A member of the Goffstown, New Hampshire, school board claimed that allowing a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter would cause violence during an October meeting in which the club was ultimately approved in a unanimous vote.
Since the Sept. 10 assassination of TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, the conservative student organization has received over 100,000 inquiries about starting chapters in high schools and colleges. The TPUSA chapter at Goffstown High School was one of five clubs up for approval during the board’s Oct. 6 meeting, which resurfaced on social media. (RELATED: Parent Lights Into Virginia School Board For Trying To Halt TPUSA Chapter)
“I’m going to put myself out here,” the board member said after the approval of the clubs was moved and seconded in a video posted to X by Republican State Rep. Kristin Noble of New Hampshire in October. “With putting Turning Point into the school, we don’t feel that there will be, I know there is a lot of violence that has come out of a lot of things and we are not concerned at all that we’re going to have any violence in the schools that our administrators are going to have to deal with?”
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TPUSA chapters at colleges and high schools have faced violent responses to events. At a Nov. 11 event at the University of California at Berkeley, one attendee was beaten by left-wing protesters from Antifa.
The Dartmouth College chapter of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) was hosting Andy Ngo and Gabriel Nadales, a former member of the left-wing group, to discuss Antifa at a January 2022 event before the college canceled it due to security concerns. Left-wing students forced the cancellation of a TPUSA chapter’s meeting in a Missouri high school in May 2022 after overturning a glass table and repeatedly disrupting the event.
Another board member explained that the TPUSA chapter had met all the requirements, including having a teacher sponsoring it.
“It’s just going to go through the same process as any other club,” the school board member explained.
Officials at Royal Oak High School approved a TPUSA chapter on Oct. 21, prompting protests from left-wing students and groups, including a walkout and comments at a school board meeting. A school board member in Albemarle County, Virginia, came under fire in November after she compared TPUSA to the Ku Klux Klan in a social media post.
