I like to start these newsletters off with good news. In that vein, Churchill County Commissioners have unanimously voted to fully open Churchill County! By fully open, I mean there are zero “mask mandates”. This makes 10 Nevada counties that are now free, we have 7 to go.
Our voices are being heard by our legislators although not to the degree we would like. There have been several seriously bad bills that have been significantly amended before being passed by the Assembly. An example is AB286, which would have negated a CCW permit and ban the manufacture of fire arms by hobbyists. It was amended to simply address those firearms lacking serial numbers, (aka. “ghost guns”). It passed the Assembly. If passed by the Senate, it would make instant felons of anyone in possession of a firearm without a serial number. Without a National Registry of Serial numbers, which would be the first step towards confiscation, serial numbers are meaningful only to the manufacturers. They are not a significant law enforcement tool. This is clear over-reach and irrational reaction to a problem that does not exist.
Another whopper of a bill, AB376, is mis-titled, “Keep Nevada Working Act”. It would more appropriately be named, “Welcome Illegals Into Nevada For Use As Cheap Labor As Our Welfare Costs Rise Exponentially Act”. The focus of this bill was to make Nevada a Sanctuary State for illegals. There are now three amendments; no vote was taken in the Assembly, it is still an expensively and bad bill for Nevada and was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means; stay tuned for updates. We are going to need to pressure our Senators to ensure these bills do not become law.
We are continuing to fight for the children of Washoe County by holding the Washoe County School District Board of Trustees accountable for the lack of education in our schools. Nevada ranks last in the nation for education and yet our School Board wants to integrate a new curriculum entirely focused on “social justice” instead of the 3 Rs. This curriculum is not education, it is indoctrination. I encourage you to click here and view the curriculum. I recommend, to narrow your focus and where to look within the curriculum, click here for a pdf of the Nevada Families for Freedom article and then give your comments in the public survey (scroll to the bottom of the curriculum link for the survey). The survey is only open until Monday, 26 April 2021. We need to let them know, NOT IN OUR SCHOOLS. After you take the survey, consider emailing the WCSD Trustees and express your opposition to this curriculum. Keep in mind the whole, “social justice push” is part of Marxists/Socialist doctrine to subvert our American way of life.
You may want to join the lawsuit against Washoe County School District. Instead of focusing on the 3 Rs and giving our students the education they need to succeed, the school board continues to spend time and money on anti-racism indoctrination. They have now locked the public out of the meetings as well. Are you a current/former WCSD employee, parent, or student with firsthand WCSD experiences regarding student learning, abusive behavior, or denial of rights? Are you willing to stand up publicly, tell the truth, and give our children and community a fighting chance at a better future? Contact Joey Gilbert at “The People’s Champ” foundation or call Joey Gilbert’s office at (775) 210-1501 and ask for Andrea. Mr. Gilbert is donating his services. https://www.joeygilbert.com/openschools#3
For a downloadable flyer click here.
Last, yet not least, included in this newsletter is a portion of the sixth in the series written by Paul D. White, “How Do We Fix Our Washoe County Schools”. If you missed portions of the series, the articles are hosted on NevadaPatriot.net under the Paul White tab.
Synopsis of Opportunities:
Keep an eye out for bills being pushed through the Legislature at lightening speed; comment and email the Legislators.
Express your opinion on the WCSD integration of the Social Justice Curriculum before Monday, 26, April 2021
Participate in the Joey Gilbert Lawsuit against WCSBoard of Trustees
Consider attending the Virtual Constitution Class on Wednesdays at 4pm (see below) we are starting at the beginning of the series; we are only in the second lesson. Now is the time to join and go through the entire course.
Washoe County Board of Commissioners Meeting Tues 10AM 27 April, 21
Washoe County School Board of Trustees Meeting Tues 2PM 27 April, 21
Conservative Talk Lunch Wed 11:30AM 28 April, 21
Best regards,
Bruce Parks
1NevadaPatriot@gmail.com www.NevadaPatriot.net
Gab.com@ Nevada Patriot: Conservative Politics
How Do We Fix Our WCSD Schools?
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” (John Adams – 2nd President of the United States)
How Do We Fix Our WCSD Schools? Part VI of a 6-Part Series
Overview:
For over a decade, the Washoe County School District (and all Nevada public schools) have ranked last in the nation or almost-last in the nation in quality of education. WCSD superintendents and school boards have primarily blamed our failing schools on a lack of funding. That is provably false because 10 states fund their public schools equal-to or LOWER-than Nevada, and all 10 of those states outperform our schools.
