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March 16, 2023 - Stew Peters Show
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LIVE @1PM: CONSERVATIVE SCHOOL BOARD SUED FOR FIGHTING MASK MANDATES /KEPT SCHOOL OPEN DURING COVID
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You know, if you look back over the past...
Two, three, even more years.
School boards have been a big center of discussion in this country.
And a lot of school boards failed a lot of people during COVID. They were putting masks on kids.
Schools were being shut down.
And I'm very fortunate.
Up in my neck of the woods exists.
One of the most conservative school boards in the country.
Folks, this is a school board that fought back against the shutdowns, that did not blanket force masks on their students.
Several school board members were sued by wackos in the community because they thought everybody should wear a mask.
And I'll tell you, these people stood in the fire.
They stood in the gap.
They stood up to protect our kids.
And with school boards being a very hot topic and a very hot issue, I wanted to bring on a woman who is part of, and I can honestly say this, folks, I've stood Arm to arm with parents across this state and across this country fighting for our kids,
to keep masks off our kids, to keep schools open, to keep pornography out of classrooms and off of library shelves.
And we have a school board right here in my neck of the woods in Pennsylvania, Delaware Valley School District, who has done all of that.
So for all you folks out there across the country who are looking for a model, who are looking to convert your school board into a very, very, very conservative school board, who puts parents' input first and foremost.
A lot of their policies, folks, is parent input, individual student needs based on what the parents want.
So, I'm honored right now to bring to you a conservative school board member from one of the most conservative school boards that I think I have ever seen.
And I'm going to bring to you right now Ms.
Christine Agron.
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Folks, special guest today, Christine Agron.
Christine, did I say your last name right?
Is it Agron or Agron?
Agron is correct.
All right, cool.
All right, so I got a tough time with names sometimes, folks.
Now, I've known Christine for several years.
Christine is a school board member for the Delaware Valley School Board.
It's up in Northeast Pennsylvania.
This school district actually borders areas of New York and New Jersey.
And folks, believe it or not, Christine is part of one of the most conservative school boards In the country.
So I really want to use Christine as an example for all our viewers out there.
And folks, I say all the time, you should run for office.
You should get involved on what a conservative school board looks like.
Christine, thanks for joining us today.
And I know you're running for re-election.
And you have some others running with you.
Who's all on your slate for re-election?
Sure.
Well, thank you for having me, Teddy.
Yeah, so my slate this year is myself.
Director Dawn Bouquet, Director Jack Fisher, and we have a Mr.
Brian Fells joining us.
Brian is a Air Force veteran.
He is a parent in the Delaware Valley School District and he's running for the first time.
Yeah, so I met, folks, in full disclosure, I met with all these people numerous times.
I had dinner with them.
What was that?
A little over a week ago?
Yeah.
Christine, and let me tell you, these are the right folks for the job, which is why I issued my endorsement for them.
And here's why.
And I'm going to let Christine talk about this.
Christine, during this whole COVID pandemic, and I'm going to get in trouble for the air quotes again.
CNN will have me on, Teddy used COVID in air quotes like it wasn't real.
During the entire COVID pandemic, Christine, explain to people how you and other conservatives on the school board...
Well, thanks, Teddy.
Now, full disclosure on my end, I was not a school board director during the beginning of the pandemic.
I came on board in October of 2021.
Our August meeting of 2020 was when everyone was deciding what they were going to do.
Were schools going to go virtual?
Was there going to be a hybrid approach, which meant a couple of days virtual, a couple of days in school?
And there was a lot of talk back and forth.
A lot of people were under the impression that keeping kids home and trapped in their houses longer was going to help Continue to slow the spread and as the board I was at this meeting and as the board discussed well if we have a hybrid approach are we still going to have co-curriculars?
Will we still have athletics?
Will we still have clubs?
Will the band still get to play?
And as the board members were talking through this it became apparent that if the board selected a hybrid approach these kids were still going to be together For more days than whatever day was chosen for hybrid, whether it be two in school, three at home, or three in school, two at home.
And so it became apparent that if we were really going to try to get kids back into doing activities, the hybrid approach just didn't make sense.
