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Vote For Vanessa Wells to Lakota’s School Board: Elgin Card is just the beginning of the problem

Vote For Vanessa Wells to Lakota’s School Board

Vanessa Wells, shown in the video above, didn’t foresee herself running for school board at Lakota a few years ago.  She was a mom, just like everyone else sending their kids to school.  She and her husband moved to the Lakota district specifically because the school had a good reputation. Many thousands of similar parents could tell about their experience and reasoning for moving to the Lakota school district.  And that dream was alive and well up until the point in time that a politically immune resident’s son threatened to kill her daughter while in school at Lakota, and nobody wanted to deal with the problem.  At that point, Vanessa considered her options.  First, she decided to pull her child out of danger, out of class, and homeschool her.  That solved the immediate problem of the threat in the classroom and Lakota’s school board having no stomach to do anything about it.  As I say all the time, the kind of liberalism that grows in all public schools emphasizes the institution, not the essence of the individual child.  Of course, the Lakota school board wasn’t going to deal with a foreign agent and all the political attachments to the case by defending the rights of one individual child. That’s not the political climate of any school board or school system—to protect individual rights unless those rights advance a progressive cause, such as gay rights or race-baiting.  Threatening to kill another student when it’s a young white lady born of traditional white parents is grounds for dismissing the issue altogether.  After all, the radicals of the political left are threatening to eliminate white people all the time, and this was just one more of them.

Yet, for Vanessa, that wasn’t good enough.  She loves her kid the way all parents do; she has to defend at least her right to exist.  Hiding at home homeschooling was a retreat away from a system that our tax money is paying for, which has been openly hostile to the type of targets that Critical Race Theory seeks to attack. That’s what was being taught at Lakota schools under various masks they use to deter public outcry.  But the school system’s mission could never have been made more evident. They were committed to the progressive implementation of political goals aligned with the teacher’s union, and anybody who got in the way of that would be run over. Vanessa’s family was just the latest in a long list over the years who have found themselves chewed up and spit out by a government institution that is more committed to creating a real-life Brave New World rather than a bright-eyed child entering adulthood ready to meet the challenges of life. That’s when Vanessa decided to run for the school board and directly fight the corrosive elements that were making school life dangerous for kids like hers. To target Critical Race Theory at its source, the school board created the position of Elgin Card, and that was the feature of Vanessa’s presentation.

You can hear Vanessa explain her personal story and her experiences dealing with the school board in the videos contained here.  She also presented the kind of radicalism in Lakota school’s hallways advocated directly by the six-figure school employee, Elgin Card, which should concern everyone.  Additionally, Elgin Card’s social media screen captures further display the evidence of Critical Race Theory being taught directly in class.  In the videos here, it is evident that Vanessa isn’t alone in this concern.  Many people showed up at a local church to learn what they could do to stop CRT teaching at Lakota.  I was surprised by the showing because I knew many threats made by the usual teacher union surrogates on the same scale as what we see on the national level in politics attached to the Black Lives Matter Marxism movement.  It’s very much happening in all our school districts, specifically Lakota. It’s a big target, one of the most prominent schools in the state of Ohio in an affluent neighborhood.  So, by attacking Lakota, the Marxists behind the Black Lives Matters movement see an opportunity, and the harassment of any resistance to their plans was deep on their minds.  There were plenty of threats made to discourage people from coming to this filmed event.

Vanessa Wells talks CRT at Lakota Schools

But as you can see for yourself, a lot of people came anyway.  I was expecting a crowd of 25 or so concerned parents.  Even with all the threats leading up to it, those who showed up were visible from the footage.  That’s precisely why there aren’t more Vanessa Wells parents out there because when they stick their heads up, the radicals in the school district immediately move to cut them down.  Any way possible.  And they pride themselves in their ability in much the way that blue state governors have become obsessed with Covid mandates to boss around their populations.  The same thing is going on at Lakota.  When parents complain, the school board appeases them with a gently worded email, almost like patting a dog on the head to make them happy and stop barking.  But then they turn around and hire expensive radicals like Elgin Card at Lakota to implement BLM political Marxist strategies, essentially with an openly hostile approach to most of the Lakota student population.  Lakota isn’t seeking to teach diversity and fairness, as they claim.  They are seeking outright Marxism from Black Lives Matters which is evident by the screen captures of Elgin Card himself. That’s why it’s such a great benefit that Vanessa has decided to run for the school board at Lakota and offered to bring leadership to these matters where it is needed.  It would be great if more parents joined her, but she’s a great start. 

It wasn’t easy for Vanessa; I can tell you that.  But she’s a fighter; it’s in her nature. She’s also brilliant.  While it might make sense to just homeschool her child, turning away from a vast evil in her backyard didn’t make sense for her, so she’s working to improve the situation precisely what we should all be doing.  The clear answer to these problems is to replace the management that allowed them to happen, which is 4 out of 5 school board members.  Many people don’t know it, but up until this year Lakota, led by Brad Lovell, was planning to ask for even more money on a tax increase just so the board could hire more people like Elgin Card at more than $100,000 each to bring this level of radicalism to our community school.  Because of Covid and the election year theatrics, they backed off it for now.  But they indeed plan to as soon as they can.  After all, they have to pay for the teacher contract that they just voted for, and they can only pay for those raises with a tax increase which they are now committed to.  And think how many radical teachers are just like Elgin Card waiting to be activated.  Before this new diversity position that the school board created for Elgin, he was the principal at Lakota West.  So, there are more like him waiting for a chance to bring more radicalism to the children of Lakota.  At this point, the only legal means we have to defeat this attack is to replace the school board, starting with Vanessa Wells, and the courage she managed to muster to face an onslaught of evil intent to destroy us all, one child at a time.

