{"id":1220076,"date":"2022-01-17T13:24:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T18:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1220076"},"modified":"2022-01-17T13:24:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T18:24:25","slug":"a-school-board-banned-ideology-from-classrooms-the-schools-simply-ignored-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-school-board-banned-ideology-from-classrooms-the-schools-simply-ignored-it\/","title":{"rendered":"A School Board Banned Ideology From Classrooms. The Schools Simply Ignored It."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-school-board-banned-ideology-from-classrooms-the-schools-simply-ignored-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1220076&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>After politics in the classroom got out of hand in one center-right Oregon town \u2013 with some students even allegedly forced to pledge allegiance to the gay pride flag \u2013 the school board sought to return to the basics by declaring that school should be politically neutral. But administrators and educators simply declined to enforce the policy, while progressive activists tried to destroy the board members\u2019 lives, a Daily Wire investigation has found.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last year, four Newberg Public Schools (NPS) board members drew a line in the sand against what they viewed as indoctrination. After years of schools proudly flying the \u201cprogressive flag,\u201d a version of the gay pride flag with shades of black and brown to communicate minority oppression, as well as Black Lives Matter (BLM) flags, the members voted in August 2021 to <a href=\"https:\/\/policy.osba.org\/newberg\/search.asp?si=75853865&amp;pid=r&amp;nsb=1&amp;n=0&amp;_charset_=windows-1252&amp;bcd=%F7&amp;s=newberg&amp;query=GBG+\">ban<\/a> \u201cpolitical\u201d flags, signs, and clothing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Leadership at NPS is defying the policy. The board members are being targeted by a mob of wealthy progressives, and one has been fired from his job after being doxxed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Teachers in Yamhill County are not facing repercussions for continuing to prioritize propaganda over learning. \u201cI\u2019ve filed complaints,\u201d said Robyn Wheatley, who has two kids in NPS. \u201cI\u2019ve emailed so many different teachers. And they literally ignore me every time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Teachers unions are seeking to remove the board members from office, as well as suing them. Outside cash from Hollywood celebrities has bankrolled a recall effort, for which voting ends January 18 \u2013 this Wednesday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What follows is a story about a small town on the outskirts of Portland. It is a story of an educational \u201cdeep state,\u201d cancel culture, and how the rich and famous are trying to capture it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A Summer of Rage<\/p>\n<p>Newberg has voted red in every presidential election since 2000. But judging by its schools, you wouldn\u2019t know it. Over the last several years, BLM and progressive flags began to decorate the halls and classrooms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, schools suffered a decline. The district has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newberg.k12.or.us\/sites\/default\/files\/fileattachments\/district\/page\/51354\/21.10.12_board_packet.pdf\">lost students<\/a> each year since 2018, shrinking from nearly 5,000 students in 2018 to 4,338 last year. One fed-up mother says this is because schools have embraced indoctrination over academics.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In June 2020, the then-NPS board <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newberg.k12.or.us\/district\/committing-be-anti-racist-school-district\">passed<\/a> an anti-racism resolution like many other districts nationwide. A month later, a group called Newberg Equity in Education (NEEd) launched with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/286192266049510\">private<\/a> Facebook group. The group, which includes teachers union members and elected officials, declared that it wishes to convince the then progressive-majority school board \u201cto adopt Critical Race Theory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In August 2020, NEEd members created something called The Antiracism Family Book Club in schools. Contentious books were taught, such as one titled Stamped and other works by prominent critical race theorist Ibram X. Kendi. \u201cI did not fully realize that the only thing extraordinary about White people is that they think something is extraordinary about White people,\u201d Kendi writes in the introduction of Stamped.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A student union was also formed for only those \u201cwho identify themselves as black\u201d at Newberg High School. Sources familiar with the situation indicate it is used for the whole district. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was very evident that teachers had an agenda to push,\u201d Amber Dawson, a mother who now drives her kids 35 minutes to school each day after pulling them out of NPS, told The Daily Wire.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy kids are no longer in a place where learning is the focus,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/northwestobserver.com\/index.php?ArticleId=1891&amp;fbclid=IwAR0qf4yCqhSJY2Toi59zNroCJ0tZLpZKroS_vvtd2M-tsrqFUBKGrHKHC7k\">wrote<\/a> a Newberg mother in an op-ed describing why she pulled her kids from the district. \u201cDoesn\u2019t it feel like the kids, regardless of identity or color, are being used as pawns to further the divide? This is about learning, and our schools are failing our kids and generations to come. We owe it to our children to do better and be better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To some parents, it seemed clear there was no choice but to eradicate politics from the classroom in a clear and overarching way. In 2021, Trevor DeHart decided to run for school board.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur hope was to get back to a neutral learning environment and then, you know, pivot to focus on improving academic performance and opportunities for kids,\u201d DeHart, a manufacturing engineer and military veteran who pulled his kids from NPS, told The Daily Wire. \u201cWe were inundated and barraged with all this other distracting stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Renee Powell, a freelance artist, ran on a similar platform \u2013 saying she wanted to \u201cbe there for all children and get the schools back to focus on academics and not politics.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur academics have dropped and our test scores have dropped and all the focus seems to be on politics,\u201d Powell said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Voters agreed. In July 2021, DeHart and Powell won seats on the board, joining Dave Brown and Brian Shannon, who had similar views. Progressive incumbent Ron Mock was ousted and Tai Harden-Moore, a CRT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moore-consultants.com\/\">consultant<\/a> who conducted an \u201cequity assessment\u201d for the city of Newberg, lost her bid for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After politics in the classroom got out of hand in one center-right Oregon town \u2013 with some students even allegedly forced to pledge allegiance to the gay pride flag \u2013 the school board sought to return to the basics by declaring that school should be politically neutral. 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