So at that point, one of the directors, I believe it was Jessica Decker, said, you know, why don't we just talk about opening up five days?
We're going to...
Keep the kids farther apart.
We're going to practice social distancing.
We're going to, I can't even tell you how many places, you know, I'll think about my son's middle school right now.
They used for lunches, they used the cafeteria, they used one of the auxiliary gyms, they used the auditorium, they used one of the larger classrooms.
They really took it seriously and did a very good job in Figuring out how to comply with the state regulations at the time and still get these kids back in school so that they could get the education that they all deserved.
So that's a big thing a lot of people don't understand was the state regulations put out by Governor Tom Wolf at the time on what you can and cannot do.
And you guys pretty much took that right up to the line to keep schools open, correct?
Correct.
Well, I'll tell you what, I know the kids probably hated you, but the parents love you to death, okay?
Yes.
So, the second issue, the other big fight that you guys had was the masks issue.
Now, it recently came out in the American Medical Journal that masks were completely ineffective.
During the entire time...
Okay, I'm going to do it again.
This one's for MSNBC. For COVID! Alright?
They were completely unaffected during the entire time of COVID. How did you guys handle the mask policy?
And what did you do?
And I know there's some members on the board that took a lot of backlash personally for this as well.
Yeah, there's a lot of backlash regarding the masks.
So...
Governor Wolf issued a mask mandate.
Well, you know what a mandate is.
You know what Governor Wolf's mandate is.
That's what he used to call him and Rachel Levine going out for dinner.
That was a mandate, okay?
Yeah.
So we received the wording that all students, all teachers, all staff were required to be masked when in school.
But then there was some very nebulous wording around exceptions for that, whether it be a medical exception, you know, something that a child who already had maybe a breathing issue.
There was wording in this mandate, in this resolution that was issued to state that parents had the ability to opt their kids out.
So when you read the resolution by the word, It really said that it did not require a doctor's signature.
Parents were able to opt their kids out.
And I've just been doing some research going back through some of our old meetings, which are all out on YouTube.
September 2021, there was a special meeting where the board gathered to vote to say, we are going to interpret this mandate, this resolution from Governor Wolf Word for word, which meant that our district gave parents the choice to say, to opt their kids out of the mask mandate if they so chose.
Now as a result of that resolution, as a result of that board vote, the district and I believe eight members of the board were sued.
The eight members, actually they sued everybody.
There were five John Doe's that sued the district and the board.
Board members individually and said that you're endangering our kids, you're going against Governor Wolf's resolution, and we want everyone in that school masked no matter what.
And so what happened The Obama-appointed judge issued immediately a TRO, a Temporary Restraining Order, which meant that every single person in all seven of our schools and all of our school buses, school buildings, any school-related function was required to wear a mask.
End of story, no questions asked.
Go down the road a little bit and depositions start.
Not depositions.
The hearing started, and several of our board members, Mr.
Jack Fisher and Ms.
Don Bouquet, were called in to speak at this deposition.
At the end of the deposition, after giving their testimony, this Obama-appointed judge did side with the district and say that You know, we were right in the way we interpreted that resolution.
We weren't trying to pull any punches.
We read the resolution.
It was word for word.
And this is how we interpret it.
And that judge stood behind us and said, yes, you were right.
This was what that mandate or what that resolution said.
So with school board members who were sued personally.
Personally.
Over their interpretation of this unconstitutional order put out by Tom Wolfe, because they stood their ground and said, no, we're not going to mandate masks for children.
If parents want their kids to wear masks, put a mask on them.
That's right.
But for everybody else, we aren't going to mandate it.
Now...
And they didn't cave, and they didn't fold when they were sued.
Like, that's enough right there to make a lot of people fold when they get that personal lawsuit.
Oh, yeah.
It's very easy to say, hey, hands off, I'm done.
You know, we need to do what the governor said, or we need to bow to this lawsuit that just came about by John Doe, no less.
Yes, of course.
Well, that's how that works.
They don't want to put their names on anything.
Mm-hmm.
