School Board Member Compares School Reopening to Slavery, 'White Supremacist Ideology'https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2021/02/24/school-board-member-compares-school-reopening-to-slavery-white-supremacist-ideology-n1428080On Tuesday night, the La Mesa-Spring Valley School Board held a meeting to adopt a plan to reopen schools after almost a year of COVID-19-related closures. Most of the school board members and the superintendent debated reopening, but the board vice-president attacked the very idea of a reopening plan, comparing it to slavery and claiming that such a plan smacks of a “very white supremacist ideology.â€
Chardá Bell-Fontenot, the board vice-president, dismissed the fact that most families who answered a school reopening survey would like to come back to school. She complained that the other school board members allegedly disrespected her, and she repeatedly resorted to accusations of racism.
When a school board member mentioned that “70 to 80 percent†of families and students said “they would like to come back to school,†Bell-Fontenot asked, “Who are the 70 and 80 percent and where are they? … Which school sites, which language groups?â€
La Mesa is in SoCal, between San Diego and El Cajon. From the article, it sounds like relations between Bell-Fontenot and most of the rest of the school board are, ummmmm, strained. Hopefully word gets out about her dismissal of 70%-80% of district parents as racists and she has an involuntary ballot-box-induced career change.
