{"id":1772095,"date":"2022-12-12T08:38:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T13:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1772095"},"modified":"2022-12-12T08:48:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T13:48:42","slug":"pa-school-board-member-refuses-to-support-cis-white-male-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pa-school-board-member-refuses-to-support-cis-white-male-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"PA School Board Member Refuses to Support &#8220;Cis, White Male&#8221; For President"},"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%2Fpa-school-board-member-refuses-to-support-cis-white-male-for-president%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=1772095&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c3c1176c-f502-4406-b3a9-ec8992232588-1110x740-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A nine-member school board in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania voted for a new president of the board last week. Two of the nine were running to be the new president. One was a \u201ccis, white male\u201d and the other a female. One board member gave her reason for voting for the female candidate instead of the male candidate \u2013 it would \u201csend the wrong message to our community.\u201d She said the quiet part out loud.<\/p>\n<p>I find it disgusting that we have come to this place in our society. A person is chosen for their gender, or their skin color instead of basic qualifications. This is blatant discrimination and it\u2019s got to stop. Is this what the Civil Rights movement was about \u2013 punish a person for his skin color or his sexuality if the person isn\u2019t the best show of diversity? What happened to Martin Luther King\u2019s words about judging someone for the content of his character, not the color of his skin? <\/p>\n<p>In this case I think the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/education\/pennsylvania-school-board-rejects-cis-white-male-board-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> biggest disqualifying maker<\/a> for Gregory D\u2019Elia wasn\u2019t his skin color or sexuality but his gender. He was the only cis, white male on the board. Ironically his presence was the very definition of diversity on the board. The others, apparently, are either female or perhaps the male seen in the video is not cisgender. The four board members I watched in a video clip are a male and what appear to be three white women. The name plate in front of the male does not identify him as D\u2019Elia. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI believe that Mr. D\u2019Elia would make an excellent president,\u201d Upper Moreland School Board member Jennifer Solot said during the vote on Tuesday in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. \u201cHowever, I feel that electing the only cis, white male president of this district sends the wrong message to our community \u2014 a message that is contrary to what we as a board have been trying to accomplish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cI think it\u2019s important that we practice what we preach and that our words have strength when they are spoken, whether we speak them from the neighborhood sidewalks or from behind these tables.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Solot closed her remarks by expressing support for school board member April Stainback. Of the nine board members, Stainback and D\u2019Elia were the only two people nominated for board president.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UpperMorelandSD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@UpperMorelandSD<\/a> Board member, Jennifer Solot, says she is against electing the only, \u201ccis white male on this board,\u201d as president of the district because it, \u201csends the wrong message to our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wow. Saying the quiet part out loud. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/stEMoeUExS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/stEMoeUExS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Megan Brock (@MegEBrock) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MegEBrock\/status\/1601605409382756352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The member leading the charge to avoid voting for him, though she admits he would be \u201can excellent president\u201d, then seems to have struck a nerve with other members who were too spineless <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/education\/pennsylvania-school-board-rejects-cis-white-male-board-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to go against her<\/a>. They knew it wasn\u2019t right to discriminate against him but they went along. What sheep. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>After Solot\u2019s remarks and during the vote, school board member Sarah Byrnes hesitated and said, \u201cThis is very hard to do as the new person on the board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Byrnes then conceded that she would vote for Stainback. Rose Huber also hesitated, but after a long pause, she also voted for Stainback. In the 8-1 vote, D\u2019Elia was the only one to vote for himself. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They all fell in line. Liberal groupthink wins again. D\u2019Elia only received his own vote. <\/p>\n<p>D\u2019Elia has an impressive resume. He attended Penn State and received a bachelor\u2019s degree in mechanical engineering. He holds four patents. He \u201cheaded design and installation of guy lines on the new One World Trade Center.\u201d He has three children. D\u2019Elia decided to run for the school board because one of his children has special needs and his focus is on access to special services for students. <\/p>\n<p>But, he\u2019s white and he\u2019s a straight man so he\u2019s just not the right person for the job. Good Lord. The pendulum keeps swinging the other way, now to the extent of ridiculousness. And the female school board member delivers her reasoning without qualm. She acts as though hers is the right opinion. This is where we are. It\u2019s ok to discriminate against some people but not others. And it\u2019s ok to just say it out loud in a public meeting. No one was criticizing her for saying what she did. <\/p>\n<p>Upper Moreland School District is in the northern suburbs of Philadelphia. Jennifer Solot is the School Board Treasurer. The most disturbing part, to me, besides Solot\u2019s diatribe, was that at least two other members hesitated but then voted with Solot. 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