Slain Texas teacher's officer husband tried to rescue her but was 'detained' and had his gun taken.

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The cop husband of one of the teachers slain in the Texas school
massacre had desperately tried to rescue his shot wife — but was
instead detained and had his gun taken away, according to
harrowing testimony about the “abject failure” of the response.

Ruben Ruiz, an officer with the school police department in
Uvalde, Texas, had been driven to Robb Elementary School by a
sergeant as soon as alerts came in of the May 14 mass shooting
that also left 19 children dead.

Ruiz immediately alerted others that he had “got a call from his
wife,” Eva Mireles, 44, who was “in room 112 and later died,”
Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw told a
special state Senate hearing.

“He notes that she’s been shot — he’s talking about his wife,”
McCraw said of the officer, who had recently held active-shooter
drills at crazed gunman Salvador Ramos’ own high school.

“And what happened to him, is he tried to move forward into the
hallway … He was detained, and they took his gun away from him
and escorted him off the scene,” McCraw said. He did not mention
which of the many departments at the scene had done so.

At least one of the kids in the blood-soaked classroom had
begged for help saving Mireles during one of several 911 calls
made during the slaughter, pleading, “Send help for my teacher,
she is shot but still alive.”

However, Ruiz’s wife later died alongside fellow teacher Irma
Garcia and 19 of their students as police waited more than an
hour to storm the adjoining classrooms.

Ruiz was prevented from acting at the same time as desperate
parents outside the building clashed with cops preventing them
from storming inside and trying to rescue their kids themselves.

His message about his wife being shot and injured was also one
of several alerts that made clear that Ramos — who turned 18 and
bought his arsenal just a week before his slaughter — was still
a threat, the hearing heard.

McCraw gave a damning indictment of the response, insisting that
there were enough officers and firepower on the scene to have
stopped the gunman three minutes after he entered the building.

Instead, police with rifles and ballistic shields stood in a
hallway for over an hour, waiting in part for a key to the
classroom that was not even locked, he said in the most detailed
timeline to date.

He ripped the “terrible decisions” of Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde
school district police chief who McCraw said was in charge,
saying the response “set our profession back a decade.”

“The only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from
entering Room 111 and 112 was the on-scene commander who decided
to place the lives of officers before the lives of children,” he
said.

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Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde school district police chief, was
placed on administrative leave Wednesday, the school's
superintendent said. The action is effective immediately.

Dr. Hal Harrell said in a statement that, although the district
wanted to wait for the investigation into law enforcement's
responses to the deadly mass shooting to be completed before
making any decisions, he went ahead and placed Arredondo on
leave "because of the lack of clarity that remains" and the
"unknown timing" of when the investigation will conclude.

Lieutenant Mike Hernandez will fill the role while Arredondo is
on leave, Harrell said.

Arredondo has been met with intense criticism since the May 24
shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers. He was in
charge of the law enforcement response that day, and
investigations have revealed several failures, including that
police had an opportunity to shoot the gunman within three
minutes of his arrival at the school and instead left him in the
school for over an hour. Police also never checked to see if the
door to the classroom where the gunman was holed up was locked.

Not only has Arredondo faced questioning, but the subsequent
investigation into the shooting response has also raised red
flags, with many feeling confused about what actually happened
on that day.

Texas State Senator Roland Gutierrez filed a lawsuit on
Wednesday against the Texas Department of Public Safety,
accusing state troopers of not sharing information with the
public, but instead pointing fingers at Uvalde school police.

"They want to give us snippets of body cam footage from the
local police, but they want to hold on to their own body cam
footage," Gutierrez said of the Texas State Troopers. "We found
out yesterday there was 91 officers on site from the Department
of Public Safety."

Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin is placing blame at the feet of
state authorities, who he says have been responsible for keeping
citizens in the dark.

McLaughlin told CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca that he
was last briefed by DPS on the morning of May 25, one day after
the shooting.

"I've contacted them every day. I don't get a damn thing out of
them," McLaughlin said.

The search for answers has left community and family members
feeling lost amid the struggle to find answers. Javier Cazares,
whose 9-year-old daughter Jacklyn was killed, said the mixed
messages from officials is frustrating and hurts.

The news comes as state lawmakers continue to focus on mental
health and gun safety following the shooting's aftermath.

McGraw said Tuesday that the shooter was "on a pathway to
violence," as he dropped out of high school at 17 and had asked
a family member to purchase a weapon for him. Also Tuesday,
McLaughlin vowed that no Uvalde student or teacher will ever
step foot in Robb Elementary again, saying it's his
understanding that the building will be demolished.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/uvalde-school-shooting-pete-
arredondo-administrative-leave/

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Multiple police officers armed with rifles and at least one
ballistic shield stood and waited in a school hallway for nearly
an hour while a gunman carried out a massacre of 19 elementary
students and two teachers on May 24, according to Monday news
reports that mark the latest embarrassing revelation about the
failure of law enforcement to thwart the attack.

The officers with heavier firepower and tactical equipment were
there within 19 minutes of the gunman arriving on campus -
earlier than previously known, according to documents reviewed
by the Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV.

The outlets' reports, which did not indicate the source of the
documents, nevertheless intensified the anguish and questions
over why police didn't act sooner to stop the May 24 slaughter
in the Robb Elementary School classroom.

The information is to be presented to a public Texas Senate
hearing in Austin on Tuesday. Investigators say the latest
information indicates officers had more than enough firepower
and protection to take down the gunman long before they finally
did, the outlets reported.

Separately, CNN, citing a law enforcement source close to the
investigation, reported that eleven officers -- including Uvalde
school district police chief Pete Arredondo -- were inside Robb
Elementary School within three minutes of when the gunman got in
on May 24.

The timeline the American-Statesman and KVUE reported from the
documents included footage from inside the school that showed
the 18-year-old gunman casually entering a rear door at 11:33
a.m., walking to a classroom and immediately spraying gunfire
before barricading himself. Video showed 11 officers entering
the school three minutes later, the outlets reported.

Arredondo called the Uvalde Police Department landline and
reported that their suspect had "shot a lot" with an AR-15-style
rifle and outgunned the officers at the school, who he said were
armed only with pistols, the outlets reported.

Four minutes later, at 11:44 a.m., body camera video recorded
the sound of more gunshots. At 11:52 a.m., the first ballistic
shield arrived as officers grew impatient to act. Arredondo
struggled to find a key to the classroom door even though no one
is believed to have tried opening the door, the outlets reported.

Another officer with a ballistic shield arrived at 12:03 p.m.,
and another came with a shield two minutes later. About 30
minutes before officers finally breached the classroom door at
12:50 p.m., Arredondo is heard wondering aloud if the gunman
could be shot through a window. Only at 12:46 p.m. did Arredondo
tell the tactical team members to breach the door when ready,
the outlets reported.

