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JeffCo school board decision draws questions re:transparency
07 Nov 2014 12:30 #151
by ScienceChic
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
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If you didn't watch the live stream last night, there was quite the demonstration by the students.
Published on Nov 6, 2014
Published on Nov 7, 2014
From Chalkbeat:
Jeffco students interrupt board meeting, leave peacefully
by Nicholas Garcia on November 6, 2014
Covered on CO Public Radio:
JeffCo students practice civil disobedience, interrupt board meeting
Jenny Brundin By Jenny Brundin Nov 6, 2014
They are looking into whether those sprinklers were on automatic timers, or turned on the students deliberately.
Denver Channel 7:
JeffCo students interrupt school board meeting
COLLEEN SLEVIN, Associated Press
5:54 AM, Nov 7, 2014
Published on Nov 6, 2014
Jefferson County students, upset over how their board of education redesigned a curriculum review committee, interrupted the school board's proceedings tonight by reading aloud from their history books. About 10 students either read out of turn about historical figures, known for acts of civil disobedience, at a podium or from their seats. Another dozen students also recited the Pledge of Allegiance before making a mass exit.
Published on Nov 7, 2014
During the Nov. 6th meeting of the Jefferson County School Board, activists from JeffCo Students for Change - the student organization that has been organizing the ongoing student movement against the school board's attempts to sanitize the AP US History curriculum - deliver their 4 demands and attempt to address the board. Instead of listening to the students he ostensibly serves, school board president Ken Witt has the students removed by security, despite board member Lesley Dahlkemper's appeal to let them be heard.
From Chalkbeat:
Jeffco students interrupt board meeting, leave peacefully
by Nicholas Garcia on November 6, 2014
GOLDEN — Jefferson County students, upset over how their board of education redesigned a curriculum review committee, interrupted the school board’s proceedings tonight by reading aloud from their history books.
About 10 students either read out of turn about historical figures, known for acts of civil disobedience, at a podium or from their seats. Another dozen students also recited the Pledge of Allegiance before making a mass exit.
All students left peacefully. No arrests were made.
As part of their demonstration, the students said they had four demands: a public apology from the school board’s conservative majority for referring to students as “union pawns;” a reversal of an earlier decision to amend content review policies; proof from the board that they listen and act on community input instead of what students called an “ideological” agenda; and more resources for classroom instruction.
Covered on CO Public Radio:
JeffCo students practice civil disobedience, interrupt board meeting
Jenny Brundin By Jenny Brundin Nov 6, 2014
- See more at: www.cpr.org/news/story/jeffco-students-p...sthash.uLwb84uf.dpufWhen asked to leave the room, students at the podium left or were escorted out peacefully. After another group of students read aloud from history books and were escorted out, about a dozen students stood up in the packed meeting to read the pledge of allegiance. They then filed out.
Along with the students were “legal consultants,” law students taking descriptive notes of the scene. That didn’t please one security guard who lobbed several insults at the law students.
Standing in a circle outside the education building, a set of sprinklers suddenly came on. When the students moved out of the way, those sprinklers came on. The pattern repeated until all the sprinklers were on but the students didn’t leave. A security office came out and informed the group that they were trespassing.
They are looking into whether those sprinklers were on automatic timers, or turned on the students deliberately.
Denver Channel 7:
JeffCo students interrupt school board meeting
COLLEEN SLEVIN, Associated Press
5:54 AM, Nov 7, 2014
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
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