Republican lawmakers who support transparency in public schools are “intellectually stifling right wing book banners and anti-LGBT zealot bigots,” according to a candidate for the school board in RSU 10.
Caroline L. Mitchell, a write-in candidate for the district’s June 13 school board election, took aim at Rep. Rachael Henderson (R-Rumford) over a proposal that would require public schools to put curriculum material online.
Such transparency is just too much work for teachers, Mitchell said, before mocking suggesting that Henderson believes the earth is flat.
“Rachel Henderson, Rumford’s representative, wants all teachers to publish everything their children will see, hear, read, in school to parents by October first every year or we will suffer punishment,” Mitchell posted to Facebook.
“When they can’t even agree that the world is round and not 10,000 years old, every single thing will be challenged by these intellectually stifling right wing book banners and anti-LGBT zealot bigots,” she said.
The district includes Rumford, Mexico, Byron, Roxbury, Dixfield, Canton, Carthage, Byron, Peru, Buckfield, Hartford, and Sumner.
Although Republican lawmakers have introduced a host of school transparency bills this year, none of them are likely to garner support from Democratic lawmakers.
Henderson’s LD 1199 is among the simpler of those bills.
Mitchell’s opinion — and the voting patterns of Democratic lawmakers — are wildly out of step with bipartisan majorities of Mainers who support public school transparency.
According to a Maine Wire poll conducted earlier this year by Co/Efficient, 80 percent of Maine voters support posting curriculum materials online.
78 percent of moderates and even 53 percent of self-identified liberals said school materials should be posted online.
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It’s well past time that Mainers took back their local governments and kicked these pervert supporting, child grooming, progressives to the curb. They are a blight on humanity.
Prior to 1820, Maine was the the Northern most district of Massachusetts. Sadly, over time, it’s just reverted to its past! Portland is actually Cambridge North!
And she’s right! Have Republicans tried leaving people be and actually start helping communities (big businesses aren’t community, you silly LePage ghouls). You get more votes from Gen Z when you aren’t a bigoted facsist sympathizer. Good day, Steve the Privileged White Boy.
Should she be teaching children? She is calling names and talking about someone’s intelligence just because she has a different idea. Has she met Rachel Hendersen? Having a different idea about a school curriculum doesn’t make you a bigot.
Name calling seems to be a theme amongst woke leftists. When confronted with anything responsible, sensible, and factual they attack. It’s actually a form of gaslighting and narcissism. Parents should have the right to know what’s in their children’s classrooms. No different then parents wanting to know the ingredient list the processed foods they buy, or side effects of medications. Why is it when parents seek to get involved in their children’s lives it’s fascism. That has to be one of the most immature and juvenile response I’ve ever heard.