In the past week, the San Antonio Express-News reported that
video surveillance footage from the school did not show officers
attempting to open the door leading to the classrooms where the
massacre was happening. And The New York Times reported two
Uvalde city police officers told a sheriff's deputy that they
passed up a fleeting chance to shoot the gunman while he was
still outside the school because they feared they would hit
children.

Delays in the law enforcement response have been the focus of
the federal, state and local investigation of the massacre and
its aftermath. Questioned about the law enforcement response
began days after the massacre. Col. Steve McCraw, director of
the Texas Department of Public Safety, said on May 27 that
Arredondo made "the wrong decision" when he chose not to storm
the classroom for more than 70 minutes, even as trapped fourth
graders inside two classrooms were desperately calling 911 for
help.

Arredondo later said he didn't consider himself the person in
charge and assumed someone else had taken control of the law
enforcement response. Arredondo has declined repeated requests
for comment to The Associated Press.

CBS Houston affiliate KHOU-TV reports that the Uvalde school
board heard calls for Arredondo to be fired at an emotional
meeting Monday night.

"We were failed by Pete Arredondo," said Brett Cross, the uncle
and guardian of victim Uziyah Garcia. "He failed our kids,
teachers, parents, and city, and by keeping him on your staff,
y'all are continuing to fail us."

The station says some 200 people attended, including families of
those who lost their lives.

Speakers insisted that anyone who fell short in performing his
or her duties be held accountable.

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reports-police-response-doubt/?intcid=CNI-00-10aaa3a

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Police had enough officers on the scene of the Uvalde school
massacre to have stopped the gunman three minutes after he
entered the building, and they never checked a classroom door to
see if it was locked, the head of the Texas state police
testified Tuesday, pronouncing the law enforcement response an
"abject failure."

Police officers with rifles instead stood and waited in a school
hallway for nearly an hour while the gunman carried out the May
24 attack at Robb Elementary School that left 19 children and
two teachers dead. The 18-year-old gunman used an AR-15-style
semi-automatic rifle.

"I don't care if you have on flip-flops and Bermuda shorts, you
go in," Col. Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of
Public Safety, said in blistering testimony at a state Senate
hearing.

The classroom door, it turned out, could not be locked from the
inside, yet there is no indication officers tried to open it
while the gunman was holed up, Col. Steve McCraw, director of
the Texas Department of Public Safety, said in blistering
testimony at a state Senate hearing. Instead, he said, police
waited around for a key.

"I have great reasons to believe it was never secured," McCraw
said of the door. "How about trying the door and seeing if it's
locked?"

Delays in the law enforcement response have become the focus of
federal, state and local investigations.

McCraw lit into Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde school district
police chief who was in charge, saying: "The only thing stopping
a hallway of dedicated officers from entering Room 111 and 112
was the on-scene commander who decided to place the lives of
officers before the lives of children."

"Obviously, not enough training was done in this situation,
plain and simple. Because terrible decisions were made by the on-
site commander," McCraw said. He said investigators have been
unable to "re-interview" Arredondo.

The public safety chief presented a timeline that said three
officers with two rifles entered the building less than three
minutes after the gunman. Several more officers entered minutes
after that.

The decision by police to hold back went against much of what
law enforcement has learned in the two decades since the 1999
Columbine High School shooting in Colorado in which 13 people
were killed, McCraw said.

"You don't wait for a SWAT team. You have one officer, that's
enough," he said. He also said officers did not need to wait for
shields to enter the classroom. The first shield arrived less
than 20 minutes after the shooter entered, according to McCraw.

Also, eight minutes after the shooter entered, an officer
reported that police had a "hooligan" crowbar that they could
use to break down the classroom door, McCraw said.

State police initially said the gunman entered the school
through an exterior door that had been propped open by a
teacher. However, McCraw said the teacher had closed the door,
but unbeknownst to her, it could be locked only from the
outside. The gunman "walked straight through," McCraw said.

The gunman knew the building well, having attended the fourth
grade in the same classrooms where he carried out the attack,
McCraw said. The gunman never communicated with police that day,
the public safety chief said.

Texas Sen. Paul Bettencourt said the entire premise of lockdown
and shooter training is worthless if the doors can't be locked.

Bettencourt challenged Arredondo to testify in public and said
he should have removed himself from the job immediately. He
angrily pointed out that shots were heard while police waited in
the hallway.

"There are at least six shots fired during this time," he said.
"Why is this person shooting? He's killing somebody. Yet this
incident commander finds every reason to do nothing."

McCraw spent nearly five hours offering the clearest picture yet
of the massacre, outlining a series of other missed
opportunities, communication breakdowns and errors based on an
investigation that has included roughly 700 interviews. Among
the missteps:

Arredondo did not have a radio with him.
Police and sheriff's radios did not work inside the school. Only
the radios of Border Patrol agents on the scene did, and they
did not work perfectly.
Some diagrams of the school that police used to coordinate their
response were wrong.
Questions about the law enforcement response began days after
the massacre. McCraw said three days after the shooting that
Arredondo made "the wrong decision" when he chose not to storm
the classroom for more than 70 minutes, even as trapped fourth
graders inside two classrooms were desperately calling 911 for
help and anguished parents outside the school begged officers to
go inside.

Arredondo later said he didn't consider himself the person in
charge and assumed someone else had taken control of the law
enforcement response. He declined repeated requests for comment
from The Associated Press.

As for the amount of time that elapsed before officers entered
the classroom, McCraw said: "In an active shooter environment,
that's intolerable."

"This set our profession back a decade. That's what it did," he
said of the police response in Uvalde.

Police haven't found anything that would be a red flag in the
shooter's school disciplinary files but learned through
interviews that he engaged in animal cruelty. "He walked around
with a bag of dead cats," McCraw said.

In the days and weeks after the shooting, authorities gave
conflicting and incorrect accounts of what happened, sometimes
withdrawing statements hours after making them. But McCraw
assured lawmakers: "Everything I've testified today is
corroborated."

McCraw said if he could make just one recommendation, it would
be for more training. He also said a "go-bag" should be put in
every state patrol car in Texas, including a shield and door-
breaching tools.

"I want every trooper to know how to breach and have the tools
to do it," he said.

Later in the day Tuesday, the Uvalde City Council voted
unanimously against giving Arredondo, who is a council member, a
leave of absence from appearing at public meetings. Relatives of
the shooting victims had pleaded with city leaders to instead
fire him.

The families are demanding accountability from law enforcement
after the Austin American-Statesman published a photo of armed
police in the school hallway. The images reviewed by the
newspaper show a timestamp taken nearly one hour before the
gunman was stopped.

Several family members of victims made emotional pleas during a
school board meeting on Monday to fire Arredondo.

"We were failed by Pete Arredondo," said Brett Cross, the uncle
and guardian of victim Uziyah Garcia. "He failed our kids,
teachers, parents, and city, and by keeping him on your staff,
y'all are continuing to fail us."

