Teachers are payed slave wages in Douglas County Colorado. Colorful Colorado’s teachers are some of the worst paid in the Nation. This is shameful and must change but that is not the subject of this email.
Recently we lost a school board race to a slate of self described conservatives with out of state money.
It was largely due to the hysteria created over mask mandates and our previous boards adherence to sound medical advise coming from our prior health department, Tri County Health.
Unfortunately Douglas County Colorado is a hotbed of conspiracy theorists and entitled rich white radicals.
That is just reality.
We have a mayor that dabbled in OAnon conspiracy theories on the right wing extremist site Parlor. Unfortunately this entitled extremism also took over our school board.
The “Kids First” supposedly “conservative” school board candidates immediately set to work destroying the equity policy that our teachers, parents, and staff largely support. They are not conservative they are Anti LGBTQ rights.
Queer and questioning kids are being faced with a hostile environment coming directly from the Kids First Board members and percolating into every corner of our schools with the repeal of the equity policy.
Our teachers are being forced to shelter our students from the hostile actions of a board acting in a criminal manner.
Principals at every school must enact and adopt the equity policy on their campuses in order to protect the Constitutional civil rights of our students, our children!
In a particularly egregious move after communicating with the other newly elected not so “conservative” members of the board, the leader of the elected bullies, Mike Peterson informed our superintendent Corey Wise that he would be fired if he did not resign.
