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Public commenter criticizes board and district ties to Southern Poverty Law Center and raises concerns about ROTC and teachers
Summary
Tammy Keener criticized the board’s perceived alignment with the Southern Poverty Law Center, urged removal of certain teachers and said ROTC had been barred from a veterans’ dinner. Her remarks were made during the public comment period and recorded without board action.
During the public comment period of the Dec. 3 meeting, Tammy Keener criticized the school board’s relationship with the Southern Poverty Law Center and accused the board and district communications of promoting a liberal agenda.
Keener alleged the SPLC has become “a fraud, a bully, and an organization that has no right to call itself a protector of individual rights” and said the board had “sided with the SPLC in denouncing the Berks Patriots and Moms for Liberty.” She asserted the district prohibited Wilson’s ROTC from attending a veterans’ dinner last year and called for termination of teachers she said verbally abused a student for expressing constitutionally protected speech.
Her remarks were presented during the public comment portion of the meeting; board members thanked her for her comments and no formal action or response was taken at the meeting regarding the allegations. The board’s public participation rules (Board Policy 903) and the meeting’s time limits governed the comment period.
The statements reported here are those made by the commenter and are presented without endorsement; they were not verified or acted on during the meeting.