"My mom died protecting her students. But who was protecting my
mom?" said Lyliana Garcia, the daughter of Irma Garcia, one of
the two teachers who died trying to protect their students.

A senior sheriff's deputy told The New York Times that two
Uvalde city police officers also passed up a fleeting chance to
shoot the gunman before he entered the school.

The unidentified officers, one of whom was armed with an AR-15-
style rifle, said they feared hitting children playing in the
line of fire outside the school, Chief Deputy Ricardo Rios of
nearby Zavalla County told the newspaper.

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Two Uvalde city police officers passed up a fleeting chance to
shoot a gunman outside Robb Elementary School before he went on
to kill 21 people inside the school, a senior sheriff's deputy
told The New York Times.

That would mean a second missed opportunity for officers to stop
Salvador Ramos before the May 24 rampage inside the school that
killed 19 children and two teachers. Officials said that a
school district police drove past Ramos without seeing him in
the school parking lot.

The unidentified officers, one of whom was armed with an AR-15-
style rifle, said they feared hitting children playing in the
line of fire outside the school, Chief Deputy Ricardo Rios of
nearby Zavalla County told the newspaper.

The officers' chance of stopping Ramos passed quickly, perhaps
in seconds, Rios said.

Messages from The Associated Press to Rios and the Zavala County
Sheriff's Office have not been returned. The Zavala County
sheriff's officials responded to the shooting in support of
Uvalde and Uvalde County officers.

Rios said he had shared the information with a special Texas
Legislature committee investigating the school massacre.

Uvalde police officials agreed Friday to speak to the committee
investigating, according to a Republican lawmaker leading the
probe who had begun to publicly question why the officers were
not cooperating sooner.

"Took a little bit longer than we initially had expected," state
Rep. Dustin Burrows said.

On Thursday, Burrows signaled impatience with Uvalde police,
tweeting that most people had fully cooperated with their
investigation "to help determine the facts" and that he didn't
understand why the city's police force "would not want the
same." He did not say which members of the department will meet
with the committee, which is set to continue questioning
witnesses in Uvalde on Monday about the attack.

Uvalde police did not reply to messages seeking comment.

Weeks after one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S.
history, law enforcement officials have stopped providing
updates about what they've learned about the shooting and the
police response. Their silence comes after authorities gave
conflicting and incorrect accounts in the days after the
shooting, sometimes withdrawing statements hours after making
them.

Officials also haven't released records sought under public
information laws to media outlets, often citing broad exemptions
and the ongoing investigation. It has raised concerns about
whether such records will be released, even to victims' families.

The state House committee has interviewed more than a dozen
witnesses behind closed doors so far, including state police,
school staff and school district police. The list of witnesses
provided by the committee so far has not included Pete
Arrendondo, the Uvalde school district police chief, who has
faced criticism over his actions during the attack.

Arrendondo told The Texas Tribune he didn't consider himself the
person in charge as the shooting unfolded and assumed someone
else had taken control of the law enforcement response. He also
said he intentionally left behind both his police and campus
radios before entering the school.

Burrows defended the committee interviewing witnesses in private
and not revealing their findings so far, saying its members want
an accurate account before issuing a report.

"One person's truth may be different than another person's
truth," Burrows said Friday.

Authorities say the 18-year-old gunman used and AR-15-style semi-
automatic rifle. Police did not confront he gunman for more than
an hour, even as anguished parents outside the school urged
officers to go in.

Since the shooting, Republican leaders in Texas have called for
more mental health funding but not new gun restrictions.

Meanwhile, Democratic and Republican senators were at odds over
how to keep firearms from dangerous people as bargainers
struggled to finalize details of a gun violence compromise.

Lawmakers said they remained divided over how to define abusive
dating partners who would be legally barred from purchasing
firearms. Disagreements were also unresolved over proposals to
send money to states that have "red flag" laws that let
authorities temporarily confiscate guns from people deemed
dangerous by courts, and to other states for their own violence
prevention programs.

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officers-chance-to-shoot-gunman-deputy-says/?intcid=CNI-00-
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Families of those who lost their lives during the school
shooting in Uvalde, Texas, are demanding accountability from law
enforcement after the Austin American-Statesman published a
photo of armed police in a hallway, outside the classrooms where
19 children and two teachers were killed.

The images reviewed by the Austin American-Statesman show a
timestamp taken nearly one hour before the gunman was stopped.
It's more evidence in a growing investigation that indicates
police waited before stopping the gunman, despite having rifles
and at least one ballistic shield.

The evidence is being presented to a public Texas Senate hearing
in Austin on Tuesday.

Several family members of victims made emotional pleas during a
school board meeting on Monday to fire Uvalde school district
police chief Pete Arredondo.

"We were failed by Pete Arredondo," said Brett Cross, the uncle
and guardian of victim Uziyah Garcia. "He failed our kids,
teachers, parents, and city, and by keeping him on your staff,
y'all are continuing to fail us."

"My mom died protecting her students. But who was protecting my
mom?" said Lyliana Garcia, the daughter of Irma Garcia, one of
the two teachers who died trying to protect their students.

Her father, Joe, died just two days later of a broken heart, the
family says—leaving Lyliana orphaned.

"At the age of 16, an age when a girl needs her parents the
most, I'm trying to fill the shoes of both my beloved mother and
father the best I can," she said.

Despite the calls for Arredondo's firing, no public action has
been made. Arredondo previously told the Texas Tribune that he
didn't consider himself the person in charge during the
shooting, and assumed someone else had taken control of law
enforcement's response.

Angel Garza, who lost his 10-year-old step-daughter, Amerie, in
the shooting, said he has lost faith in law enforcement as more
details about the shooting unfold.

"I had officers from every department look me in the eye and ask
me to trust them. How are we supposed to continue our lives here
knowing that those people that are supposed to protect us let
down our family?" said Garza.

A committee in the Texas State House is currently investigating
the police response to the shooting.

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uvalde-meeting/?intcid=CNI-00-10aaa3a

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For weeks, the heartbroken families of children massacred in an
Uvalde, Texas, elementary school have been calling for
accountability over the delayed police action in tackling the
gunman.

On Tuesday, the top Texas official in charge of the
investigation described the response as an “abject failure.”

At the center of the furor has been the school district’s police
chief Pedro “Pete” Arredondo. On Wednesday, nearly a month after
the horrific shooting, he was placed on leave.

“From the beginning of this horrible event, I shared that the
district would wait until the investigation was complete before
making personnel decisions,” Uvalde Consolidated Independent
School District Superintendent Hal Harrell said in a statement.

“Today, I am still without details of the investigations being
conducted by various agencies. Because of the lack of clarity
that remains and the unknown timing of when I will receive the
results of the investigations, I have made the decision to place
Chief Arredondo on administrative leave effective on this date,”
he said.

Arredondo and responding law enforcement agencies have faced
fierce criticism over the length of time officers were stationed
in a hallway outside adjoining classrooms 111 and 112 at Robb
Elementary, where an 18-year-old gunman and the victims were
located.