So Dawn, Jack, and several others who were sued personally, stuck by their guns and stood up for the kids and the parents who did not want masks on their children.
And folks, let me tell you, and I've said this a million times, this is what a conservative school board should look like.
These are the types of people that you need serving in these positions.
Now, I want to talk about, boy, there's a big stink going on right now about books, Christine.
There sure is.
Now, there's this group out there, and it's sad to say, this group, they call themselves Patriots.
Sad to say it.
But they're jumping up and down, screaming about books.
It almost seems like that that is a single issue stance for them.
Books, books, books, books, books.
Tell us what's going on with these books, Christine.
Yeah, so...
I will say this.
I will say this, okay?
I have to say this before you answer.
I am a free speech absolutist, okay?
Once you start banning books, it's almost like the cancel culture.
It never ends, okay?
Now, I am a believer that since these are children, that there needs to be parental control, okay?
For any type of books in the library.
Now, tell me what you guys have done, what policies you have in place about the whole book issue.
Okay, well, thank you.
So, first of all, Delaware Valley does not have any pornography in any of its school libraries.
What the parents are upset about...
Hold on, so there's none.
There's no pornography.
We would never have any...
Pictorial books, any pornography in the library.
Now, Christine, I'm sorry.
I gotta ask.
I gotta ask.
Go ahead.
I've watched several of the school board meetings online, and they go back to about a year ago, where people were standing up and talking about, I even forget the names of them, referencing these books.
Those books are not even in the Delaware Valley Library, correct?
Correct.
Correct.
And as late as last week, Parent got up and read from the bluest eye.
And our previous superintendent, who resigned last June, had said in meetings last year that that book had been checked out during the pandemic, never returned, and is marked in our system as lost.
We're not hiding anything.
It was lost.
The other book, Beyond Magenta, was lost.
Now let me back up a minute.
So these books, there's a group of parents that did some research online and took a list of books that were banned in Texas and then searched them in the Delaware Valley School District to see if we had any of those books.
Several of the parents submitted forms complaining about the books.
One of the books that had a form submitted for it didn't even have any information.
It just had the title of the book.
Now, all of the board members, we split all these books up and we read them.
The two books, the one book that people keep reading from, The Bluest Eye, is gone.
It's been gone for three years.
The other book, Beyond Magenta, is gone for three years.
There were two books that were moved into the parental permission category.
The other books were found to not have any adult material in them.
So now, the parental, where parent choice comes in in this.
Our school district that predates the COVID pandemic, Our school district has always had a policy in place where if there is some mature content in a book, I mean, we're talking about a couple of Stephen King books, right?
Anything that has a little bit of mature content in it is marked as requiring parental permission.
So when a student goes into the library, takes a book off the shelf and tries to check it out, if it comes out as requiring permission, that librarian says, okay, I need to check with your parents before you can check this out.
As soon as I hear back from your parent, we're going to let you take it out.
A friend of mine had a daughter in third grade, wanted to take out a Harry Potter book.
I was just going to ask about that.
Tell us how that went down.
Yep.
On a Harry Potter book.
Tell us how that went down.
So the librarian looked at this eight-year-old child and wasn't sure if the parent wanted the child to read it, wasn't sure if the reading level was appropriate, said, you know what, we're going to check with your parents, we're going to let you take it out once we hear back from your parents.
Called the parents.
The dad said, absolutely, I want her to read this book.
Thank you for checking.
Let her take the book out.
So there are controls.
There have always been controls and they do work.
The controls do work.
So just a couple days ago, I guess somebody's got a lot of free time on their hands and is going through our library database again and found another book that's in there.
As soon as...
No one brought this to the board.
No one submitted a form about it.
No one's using the process.
The way they chose to handle it was to blast it out on Facebook.
So now not only is...
Hey, wait.
Hold on.
Hold on.
Can we go hashtag brave?
Yeah.
That's very brave.
Very brave.
Go ahead.
It's very brave to put it out on Facebook, where now any 13-year-old that has a Facebook account can see this.
Mm-hmm.
I did some research as soon as I saw it.
I contacted the head of our library, our library department, asked a few questions.
