Recent school shootings have Denver teachers blowing the whistle on violent kids kept in classrooms, parents clamoring for school board resignations, and Auon’tai “Tay” Anderson scrambling for cover while telling everyone to piss off.
“I’m not resigning. Beat me at the ballot box,” the embattled and controversial vice president of the Denver Public Schools board told KDVR.
More than 1,000 parents have signed the petition calling on all seven board members to resign or face recall elections.
President Xochitl Gaytan told Fox News that board members are just too focused on their new bureaucratic mission to develop a long-term safety operational plan to resign now.
If only that safety plan would actually remove dangerous kids out of the classroom to off-campus learning, and keep police protection on campus to prevent against even more shootings on soft targets like unprotected schools.
Teachers told CBS News in Denver the current policy of intervention has created a culture of students “believing there are minimal consequences for criminal actions. They also feel the policies have allowed the district to keep student crime numbers, “swept under the rug,” by not being required to report crimes to police as often.”
They say the district’s discipline policy changes in the fall of 2020 have limited schools’ abilities to contact police and expel students when students commit crimes on campus. These limitations were in attempts to, “… end the school-to-prison pipeline,” district discipline documents show.
For example, in 2017, the discipline matrix for DPS shows any student who committed a robbery, first or second degree assault, sexual assault, distribution of illegal drugs or brought a dangerous weapon to school was automatically recommended for expulsion and was required to be referred to police.
But not anymore.
Anderson led the charge to kill the school resource officer program in 2020 and sweep sexual assaults, drug dealing and other serious crimes under the rug.
Now he has rebranded his image as a softer, pastel version of Malcom X, and embarked on a media tour to weasel out of this mess of his and the board’s own creation.
But even notorious progressive bootlicker Kyle Clark refused to cut “Pastel Malcom Tai” any slack, and called him out for his infamous 2020 protest speech where he called police corrupt motherfuckers.
“Do you still believe police officers are motherfuckers and that they’re all corrupt? Clark asked.
The interview also revealed Anderson thinks it’s better to keep murder suspects in classrooms, around vulnerable kids, rather than removing them to off-campus remote learning programs.
We expect there are thousands of Denver school parents willing to accept Anderson’s challenge to beat him, as well as the other board members up for reelection this fall, at the ballot box.
This is the current Vice President of the Denver Public School Board.#copolitics pic.twitter.com/Yn8Np4CEjc
— Mr T 2 (@GovtsTheProblem) March 28, 2023
What remains to be seen is whether the teacher’s union will continue to back their embattled candidate, who has spent the better part of his first term embroiled in scandals too numerous to summarize in less than 20,000 words.