Hiring Board: Well, you know we can't ask you about.
Candidate: I understand... That would be completely inappropriate. **Then pulls out a Chick-fil-a sandwich, and takes of jacket revealing an "All lives matter" shirt.** You know I never liked rainbows.
Some of the most mean-spirited, bigoted, and intolerant people I have ever known, never missed church. You don't have to get very far into the bloody, gory history of Europe to realize 'Christian' is definitely not a synonym for moral. It's pretty clear what this board is looking for, and it will scare away a lot of well-qualified people.
How do they know that conservative Christians makeup the majority in the community? Or makeup the majority of the parents sending their children to school in that community. Just because that’s who gets elected to the school board doesn’t mean that’s who is living there. School board elections are generally held in April, low voter turnout is the defining feature of the non-November elections, the candidates rarely every debate or speak to the public in a way that voters can determine their true colors, the candidates create bios and make statements to the press that are vague and unclear, talking mostly about fiscal responsibility and any dog whistles are missed by the majority of voters unless they desire them, and the toxic bs editorials the candidates write and spread online are left anonymous for those who agree to recognize. I know about things like this because I have the time and interest to do research on things, but parents of school aged children often are overwhelmed and don’t understand the implications of what is being disseminated. I know “family values” is really code for “I hate LGBTQ people” but a tired mother of four children active in different extracurricular activities each night, may not have the time to dissemble the codes. This last election one school board candidate in my village actually said the quiet part out loud, but if there hadn’t been vigilant folks connecting his past statements to what the paper printed, no one, or maybe just not enough voters, would have noticed his toxicity. (He lost by a major landslide) So often folks will just vote for the incumbent because they already are there and know what to do. Or whichever candidate spends more to get the fliers into the homes. One candidate on my ballot walked the neighborhoods leaving fliers while the other mailed them multiple times, there was a difference in the quality of the fliers as well. Looking at Wisconsin’s senate race, Tammy Baldwin vs. Eric Hovde, Hovde is a fecking billionaire, shipped in from California, promising to donate his congressional salary to charity claiming he can’t be bought. Baldwin has been legislating with progress as a goal. Hovde may not be bought, but he certainly can buy his seat, (only if we let him, I won’t sit down for it). But when it comes to the little local elections, they’re far more difficult to decipher, and it comes down to name recognition and cash expended. I highly doubt the community is as conservative or Christian as the school board claims, even in the Sheboygan area.
Whether or not they removed the words “Christian” & ”conservative” from the list of requirements, it’s hard to believe they won’t be hiring based on them. So tired of these damn school boards
“Excellent problem solving and looking to the future, thinking outside the box to create a positive change and approach…”
This requirement is mutually exclusive to “conservative politically and fiscally” as well as the conservative Christian expectation. Thinking outside the box and considering the future are the antithesis of conservatism. Besides, you cannot solve problems when you are the problem.
"𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘴" ...yeah, unfortunately those are gonna be antithetical to... literally all of the other shit down the list from this shit.
"𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯" ...is the last damn thing any conservative these days would be caught dead doing. Except, perhaps, by destroying anyone or anything they're in conflict with.
"𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨" ...that sounds an awful lot like talking about your 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴. Don't go all mushy on me now!
"𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘹 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦" ...we're on the verge of an actual revelation, here. Keep going, we'll get there yet!
"𝘍𝘭𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦" ...I dunno, guys, this list is sounding awful 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 to me. Which brings us to the last thing on your list- and I gotta be honest, I was 𝘯𝘰𝘵 expecting to ever hear this line from a conservative, because...
I do not give any credence to the good faith argument. The Board got caught is the only reason they backed down. Secretly the Board is still looking only at christians.
I guess we should be glad they didn’t write “Someone ready to close down the woke grooming Marxist public school system and replace it with the private Bishop Ussher Science Academy.”
Are you sure? Your text says the SB hired an outside firm, who then conducted 12 focus groups with community members. Those focus groups are going to be voluntary and self-selected. Which often (but not always) means the weirdos with an axe to grind volunteer their time, while the normal folks with lives don't bother. Consider that this could very much be like textbook selection - the community members who get highly involved are typically the ones with a (religious) agenda, not anyone who thinks "hmmm, the last edition of that textbook was great. So I'd better volunteer many hours of my family time to make sure this one is too."