The book is in the parental permission category.
So, if any student tries to take it out, it requires parental permission.
It is in the high school, so it's not available to anyone under ninth grade, and it has not been checked out in the last three years.
So, it's not a sought after book.
Now, is there an explicit paragraph or two in it?
Yes, there is.
And what the parents are stating is that the Supreme Court gave school districts the ability to remove content that was pervasively vulgar.
But Teddy, I have yet to see a definition for pervasively vulgar.
We're talking about books.
If we want to interpret pervasively vulgar, one might interpret that as being vulgar from beginning to end or having vulgarity in every chapter so that you cannot get away from it.
But does a paragraph here or there or a page here or there in a two or three hundred page book constitute pervasive vulgarity?
We don't have an answer to that.
That's not pervasive in my mind.
I don't think it does.
And here's where I come in on this, Christine.
The Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D. Salinger, was one of the most banned books in history.
Yes, it was.
Over what?
They dropped the F-bomb a couple times in the book?
Banned books?
Here's what people don't understand.
You guys, as a school board, have put the power...
Into the hands of the parents, okay?
The way I see it, it is not the education system's responsibility to raise our children.
That is the parent's responsibility to raise your children.
And if there are books that may be above a certain child's level and they need parental control, You know what?
Great.
I love that.
But here's what I want to say about this, too.
Turn on any hip-hop song on today's radio.
Okay?
Kids today, unfortunately, at their fingertips, most of them, have one of these.
Okay?
They can go on Google and see anything that they want to see.
They can search anything they want to search.
You get in the car, you turn on the radio.
I mean, what I hear playing across the radio nowadays would be, what's the term?
Pervasive vulgarity?
Yes, that's the term.
Okay.
From these books that haven't been, there's one book that hasn't been checked out in three years.
One paragraph that might be sexual in nature and the other books that they're reading from, The Bluest Eye and Beyond Magenta, you're telling me they're not even in the library?
Correct.
So what is this group's issue then?
You guys have gone above and beyond to put power in the hands of the parents.
School board members have been sued personally for fighting back against unconstitutional mask mandates.
You kept the schools open during the fake pandemic.
This one's for CBS. Fake pandemic.
Why are you guys, so it's my understanding you guys are seeking or looking at primary challengers.
Are you kidding me?
Like, okay, so fill me in.
Why are you guys being primary?
Because we have not done what this group of people who comes to our meetings has asked us to do.
We've been told that it's very easy to adopt a new library policy.
We haven't done it.
Therefore, we are complacent and not doing our jobs, and we don't deserve to have them anymore.
What's the library policy that they want?
I don't know.
You'd have to ask them.
I think they want us to put parameters around what specifically can come into the library.
But the problem with that is, you said it earlier, Teddy, you kicked off the segment with it.
When you start doing that, where do you stop?
If we say, if we bow to this pressure and say, okay, we're going to take these two books because they contain three paragraphs that are offensive to some parents.
If we remove them from the library, then what's next?
Well, the Bible is offensive to a lot of non-Christians.
Yes, it is.
Could that be the next one on a ban list?
Sure could be.
Okay, there's many out there on the left that the American flag is offensive to.
Are we going to see that disappear from schools, too, because it's offensive?
Right.
Not from DV, but I absolutely agree with you.
So at what point does the cancel culture stop?
Right.
It's a very slippery slope.
And that is why we keep going back to parental choice.
And a lot of people that are screaming for these books to be removed, say they are for parental choice, as long as kids have a choice that's appropriate by what they deem.
But you already have that through your policies.
That's already done.
You can't have it both ways.
You can't say, I want parental choice, but I get to choose for your child what's even in the library.
That's not parental choice.
We have woven through all of our policies.
It is part of the fabric of Delaware Valley parental choice.
In fact, the board is set tomorrow night to re-approve a policy called family and parent engagement.
It's policy number 917.
We are required as a board to go through every one of our policies every five years.
It's just coincidental this one's on the agenda.
We discussed it last week.
It's on the agenda to be approved tomorrow night.
