Posted on 09/29/2022 8:55:06 AM PDT by Paul46360
Chippewa Valley Mom Fights to Restore Her First Amendment Rights
Sandra Hernden is a police officer and mother to a special needs student in the Chippewa Valley School system. During the COVID-driven shift to remote learning in March 2020, Sandra was forced to watch the drastic impact this change had on her son’s academic and social performance.
When the school moved to a hybrid learning model rather than resuming in-person education, Sandra knew she had to take a stand.
She began speaking out at board meetings and emailing board members. She encouraged board members to set aside their political views and take into consideration the effect that their decisions were having on the children in the district.
On December 11 2020, Elizabeth Pyden, the Secretary of Chippewa Valley Schools, forwarded her email exchanges with Sandra on to her supervisor, stating that this behavior was unbecoming of a police officer. Sandra’s supervisor held an investigation, and determined that Sandra had not violated any departmental rules, and therefore was not disciplined.
Sandra continued to fight for her child.
Her attempts to speak at school board meetings were increasingly met with hostility, and she was often interrupted or prevented from speaking. Sandra found a news article about a 6th Circuit Court decision holding that restricting the public’s ability to speak at board meetings was a violation of their First Amendment Rights. Sandra sent the article in an email to the board on October 4, 2021, cautioning the board to take care when interrupting her comments.
The next day, Frank Bednard, President of the Chippewa Valley Schools, told the board that he had referred Sandra to the Department of Justice.
Sandra, like any parent, has only done what is best for her child. Rather than taking her feedback in an appropriate manner, the Chippewa Valley School Board has violated her First Amendment Rights, attacked her character, and attempted to take away her voice.
On September 29, 2022 the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation filed suit against the Chippewa Valley School Board, Frank Bednard and Elizabeth Pyden.
Perhaps the wording of her communications was unbecoming.
its been repeatedly demonstrated for the last several years that people who seek elected office only do so because they want the power. Its is a very rare individual who goes this road to better society at the behest of their constituency.
This remains my takeaway from observing this repeatedly.
So my question, perhaps only to myself, is what to consider when choosing whom to vote for. How do you determine that this will be their behavior once they are in office?
“How do you determine that this will be their behavior once they are in office?”
Well, there’s no way to be sure but the things I look for:
a) Have they ever held a job in the real world? Or have they just been pursuing public office ever since leaving school? (Jobs as a lawyer/academic/activist/journalist don’t count as “real world” jobs to me on this question)
b) Do they live modestly or are they already profligate with their spending and lifestyle even before they get access to the public trough?
c) Do they have any achievements in life that would justify them thinking they should run for office to help all of society? Or do they just think very highly of themselves?
Perhaps Artificial Intelligence could do a better job of upholding rights and ruling impartially and without greed or thurst for power.
You do not have the slightest legal duty to be polite to elected officials. There’s even a Supreme Court decision that says the speech may be loud angry, crude, boisterous, etc.
Depends on the programmer.
Teachers’ unions were motivated entirely by their own paychecks during the virus panic. They,like 99.9% of the nation’s government paycheck recipients,basically got a 2 year long fully paid vacation during the panic.
If you are a Christian, you have been commanded by Christ to be civil to others. Of course, most Christians are pious only while actually in church.
So far, all AIs become angry toward the end of long discourses. The Terminator scenario is something that should give everyone some skepticism.
That is the purpose of all unions. Did you happen to notice the dock workers’ strike at the same time?
That’s old thinking. Speaking with polite respectful logic makes them smile and nod, and then they promptly ignore you because they conclude you have no passion, no force. You do not mean it.
This society is at a point where the tyrants need to start to see anger, so they can feel a little righteous fear of the people. It might remind them they represent rather than rule. It might save their life one day.
It is not so far removed from our founders running people out of town on a rail, or tarring and feathering.
As far as Christ he was not too civil as he cleared the temple. And I doubt they returned anytime soon.
Gentle meekness has a time and place... so does expressed anger according to Ecclesiastes 3.
“A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.”
Ah, now I understand the decline of the Christian Church. As far as Christ he was not too civil as he cleared the temple.
He did that ONCE! He did not go about life in a combative state. He did, however, leave a very clear record of how He expects us to behave.
It amazes me how people want others to think of them as Christians, but really are not. It seems many here on FR fall into that category.
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