Pennridge School Board faces angry public over curriculum, rescheduling issues

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At another contentious Pennridge School Board meeting Monday night, Bucks County residents pressed board members on issues ranging from the school curriculum to the last-minute postponement of last week's meeting.

During Monday's initial public comment, many attendees took issue with "Policy 109," which the board passed last fall to regulate use of reading materials in school libraries.

According to the district's communication office, the policy is designed to establish "comprehensive, varied, and age-appropriate resources" for students, and it includes a review process for challenging materials that do not meet these standards.

Later during the meeting, attendees also took issue with the district's contract with Vermillion Education — a consultant with ties to Hillsdale College, a private Christian school in Michigan — to revise school curriculum for K-12 students. Transparency was again a major issue, as several residents expressed displeasure with both the content and the vague terms of the contract.

Speaking in opposition to the contract, Foster said the Vermillion deal amounted to an "indoctrination of religion" into Pennridge schools. She accused the board of following a political agenda promoted by "DeSantis and Abbott," referring to the Republican governors of Florida and Texas, respectively.

Levy called the contract "fiscally irresponsible," due to the lack of a clear compensation amount for Vermillion.

"How can we possibly be hiring someone with no responsibility?" Levy asked the board.


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[Timeflyer]

1. Vermillion Ed is a spanking-new little grift organization that is being shoved on school districts

that have been taken over by Proud Moms for Bigotry christofascist politicians. Ultimate aim--suck public tax-dollars away from public education, install corporate charter schools. Privatize profit--money!

[FakeNoose]

2. As always, a few angry conservative parents are driving this

If Hillsdale College is involved, we can be sure it's another conservative indoctrination program.

Under Policy 109, they don't say they're "banning" books in the school libraries, but the process is understood. Policy 109 probably came from Hillsdale also. The new Policy 109 rule is that all planned purchases of books for elementary and middle school libraries must be posted 2 weeks ahead. It gives the irate conservatives enough time to raise a stink.

If the objectionable (liberal-sounding) materials never get purchased, they don't have to be "banned" later.

Mission accomplished!