The Epoch Times The National School Boards Association (NSBA) could lose more than a million dollars in funding, as state chapters ended their membership and stopped paying dues in the backlash against a letter likening parents’ protests to domestic terrorism.
In its Sept. 29 letter (pdf) to President Joe Biden, the NSBA characterized disruptions at school board meetings as “a form of domestic terrorism and hate crime.” The organization also urged the federal government to invoke counterterrorism laws to quell “angry mobs” of parents seeking to hold school officials accountable for teaching the Marxism-rooted critical race theory and for imposing COVID-19 restrictions such as mask mandates on their children.
Although the NSBA offered an apology for “some of the language” used in the widely criticized letter, the fallout continued. As of this Monday, 27 state school board associations have distanced themselves from the national federation, saying they were not consulted or informed on the letter’s content. Seventeen of them have terminated their membership, citing disagreements over the characterization of school board meeting disruptions, or the idea that federal intervention is need in handling those disruptions, or both…
