Justice directs FBI to address complaints about school board ‘harassment’ over masks, curriculum
(Worthy News) – Attorney General Merrick Garland has directed the FBI and U.S. Attorney Offices across the country to work with local officials over the next 30 days to address the “increase in harassment, intimidation and threats of violence against school board members, teachers and workers in our nation’s public schools.”
The Justice Department memorandum follows a recent request to President Biden from the National School Board Association to help with what it calls the “immediate threat” of “extremist hate organizations showing up at school board meetings.”
Parents have since roughly the beginning of the pandemic taken an increasingly active role in policy debates with school officials about what happens inside classroom – clashing particularly over COVID-19 mask mandates and curriculum that includes so-called Critical Race Theory, which essentially argues America is historically racist. [ Source: Just the News (Read More…) ]
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