Part VI: BETTER LEADERSHIP
“Where there is no vision, the people perish…” (Proverbs 29)
There is NO hope for the future of Washoe County’s 104 public schools and 62,000 students until WCSD leadership changes from top to bottom, beginning with Superintendent Kristin McNeill and Board President Angela Taylor. There currently exists NO “vision” in this duo’s leadership regarding how to proceed in creating schools that provide accountable academic teaching, a safe, secure and moral school environment, and don’t mismanage and waste almost $1 Billion per year in annual funding.
SUPERINTENDENT KRISTIN MCNEILL
Superintendent McNeill was selected by the School Board as WCSD’s new superintendent approximately one year ago. McNeill’s appointment directly contradicted the recommendation of the professional search group hired by the Board, who didn’t even rate McNeill among the top 6 superintendent candidates in a very weak field of applicants.
Why did the Board’s professional search group NOT recommend Kristin McNeill to be the new superintendent?
To continue reading the article click here.
Paul D. White was a career public educator – as a teacher, principal, and superintendent, in 7 different school districts. A 2-time Educator of the Year, and national speaker/author on school reform, White’s focus is transforming low-performing, out-of-control schools into drug-free, non-violent, racially harmonious, and high-achieving campuses. He welcomes feedback at: white.pauld@gmail.com
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” (John Adams – 2nd President of the United States)
How Do We Fix Our WCSD Schools? Part VI of a 6-Part Series
Overview:
For over a decade, the Washoe County School District (and all Nevada public schools) have ranked last in the nation or almost-last in the nation in quality of education. WCSD superintendents and school boards have primarily blamed our failing schools on a lack of funding. That is provably false because 10 states fund their public schools equal-to or LOWER-than Nevada, and all 10 of those states outperform our schools.
But if the solution for improving our schools is NOT more money, then what is it?
Our failing schools result from 6 main issues that need to be dealt with. Each issue will be explained in more detail in this column and in the three succeeding ones.
Part I -(Feb. 23) FACTS MATTER – WHAT TO DO about our WCSD schools
Part II – (March 2) WASTE LESS MONEY on buildings and non-instructional support services
Part lll – (March 16) WASTE LESS TIME and MONEY on instructional-related employees
Part lV – (March 28) MORE ACCOUNTABILITY regarding WHAT is taught and HOW
Part V – (April 5) BETTER DISCIPLINE and CONTROL of student behavior
Part VI – (April 20) BETTER LEADERSHIP
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Part VI: BETTER LEADERSHIP
“Where there is no vision, the people perish…” (Proverbs 29)
There is NO hope for the future of Washoe County’s 104 public schools and 62,000 students until WCSD leadership changes from top to bottom, beginning with Superintendent Kristin McNeill and Board President Angela Taylor. There currently exists NO “vision” in this duo’s leadership regarding how to proceed in creating schools that provide accountable academic teaching, a safe, secure and moral school environment, and don’t mismanage and waste almost $1 Billion per year in annual funding.
SUPERINTENDENT KRISTIN MCNEILL
Superintendent McNeill was selected by the School Board as WCSD’s new superintendent approximately one year ago. McNeill’s appointment directly contradicted the recommendation of the professional search group hired by the Board, who didn’t even rate McNeill among the top 6 superintendent candidates in a very weak field of applicants.
Why did the Board’s professional search group NOT recommend Kristin McNeill to be the new superintendent?
Perhaps because she was the #1 assistant, supporter, and enforcer for the previous superintendent whom the Board terminated for incompetence and unethical behavior
Perhaps because according to her own bio-profile, McNeill has ZERO firsthand experience in solving WCSD’s most urgent problems at the secondary school level, including:
On-campus drug abuse
Assaultive student behavior
Extreme disparity in academic achievement between racial groups
The lowest academic achievement in the nation
Resisting the growing political pressure of the Extreme Left and their efforts to force schools to virtually ignore academic teaching, and instead, emphasize politicized curriculum that is historically distorted and inaccurate, anti-White, anti-law enforcement, and anti-American.