As you know, Teddy, we have a new superintendent at Delaware Valley.
His first official day as superintendent was December 23rd, 2022.
Prior to that, we were lucky to have Dr.
Charlene Brennan, who was a previous director of the Colonial IU, the Intermediate Unit 20 in Pennsylvania.
She has worked extensively with school districts.
She has, since her retirement, been superintendent in other school districts.
She has a wide array of knowledge about how things have worked in other districts within Pennsylvania.
On her last meeting as superintendent, she gave a few words to everybody about her experience.
And one of the things that Dr.
Brennan said was that in her experience in the IU, so this is a, I think there's 13 school districts.
It's fairly large an area.
Delaware Valley has one of the most parent forward policies that she's ever seen.
As acting superintendent, she went through our policy.
She needed to understand our policy so she could appropriately govern.
And she said she hasn't seen another school district that has as many policies that give parents As much leeway as Delaware Valley gives its parents.
If you're a parent and you don't want your child to read the book that's being done in their English class, you can opt your child out of it.
If you don't want your child to take a book out of the library, you have the ability to opt your child out of it.
If you have open communication with your children's teachers and your children's principals, you have a lot of say as a Delaware Valley parent in what your child learns and what books they read.
So, and that's all any parent could ask for.
Christine, I'm a dad, okay?
I don't agree with a lot of the stuff that goes on in the schools, but if I have a say and I have a control over what happens with my child in the school, that's all that matters to me.
And I believe that's all that matters to To 99% of the parents out there.
Okay, you know what?
The school says, my child doesn't have to partake in this lesson or read this book.
Too easy.
Doesn't have to.
No repercussions.
No nothing.
Right.
So, there was recently something overturned in your school district, too.
Some sort of equity language or equity program.
Talk to me about that.
Yes, so...
Back in August of 2020, when the school board was weighing how to open schools and going through that whole decision-making process, there was a policy that got approved called equity education.
It was policy number 832.
At the time, the board was told that it was required for Title I. Delaware Valley has always proudly offered Title I to our families.
It is a reading program.
So for any student who needs extra help in reading, this Title I takes them out of the classroom and gives them their reading assignments in a more personal one-on-one way to really help the kids and really work with them.
It's a fantastic program.
My kids haven't Participated in it, but I have friends whose kids have been in it, and they rave about it.
So this equity education program, this equity policy, it was interesting.
Director Bouquet did a lot of research on that policy, and most of our policies at DV point to law, right?
We have this policy because of this law.
We have this policy, you click on this link, it takes you to the law.
That the policy is written about.
This equity policy referenced 35 other Delaware Valley policies.
So it's not based in any law.
It had a lot of terms like equity lens, implicit bias.
The biggest problem for a lot of us was this reporting component that this policy wanted the district to spend a lot of time and a lot of money slicing and dicing our students in any sort of way you can.
By race, by gender, by grade, by socioeconomic status.
We don't collect socioeconomic data.
Who are we to do a salami slice on how kids are doing in school because of how much money their parents make?
Yep, I agree.
I agree.
Reporting, this whole reporting end of that policy was really very problematic.
So what we did was we did a lot of research on our other policies to make sure that the equitable education components of that policy are covered in other areas, so that if we decided to rescind that policy, our kids weren't going to miss out.
Because the last thing we want to do is take away a policy and have it adversely affect the kids.
Well, we have equitable education in many of our other policies and in all of our handbooks.
We have 22% of our student population is special needs.
Equity is hugely important to our special education parents because there's a lot of kids who don't learn the way their peers learn.
We have a woman who comes and speaks at our board meetings regularly.
Her daughter is in that category and she has said at board meetings, if you put a math book in front of my daughter, it's not going to mean anything to her.
Education to her is very different than it is to other students.
So we determined in our research that all of our policies and our handbooks absolutely provide for the right education for the child, for the student.
And we determined that with rescinding this policy was not going to have any adverse effect on our students at all, and in fact took the onus of that reporting off of the district.
And so the board voted in our, just the last regular meeting in February, we rescinded policy 832, It wasn't helping our kids.