I suspect here that the outside firm did not make any mistakes. I suspect they provided an accurate summary of the focus group results to the SB. "Christian" is what the focus groups said they wanted, and it's the firm's job to communicate that to their employers.
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Though what amazed me the most is that there are no technical qualifications listed at all. Masters or PhD in education? Past experience running schools or business experience running businesses? Prior SB experience (since they're looking for a SB *leader*)? Nope, nope, nope. For sure, communication and leadership etc. are important skills, but they need to be demonstrated in use by past relevant experience. Yet there is no past relevant experience called for. Weird.
You've got to remember that these are just simple conservatives. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new mid-West. You know... morons.
That list was so full of corporate-speak consultant gibberish it made my eyes glaze over. I'm so glad that I'm retired so I don't have to put up with that nonsense anymore.
I’ll play a conspiracy theorist here: the district put that out purposefully to let any applicants know what the rules for candidacy are. Then pulled it once everyone knew and put the legal one out. I find it hard to believe that the district did an oopsie. Hard to imagine they don’t have an HR or legal department that vets this stuff first.
Mistake, huh? Maybe in the sense that it was a working document and they'd meant to go back and find other ways of stating the same thing. And this is textbook christian nationalist behavior. They think America is only for them, so it's hardly surprising that when in authority, they govern to benefit their group, only hire more of their group, and so on. It's outright incompatible with the idea of democracy and a multicultural society. I would suggest Russia for them. Christian, right wing, their kind of people. What's not to love?
The Christofascists are trying to make their locales as unfriendly, unpalatable, and unwelcoming as they can. Their (almost) unstated goal is to push out everyone who isn't one of 'them'. They want to live in their own little bubble of like-minded people without ever a thought that their mini-Gileads are economically untenable.
Hiring Board: Well, you know we can't ask you about.
Candidate: I understand... That would be completely inappropriate. **Then pulls out a Chick-fil-a sandwich, and takes of jacket revealing an "All lives matter" shirt.** You know I never liked rainbows.
Hiring Board: You're perfect!
Some of the most mean-spirited, bigoted, and intolerant people I have ever known, never missed church. You don't have to get very far into the bloody, gory history of Europe to realize 'Christian' is definitely not a synonym for moral. It's pretty clear what this board is looking for, and it will scare away a lot of well-qualified people.
How do they know that conservative Christians makeup the majority in the community? Or makeup the majority of the parents sending their children to school in that community. Just because that’s who gets elected to the school board doesn’t mean that’s who is living there. School board elections are generally held in April, low voter turnout is the defining feature of the non-November elections, the candidates rarely every debate or speak to the public in a way that voters can determine their true colors, the candidates create bios and make statements to the press that are vague and unclear, talking mostly about fiscal responsibility and any dog whistles are missed by the majority of voters unless they desire them, and the toxic bs editorials the candidates write and spread online are left anonymous for those who agree to recognize. I know about things like this because I have the time and interest to do research on things, but parents of school aged children often are overwhelmed and don’t understand the implications of what is being disseminated. I know “family values” is really code for “I hate LGBTQ people” but a tired mother of four children active in different extracurricular activities each night, may not have the time to dissemble the codes. This last election one school board candidate in my village actually said the quiet part out loud, but if there hadn’t been vigilant folks connecting his past statements to what the paper printed, no one, or maybe just not enough voters, would have noticed his toxicity. (He lost by a major landslide) So often folks will just vote for the incumbent because they already are there and know what to do. Or whichever candidate spends more to get the fliers into the homes. One candidate on my ballot walked the neighborhoods leaving fliers while the other mailed them multiple times, there was a difference in the quality of the fliers as well. Looking at Wisconsin’s senate race, Tammy Baldwin vs. Eric Hovde, Hovde is a fecking billionaire, shipped in from California, promising to donate his congressional salary to charity claiming he can’t be bought. Baldwin has been legislating with progress as a goal. Hovde may not be bought, but he certainly can buy his seat, (only if we let him, I won’t sit down for it). But when it comes to the little local elections, they’re far more difficult to decipher, and it comes down to name recognition and cash expended. I highly doubt the community is as conservative or Christian as the school board claims, even in the Sheboygan area.