With academic achievement and student behavior continuing to worsen, Superintendent McNeill’s response has been to totally hide from the public the chaotic, dysfunctional situation that exists in our schools. She keeps campuses locked-down even when schools ARE in session: preventing ANY unannounced campus visits by either Board members or the community. Meanwhile, McNeill and Angela Taylor continue to pass WCSD policies that threaten the jobs of teachers who dissent from WCSD’s Leftist political views, or discuss any topics with students or peers that depart from WCSD’s political viewpoint.
BOARD PRESIDENT ANGELA TAYLOR
Like Superintendent McNeill, Ms. Taylor has ZERO qualifications to be a Board member, let alone to serve as its President. Her background bio shows that Taylor has never taught traditional classes for one minute in K-12 public schools (similar to the rest of the Board members), and has ZERO firsthand experience regarding ANY of the school issues she makes policy for. What Taylor DOES have is hardcore arrogance toward refusing to answer questions raised by the community, and a race-based agenda that supports the teaching of anti-White/anti-American curriculum.
Ms. Taylor has the other 6 members of the Board right where she wants them: totally under her control and thoroughly intimidated. With the occasional exception of tepid opposition from new Board member Jeff Church, Taylor delivers McNeill just what superintendents crave: a Board that shuts up, nods their heads, and rubber-stamps whatever outrageous policies the Superintendent wants approved. Taylor has repeatedly shown her willingness to flout the law, and is never held accountable by the rest of the Board.
When Taylor, who is Black, recently uttered an unarguably racist, anti-White statement to the press, the rest of the Board members refused to enforce their own “anti-racism” policy that had just recently been approved, and censure Taylor.
When a photo of Taylor surfaced from a recent Board meeting, it showed her sitting at the Board’s dais, wearing no Covid mask, and talking to a staff member less than 2 feet away. After that Board meeting, Taylor closed future Board meetings to the public, stating that the unwillingness to wear masks by those who oppose her, constituted a serious danger to staff and students at the meetings. Taylor made no mention of violating her own rules regarding mask wearing.
CONCLUSION: WHAT IS THE FIRST STEP TOWARD FIXING OUR DYSFUNCTIONAL WCSD SCHOOLS?
For anyone who is serious about improving WCSD schools and correcting the numerous problems identified in this 6-part series, removing the Superintendent and Board President from their positions must be the top priority. Trying to work with, compromise with, or find common ground with either the WCSD Superintendent or Board President, would be an exercise in futility. Both McNeill and Taylor have provided abundant proof of:
Their total lack of experience in the jobs they hold
Their complete inability to fix our troubled schools
Their lack of honesty and integrity in dealing with the public and their students
Their willingness to promote themselves and their Leftist policies, via curriculum that is inaccurate and distorted anti-White, anti-law enforcement, and anti-American.
The law provides several avenues for removing both McNeill and Taylor from their positions. Anyone who cares about our failing schools and the horrendous impact they will have on Washoe County’s future if they are not fixed, should immediately start working with local groups dedicated to accomplishing this result.
“We have it in our power to begin the world (and our schools) again.” (Thomas Paine – 1776)
I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone that wrote a snail mail letter the Secretary of State regarding the investigation of the 122,000 incidents of voter fraud presented to her by the GOP. The snail mail campaign was hugely successful. I have it on good authority that she did indeed receive hundreds of letters, each of which had to be opened, and the letters are still trickling in. A hand written letter still has impact and most importantly hand written mail has to be opened, unlike emails that can simply be deleted. An interesting article published by 360 News Las Vegas titled: “Cegavske’s Daily Calendar Shows She Failed To Supervise Joe Gloria”, click here.
I am now encouraging you to write a snail mail letter to each one of the Chairs of the legislative committees that are hearing bills and encourage them to do what is right for Nevada and listen to the people. If they would only go to their own website and look at the numbers for and against each bill and vote accordingly. To view the committees: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/81st2021
Legislative committee chairs decide which bills may be heard by their committee.The Assembly Legislative Operations and Elections Committee has been particularly bothersome and Chair Brittney Miller refuses to hear the following bills on election reform: AB134, AB263, AB328, AB297. Why would she refuse to allow bills to be heard on election integrity? According to Assemblyman Glen Leavitt, Assembly Republicans have only received 41 hearings out of their 124 bills. This equates to 33%. Assembly Democrats are hearing 53% of their own bills with 98 of their 185 bills being heard. A committee chair has a responsibility to ALL parties and it is time she correct this situation. Brittney.Miller@asm.state.nv.us or snail mail at:
Assemblywoman Brittney Miller
401 S Carson St
Carson City, NV 89701
The Washoe County Commissioners are having a Special Meeting to vote on implementing new China Virus restrictions. These restrictions on our liberties cannot stand. Email our County Commissioners, show up at the 8:30AM meeting and have our voices heard. If our county commissioners refuse to stand up to the tyrant that occupies the Governor’s mansion, they should at least be able to explain to us why. There is no amount of COVID money that Washoe County can receive that would make it worth crushing our rights.