And all it was doing was putting a lot of reporting on us that didn't seem to make sense.
We already look at the grades.
We already look at it by cohort.
We've done a lot of extensive research into that.
We had a presentation by Dr.
James Purcell just last month on what parts of testing kids are doing well on and what parts they're not.
So we do the research and we know where we need to do better and where we're already doing well.
So that policy really wasn't doing anything for us.
That is incredible.
And let me tell you, you guys have really come under attack by those on the far left for your policies, for not forcing a woke liberal agenda down the throats of children.
It still baffles me, Christine, why somebody on the right would attack you and try to replace people like you in office.
And here's my philosophy.
When there are good people out there doing a job and going above and beyond and getting sued personally and For standing up for children and not backing down in the face of lawsuits, you and the other members of your slate are the people that conservatives need to coalesce around.
What are your thoughts on some of these attacks that you and the others have been facing?
Yeah, you know, it's really disheartening.
One of the most disheartening things that's happening now is Our board is made up of DV parents or prior DV parents.
We know what's going on in the schools.
And we say that and people shake their heads and think we're lying.
That's the part that bothers me the most, I think, is that most of the people challenging us are new to Pike County, don't have any kids in the district.
All they know about our schools is what they read on Facebook and what they hear at these meetings.
So they saw it on Facebook.
So it must be true.
It must be true.
Okay.
Yeah.
So that's the frustrating part.
We feel we are in a unique position because we are conservative.
We're conservative, but we're also beholden to the law.
If you look at our board policies, the ones specifically about how the board needs to operate, they all refer back to the law.
The board shall do this in accordance with the law.
It's in all of our policies.
So We can't pick and choose which laws we follow.
Either we follow the laws or we don't.
If we don't, we're not doing our fiduciary duty to the people who put us in office.
And we certainly are not helping the 4,300 students in our district who are depending on us for their education.
I mean, that's the bottom line, is that the people on the board now are in this for the kids.
We want to make sure that their education is appropriate.
We want to make sure that they're safe.
And we want to make sure that we're keeping some of those more progressive agendas that expose children.
I'm not talking about high school, not the written word in the high school library.
I'm talking about programs in the curriculum in primary and elementary schools That are inappropriate for children.
Keep them out.
And so it's just disheartening that a small faction of other conservatives find us to be so offensive because we defend the written word.
We defend parents' choice.
And we defend parents' choice to the effect of you as a parent, Teddy, get to choose it.
I don't get to sit here as another parent and say, Teddy, you know what?
I don't think your son should be reading that.
It's okay for my kids.
It's not okay for your kids.
Exactly.
That is not my place.
Now, Christine, what do you guys get paid yearly to be a school board member in Delaware Valley?
We are not paid.
It is unpaid.
So you're doing all this for nothing.
We all do it for nothing.
You guys are getting sued personally for nothing.
Yes.
You guys are getting attacked by lunatics for nothing.
Yes.
Is that what's happening?
That is what's happening.
I mean, which I hope goes to show the majority of our constituents are parents.
Parents of actual kids that actually go to our schools.
Most of them see what's happening.
Most of them understand the responsibilities of a school board.
Most of them do not want to get involved in what's going on right now because it's Aggravating to them.
They know what's going on.
They have a say in their kids' education.
An involved parent knows what their student is doing in school.
They don't have an issue.
It's this small faction of people, some of whom don't even have kids in our district, who have the biggest problem with us.
I'll tell you this, Christine.
Obviously, I came out and endorsed your slate of candidates because you guys have stood in the gap.
You've taken the heat.
You've taken the bullets.
You've taken the fire.
And you guys continue to stand there and do what's best.
And ultimately, it's all about the kids, okay?
That's what matters the most.
It's not supposed to be politically charged or anything like that.
It's what is best for the kids.
And I think the fact that your parental choice policy is there, which is something that is very rare across this country, That alone tells me that you guys are the right ones for the job.
Now, as you know, since I've issued my endorsement for your sleep, I've come under attack.
Imagine that.
And it's not on policy.
It's personal attacks.
And here's why.
I've had many people from this patriot group reach out to me and ask me for my endorsement.
