Douglas County teacher Michelle Grissom / YoutubeBY: Todd Shepherd
A school teacher and union leader in Colorado has been put on leave for calling a Covington Catholic student a member of the Hitler Youth, and a resident who criticized the teacher was escorted from a school board meeting following a heated assembly.
Shortly after the Covington Catholic episode on the National Mall went viral, Douglas County teacher Michelle Grissom tweeted about one of the Covington students.
"His name is [redacted]. His twitter account is closed to non followers so we won't interfere with his training in the #HitlerYouth," Michelle Grissom’s tweet read.
While the student does attend Covington Catholic, he was not in attendance with the group that day, according to his father, who tweeted that information back to Grissom.
"I assure you this is not [redacted] … he played in a Varsity basketball game last night in Park Hills Kentucky and another game today in Middletown Ohio," the father tweeted back in reply.
He later tweeted directly to the Douglas County School District, noting that even though he felt he had proven his son was not the person identified, Grissom had left her original tweet standing, with no clarification or correction.
Since then, Grissom's entire Twitter account has been deleted, and she has resigned her position with the teacher's union board, according to KUSA television.
Tuesday, the principal of the middle school where Grissom teaches sent out a notice that she had been placed on leave.
"I am writing to share news regarding one of the social studies teachers at MRMS," the email began. "Michelle Grissom is currently on leave. Please understand that I am unable to share specific details, as this is a personnel matter."
Thursday night, a citizen went to the DCSD school board to complain about the incident during public comment, but violated a policy by using Grissom's name.
"Here we are, a community incensed by a teacher's social media posts. Nobody wants to be here discussing this, but no matter how uncomfortable, we must confront this," he said.
As he continued, he eventually mentioned Grissom by name, which is against the district's policy.
"You are out of order at this time. No one can hear you as you speak because your microphone is no longer [on],""said David Ray, the board president.
A security guard then appears to escort the speaker away.
Local TV anchor Kyle Clark quickly produced video from another DCSD board meeting in which a speaker also appeared to violate the policy in question, but was allowed to keep speaking.
"So it kinda seems like whether the DougCo board gives you a polite warning or a police escort for violating Policy KE depends on who you are or who you are criticizing," he concluded in another Tweet.
The woman seen in Clark's tweets was cautioned by Board President Ray not to use specific names, noting her signs. At that point the woman turned and named someone in the audience, but was allowed to continue speaking then as well.
Avoid using statements, photographs, video or audio that reasonably could be viewed as malicious, unprofessional, obscene, threatening or intimidating, disruptive to the efficient operations of schools, violates an employee’s duty of loyalty to DCSD, that disparages DCSD employees, students, communities, customers, partners and affiliates, or that might constitute harassment or bullying. Examples of such conduct might include offensive posts meant to intentionally harm someone’s reputation or posts that could contribute to a hostile work environment.
DCSC Board President Ray provided the Free Beacon with the following statement:
"The Douglas County School District Board of Education values hearing diverse viewpoints from a broad spectrum of citizens throughout our community.
Board Policy BEDH explains the process by which public participation occurs at board meetings. The board president is responsible for directing speakers to confine their remarks to the agenda item for which they have signed up to speak. Further, the policy states that since the board’s responsibility is setting policy for the school district, members of the public should direct their comments to policy matters.
It is District policy not to hear, in public session, personal complaints against any district personnel. Board Policy KE provides a detailed process for members of our community to address their concerns, as constructive criticism motivated by a sincere desire to improve the quality of the educational program or to equip schools to do their tasks more effectively is welcomed by our board.
The DCSD Board of Education is committed to respecting the rights of our community members who bring forward matters of concern and we welcome constructive criticism consistent with our policies.
Everyone in attendance at a DCSD board meeting plays an important role in modeling appropriate behavior and promoting a climate of mutual respect."
Keep these in mind as you contemplate the direction of the American government over the past 50 years and especially since the Obama election.
The Goals of Communism
(as read into the congressional record January 10, 1963, from "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen)
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
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