The administration blinked and the curriculum is officially being removed. We won today because we refused to stay silent. Keep watching them.
June 21, 2021
North Thurston Public Schools - Say NO! To racially divisive curriculum and Hate towards Asian Americans
Final supporters
ALERT: Please sign with an alias (name). Pro-BLM teachers are aware and now are bullying others...yes teachers. Read below, sign
This petition; written, signed, and supported by Parents, students, alumni, staff (both present and past), business owners, property tax payers, and community leaders makes a motion for the following;
The apology and resignation of the following NTPS staff and board members for their part in implementing a political organization into NTPS student curriculum that seeks to harm students mental health, sow divisiveness under the guise of ‘Equity’, and seeks to create a victim class within marginalized communities of color which results in long term victimhood and creates low level thinkers through the adoption of ‘BLM at School’ and through the soft bigotry of low expectations for students of color.
Debra J Clemens - Superintendent
Gretchen Maliska – Board Member
Chuck Namit – Board Member
Dr. Jennifer S Thomas – Board Member
Graeme Sackrison – Board Member
Dave Newkirk – Board Member
Kathryn Frazier – Director of Equity and Languages
Cherlyn Pijanowski – Director of Discipline
An Apology Example: I, _____, apologize for my role in bringing ‘BLM at School’ to the NTPS curriculum. I realize now that BLM is a political organization. One that is anti-family, seeks to cause division within communities, perpetuates the violence against Asian Americans, and ultimately creates a generation of low-level thinkers through the soft bigotry of low expectations for people of color in our community. Effective immediately I resign from my role of NTPS ______ and take full responsibility for the harm I have caused my community.
Arguments/Evidence for Signing Petition;
#1. NTPS requires an unchallenged promotion of a specific political party
It is a public school’s responsibility to educate students while staying politically neutral. BLM is an activist and political party movement. NTPS does not explicitly teach or inform students of other platforms or political parties such as but not limited to; Democratic Party, Republican Party, Green or even Libertarian parties. This has created a vacuum of thought and reason; resulting in low thinking learners within the NTPS student body. Basic civics lesson reach far wider and deeper than a social justice narrative, rooted in Critical Race Theory.
#2. NTPS/BLM promotes violence against Asian Americans within our community
BLM harms our Asian American allies within our community by promoting BLM activists who in turn physically and mentally harm our AAPIO. NTPS has a systematic history of marginalizing Asian students by lumping them as data points with students who identify as ‘white’. NTPS board stands with BLM; Thus they do NOT stand with Asian Americans within our community. See videos below of BLM supporters promoting hate against Asian Americans. https://twitter.com/mrandyngo/status/1376335189387923458
https://abc7ny.com/anti-asian-subway-attack-hate-crime-man-spits-at-woman-racial-slur/10480754/
https://nwasianweekly.com/2020/11/wa-school-district-apologizes-for-excluding-asians-as-poc/
#3. NTPS is anti-nuclear family and thus prejudice towards, but not limited to; Hispanics, Native Americans, Asian, Samoan/Pacific Islander, Eastern European (Ukrainian, Russian, Polish…) families within our community.
BLM states “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement...” This statement and buy-in by the district, to wish to see the end of and devalue ‘family’ is an afront to people of all color but mostly those minorities that have experienced generational broken families that continue to keep them in financial hardships.
https://products.kitsapsun.com/archive/2001/07-28/0003_thomas_sowell__is_the_family_beco.html
#4. NTPS supports BLM which in turns supports the damaging, destroying, and harm done to minority and family ran businesses.
BLM riots and ‘protests’ often result in State, Local, and minority family-owned properties being damaged or destroyed. This does NOT align with the civil rights movement’s message of non-violence and thus promotes violence.
#5. The NTPS efforts to undermine grassroot relationships among law enforcement (School Resource Officers) of the Lacey Police Department and NTPS students.