I endorsed you guys.
So now, I'm the biggest POS to walk the face of the earth.
Teddy's this, Teddy's that, Teddy's this, Teddy's that.
But yet, if I had endorsed you, oh, I'd still be good.
I'd still be good.
So the funny thing is, is...
Folks, in case you haven't already figured this out, there's hate pages out there about me, mostly run by radical leftists, and leaders of this group have now joined forces with the Teddy Daniels hate page groups, who, again, they hate me, they hate our Republican gubernatorial candidate, Doug Mastriano.
They hate Donald Trump.
And, well, we'll see how that works out for them.
But it's their tactics.
It's their tactics that I haven't...
Oh, just in case you guys didn't know, apparently all these on the wall behind me are fake.
I didn't earn any of them.
They're all fake.
They're all fake medals, according to people posting in their group.
So this is what happens, folks, when you stand...
On the right side of things.
The arrows get thrown, the rocks get tossed, and you come under fire.
And, you know, I'm thankful that I have the platform that I have.
I wake up every day and I'm thankful for it.
And, Christine, for you guys to do what you're doing for the children in the Delaware Valley School District, for no money, okay, for And to get blasted by a group who, unfortunately, I truly believe is uninformed.
Do you think that they're just uninformed, Christine?
Unfortunately, a lot of them are uninformed.
And the other sad part of it is there's a big to-do now because we are trying to get away from back and forth in our meetings because it's gotten very unproductive.
Yeah.
We've answered questions all the time.
We've answered many questions for years.
It was always a very open forum.
The problem is we've given answers and because they're not the answers that some people want, we just get the same questions month after month after month.
So even when we do provide information and we do write in the meetings on tape, give an answer, It's just not taken seriously.
It's ignored.
Well, do you think that they're actually there for the right and serious reasons, or do you think this is just a showboating type thing that they try to do?
I don't know, to be honest with you, Teddy.
It could be a little bit of showboating.
I think in their heads they think they're there for the right reasons.
But we've had people come in and bring politics into our boardroom.
You know, we had one person stand up and, oh, do any of the board members up for election wish to answer this question?
No, I'm not going to respond to that.
I don't answer questions at a board meeting because I'm up for election.
Well, and that tells me, Christine, that their motive is about elections and it's not truly about what's best for the children in the school district.
That's just my opinion.
But that's what those kind of tactics tell me about The way that they're conducting themselves.
And the sad part is, you know, I'm sure that many in this group, we may agree on 99%.
Absolutely.
We may agree on 99% of things, but because I endorsed you, Dawn Bouquet, Jack Fisher, and Brian Fels, No, I'm a big POS. And again, that's just not how politics should be.
Christine, you've known me politically for some time.
I have no problem biting my tongue.
But I never attack first.
And I have literally had members of this group physically threaten me because of an endorsement that I gave.
Another person who was posting in their group, I actually had to file a report with the Pennsylvania State Police because he doesn't even live in this area, but did a 270-mile round trip to try to ambush me at breakfast with my five-year-old son.
and that posted how he was trying to find my house.
So, like, that is the mentality of the people posting in this group that we're dealing with.
And quite honestly, we don't need that type of mentality in charge of policy for children.
That's exactly right.
And that's where the difference is.
Those of us who are in this for the kids are doing our best to ignore.
I have a very good friend that calls it the noise, the people who just keep saying the same thing over and over again and focusing on one issue.
In this case, it's books.
We are there for the kids.
I'm not there to get on TV. I don't sit at that table every month so that the side of my head is broadcast on YouTube.
That's not why I'm a school board director.
You know, we take these meetings seriously.
You know, the other frustrating thing is it's budget season.
We run a 93 million dollar budget.
93 million dollars seems to not mean much to people because of a couple of paragraphs in a library book.
So making school board meetings, decisions, making that political, you're right.
It's just taking it away from the kids.
I don't want my kids governed by politics.
I want my kids' schools governed by people who understand how a public school works, who have been in the schools, who know what's What's appropriate for them, what's not in the curriculum, not sitting on a shelf in a library.