The gunman fired at responding officers in the first minutes of
the shooting, two of whom received grazing wounds, according to
an updated timeline from the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Yet more than 70 minutes would elapse before the gunman was shot
and killed by authorities who stormed the room.

Earlier this month, Arredondo told The Texas Tribune he didn’t
consider himself the incident commander and did not instruct
officers to refrain from breaching the scene.

Berlinda Irene Arreola, the grandmother of shooting victim
Amerie Jo Garza, spoke at a tense city council meeting Tuesday
where Arredondo was not present. The school police chief was
elected to the council earlier this year and has stayed out of
the public eye since the shooting.

“He failed us,” Arreola said of Arredondo to councilmembers. “Do
not make the same mistake he made and fail us too. Go forward
and make it right … please, please, we’re begging, get this man
out of our lives.”

The council later unanimously voted to deny Arredondo a leave of
absence from future council meetings, and the decision was met
with applause from residents in attendance. According to the
city’s charter, Arredondo could be removed from office if he
fails to attend three consecutive city council meetings
unexcused.

Arreola spoke with CNN Wednesday about the pain of losing 10-
year-old Amerie as well as the subsequent fallout, with
preliminary details from investigations indicating that more
could have been done sooner.

“It’s getting harder and harder every day as far as missing her,
the hurt that we feel. But also with the anger that’s unfolding
before our eyes,” Arreola told CNN’s Brianna Keilar.

“We have to speak for all these children, all these families. We
have to make things right, we need to get down to the bottom of
everything that has happened and find out the truth.”

Amerie’s stepfather, Angel Garza, was a medical first responder
to the scene of the shooting and told CNN Wednesday he did not
understand how police failed to act when they were located
outside the classroom, so close to the victims.

“I just don’t get how you can hear these kids crying and asking
for help, but you’re scared to enter because your commander
doesn’t want you to go in,” he said.

Parents, including himself, “were right outside” the school. “I
was trying to get in, I was put into handcuffs,” he said,
distraught that police he entrusted “didn’t save my daughter or
any of the other kids.”

Arredondo testified to a Texas House committee behind closed
doors on Tuesday regarding the day of the shooting and did not
comment publicly. CNN has reached out to Arredondo’s attorney
for comment.

Lieutenant Mike Hernandez is assuming the duties of the UCISD
Chief of Police during Arredondo’s leave, according to the
school district.

Uvalde mayor calls out DPS director
While Arredondo has received the lion’s share of public
criticism for how police handled the crisis, the mayor of Uvalde
was quick to point out Tuesday that he believes other law
enforcement agencies also need to be held accountable and
provide updates to city officials.

In pointed remarks at the city council meeting, Mayor Don
McLaughlin accused DPS director Col. Steven McCraw of shirking
his department’s responsibility and noted that officers from at
least eight law enforcement agencies were inside Robb Elementary
during the shooting.

“Col. McCraw has continued to – whether you want to call it –
lie, leak, mislead or misstate information in order to distance
his own troopers and Rangers from the response. Every briefing
he leaves out the number of his own officers and Rangers that
were on-scene that day,” McLaughlin said.

McLaughlin also decried leaks from unnamed sources he said were
intended to shift blame over police response away from certain
agencies and more toward local law enforcement.

“Col. McCraw has an agenda and it is not to present a full
report on what happened and give factual answers on what
happened to this community,” the mayor said, adding he was meant
to receive a daily briefing from authorities since the day after
the shooting but none has been provided.

McCraw on Tuesday at a Texas Senate hearing accused Arredondo of
ordering police to wait for unnecessary equipment and keys to a
door that may not have been locked as suspected.

CNN has reached out to the Texas Department of Public Safety for
comment.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/23/us/uvalde-texas-elementary-school-
shooting-thursday/index.html

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USC and UCLA have been accepted as the newest members of the Big
Ten conference with league officials approving their membership
Thursday night. The programs have announced their respective
departures from the Pac-12 beginning in 2024 with the pair
marking a significant acquisition for the Big Ten that will
significantly change the college sports landscape.

"Ultimately, the Big Ten is the best home for USC and Trojan
athletics as we move into the new world of collegiate sports,"
USC athletic director Mike Bohn said. "We are excited that our
values align with the league's member institutions. We also will
benefit from the stability and strength of the conference; the
athletic caliber of Big Ten institutions; the increased
visibility, exposure, and resources the conference will bring
our student-athletes and programs; and the ability to expand
engagement with our passionate alumni nationwide."

"After careful consideration and thoughtful deliberation, UCLA
has decided to leave the Pac-12 Conference and join the Big Ten
Conference at the start of the 2024–25 season," said UCLA
chancellor Gene D. Block and AD Martin Jarmond in a combined
statement. "... Each school faces its own unique challenges and
circumstances, and we believe this is the best move for UCLA at
this time. For us, this move offers greater certainty in rapidly
changing times and ensures that we remain a leader in college
athletics for generations to come. As the oldest NCAA Division I
athletic conference in the United States and with a footprint
that will now extend from the Pacific to the Atlantic, Big Ten
membership offers Bruins exciting new competitive opportunities
and a broader national media platform for our student-athletes
to compete and showcase their talents."

Big Ten presidents and athletic directors first met Wednesday
night to discuss adding USC and UCLA to the league, sources told
CBS Sports' Matt Norlander. A subsequent vote was held Thursday
night to officially welcome the programs into the league
beginning Aug. 2, 2024.

"As the national leader in academics and athletics for over 126
years, the Big Ten Conference has historically evaluated its
membership with the collective goal to forward the academic and
athletic mission for student-athletes under the umbrella of
higher education," Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren said. "The
unanimous vote today signifies the deep respect and welcoming
culture our entire conference has for the University of Southern
California, under the leadership of President Carol Folt, and
the University of California, Los Angeles, under the leadership
of Chancellor Gene Block."

Representatives of the 10 remaining Pac-12 programs are
scheduled to speak Thursday evening, sources tell Dodd. The Pac-
12 would prefer to stay together, but key players acknowledge
that may be difficult in the middle of a crucial period. There
are reports that multiple Pac-12 programs have already contacted
the Big Ten about potentially joining its membership.

The Pac-12 is left reeling as it has lost two of its signature
programs amid ongoing negotiations for a new media rights deal.
Given its current contracts expire on June 30, 2024, Thursday
was the last day for USC and UCLA to inform the Pac-12 of their
plans to depart without likely incurring additional financial
penalties, sources told Norlander.

"While we are extremely surprised and disappointed by the news
coming out of UCLA and USC today, we have a long and storied
history in athletics, academics, and leadership in supporting
student-athletes that we're confident will continue to thrive
and grow into the future," the Pac-12 said in a statement. "...
We will continue to develop new and innovative programs that
directly benefit our member institutions, and we look forward to
partnering with current and potential members to pioneer the
future of college athletics together."

