{"id":683653,"date":"2021-08-25T15:36:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T19:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=683653"},"modified":"2021-08-25T15:36:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T19:36:07","slug":"wisconsin-parents-on-a-mission-to-recall-board-members-who-opposed-reopening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-parents-on-a-mission-to-recall-board-members-who-opposed-reopening\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Parents on a Mission To Recall Board Members Who Opposed Reopening"},"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%2Fwisconsin-parents-on-a-mission-to-recall-board-members-who-opposed-reopening%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=683653&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 readability=\"30.084507042254\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/\">Campus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Parents also oppose Mequon-Thiensville School District&#8217;s embrace of critical race theory<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/empty-classroom-736x479-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"empty classroom\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/empty-classroom.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/empty-classroom-300x195.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tAn empty classroom during the coronavirus pandemic \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/alex-nester\/\" title=\"Posts by Alex Nester\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Alex Nester<\/a> \u2022 August 25, 2021 3:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"111.34037678208\">\n<p>A group of Wisconsin parents, incensed by their school board&#8217;s inaction in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, is on a mission to oust board members.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you sign up to be a board member, you take an oath. And when you do nothing, you are complacent with the people who are hurting our children,&#8221; Mequon-Thiensville School District parent Amber Schroeder told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;You are complacent. You&#8217;re an accomplice at that point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schroeder is a member of Recall MTSD School Board, a parent group that submitted thousands of signatures to recall four school board members who refused to vote on the district&#8217;s coronavirus mitigation strategies in August 2020. Their inaction gave Superintendent Matthew Joynt power to keep schools closed through September.<\/p>\n<p>Parents across the United States organized during the coronavirus pandemic&nbsp;to hold to account school board members who refused to return students to the classroom, even though mounting scientific evidence proved it was safe to do so. A similar story is unfolding in Fairfax County, Va. There, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/fairfax-county-parents-notch-victory-in-effort-to-recall-board-member-who-opposed-reopening\/\">parents<\/a> collected 5,000 signatures to recall an official who not only kept kids from returning to the classroom but also neglected to take stances on important topics and allegedly ignored constituents.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the school board has 31 days to authenticate the nearly 4,500 signatures that Recall MTSD collected per candidate. Verification will trigger a special election this fall for the seats of school board members Wendy Francour, Erik Hollander, Akram Khan, and Chris Schultz.<\/p>\n<p>Recall MTSD members say that by keeping students out of the classroom for the 2020-2021 school year, the board members were complacent in the erosion of the district&#8217;s quality of education. Schroeder pulled her two younger children from Mequon-Thiensville schools during the pandemic and placed them in a private school that gives in-person instruction.<\/p>\n<p>After facing pressure from parents, the district began offering an in-person learning option for students in September 2020. Throughout the year, however, the schools went back and forth between in-person and virtual learning based on rates of coronavirus cases in the community. The superintendent changed the district&#8217;s reopening plan nearly a dozen times throughout the 2020-2021 school year.<\/p>\n<p>Recall MTSD also faults the board members for not opposing Joynt&#8217;s embrace of critical race theory. The district spent tens of thousands of dollars on equity consultations, which <a href=\"https:\/\/defendinged.org\/incidents\/mequon-thiensville-school-parents-move-to-recall-school-board-members-for-abdication-of-voting-rights-and-wasteful-spending-including-42000-for-equity-training\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">included<\/a> presentations and webinars on &#8220;privilege.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a reason why critical race theory is so popular. It&#8217;s so cultish, and when you see how it&#8217;s being put into practice by educators and consultants, the way they talk to teachers and consultants \u2026 it gives you a weird vibe,&#8221; Recall MTSD member Scarlett Johnson told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;But I think the jig is up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Districtwide performance has fallen as schools turned to critical race theory, parents told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. Districtwide reading proficiency declined more than 10 percent for <a href=\"https:\/\/img1.wsimg.com\/blobby\/go\/615d40b1-72a3-4ff6-bcaf-cfc3b3441f4a\/downloads\/recall-mtsd-opportunities-to-improve-milestone.jpg?ver=1629816927826\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kindergarten<\/a> through <a href=\"https:\/\/img1.wsimg.com\/blobby\/go\/615d40b1-72a3-4ff6-bcaf-cfc3b3441f4a\/downloads\/recall-mtsd-opportunities-to-improve-milestone-0001.jpg?ver=1629816927826\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eighth grade<\/a> from the 2015-2016 to the 2020-2021 school year.<\/p>\n<p>Andrea Lorenz, a mother of three current and former Mequon-Thiensville students, said the board members failed to address &#8220;tough questions&#8221; such as the decline in test scores.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The school board seems to be either unaware or deliberately hiding the pre-pandemic academic decline,&#8221; Lorenz said. &#8220;I believe a competent school board would have asked the tough questions of the administration as to why this was occurring and looked into possible solutions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The nation&#8217;s top two teachers&#8217; unions led the push to keep schools closed during the pandemic. American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/randi-weingarten-ripped-reopening-schools-cdc-mask-guidance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">caught flack<\/a> last month after she failed to commit to reopening schools for the 2021-2022 school year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus Parents also oppose Mequon-Thiensville School District&#8217;s embrace of critical race theory  An empty classroom during the coronavirus pandemic \/ Getty Images  Alex Nester &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}