According to a classroom educator at River Ridge; Local Police departments / SRO and students at the middle school and high school level is a grassroots effort to build relationships with law enforcement and students; particularly students of color and/or lower social economic backgrounds. NTPS and its staff have led efforts to undermine these relationships by asking SRO’s to leave campuses due to their systematic racism and tendency towards microaggressions. These efforts lead to mistrust in the community and are counterproductive to relationship building AND puts buildings with high minority representation at an increased risk of crime and violence.
#6 NTPS and BLM seek to continue the School – To – Prison Pipeline by unfairly tracking students (Mainly Students of Color) at River Ridge Highschool, QR Codes and increasing student suspensions.
According to multiple students of color at River Ridge High School, a school with nearly 56% of the population being made up of POC or Students of color, is the only NTPS high school to track students using QR Codes. These practices mirror historically racist systems from slavery, suppression of Jewish movement, and East German ‘Papers!’. These systems are historically under the falsehood of ‘safety’ but always seek to restrict and limit freedoms. This system in place keeps students inside, locked behind doors without the option of going outside during lunch time. The result: Keeping students of color locked up and limited freedom compared to other local high schools…equity at its best but at worst models confinement, restricts movement, and oppresses personal freedoms.
https://washingtonstatereportcard.ospi.k12.wa.us/
#7 NTPS and Staff at River Ridge continue to subject Students of Color and the community at large through Segregation and undue harm.
NTPS’s Affinity program implements segregation of races among students by denying White students and Staff from attending the meetings. The meetings, according to past attendees, continues the perception that POC are victims of a racist system, a system overseen by the current school board. This Critical Race Theory tone serves to keep POC in a cycle of victimization and fills students with a lack of hope for upward mobility within their communities.
https://schoolhouserights.org/crt-checklist/
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/10/21/this-mother-is-fighting-woke-activism-in-public-schools/
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Help us Act! Next Steps…
- Sign the petition! Our leaders can do better, and our Children deserve better
- Share! Share this petition on your social media accounts…all of them.
- Call the school board OR email them, “Dear NTPS, as a tax paying member of our community we can and demand better from you. Remove BLM curriculum immediately from NTPS. Our children deserve unity in celebrating differences NOT division and harm towards others.”
- Meet them at their places of privilege. The sidewalk in front of homes is public property.
- Be on the look-out for a future prop. that will challenge property taxes and future levies until action is seen on this issue by NTPS. No new money to fund a district bent on hurting relationships rather than building bridges.
Engage them in the community! Target, Safeway, Fred Myers…wherever the above-mentioned persons shop and participate in OUR community, talk with them. Use YOUR voice. YOUR words, and YOUR tone can make the difference. Speak up for your child.
Updates
June 7, 2021
The momentum is undeniable. This level of support proves our community is ready for a real change.
Reached 100 supporters
June 7, 2021
37 Comments
Keep politics oit if schools!!! Stop using our tax dollars to fund a political agenda with a captive audience. It’s an abuse of power!!!
Stop this agenda that is creating division and hate. There is no place for these political and opinion based ideas. BLM is a one sided political group that supports violence and hate. CRT goes against what so many have and are working towards. We should be judged by character, not skin color.
At every age level students should be studying the Constitution of the United States. It actually will instill equality rather than cause division. No more politi based curriculum - no BLM or anything connected to critical race theory belongs in our schools.
We agree schools should remain neutral on issues. Of course teach compassion and teach history. I feel their good intentions have gone too far.
I will not vote in favor of another NTPS levy as long as they are pushing this BLM/racist agenda on our students.
Resignation is the minimum that should happen. Brought up on charges of child abuse and/or civil suit should come next.
Completely shameful what this school district, school board and superintendant have allowed to happen on their watch! RACISTS, ALL OF THEM! SHAME ON YOU!
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The administration blinked and the curriculum is officially being removed. We won today because we refused to stay silent. Keep watching them.