This movement also comes at a key time for the Big Ten, which
will be expanding its conference with a couple major brands
while in the midst of its own negotiations for a new media
rights deal. That deal could start as soon as next season and
reportedly exceed $1 billion per year in value.

The transition of USC and UCLA to the Big Ten is similar to the
one that rocked college sports last summer when Texas and
Oklahoma opted to leave the Big 12 for the SEC, a move set to
transpire ahead of the 2025 season. That kicked off a
realignment bonanza in which the Big 12, American and other
conferences saw teams move in and out of their membership.

A similar domino effect is expected to ensue here as the Pac-12
could see additional teams exit.

"This is all about SC at the end of the day: SC's willingness to
move, and then they need a partner in crime," a Pac-12 source
told Dodd. "This comes down to USC's football value that is
driving this and the L.A. market."

The move constitutes a stunning divergence in direction for
UCLA, which is partners with Cal in the University of California
system and had previously suggested the universities would
remain linked. USC initially decided to explore leaving the Pac-
12, reaching out to the UCLA as a partner before, according to
multiple reports, both schools contacted the Big Ten to explore
whether the conference would be interested in their membership.

In acquiring the Trojans and Bruins, the Big Ten transforms from
largely a midwest conference to one that extends from New Jersey
to the West Coast. It's a significant shift in the college
sports landscape at the Power Five level, which has largely been
localized with teams mostly belonging to leagues in their
geographic area.

USC and UCLA bring the Big Ten to a total of 16 teams, the same
number as the SEC once Texas and Oklahoma enter the league. The
ACC has 14 teams, while the Big 12 will settle at 12 with BYU,
Cincinnati, Houston and UCF in the fold after UT and OU depart.

This acquisition is a significant coup for fourth-year Big Ten
commissioner Kevin Warren, the first Power Five boss to cancel
the 2020 season amid the COVID-19 pandemic. By contrast, it's a
potentially devastating blow for Pac-12 commissioner George
Kliavkoff, whose one-year anniversary on the job came as the
news broke Thursday.

The Big Ten raiding two of the Pac-12's most prominent programs
comes less than a year after the two conferences -- along with
the ACC -- announced a strategic alliance following the SEC's
additions of Texas and Oklahoma. That alliance was light on
substantive action from the start, and the Big Ten's poaching of
USC and UCLA only further undermines the notion that the leagues
would work together in combatting the SEC's growing hold on
power in college sports.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/usc-and-ucla-to-
big-ten-pac-12-faces-tough-questions-uncertain-future-amid-
conference-realignment-raid/

[Kamala Harris Competence]

In article <t1f5qs$30g3k$***@news.freedyn.de>
<***@gmail.com> wrote:

UVALDE, Texas — The Uvalde school district's police chief has
stepped down from his position in the City Council just weeks
after being sworn in following allegations that he erred in his
response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that
left 19 students and two teachers dead.

Chief Pete Arredondo told the Uvalde Leader-News on Friday that
has decided to step down for the good of the city
administration. He was elected to the District 3 council
position on May 7 and was sworn in — in a closed-door ceremony —
on May 31, just a week after the massacre.

"After much consideration, I regret to inform those who voted
for me that I have decided to step down as a member of the city
council for District 3. The mayor, the city council, and the
city staff must continue to move forward without distractions. I
feel this is the best decision for Uvalde," Arredondo said.

Arredondo, who has been on administrative leave from the school
district since June 22, has declined repeated requests for
comment from The Associated Press. His attorney, George Hyde,
did not immediately respond to emailed requests for comment
Saturday.

Col. Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public
Safety, told a state Senate hearing last month that Arredondo —
the on-site commander — made "terrible decisions" as the
massacre unfolded on May 24 , and that the police response was
an "abject failure."

Three minutes after 18-year-old Salvador Ramos entered the
school, sufficient armed law enforcement were on scene to stop
the gunman, McCraw testified. Yet police officers armed with
rifles stood and waited in a school hallway for more than an
hour while the gunman carried out the massacre. The classroom
door could not be locked from the inside, but there is no
indication officers tried to open the door while the gunman was
inside, McCraw said.

McCraw has said parents begged police outside the school to move
in and students inside the classroom repeatedly pleaded with 911
operators for help while more than a dozen officers waited in a
hallway. Officers from other agencies urged Arredondo to let
them move in because children were in danger.

"The only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from
entering room 111 and 112 was the on-scene commander who decided
to place the lives of officers before the lives of children,"
McCraw said.

Arredondo has tried to defend his actions, telling the Texas
Tribune that he didn't consider himself the commander in charge
of operations and that he assumed someone else had taken control
of the law enforcement response. He said he didn't have his
police and campus radios but that he used his cellphone to call
for tactical gear, a sniper and the classroom keys.

It's still not clear why it took so long for police to enter the
classroom, how they communicated with each other during the
attack, and what their body cameras show.

Officials have declined to release more details, citing the
investigation.

Arredondo, 50, grew up in Uvalde and spent much of his nearly 30-
year career in law enforcement in the city.

https://www.startribune.com/uvalde-schools-police-chief-resigns-
from-city-council/600187206/

[Chicken Tacos]

In article <t1ve0n$39noe$***@news.freedyn.de>
<***@gmail.com> wrote:

“What are you going to do to make sure I don’t have to wait 77
minutes bleeding out on the floor just like my sister did?” one
student asked at Monday's board meeting.

One by one, dozens of angry parents and residents lambasted the
Uvalde school board, repeatedly calling for the superintendent
to be fired and trustees to step down after more law enforcement
failures were revealed in the response to the shooting that
killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School.

"Shame on you!" a chorus erupted as the meeting got underway
Monday evening.

Hundreds of community members crammed into an auditorium at
Uvalde High School, questioning school officials' handling of
safety and demanding accountability from the people paid to
protect children and school staff.

Several speakers reinforced calls for the firing of embattled
Uvalde School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo, who remains
on paid administrative leave even after resigning his City
Council seat.

"If he’s not fired by noon tomorrow, I want your resignation and
every single one of you board members because y'all do not give
a damn about our children or us," Brett Cross told
Superintendent Hal Harrell and other board members.

Cross' niece, 10-year-old Uziyah Garcia, died in the May 24
shooting.

While some board members attempted to respond to the flurry of
complaints and criticisms, none offered concrete information or
details that assuaged the audience’s apparent fury. Instead,
they appeared dumbfounded by continued calls for transparency
and a change in leadership.

Monday's school board meeting, which lasted more than three
hours, followed the release of dramatic police bodycam video
that showed multiple officers expressing confusion and doubt
over the delay in moving in on the shooter.

Release of the footage follows a blistering report, released
Sunday, by a Texas committee that found “systemic failure and
egregiously poor decision making” by law enforcement and the
school district.

