FLDOE. If nothing is done and this is fully implemented, I will have no choice but to pull my 3 kids out of the system.
By Brian Mudd
Top Three Takeaways – May 24th, 2021
What’s in your wallet? No this isn’t a credit card commercial. This is about the non-plastic stuff in your wallet. See that dollar in your wallet? Now, what’s that worth? You’re thinking a dollar, right? Well, not quite because it doesn’t work that way. The surge in inflation we’ve experienced, with the largest year over year increase in consumer prices since 2008, is being predominantly driven by what your dollar is no longer worth. A year ago today the US Dollar Index was over $99 and today’s it’s $89. That 10% decline in the value of the US dollar means before supply and demand ever enters the equation you have to pay more for stuff because your dollar isn’t worth what it used to be. Why? Because all of the free puppies, and candy and Biden bucks aren’t free. The US is over $28 trillion in debt, it doesn’t have money for free puppies and candy and Biden bucks. That means it’s printin