I love Christmas, and it’s great to see some of those Holiday festivities so lavishly displayed at Lakota schools in the middle of summer 2023. In a vote 4-1, the Lakota school board voted in favor of creating a Community Diversity Council to replace the Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee that had been recently disbanded. The new council will include 30 community members with diverse backgrounds so that there can be more productive conversations about topics featuring race, religion, and sexual identity, according to the advocates. From the current school board, Lynda O’Connor and Kelly Casper were chosen to represent the board. Darbi Boddy asked to be on the board, but that was denied by all the board members, including the two supposedly conservative members. All the other reindeers at Lakota wanted to laugh and play, but they wouldn’t let Darbi Boddy play in any of the reindeer games. It was Christmas at Lakota schools; the only thing missing was the prospect of snow because it was so warm outside. And that was the lead to the story on creating the Diversity Council because it purposely excluded a controversial board member. Darbi represents a large portion of the Lakota school district population who do not want their tax money funding excessively radical Democrat policies, and that is what the “trans talk” has all been about, discussions on gender identity and rights to bathrooms, which the other school board members have been advocating for. The same policies that have angered people regarding Bud Light beer, Target, and Rainbow flags flown at the White House are precisely the intention of this new progressive consensus-building mechanism. And Darbi Boddy wasn’t even allowed to participate, as she was deliberately excluded from the conversation because the board did not want to hear from her about anything. They would prefer to imagine that Darbi is unique and that her viewpoints are radical, which isn’t the case.
The previous groups on Diversity Equity & Inclusion last met on May 5th and spiraled out of control, according to reports which was a bridge too far for Eglin Card, who had been on the committee and was so frustrated with Darbi’s statements that he took a superintendent job at Princeton schools. People who supported Darbi had no problem with her position; she represented a large portion of the Lakota community when she meant to separate the radical politics of the teacher union position and eliminate the temptation to groom children in the classrooms. Darbi’s position on the matter was to more appropriately represent the conservative nature of the Lakota school system itself, where the Democrats, many of them hiding their liberalism behind masks of conservative utterances, just so they can get elected in a heavily populated Republican community, intended to push a leftist agenda onto the community through the vulnerability of their children. That is the position of most of the public schools in the country, and it’s the goal of all governments to impose such beliefs on people with great audacity. When Darbi was elected to the board last year, it was to bring more conservative values to the school board. Her critics say it’s not her place to bring politics to the board, yet, most of their actions center on Democrat politics that are expected to be expressed unchallenged. And they have spent most of their time trying to run Darbi off the school board, and they hope there will never be another one like her. Yet, we are in an election year, and some school board challengers are forming to give Darbi more support on the board since the other two supposed conservatives have essentially been voting like radical Democrats. The Lakota school board clearly would be helped if it had more members like Darbi Boddy.
But that’s not the opinion of the radicals, like Eglin Card, who had some harsh comments about Darbi on his way to Princeton schools. He told the media about the situation, “We used to be a model district, and now people are calling me from all over the state and the region laughing at us. That the public perception of the district has taken a nose-dive because of Boddy’s politically charged antics that put the district in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.” Because he thinks like that, I’m happy to see Eglin go. I have watched Princeton schools in the Tri-County area that I talk about so much over the years go from one of the premier communities in Cincinnati to being a joke. Because of out-of-control Democrat politics that moved into that area many years ago, the money and value picked up and moved away, leaving behind all the liberal radicals nobody wants to live around. It has nothing to do with race but with shared values. People with values don’t want their kids learning about gay rights in schools, which is a radical political platform. It has nothing to do with reading, writing, and arithmetic. I consider Lakota to have greater value if everyone like Eglin, who wants to bring Democrat concepts to a conservative community, did leave. He can take all the rest of the radical leftists who Lakota schools employ with him. Our community will be far better off without them than with them.
Darbi’s resistance to Democrat policies is intended for the long-term preservation of the kind of community that Lakota is. And ultimately, that’s what protects real estate value. Blue state politics destroys that value, which is in all public schools attached to government. And challenging those Democrat objectives is what keeps communities from becoming like Princeton. I remember when Chester Road, which runs through the Princeton school’s complex, was one of the hottest commercial zones in all of Cincinnati. Over the years, most of the businesses have left because bad politics drove them out. And now the area is a fraction of its former self. Most of the people left are those who couldn’t afford to leave. That’s not prosperity; that’s precisely what Lakota is fighting because a lot of those people from Princeton moved north into Lakota and Mason. And secretly, because they are afraid to say it in public, but they vote with their feet. They don’t want Lakota, Mason, Lebanon, and those other school districts outside of the I-275 loop to allow Democrats to ruin their communities, behind the mask of children, which is precisely Eglin’s intention. It’s good that the people he talks to are upset at Darbi’s position. They assume that liberal politics is the value of public schools. But, the property owners expect protection, and out of all the board members currently, only Darbi Boddy gives it to them. And when the rubber hits the road on this issue, Santa Clause turned to Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer to guide his quest through a foggy night sky. And while the other reindeers were making fun of Rudolph, it took his unique gifts to light the way for success. And that is what Darbi is for Lakota, a positive light in a vast darkness of liberalism that is dangerous to children, destructive to communities, and corrosive to our national character. And we should all be so lucky that Darbi Boddy is there to lead Lakota schools through the fog of horrendous Democrat politics that wants to destroy our children and to run off all by herself radical progressive lunatics to other districts that are hell-bent on their own destruction.
Rich Hoffman
The Overmanwarrior 