Investigators found a lack of leadership and coordinated
response among responding law enforcement agencies, problems
with school infrastructure and communication, including poor Wi-
Fi, unlocked doors and a failure to identify the gunman's
previous behavior as a potential threat.

"I am disgusted with your leadership," Robb Elementary School
parent Tina Ann Quintanilla-Taylor said at Monday's meeting.

Her daughter, Mehle Taylor, 10, lost her best friend, Rogelio
Torres, in the shooting. He was one of several of Taylor's close
friends killed in the massacre.

"I don't want to go to your school if you don't have
protection," Taylor told the school board Monday evening.

Last week, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District
announced security plans for the upcoming academic year
including relocating elementary students to other schools and
adding more security and fencing to campuses.

School officials said they plan to propose at postponing the
start of the academic year to after Labor Day as officials
finalize security plans upgrades, including hiring additional
law enforcement officers.

But parents, residents and even students from other Uvalde-area
schools say more needs to be done to protect children,
criticizing current plans as insufficient.

"How am I supposed to come back here?" asked Uvalde High School
student Jazmin Cazares, whose younger sister, Jaclyn, was among
those killed May 24.

"What are you going to do to make sure I don't have to watch my
friends die?" she asked. "What are you going to do make sure I
don't have to wait 77 minutes bleeding out on the floor just
like my sister did?"

Robb Elementary School parent Rachel Martinez said her daughter
cries at the thought of returning to school and feels safe only
at home with her parents.

“This failure falls on all of you," she said.

"You need to clean house," Martinez said. "You need to start
from zero. Hire experienced trained officers who are prepared to
take the responsibility to protect our children."

Monday's calls for accountability echoes what community members
have been demanding since the deadly shooting. Residents have
gathered in auditoriums, flooded the streets in protest and even
attended hearings across Texas in an attempt to secure justice
for the victims and understand how the law enforcement response
failed so spectacularly.

“I can hold myself together now because I’ve done my crying. Now
it’s time to do my fighting," said Vicente Salazar, grandfather
of Robb Elementary School victim Layla Salazar. "This is just
the beginning of a war you guys created."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/uvalde-school-board-
lambasted-parents-called-quit-rcna38831?icid=recommended

[Hoplophobia]

Now that's just plain stupid.

A 12-year-old boy in Colorado got a five-day suspension for
flashing a toy gun across his computer screen during an online
art class, according to a report.

The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said although the teacher
thought it was a toy gun authorities still did a welfare check
on Isaiah Elliott without parental notification.

“It was really frightening and upsetting for me as a parent,
especially as the parent of an African-American young man,
especially given what’s going on in our country right now,”
Curtis Elliott, Isaiah’s father, told KDVR.

He said his son, who has been diagnosed with attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and has learning disabilities,
wasn’t aware the gun was shown on screen in his distance
learning.

“He was in tears when the cops came. He was just in tears. He
was scared. We all were scared. I literally was scared for his
life,” said Curtis Elliott.

“The virtual setting is not the same as the school setting,” the
dad added. “He did not take the toy gun to school. He’s in the
comfort of his own home. It’s a toy.”

The toy gun was neon green and black with an orange tip
featuring the words on the handle: “Zombie Hunter.”

Reports said the school district, the Widefield District #3,
refused to give the Elliott family the recording of the online
class, but authorities showed the family a video of the class
from a recording from a police body camera.

The boy’s mother said the punishment didn’t fit the crime.

“For them to go as extreme as suspending him for five days,
sending the police out, having the police threaten to press
charges against him because they want to compare the virtual
environment to the actual in-school environment is insane,” said
Dani Elliott.

She said she wishes the teacher had reasoned with the parents
before condemning the boy.

“If her main concern was his safety, a two-minute phone call to
me or my husband could easily have alleviated this whole
situation to where I told them it was fake,” said Dani Elliott.

The school won’t apologize for its discipline.

The Grand Mountain school said in a statement: “We follow all
school board policies whether we are in-person learning or
distance learning. We take the safety of all our students and
staff very seriously. Safety is always our number one priority.”

The parents are looking to enroll their son in a charter or
private school.

“I definitely feel they crossed the line,” said the mom. “They
were extreme with their punishment, especially sending the
police out and traumatizing my son and my family.”

https://www.foxnews.com/us/12-year-old-suspended-after-teacher-
spots-toy-gun-during-virtual-class

[Democrat Pedophiles]

Fat black whore Adams should be in jail.

A Virginia school district informed parents on Wednesday that a
counselor at one of its middle schools was fired after
administrators learned that he had previously been convicted of
"solicitation of prostitution from a minor."

Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Michelle Reid sent
a letter to families stating that the counselor continued his
employment at Glasgow Middle School in Lincolnia, Virginia,
despite being convicted of a sex crime against a minor.

"I am writing to make you aware of the action that I am taking
as a result of being notified of a serious situation at Glasgow
Middle School regarding a counselor who continued to be employed
despite being convicted – outside of Fairfax County – of
‘solicitation of prostitution from a minor’. I want to assure
you that as soon as the School Board and I knew of the
situation, we took immediate steps to dismiss the employee. I
can confirm that the employee has been terminated and FCPS is
petitioning the state to revoke his license," Reid wrote.

A spokesperson for the school district confirmed to Fox News
that Darren Thornton, a counselor at Glasgow Middle School, was
fired, and the district is petitioning the state to take away
his teaching license.

The Glasgow Middle School website no longer lists Thornton as a
counselor, but a Jan. 20, 2021 version of the website lists him
as an employee of the school.

Thornton is listed on Virginia's sex offender registry, which
states that he was convicted of solicitation of prostitution
from a minor on March 11. He was initially arrested on Nov. 19,
2020.

Court records show that he pleaded not guilty to the crime on
Aug. 30, 2021, but was convicted on March 11.

Records also show that Fairfax County Public Schools requested
information regarding the case on June 15.

Thornton was arrested a separate time on June 9 and charged with
solicitation of prostitution.

The school district said that a "comprehensive, independent
investigation" is underway by an outside organization to look
into the "circumstances surrounding this situation."

"While I am not able to speak to the specifics of the
investigation at this time, I can confirm that it covers both
internal and external processes. Following my receipt of the
investigative report, I will share my corrective action steps
with the School Board and wider community to ensure full
accountability. Please be assured that I will take whatever
further corrective actions are required to prevent this from
happening again," Reid wrote.

Adam Sabes is a writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be
sent to ***@fox.com and on Twitter @asabes10.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-school-district-employed-
convicted-sex-offender-months-firing

[Minnesota coons]

Sue the union out of existence. Make it hurt.

Here's the white mentally ill cunt responsible for this.

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content/themes/aftfacts/img/NY_Post_Halloween_ad_large.jpg>

For all their anti-bullying bluster, teachers’ unions are among
the biggest bullies in the country.

