Tag: Karen Vieth
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One citizen speaks for keeping cops in schools, gets race-baited by school board member; Part #1
Blaska survives a chaotic meeting in a chaotic school district I spoke before the Madison School Board’s ad hoc committee on police in the schools late Monday afternoon. Or tried to. Room 103 of the Doyle administration bldg was packed with the usual suspects, a term I used in my remarks. There were about 50…
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Jeff Simpson yells ‘racist’ in a crowded blog but can’t back it up; Part #5
[ UPDATE: DAY 2 — still no response from this race-baiter. ] Jeff Simpson, I am calling you out. Jeff Simpson, you are an elected member of a school board (Monona Grove, what were you thinking?), and an active Democrat. You are a public figure. Jeff Simpson, you accused me, David Blaska, of racism —…
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Madison school board poised to boot cops out of schools
Schools plagued by violence? Blame the police ‘Hard to believe!’ Study the wrong thing, get the wrong result. A School Board committee is poised to recommend getting police — aka “educational resource officers (EROs)” — out of Madison’s troubled public high schools. The chairman of the committee, Dean Loumos, says “I do not see the…
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Madison schools race-bait the teacher who speaks up for her students; Part #3
In Madison’s public schools, being ‘positive behavior support coach’ is dangerous duty The Madison Metropolitan School District is doubling down on its race-first, achievement-second philosophy. This blogge first reported the frustrations expressed by a unionized teacher who is quitting teaching in frustration after 16 years in the district. “I am leaving this district, because I…