June 21, 2021
North Thurston Public Schools - Say NO! To racially divisive curriculum and Hate towards Asian Americans
Final supporters
ALERT: Please sign with an alias (name). Pro-BLM teachers are aware and now are bullying others...yes teachers. Read below, sign
This petition; written, signed, and supported by Parents, students, alumni, staff (both present and past), business owners, property tax payers, and community leaders makes a motion for the following;
The apology and resignation of the following NTPS staff and board members for their part in implementing a political organization into NTPS student curriculum that seeks to harm students mental health, sow divisiveness under the guise of ‘Equity’, and seeks to create a victim class within marginalized communities of color which results in long term victimhood and creates low level thinkers through the adoption of ‘BLM at School’ and through the soft bigotry of low expectations for students of color.
Debra J Clemens - Superintendent
Gretchen Maliska – Board Member
Chuck Namit – Board Member
Dr. Jennifer S Thomas – Board Member
Graeme Sackrison – Board Member
Dave Newkirk – Board Member
Kathryn Frazier – Director of Equity and Languages
Cherlyn Pijanowski – Director of Discipline
An Apology Example: I, _____, apologize for my role in bringing ‘BLM at School’ to the NTPS curriculum. I realize now that BLM is a political organization. One that is anti-family, seeks to cause division within communities, perpetuates the violence against Asian Americans, and ultimately creates a generation of low-level thinkers through the soft bigotry of low expectations for people of color in our community. Effective immediately I resign from my role of NTPS ______ and take full responsibility for the harm I have caused my community.
Arguments/Evidence for Signing Petition;
#1. NTPS requires an unchallenged promotion of a specific political party
It is a public school’s responsibility to educate students while staying politically neutral. BLM is an activist and political party movement. NTPS does not explicitly teach or inform students of other platforms or political parties such as but not limited to; Democratic Party, Republican Party, Green or even Libertarian parties. This has created a vacuum of thought and reason; resulting in low thinking learners within the NTPS student body. Basic civics lesson reach far wider and deeper than a social justice narrative, rooted in Critical Race Theory.
#2. NTPS/BLM promotes violence against Asian Americans within our community
BLM harms our Asian American allies within our community by promoting BLM activists who in turn physically and mentally harm our AAPIO. NTPS has a systematic history of marginalizing Asian students by lumping them as data points with students who identify as ‘white’. NTPS board stands with BLM; Thus they do NOT stand with Asian Americans within our community. See videos below of BLM supporters promoting hate against Asian Americans. https://twitter.com/mrandyngo/status/1376335189387923458
https://abc7ny.com/anti-asian-subway-attack-hate-crime-man-spits-at-woman-racial-slur/10480754/
https://nwasianweekly.com/2020/11/wa-school-district-apologizes-for-excluding-asians-as-poc/
#3. NTPS is anti-nuclear family and thus prejudice towards, but not limited to; Hispanics, Native Americans, Asian, Samoan/Pacific Islander, Eastern European (Ukrainian, Russian, Polish…) families within our community.
BLM states “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement...” This statement and buy-in by the district, to wish to see the end of and devalue ‘family’ is an afront to people of all color but mostly those minorities that have experienced generational broken families that continue to keep them in financial hardships.
https://products.kitsapsun.com/archive/2001/07-28/0003_thomas_sowell__is_the_family_beco.html
#4. NTPS supports BLM which in turns supports the damaging, destroying, and harm done to minority and family ran businesses.
BLM riots and ‘protests’ often result in State, Local, and minority family-owned properties being damaged or destroyed. This does NOT align with the civil rights movement’s message of non-violence and thus promotes violence.
#5. The NTPS efforts to undermine grassroot relationships among law enforcement (School Resource Officers) of the Lacey Police Department and NTPS students.
According to a classroom educator at River Ridge; Local Police departments / SRO and students at the middle school and high school level is a grassroots effort to build relationships with law enforcement and students; particularly students of color and/or lower social economic backgrounds. NTPS and its staff have led efforts to undermine these relationships by asking SRO’s to leave campuses due to their systematic racism and tendency towards microaggressions. These efforts lead to mistrust in the community and are counterproductive to relationship building AND puts buildings with high minority representation at an increased risk of crime and violence.