Sorry for the wall of text.
Whether or not they removed the words “Christian” & ”conservative” from the list of requirements, it’s hard to believe they won’t be hiring based on them. So tired of these damn school boards
“Excellent problem solving and looking to the future, thinking outside the box to create a positive change and approach…”
This requirement is mutually exclusive to “conservative politically and fiscally” as well as the conservative Christian expectation. Thinking outside the box and considering the future are the antithesis of conservatism. Besides, you cannot solve problems when you are the problem.
"𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘴" ...yeah, unfortunately those are gonna be antithetical to... literally all of the other shit down the list from this shit.
"𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯" ...is the last damn thing any conservative these days would be caught dead doing. Except, perhaps, by destroying anyone or anything they're in conflict with.
"𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨" ...that sounds an awful lot like talking about your 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴. Don't go all mushy on me now!
"𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘹 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦" ...we're on the verge of an actual revelation, here. Keep going, we'll get there yet!
"𝘍𝘭𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦" ...I dunno, guys, this list is sounding awful 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 to me. Which brings us to the last thing on your list- and I gotta be honest, I was 𝘯𝘰𝘵 expecting to ever hear this line from a conservative, because...
"𝘌𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴" ...good job, y'all! You 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 managed to define "𝘄𝗼𝗸𝗲."
I do not give any credence to the good faith argument. The Board got caught is the only reason they backed down. Secretly the Board is still looking only at christians.
I guess we should be glad they didn’t write “Someone ready to close down the woke grooming Marxist public school system and replace it with the private Bishop Ussher Science Academy.”
𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑘𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦.
Are you sure? Your text says the SB hired an outside firm, who then conducted 12 focus groups with community members. Those focus groups are going to be voluntary and self-selected. Which often (but not always) means the weirdos with an axe to grind volunteer their time, while the normal folks with lives don't bother. Consider that this could very much be like textbook selection - the community members who get highly involved are typically the ones with a (religious) agenda, not anyone who thinks "hmmm, the last edition of that textbook was great. So I'd better volunteer many hours of my family time to make sure this one is too."
I suspect here that the outside firm did not make any mistakes. I suspect they provided an accurate summary of the focus group results to the SB. "Christian" is what the focus groups said they wanted, and it's the firm's job to communicate that to their employers.
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Though what amazed me the most is that there are no technical qualifications listed at all. Masters or PhD in education? Past experience running schools or business experience running businesses? Prior SB experience (since they're looking for a SB *leader*)? Nope, nope, nope. For sure, communication and leadership etc. are important skills, but they need to be demonstrated in use by past relevant experience. Yet there is no past relevant experience called for. Weird.
You've got to remember that these are just simple conservatives. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new mid-West. You know... morons.
That list was so full of corporate-speak consultant gibberish it made my eyes glaze over. I'm so glad that I'm retired so I don't have to put up with that nonsense anymore.
Maybe it was listed elsewhere, but I don't see any requirement for an advanced education in, you know, education.
I’ll play a conspiracy theorist here: the district put that out purposefully to let any applicants know what the rules for candidacy are. Then pulled it once everyone knew and put the legal one out. I find it hard to believe that the district did an oopsie. Hard to imagine they don’t have an HR or legal department that vets this stuff first.
Mistake, huh? Maybe in the sense that it was a working document and they'd meant to go back and find other ways of stating the same thing. And this is textbook christian nationalist behavior. They think America is only for them, so it's hardly surprising that when in authority, they govern to benefit their group, only hire more of their group, and so on. It's outright incompatible with the idea of democracy and a multicultural society. I would suggest Russia for them. Christian, right wing, their kind of people. What's not to love?
The Christofascists are trying to make their locales as unfriendly, unpalatable, and unwelcoming as they can. Their (almost) unstated goal is to push out everyone who isn't one of 'them'. They want to live in their own little bubble of like-minded people without ever a thought that their mini-Gileads are economically untenable.
Mike Richie says it was mistake. Uh, sure Jan...er, Mike.
Sounds like someone got caught and is now doing damage control.