I was just made aware that the Nevada Gaming Control Board (GCB) and Gaming Commission (GC) might be discriminating against minorities. An excerpt from the Gaming Control Board letter of 14 Jan 2021 states “…… Nevada’s gaming industry as part of the state’s Frontline and Essential Workforce. To implement this portion of the Playbook most effectively, the Board is collecting information regarding the willingness of the industry’s workforce to receive vaccinations.” They most recently are now mandating that any business which includes gaming must require their “hospitality workers” receive the shot against the China Virus. If the business does not comply they will have their gaming license revoked (click here for the joint GCB and GC letter). Mandatory inoculations are unconstitutional and the Gaming Control Board is over-reaching astronomically. We are entering some dark times people. The public may email their opinion to the GCB and GC regarding this action here: publiccomment@gcb.nv.gov Public comments will be read at 9AM, Tuesday, April 7th and at the end of the meeting Wednesday, April 8th. To view the meeting: https://gaming.nv.gov/index.aspx?page=358
There was tremendous support at the last Washoe County School District Board meeting. Let’s keep the pressure up and let that board know that we will not sit idly by while they continue to squander our tax payer dollars and fail in their mission to education our children. Take the Washoe County School District Strategic Plan and Budget Survey for the public and let them know what their priorities should be: click here.
Also, there is a new excerpt from Paul White’s series: How Do We Fix Our WCSD Schools? Part V: BETTER DISCIPLINE and CONTROL of Student Behavior .
Battle Born Patriots (BBP) has been reading the legislative bills, deciphering, decoding and then translating them into a few sentences including major points for the legislators to review before a hearing or a vote. They are swamped with bills to read and need volunteer readers. Contact Barney barneyw6@yahoo.com (include Volunteer Bill Reader in the Subject line) if you can volunteer to review bills. It makes a huge difference to the legislators to have the digested bills available to them, at least that is the feedback BBP has been getting from them.
Synopsis of Opportunities:
Send snail mail to legislative chairs
Publicly comment: email the Nevada GCB and GC regarding their joint resolution on the shot
Keep the pressure on the Washoe County Commissioners and the Washoe County School Board
Take the WCSD public survey and let them know what you think
Read, translate, decipher and decode, then sub mitt a synopsis of the legislative bill
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” (John Adams – 2nd President of the United States)
How Do We Fix Our WCSD Schools? Part V of a 6-Part Series
Overview:
For over a decade, the Washoe County School District (and all Nevada public schools) have ranked last in the nation or almost-last in the nation in quality of education. WCSD superintendents and school boards have primarily blamed our failing schools on a lack of funding. That is provably false because 10 states fund their public schools equal-to or LOWER-than Nevada, and all 10 of those states outperform our schools.
But if the solution for improving our schools is NOT more money, then what is it?
Our failing schools result from 6 main issues that need to be dealt with. Each issue will be explained in more detail in this column and in the three succeeding ones.
Part I -(Feb. 23) FACTS MATTER – WHAT TO DO about our WCSD schools –
Part II – (March 2) WASTE LESS MONEY on buildings and non-instructional support services)
Part lll – (March 16) WASTE LESS TIME and MONEY on instructional-related employees
Part lV – (March 28) MORE ACCOUNTABILITY regarding WHAT is taught and HOW
Part V – (April 5) BETTER DISCIPLINE and CONTROL of student behavior
Part VI – BETTER LEADERSHIP
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Part V: BETTER DISCIPLINE and CONTROL of Student Behavior
Having Good WCSD Schools will be IMPOSSIBLE until strong, consistent student discipline is established and implemented regardless of race.
WCSD schools lack good discipline.
Who says so? A poll of WCSD teachers conducted by the QOL-Reno foundation, and numerous interviews with local WCSD students. numerous interviews with local WCSD students. Findings included the following:
Almost every responding teacher had either been assaulted by a student, or knew a teacher who had. Assaults ranged from punching, spitting, and knocking teachers to the floor, to stabbing teachers with scissors, to hitting them over the head with computers, to severely cursing and/or abusing them verbally.