First, teachers’ union leaders told parents that critical race
theory wasn’t being taught in K-12 classrooms. Then, they said
if parents didn’t like their children being grouped into
racially based "oppressor" or "oppressed" classes, they were
racist.

Now, the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers and Minneapolis
Public Schools teachers’ unions are openly discriminating
against White teachers in their new collective bargaining
agreement, which allows for the firing of teachers based solely
on race if the district decides staff layoffs are necessary.

The decision was made at the end of a two-week teacher strike
during the 2022 spring semester. The new contract states, "If
excessing a teacher who is a member of a population
underrepresented among licensed teachers in the site, the
district shall excess the next least-senior teacher, who is not
a member of an underrepresented population."

In union-speak, "excessed" means being laid off regardless of
merit.

The agreement continues, "(T)he District shall prioritize the
recall of a teacher who is a member of a population
underrepresented among licensed teachers in the district."

Again, in union-speak, "underrepresented" refers to classifying
human beings by race.

According to the district, these clearly discriminatory
guidelines are needed to resolve "past discrimination."

Unsurprisingly, the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers is
affiliated with the National Education Association (NEA) and the
American Federation of Teachers (AFT), America’s two largest
teachers’ unions.

These teachers’ unions bully teachers into paying dues that go
to political causes not dealing with education; they threaten
teachers who want to leave the union with lack of representation
in legal matters; and they use teachers as political pawns, when
most just want to help children learn to read, write and
complete math problems.

During COVID-19 shutdowns, teachers’ unions bullied parents by
holding their children hostage to online learning, so they could
extract benefits they couldn’t have won in a standard bargaining
session.

Most reprehensibly of all, when parents began expressing their
justifiable outrage at school board meetings, union leaders
publicly condemned them as domestic terrorists and persuaded the
Biden Justice Department to investigate them.

Perhaps it’s no wonder, then, that teachers are growing tired of
being political pawns for the left/teachers’ unions. Perhaps
that’s why the NEA and the AFT together lost more than 80,000
members during the 2020-21 school year alone.

Losing 80,000 teachers’ union members in one school year is
equivalent to losing the combined memberships of the union
affiliates in Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and Philadelphia,
combined.

An AFT poll released just weeks ago revealed that nearly nine
out of 10 respondents think schools have become too politicized
and 40 percent are considering leaving the profession within the
next two years.

The poll also revealed a 34-point rise in job dissatisfaction
among pre-K through 12 AFT members since the COVID-19 school
shutdowns began, rising from 45 to 79 percent.

AFT President Randi Weingarten has been gaslighting American
parents for months now, trying to claim she has been fighting to
open schools when it was her AFT that pressured the Centers for
Disease Control to keep them closed.

When announcing the devastating results of her own poll,
Weingarten tried to blame everyone but herself, calling the
politicization in schools and the dissatisfaction among
teachers, "mask wars, culture wars, the war on truth, or the
devastation in Uvalde."

She’s clearly grabbing at straws, since the Uvalde school
shooting tragedy didn’t happen until late May 2022 — long after
her union caused the learning and potential earning loss of
millions of American children.

No, the reason teachers are leaving the profession and ending
their union membership is because the union leaders are more
focused on maintaining political power than educating our
nation’s children.

The divider of educators is teachers’ unions, which now openly
tell White teachers they should be afraid of keeping their job
because of their skin color.

Unfortunately, it’s likely to be the educators least comfortable
with the idea of indoctrinating children who actually quit,
leaving only the zealots behind.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/minneapolis-teachers-union-
educates-racism-embracing-discrimination

[Minnesota coons]

Sue the union out of existence. Make it hurt.

Here's the white mentally ill cunt responsible for this.

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content/themes/aftfacts/img/NY_Post_Halloween_ad_large.jpg>

Some Minnesota residents are furious over a school district's
new "anti-racist" layoff policy, prompting one parent to call it
"repugnant."

"You think about the discrimination that we've faced in this
country back in the fifties and sixties. It was wrong then. It's
wrong now," former Republican Minnesota gubernatorial candidate
Kendall Qualls told "Fox & Friends."

Qualls reacted to an agreement between the Minneapolis
Federation of Teachers union and the school district stating
that White teachers will be laid off before teachers of color,
regardless of their seniority.

The agreement, which was reached to end a two-week teacher
strike last spring, says that starting this school year, "if
excessing a teacher who is a member of a population
underrepresented among licensed teachers in the site, the
district shall excess the next least senior teacher, who is not
a member of an underrepresented population."

Excessing teachers is the process by which staff are reduced at
a particular school due to a drop in enrollment, funding or
other reasons.

Qualls, a U.S. Army veteran, said the policy is straight from
the pages of author Ibram X. Kendi's book "How to Be an
Antiracist."

"This book is almost in every school library in the country. And
what he basically says in order to remedy past discrimination,
the Jim Crow South, we need to implement present discrimination.
And for present discrimination, we need to implement future
discrimination. It's an infinite loop of evil. It's un-
American," said Qualls.

Take Charge Minnesota ambassador Kofi Montzka said that more
discrimination cannot solve past discrimination and that racism
in and of itself is evil.

"It's wrong and it's illegal. If people really did discriminate
against teachers like the Minneapolis Public Schools admit they
have done, then they need to remedy that and punish the people
who are discriminating, not innocent teachers," said Montzka, an
attorney and mom of three.

Montzka explained further that this also "causes resentment
among people of color."

"These policies, no matter what their intent, make it look like
we are stupid and dumb and that we can't compete in the
marketplace. They make people more racist and life harder for me
and my kids and people who look like me," she told Brian
Kilmeade.

Fox News' Kelsey Koberg contributed to this report.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/minnesota-residents-furious-
schools-anti-racist-layoff-plan-unamerican

[Minnesota coons]

In article <c05c23df-2622-4506-aeff-

Sue the union out of existence. Make it hurt.

Here's the white mentally ill cunt responsible for this.

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content/themes/aftfacts/img/NY_Post_Halloween_ad_large.jpg>

For all their anti-bullying bluster, teachers’ unions are among
the biggest bullies in the country.

First, teachers’ union leaders told parents that critical race
theory wasn’t being taught in K-12 classrooms. Then, they said
if parents didn’t like their children being grouped into
racially based "oppressor" or "oppressed" classes, they were
racist.

Now, the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers and Minneapolis
Public Schools teachers’ unions are openly discriminating
against White teachers in their new collective bargaining
agreement, which allows for the firing of teachers based solely
on race if the district decides staff layoffs are necessary.

The decision was made at the end of a two-week teacher strike
during the 2022 spring semester. The new contract states, "If
excessing a teacher who is a member of a population
underrepresented among licensed teachers in the site, the
district shall excess the next least-senior teacher, who is not
a member of an underrepresented population."

In union-speak, "excessed" means being laid off regardless of
merit.

The agreement continues, "(T)he District shall prioritize the
recall of a teacher who is a member of a population
underrepresented among licensed teachers in the district."