Rich Hoffman

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Defund Lakota Schools: The Black Lives Matters Activism of Elgin Card

If there was any doubt about the Marxist political activism of your local school, take this fine example from my local public school, the Lakota school system which is one of the largest in Ohio.  They are also in what is considered a wealthy district so they are functioning from the best place that a government school could hope for, there is a great tax base, the kids have mostly intact families at home with as engaged of parents as there are these days, and it has a political class that pays attention to it that are connected directly to the state.

In all aspects, if there was something good about public schools, Lakota would show it.  But I’ve had to deal with these people for a long time and can report that as an employer and as the largest babysitter for our community, Lakota schools is an activist organization that has ill intentions for our children, and they are very anti-family following closely the Marxist agenda for Black Lives Matters.  For proof just have a look at Lakota’s new Diversity administrator Elgin Card and his several online postings recently since he has taken the new job creating post in June of 2020 shown throughout this article.

Recently Elgin was awarded with a new job position as senior director of diversity and inclusion which now oversees the Lakota Outreach Diversity and Inclusion Department from his previous job as principal of Lakota East.  I’d say that he was Lakota’s first black principal but that would be racists to separate him from other people just by the color of his skin.  But to say the least, Elgin has been given a special job to make Lakota and its students much more woke, to use this modern term for “awake to Marxism” to put it more appropriately, and the goal of Elgin and his department is essentially to turn Lakota’s curriculum into more of a Black Lives Matters agenda rather than teaching kids to function well in society and they are wasting millions and millions of our tax dollars to fund it.  To show you have bad it is here is Elgin congratulating his boss for apologizing for his “whiteness” on Twitter.  The pictures are blurry because of the low resolution of the screen captures that were sent to me, but you get the point.

Of course none of us should have to apologize for the color of our skin, especially white people, and that Matt Miller thinks he needs to appease people of color by apologizing for something he had nothing to do with, and that there are costly promotions happening at Lakota from a labor perspective indicates that vast amounts of money are being wasted at Lakota over this issue and that is a real problem.  Racism as we will especially discover in hindsight in the year of 2020 was purely a political platform meant to derail the Trump presidency and nothing more.  Lakota especially in relation to any other place in the country is not suffering from a racist community, so all this Black Lives Matters inclusion into their focus is entirely inappropriate.  Black Lives Matters as an organization has declared itself a Marxist advocate and their purpose is one that I have been talking about for many, many years, this idea of destroying the nuclear family and returning everything in a community back to a “village” approach to everything is not what we should be paying teachers of any government schools to teach our kids.  There is no place for Marxism in a school that should be teaching kids how to live in the capitalist republic that is the United States.  Anything else is subterfuge and a waste of money.  We are not a racist nation, and we are not a racist school district, and we don’t need to waste money on a progressive advocate with a dime of our property tax collection on a person like Elgin.  If they want to make him a useful administrator like he was as principal that would be one thing.  But to pay him to be a community activist for Black Lives Matters, that is not appropriate, especially paying him six figures to do the job.

I’m involved in a lot of things, but within Lakota I am the person that many people come to when they think of fighting public education.  In the past, when I have fought against the school levy increases that Lakota has tried to put forth, my reasons for being involved were more because of these progressive stances that the district took more than what other people wanted in just trying to save money on their tax bill.  They were not aware of some of the things I had been saying about the very nature of government schools, this Marxist curriculum that has been brewing for many decades, accelerated rapidly when the Department of Education was started in 1979.  Ronald Reagan new of the government forces who wanted the spread of communism from the Soviet Union and China that were very active in those days and understood that the direction of public education was headed in that direction.  When both George Bushes were president, they had no idea what public education was up to, they thought “no child left behind” was an honorable message that would get more kids into college.  They didn’t know the intention was to turn as many kids into Marxist anti-capitalists that public education could was the true goal.  Well, by now, everyone can see the evidence for themselves and they know I wasn’t just an education hater.  It took a while, but now the doubt is no longer there, and people bring me many examples of public school radicalism that is stealing our tax money and using it like this, to advocate for some Marxist intention whether its Black Lives Matters, or some other communist conspiracy in working with China to normalize Chinese society here in the United States.  There is nothing new about any of this, but for many of my neighbors and community members, they are just now coming to terms with what Lakota and all public schools have been for decades.

My solution to all this is to defund them.  Don’t give Lakota a single dollar more, and fight hard in the future to take away their money.  This is the kind of garbage that the Lakota school board and their employee Matt Miller think is appropriate for spending tax dollars, on destroying the minds of our kids with this communist crap disguised as racism.  But in the long term, people need to get away from the patriotism of their local school and to start supporting more competitive options such as School Choice.  When President Trump gets re-elected and can then empower Betsy DeVos to defund any school teaching “wokeness” Lakota is going to lose a lot of federal money because of activism like what Elgin Card has been hired to advocate, and they will be coming to the community to cover the gaps in their mismanaged labor contracts with the teacher’s union.  And we are going to have to fight them, and not in the nice way that we have in the past, but to get vicious with them.  The people who run these schools are not our friends, and they certainly don’t have our kid’s best intentions in mind as they run these schools we pay for.  They are activists to turn our children against us and if there is any proof that you need, just look at the social media of Elgin Card and his boss, Matt Miller.  Their intentions are obvious and its time that the rest of the community realize what they are doing with the money we give them.  Its not to teach our children to be better, but to turn them against us and make them citizens of the world, under a communist flag ushered in behind the banners of racism which in the case of Lakota, is a completely made up crises politically motivated by liberal agendas in an election year.

Cliffhanger the Overmanwarrior

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