by Nancy Andersen, American Thinker:
The American political, cultural, and historical landscapes are riddled with holes dug by leftists burying inconvenient truths. Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers President, obscured her role pushing school closures when testifying to Congress a few months ago. CNN anchor Abby Phillip denied that college affirmative action policies lower admission standards. And who can forget the “The 1619 Project,” a debunked attempt to restate the founding principles of the United States of America?
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At the state level, it’s clear progressives have no shortage of shovels. “Schoolyard Brawl,” an article in the North Carolina startup magazine, The Assembly, memory-holed local school vaccine mandates. Reporter Barry Yeoman billed his work as a researched expose’ representing “the story of America today.” More accurately described as “the story of left-wing propaganda in America today,” the piece serves as another tool to discredit parents critical of activist school boards.
The article begins by recounting protests against the Orange County, NC School Board (OCS). Fashioning a narrative of imagined parental concerns triggering sweeping death threats, Yeoman wrote of one September 2021 protest, “They called for an end to COVID-19 vaccine mandates for students (although none existed) and masking rules, and for the deaths of those who disagreed.”
The death threats to which Yeoman refers (shouts of “Death to Tyrants!” and “Sic Semper Tyrannis!” from a Proud Boy protester) were not considered as such by the local sheriff’s department. Selective emphasis on Proud Boy melodrama diverts attention from controversial school board plans. Although Yeoman would have the reader believe otherwise, the school board passed a vaccine mandate in August 2021 while suppressing input from the community. Parent and student concerns were hardly fantastical.
One month prior, a Friday evening August 13 district email informed Orange County residents of a special meeting on COVID policies to be held Monday August 16. The agenda included the mandate:
All students… who directly support athletics, cheerleading, club sports, chorus, marching band, or theater who are eligible for a vaccine must be vaccinated in order to remain eligible to participate effective September 7, 2021 (at least first dose).
OCS held a so-called information session days after the meeting, but participants could only communicate via a virtual chat. By intentional exclusion of resident input, the school board escalated tensions with the community.
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