Agenda - 09-06-2022; 8-a - Minutes

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17 1 members or a superintendent that wanted to talk about white nationalist hate groups and 2 showed a news video of the protest near the football game. She said that those students were 3 not even at the protest to give an accurate statement. She asked if they were aware that this 4 protest was organized by students to originally take place in the student parking lot but that it 5 was shutdown by intimidation and threats by the principal. She said that is how it ended up 6 taking place off of school property. She said that the Board is being played by a group of 7 activists that are intolerant to different voices and that they are falling right into the trap. She 8 said that the goal is to take away small bits of their freedoms here and there and that it isn't 9 noticed when it falls under the guise of safety. She said that it is then further validated by 10 virtuous praises and agreements with one another. She said they are being subverted and now 11 they all believe in more control and more restrictions on the people. She said that the next thing 12 they know is there will be zero rights and that includes the commissioners. She said that when 13 you trade security for liberty, you lose both. She said they could stop this now by voting against 14 the ordinance. 15 Dylan Sylvan said he got an email about this proposed ordinance, and he said he 16 appreciates what the Board does. He said he went through the Orange County school system 17 and had a few hiccups, but it was a great experience growing up here. He said he's concerned 18 about what the next generation is being taught. He said there wasn't a lot of controversy about 19 what was being taught and it seems that has come back. He said that this seems to be the 20 heart of the issue, but he is not an expert on it. He said that he is worried on the effect of an 21 ordinance that is very broad where it puts law enforcement in a position where they aren't 22 enforcing the law, they are enforcing the dictates of the facility that is in a position of authority. 23 He said this gets into a situation where they are the police, and this is similar to trespassing 24 laws. He said this gives police a framework who has a right to be there even if one might not 25 agree with what someone has to say. He said this is what is tearing out country apart. He said 26 we need to get to a place where the law isn't being used against each other. 27 Laurie Teper said she is concerned with 8-s. She said she is outraged that they are 28 considering passing it. She said it has nothing to do with safety of children and is targeted at 29 parents. She said this will keep them from protesting anything they don't agree with on the 30 school board. She said that most of these parents are working and put trust in the school 31 system. She said they don't have time to attend school board meetings. She asked if there is 32 evidence of crimes being committed at past protests and the evidence of victims from the 33 protests outside of the football games. She said there is not any because no one was breaking 34 the law. She asked if Chairman Doyle was even there. She asked where the students are who 35 claimed they feared for their lives. She asked if there are any written comments supporting 36 those claims. She said now because the Orange County School Board deems parents as 37 threatening, they want to eliminate the ability of any concerned parent to speak out against any 38 policy. She said that a three-minute comment doesn't get a lot of attention. She said that one 39 person mentioned the First Amendment during the Board's discussion of the item. She said they 40 are crossing dangerous lines of thinking if they pass this ordinance. She said the public's right 41 to petition the government for a redress of grievances is at stake. She said she is thankful the 42 language on vigil and observation is proposed to be changed. She quoted John Adams and 43 said that liberty, once lost, is lost forever. 44 Sarah Snipes said she is a parent of students at OCS. She said her children were part of 45 the protest that alleged harm to other students. She said that the individuals that claimed harm 46 was done to them are not here tonight because the harm did not happen. She said that the hate 47 comments that were derived for the hate resolution that the school board developed was 48 because three school board members went into an African American studies class and solicited 49 those comments from students by using video footage from a news channel. She said that the 50 way she knows this is because a close friend of her son's was in the class when it happened. 51 She said she wanted to speak clarity into where this is coming from. She said this is a complete