"Woke" is bad, yet Qanon is always screaming they need to "wake up the normies"

I have not noticed any odd smell or residue on my car.

Lehigh Valley, Pa

What did it smell like?

I live in lower Bucks and we smelled something really bad about a day ago. Thought it was Dow Chemical but now I’m not sure.

OR...maybe they realized that doing business with fascists is bad PR and therefore bad for the PR business they are in. That's a reason and not random.

Your ignorance is what’s funny

My wife’s (a Pa teacher) health insurance is listed at something like 40 grand, on top of the 60 some grand she makes in actual income, in one of the poorer districts in the state. So 120k doesn’t seem like much of a stretch in some districts.

Also, Republicans completely made up the bullshit around CRT, raised stupid money off of it and put it into school boards around the country.

Obviously it caught everyone off guard because they're small races that were apolitical. Central Bucks looks sane compared to Pennridge, a few miles away, because Pennridge is packed with Q anon believers and people who went to Jan 6th

Isn’t it not their decision? Kids are free to choose to attend BIT at their own will

And yet people still voted for them and their shit policies

Long story short, Devine + Partners refuses to partner with you no matter the cost.

Teacher pay scales also heavily depend on getting those extra degrees. In order to maximize potential pay and get a bigger pay band you have to keep going back to school. Most students don’t realize their teachers in suburban schools have at minimum one masters degree but some of my coworkers have 2 or 3 or even doctorates.

Yup, they've got a monopoly on the area because they lobby to keep their infrastructure the only option to use around here. It doesn't matter that they're terrible because there's no other option.

Companies like T-Mobile get around that by using hotspots and cell towers but that's only gonna work if there's land available to compete with!

Because there are two billionaires willing to fund these people when school board races are usually apolitical races

You’re deflecting in order to not address the point at hand. I’m sure the PR firm who was raking in easy cash from the district just randomly decided to part ways for no reason whatsoever… yeah that sounds about right. Use your brain, even a little bit.

Edit: I can’t reply for some reason, but the argument here is not about whether it’s right or not right to ban books. People obviously can have differing opinions there. The point I’m making is that, especially on Reddit, we love to believe that harassment and violence comes from just one side. This is yet another example of that not actually being the case.

Folks from both the left and the right have a tendency to resort to to these tactics when they feel disenfranchised. You can choose to believe it or not but the proof is right here in the pudding.

Not really. I'm literally saying that I think it's bullshit, and I don't believe them.

Nice deflection!

Probably the poor LGBTQ student who has both decent grades and put up with this

Ahh, thanks! I couldn’t see that on my phone. Just looked it up on my PC and can navigate/see it much better.

My question is if they are causing this much trouble (the school board) how did they even get elected in the first place? Last I checked aren’t school boards voted on by parents.

If you click on individual teachers, you can see their salaries.

For example:

https://govsalaries.com/martys-mary-144630421

The people who banned books said it happened so it must be true.

Those figures include administration. And those numbers would be significantly skewed by the administration's inclusion. It is more likely the person making $196,000 a year is the district superintendent, not a teacher.

It’s one thing to say “don’t represent people who ban books” and another to harass and threaten. The latter is also illegal. You can try to manipulate, boil it down, and turn a blind eye to it all you want but it doesn’t change the facts of what’s happening. The narrative here is constantly that violence and harassment is a staple of the right and yet here is yet another example of that not strictly being the case.

I’m gonna guess that it’s probably just people calling them out on social media for doing PR for book banners.