When students who exhibit these behaviors are sent to the principal’s office by the teacher, they frequently are sent BACK to the same teacher’s room within a very short period, often with a bag of popcorn and a soda provided to them as a reward by the principal. The demoralizing effect this has on classroom teachers and the classroom learning environment is immeasurable.
But then things get even WORSE.
Under WCSD’s official “Restorative Discipline” Plan, teachers explained that after a student had been physically and/or verbally abusive and been removed from their classroom, that they usually had to meet after school with the student, parent, and principal. The meeting would usually start with the teacher(?!) being asked what THEY could have done differently to avoid the conflict. The student is then asked WHY they committed the offense, (hoping to have the students counsel themselves) but students typically give an excuse like how they were victimized by some emotional reaction to a prior incident, or they think the teacher doesn’t understand them or is prejudiced, etc., and the student offenders take no accountability for their actions.
Restorative Discipline has been a national failure. It was set-up to reduce suspensions of primarily Black students, but it’s made this group’s behavior, as well as academic progress WORSE, because they sense that no one cares enough to hold them accountable for their behavior and they get frustrated and act out more. And yet, WCSD’s Board President and Superintendent deny reality: supporting this Restorative Discipline method and insisting it’s been very effective (which is true ONLY if they mean “effective” in making our schools worse.)
A majority of teachers who responded to the poll have given up on requiring ALL their students to behave, work, and learn. Students who don’t want to work are not kicked out, but are put in an assigned area of the classroom where they’re allowed to talk, sleep, eat, play or their phones, or talk to each other, and WORST of all, learn nothing! Given the national statistics -locally corroborated by interviewed students and administrators speaking off the record – that – minimally – 20-30% of all students in classes are under the influence of controlled substances, this do-what-you-want group is definitely where the drug-users would primarily (but not exclusively) be found.
You might wonder if these do-nothing student groups are worriedthat they will fail their classes and not graduate. They are NOT worried, thanks to the “Credit Recovery” programs that allow them to do as little as five, 1-hour make-up sessions of multiple choice questions at the end of a failed semester class, receive a C on their report cards, and continue their march toward functional illiteracy and a worthless high school diploma.
If this is how poorly WCSD handles major disciplinary issues, you can guarantee that the minor infractions that lead to major issues are abundant, including: excessive absenteeism, tardiness both coming to school and passing between classes, possessing all kinds of dangerous and/or inappropriate contraband, ignoring the dress code, and talking loud and vulgarly in the halls and at lunch. Interviewed students said that Black and Latino students can use limitless racial slurs with no repercussions, but White students who use them usually go immediately to the principal. THIS is the kind of racial bias that is incredibly detrimental to ALL students, and makes ALL races lose respect for the rules and for the leaders that are too weak to impartially enforce them.
How Can This Lack of Discipline Problem Be Fixed?
Like most school problems, it’s easy to fix if you have the right leadership.
Good schools and Horrible Schools usually have almost identical rules. What’s the difference? Good schools have the moral courage and integrity to enforce their rules impartially with ALL races. Horrible Schools do not enforce their rules, and when they DO enforce them, it is not done impartially. If their Black or Latino students break the rules more frequently than White or Asian students – and they DO for several reasons – instead of the school going straight to the parents and getting them to parent more consistently and strongly, the leaders of Horrible Schools refuse to punish the Black and Latino students equally by saying the “system” is “culturally biased” or “doesn’t understand the need for different behavior standards for different races,” etc. The result? Students of ALL races at Good Schools do well academically and behaviorally. Meanwhile, Horrible Schools see an ever-increasing gap between the academic performance of White and Asian students as opposed to Latino and Black students, because the latter are less likely to be taught by the school to respect the rules and take personal accountability for their actions.
Horrible School leaders worry about what might happen to THEM – what the Superintendent might think about THEM if they suspend too many Black or Latino students when they break the rules. Good School leaders worry about what will happen to their Black and Latino (and all) STUDENTS if they DON’T suspend them when they break the rules and teach ALL students accountability for their behavior, regardless of their race.
WCSD will never improve until:
They have strong, consistent discipline for ALL students. That will never happen until WCSD has different leadership.
They open up the schools to unannounced classroom visits by Board members, parents, and vested community members, so the community can see first-hand the extent of these problems.
“We have it in our power to begin the world (and our schools) again.” (Thomas Paine – 1776)
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