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I live in Cobb. Like everything there is so much more to these stories.

Cobb has not had a social studies coordinator in nearly 2 years because of the work to push the last one out. https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-dei-crt-schools-parents

The school board was investigated by the accreditation agency because of racial fights on the board. The board is 7 members, 3 Black, 4 white. The students have been predominately minority for a decade. The last census was 50.1 % white down from 80% white in 1990 when Newt Gingrich was the rep. The school board is rebublican controlled but everything else is democratically controlled.

There was a move to form a new predominately white city in the county last year that was soundly rejected but that these fights are never just one thing.

Two books were banned last week because involvement of libs of TikTok. And then the county pulled out of the state wide reading bowl because the district would not say that teachers and staff would not be punished for their work with the reading bowl. (Books are choose by a state committee and one of the band books was in the bowl last year.)

Teachers now are being asked to have every book their read individually approved before they read them out loud. Which is just not really possible in a district with 100k kids.

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Go home Ottawa County. You're drunk. Seriously, this is a very discouraging state of affairs. Reasonable folks of goodwill will eventually prevail. But how much destruction must we endure till then?

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After I first published, I went back and added a couple of sentences about Heather McGee’s The Sum of Us. To prove their conservative bona fides, the Ottawa County Commission May just drive up unwed pregnancy and abortion rates to own the libs.

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