Again, in union-speak, "underrepresented" refers to classifying
human beings by race.

According to the district, these clearly discriminatory
guidelines are needed to resolve "past discrimination."

Unsurprisingly, the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers is
affiliated with the National Education Association (NEA) and the
American Federation of Teachers (AFT), America’s two largest
teachers’ unions.

These teachers’ unions bully teachers into paying dues that go
to political causes not dealing with education; they threaten
teachers who want to leave the union with lack of representation
in legal matters; and they use teachers as political pawns, when
most just want to help children learn to read, write and
complete math problems.

During COVID-19 shutdowns, teachers’ unions bullied parents by
holding their children hostage to online learning, so they could
extract benefits they couldn’t have won in a standard bargaining
session.

Most reprehensibly of all, when parents began expressing their
justifiable outrage at school board meetings, union leaders
publicly condemned them as domestic terrorists and persuaded the
Biden Justice Department to investigate them.

Perhaps it’s no wonder, then, that teachers are growing tired of
being political pawns for the left/teachers’ unions. Perhaps
that’s why the NEA and the AFT together lost more than 80,000
members during the 2020-21 school year alone.

Losing 80,000 teachers’ union members in one school year is
equivalent to losing the combined memberships of the union
affiliates in Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and Philadelphia,
combined.

An AFT poll released just weeks ago revealed that nearly nine
out of 10 respondents think schools have become too politicized
and 40 percent are considering leaving the profession within the
next two years.

The poll also revealed a 34-point rise in job dissatisfaction
among pre-K through 12 AFT members since the COVID-19 school
shutdowns began, rising from 45 to 79 percent.

AFT President Randi Weingarten has been gaslighting American
parents for months now, trying to claim she has been fighting to
open schools when it was her AFT that pressured the Centers for
Disease Control to keep them closed.

When announcing the devastating results of her own poll,
Weingarten tried to blame everyone but herself, calling the
politicization in schools and the dissatisfaction among
teachers, "mask wars, culture wars, the war on truth, or the
devastation in Uvalde."

She’s clearly grabbing at straws, since the Uvalde school
shooting tragedy didn’t happen until late May 2022 — long after
her union caused the learning and potential earning loss of
millions of American children.

No, the reason teachers are leaving the profession and ending
their union membership is because the union leaders are more
focused on maintaining political power than educating our
nation’s children.

The divider of educators is teachers’ unions, which now openly
tell White teachers they should be afraid of keeping their job
because of their skin color.

Unfortunately, it’s likely to be the educators least comfortable
with the idea of indoctrinating children who actually quit,
leaving only the zealots behind.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/minneapolis-teachers-union-
educates-racism-embracing-discrimination

[Democrat Pedophiles]

Fat black whore Adams should be in jail.

A Virginia school district informed parents on Wednesday that a
counselor at one of its middle schools was fired after
administrators learned that he had previously been convicted of
"solicitation of prostitution from a minor."

Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Michelle Reid sent
a letter to families stating that the counselor continued his
employment at Glasgow Middle School in Lincolnia, Virginia,
despite being convicted of a sex crime against a minor.

"I am writing to make you aware of the action that I am taking
as a result of being notified of a serious situation at Glasgow
Middle School regarding a counselor who continued to be employed
despite being convicted – outside of Fairfax County – of
‘solicitation of prostitution from a minor’. I want to assure
you that as soon as the School Board and I knew of the
situation, we took immediate steps to dismiss the employee. I
can confirm that the employee has been terminated and FCPS is
petitioning the state to revoke his license," Reid wrote.

A spokesperson for the school district confirmed to Fox News
that Darren Thornton, a counselor at Glasgow Middle School, was
fired, and the district is petitioning the state to take away
his teaching license.

The Glasgow Middle School website no longer lists Thornton as a
counselor, but a Jan. 20, 2021 version of the website lists him
as an employee of the school.

Thornton is listed on Virginia's sex offender registry, which
states that he was convicted of solicitation of prostitution
from a minor on March 11. He was initially arrested on Nov. 19,
2020.

Court records show that he pleaded not guilty to the crime on
Aug. 30, 2021, but was convicted on March 11.

Records also show that Fairfax County Public Schools requested
information regarding the case on June 15.

Thornton was arrested a separate time on June 9 and charged with
solicitation of prostitution.

The school district said that a "comprehensive, independent
investigation" is underway by an outside organization to look
into the "circumstances surrounding this situation."

"While I am not able to speak to the specifics of the
investigation at this time, I can confirm that it covers both
internal and external processes. Following my receipt of the
investigative report, I will share my corrective action steps
with the School Board and wider community to ensure full
accountability. Please be assured that I will take whatever
further corrective actions are required to prevent this from
happening again," Reid wrote.

Adam Sabes is a writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be
sent to ***@fox.com and on Twitter @asabes10.

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Sue the union out of existence. Make it hurt.

Here's the white mentally ill cunt responsible for this.

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Some Minnesota residents are furious over a school district's
new "anti-racist" layoff policy, prompting one parent to call it
"repugnant."

"You think about the discrimination that we've faced in this
country back in the fifties and sixties. It was wrong then. It's
wrong now," former Republican Minnesota gubernatorial candidate
Kendall Qualls told "Fox & Friends."

Qualls reacted to an agreement between the Minneapolis
Federation of Teachers union and the school district stating
that White teachers will be laid off before teachers of color,
regardless of their seniority.

The agreement, which was reached to end a two-week teacher
strike last spring, says that starting this school year, "if
excessing a teacher who is a member of a population
underrepresented among licensed teachers in the site, the
district shall excess the next least senior teacher, who is not
a member of an underrepresented population."

Excessing teachers is the process by which staff are reduced at
a particular school due to a drop in enrollment, funding or
other reasons.

Qualls, a U.S. Army veteran, said the policy is straight from
the pages of author Ibram X. Kendi's book "How to Be an
Antiracist."

"This book is almost in every school library in the country. And
what he basically says in order to remedy past discrimination,
the Jim Crow South, we need to implement present discrimination.
And for present discrimination, we need to implement future
discrimination. It's an infinite loop of evil. It's un-
American," said Qualls.

Take Charge Minnesota ambassador Kofi Montzka said that more
discrimination cannot solve past discrimination and that racism
in and of itself is evil.

"It's wrong and it's illegal. If people really did discriminate
against teachers like the Minneapolis Public Schools admit they
have done, then they need to remedy that and punish the people
who are discriminating, not innocent teachers," said Montzka, an
attorney and mom of three.

Montzka explained further that this also "causes resentment
among people of color."

"These policies, no matter what their intent, make it look like
we are stupid and dumb and that we can't compete in the
marketplace. They make people more racist and life harder for me
and my kids and people who look like me," she told Brian
Kilmeade.

Fox News' Kelsey Koberg contributed to this report.

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schools-anti-racist-layoff-plan-unamerican