#6 NTPS and BLM seek to continue the School – To – Prison Pipeline by unfairly tracking students (Mainly Students of Color) at River Ridge Highschool, QR Codes and increasing student suspensions.
According to multiple students of color at River Ridge High School, a school with nearly 56% of the population being made up of POC or Students of color, is the only NTPS high school to track students using QR Codes. These practices mirror historically racist systems from slavery, suppression of Jewish movement, and East German ‘Papers!’. These systems are historically under the falsehood of ‘safety’ but always seek to restrict and limit freedoms. This system in place keeps students inside, locked behind doors without the option of going outside during lunch time. The result: Keeping students of color locked up and limited freedom compared to other local high schools…equity at its best but at worst models confinement, restricts movement, and oppresses personal freedoms.
https://washingtonstatereportcard.ospi.k12.wa.us/
#7 NTPS and Staff at River Ridge continue to subject Students of Color and the community at large through Segregation and undue harm.
NTPS’s Affinity program implements segregation of races among students by denying White students and Staff from attending the meetings. The meetings, according to past attendees, continues the perception that POC are victims of a racist system, a system overseen by the current school board. This Critical Race Theory tone serves to keep POC in a cycle of victimization and fills students with a lack of hope for upward mobility within their communities.
https://schoolhouserights.org/crt-checklist/
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/10/21/this-mother-is-fighting-woke-activism-in-public-schools/
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Help us Act! Next Steps…
- Sign the petition! Our leaders can do better, and our Children deserve better
- Share! Share this petition on your social media accounts…all of them.
- Call the school board OR email them, “Dear NTPS, as a tax paying member of our community we can and demand better from you. Remove BLM curriculum immediately from NTPS. Our children deserve unity in celebrating differences NOT division and harm towards others.”
- Meet them at their places of privilege. The sidewalk in front of homes is public property.
- Be on the look-out for a future prop. that will challenge property taxes and future levies until action is seen on this issue by NTPS. No new money to fund a district bent on hurting relationships rather than building bridges.
Engage them in the community! Target, Safeway, Fred Myers…wherever the above-mentioned persons shop and participate in OUR community, talk with them. Use YOUR voice. YOUR words, and YOUR tone can make the difference. Speak up for your child.
Updates
June 7, 2021
The momentum is undeniable. This level of support proves our community is ready for a real change.
Reached 100 supporters
June 7, 2021
37 Comments
I’m a grandparent and have 3 sons that attend elementary school in the NTPD. I was livid when I saw the Black Lives Matter at School week on the District Calendar. I am forwarding the calendar to a National Movement called Parents Defending Education. Please let me know how I can support this petition/your concerned community.
Keep politics oit if schools!!! Stop using our tax dollars to fund a political agenda with a captive audience. It’s an abuse of power!!!
Stop this agenda that is creating division and hate. There is no place for these political and opinion based ideas. BLM is a one sided political group that supports violence and hate. CRT goes against what so many have and are working towards. We should be judged by character, not skin color.
At every age level students should be studying the Constitution of the United States. It actually will instill equality rather than cause division. No more politi based curriculum - no BLM or anything connected to critical race theory belongs in our schools.
We agree schools should remain neutral on issues. Of course teach compassion and teach history. I feel their good intentions have gone too far.
I will not vote in favor of another NTPS levy as long as they are pushing this BLM/racist agenda on our students.
Resignation is the minimum that should happen. Brought up on charges of child abuse and/or civil suit should come next.
Completely shameful what this school district, school board and superintendant have allowed to happen on their watch! RACISTS, ALL OF THEM! SHAME ON YOU!
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I’m a grandparent and have 3 sons that attend elementary school in the NTPD. I was livid when I saw the Black Lives Matter at School week on the District Calendar. I am forwarding the calendar to a National Movement called Parents Defending Education. Please let me know how I can support this petition/your concerned community.