That's not part of the debate.
And Christine, you know, you may know this.
Our viewers may not know this.
Over the past three years, I have stood arm in arm with parents across the state of Pennsylvania against school boards who were not doing the right thing.
And I've never had to worry about the Delaware Valley School District because you guys always stood up and did the right thing by the parents.
A quick recap here, Christine, before we end this interview.
You guys kept school open during COVID. You...
Did not initiate a mandatory mask policy.
Parents' choice, okay?
There is no pornography in the Delaware Valley Library.
Anything that could even remotely be considered close.
And again, that's at a personal discretion that somebody may look at something and say that that's pornographic.
You need parental control.
And you guys have parental control on books like Harry Potter to get signed out of the library.
Folks, this is what...
A conservative, parent-focused school board looks like.
And if your school boards do not look like the school board that Christine Agron is on with Dawn Bouquet and Jack Fisher, those are the school boards that you need to try to change.
Because these folks have gone above and beyond.
Like I said, they've been sued personally.
They've gone against governor, dictators, I hate to even call them mandates, but unconstitutional orders to close schools.
They've gone against all of that.
And they've put everything back in the hands of the parents.
Christine, I'm going to give you a final word on this.
Oh, thank you, Teddy.
I want to thank you, first of all, for this forum and for believing in us.
You know, it's one thing that we really truly believe in our district.
We believe in ourselves.
And I think that's because we all know that we're doing it for the kids.
We're doing it to keep our kids safe.
We're doing it to make sure they get a good education.
So to be able to come here and tell everybody else Some of the things that are going on, I think is a wonderful opportunity.
And I agree with you.
Listen, Everyone should get involved.
I haven't always been involved in school boards.
I've been involved in PTAs since my kids were in kindergarten.
I've been in four of the schools on a regular basis in our district for the last eight years or so.
I've been involved in my kids' education for 12 years.
If your board is not doing something the way you feel it should be done, if they are not adhering to the values to which you adhere, There's a way to go about changing that.
Run for office, but do it on policy.
Going into school boards, yelling and screaming, attacking, not listening, all that does is turn people off from what it is you're trying to accomplish.
So if you do want to run for office, if you do feel that your district or your school or whatever it may be needs change, do it the right way.
Search the policies.
Don't ignore the information that people who know are giving to you.
And then run on the policies.
Run on the policies, not on hearsay, not on the written word.
I mean, the written word is very sacred to a lot of people.
Know what your argument is and then go forward and make that argument in a way that's going to garner respect and not garner contempt.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Christine, like I said, you guys are a shining example of what every school board in America should look like.
I applaud you and the others on the school board for the work that you have done to make it that way.
And to our viewers out there, if you want to know what your school board needs to look like, this is it right here, okay?
One of the most conservative school boards, I have to say, in the state of Pennsylvania.
Possibly in the country.
So, graduation rates through the roof.
I mean, these guys do an incredible job.
And Christine, I can't thank you enough for joining us today.
Thank you and keep up the great work and keep doing what you're doing.
Thank you.
And thank you so much for having me on today, Teddy.
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They get rid of their equity crap.
They don't allow the pornography on the shelves in their classrooms.
You even heard her say there was a child who wanted to sign out Harry Potter and the librarian said, well, got to check with your parent.
If your parent thinks that you can sign out Harry Potter, then your parent can sign out Harry Potter for you.
People normally don't think of pornography when they think of Harry Potter.
So, folks, there's four members.
Three current and one that's running with them looking for re-election.
We have to support every single one of them.
Dawn Bouquet, Christine Agron, Jack Fisher, and Brian Fels.
Folks, they have my unyielding support and endorsement in their school board race.
You know, there's some races out there, there's some school boards out there where I would say, you know what, this person or that person might need a challenge.
Not in this case.
When you've been sued personally, in your position as a school board director, and you still don't back down Folks, that's enough for me right there.
It tells me, hey, you've proven your salt, okay?
They don't get paid anything.
And they still stood in the gap for our kids, even at their own personal peril.
That is conviction.
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Let me tell you, things really change.
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