At the Nestucca Valley School District Townhalls held in the fall of 2023, Superintendent Wharton communicated that she was feeling more comfortable coming out [in public] since COVID. While some may find the belatedness of this comment shocking, I believe this remark is indictive of the mindset of government entities that were directly involved with enforcing COVID lockdowns. Having attended countless public meetings of governing bodies over the last 3 years I have personally witnessed the “Zoom” mind virus that plagued public servants.

What do I mean by “Zoom” mind virus? It is a psychopathy that infected public servants during COVID lockdowns who were able to “meet” behind their screens while allowing them speak their unreasonable fears and neo-Marxist theories into public policy with no or minimal public input. These decisions had the potential power to affect the free citizens within their jurisdictions in the intimate details of their lives. Similar to the symptoms of those experiencing “long COVID,” those infected with the “Zoom” mind virus had difficulties returning to their pre-COVID state. The difference being that many did not want to return to their pre-“Zoom” mind virus limited powers: The lure and deception of their real (and imagined) power over others had become their modus operandi.

So what kinds of decisions were made by Superintendent Wharton and the Nestucca Valley School Board during COVID?

1. The adoption of race-based policies. As communicated in previous blogs I have the nerdy habit of reading policies. I have read numerous company policy books, proposed government policies, and many draft legislation bills. I have written policies in private spheres. Policies are foundational and set the tone for every entity. However, when I read “JHH Student Suicide Prevention” (https://policy.osba.org/nestucca/J/JHH%20D1.PDF) I was confronted with the true intent behind DEI initiatives: Division, Exclusion and Isolation. I could not have described that as such at the time, but this definition was given to me by a fellow rural Oregonian and describes perfectly the environment DEI policies create.                           Why do I categorize this policy as a DEI initiative? The policy clearly defines “Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and other minority gender identity and sexual orientation, Native American, Black, Latinx, and Asian students” as part of a specific high-risk identities besides the obvious students (mentally ill, “substance” abusers, “homeless,” or those “bereaved by suicide”). There is no evidence cited for these special categories and the various potential issues. The danger of focusing on a student’s perceived identity by staff versus actual student behavior should be self-evident.
2. The advent of “identity” focused programs. In reality, there were probably multiple “identity” focused programs introduced during this time period. Public school officials rarely see the need to announce to non-school employed adults they are starting a Gay-Straight Alliance or Hispanics ONLY club. Most adults recognize these clubs as subversive to traditional morals (and parents), anti-American and unnecessarily divisive. However, Nestucca Valley School District was so proud of the Diverse Pathways Educators Program that is was introduced by the school counselor, Sharman Ensminger during a Zoom only attendance board meeting in late spring 2021. This program, a mentor program to recruit “diverse” teachers from the current student body, was presented as limited to those who are “racially and/or linguistically diverse.” Here is the current link on the Northwest ESD for that program: https://www.nwresd.org/departments/instructional-services/professional-learning/diverse-educator-pathways Here is one of the slides presented at the meeting by Ensminger concerning this program.          

As late as spring this program was still being advertised at Nestucca. This flier came from the May 2023 Nestucca High School newspaper :

When this DEP program was created I attempted to get all involved to explain who was eligible for this program. I left multiple messages with the Northwest ESD program managers, and only got a response after calling upper management in Northwest ESD. No one would ever confirm whether “whites” or English only speakers would be admitted. Although the Nestucca Valley School District later insisted everyone could apply.

3. Identity based appointees to the school board. Of course, the ultimate triumph of DEI initiatives is to put them in practice by hiring “diverse” candidates. As a majority white community, the elected school board members have been white and married with kids. However, when school board chair, Evan Carver resigned in September 2021 an opportunity arose to appoint a board member. Board meetings were in flux between in person and Zoom attendance only. Indeed, with the introduction of the Delta version of COVID, Oregon went back into mask requirements in all public buildings. This also was a signal to Nestucca School board to retreat back to Zoom meetings. Therefore, when the school began to advertise the application for the open board position only four people applied, and very few people noticed.

The applicants were three parents of school aged children, including myself, and Linda Fielder. Linda Fielder had relocated from the Portland are to the district only a few years ago. She had very limited experience with children, was a advocate and member of the LGBTQ community, and according to multiple reports was a longtime friend of Superintendent Wharton’s spouse. While Fielder presented as a gentle and thoughtful candidate, but she was neither a parent nor an established community member. Furthermore, one of the other parent candidates, Doug Keller, was a retired naval captain. All of us paled compared to both Keller’s resume and his dignified demeanor. Who did Nestucca Valley School District choose to appoint? Linda Fielder. Fielder proved herself by maintaining the status of quo of the school board. The status quo of Nestucca Valley School Board since 2016 had been don’t ask questions and vote yes on everything brought before the board by the superintendent.

4. Labeling parents as “threatening” and calling the police to board meetings. In late August 2021, Secretary of Education Merrick Garland announced that parents attending school board meetings were “domestic terrorist threats (Camera, 2021–see pdf link below). Whatever went on behind the scenes between national, state, and local schoolboard associations, Nestucca Valley School District was already accusing parents of being “threatening ” prior to Garland’s letter to the FBI and public announcement. https://www.congress.gov/117/meeting/house/114235/documents/HHRG-117-GO00-20211116-SD004.pdf

In fact, it was after the August 2021 Nestucca Valley School District labeled me “physically threatening.” How was I “physically threatening”? That was never explained to me. As I replied to the Chair, I am a middle-aged, 5’2, 110 lb. woman: No one finds me threatening. I certainly never made threats to the board or the Superintendent. I did refuse to wear a mask to this meeting for several reasons. There actually was no mask mandate in effect until later that week, because for some reason Oregon thought mask mandates were so effective that they announced them about a week in advance of requiring them. However, about half of the attendants were also not wearing masks to this meeting. Interestingly, I was the only one who received a growled yell to put on a mask. Every person that attended the meeting, except the school board members, identified Superintendent Wharton as the one who yelled, “Put on a mask,” at me as I turned my back to her.

In February 2022 several other parents were also identified as a threat because we insisted on attending the board meeting in-person. This meeting was to decide if students would continue to be forced to wear masks in school and whether part-time employees and volunteers would be allowed COVID vaccine exemptions. The school refused to hold an in-person meeting, so the parents attended outside. The school called the police to “keep the peace.” The officer assigned knew most of us. He told us that the sheriff’s department had only agreed to send him to ensure the parents were treated well. He left for the majority of the meeting, but returned when the board members left the building, at the request of the school administration. No one had threatened anyone, unless you term a potential recall of the board members a threat. But it wasn’t a threat it was a promise.

As I began to receive messages and phone calls about the letter Superintendent Wharton read at the board meeting on October 16, 2023, I recognized the feeling of shock, disbelief, and hurt accompanied with witnessing abusive of power by those in public office. Every time someone relays their negative interactions with those is position of authority I remember the board meeting that began the demolition of my past trust of those with institutional power at Nestucca Valley School District.

Pre-COVID most of us understood that there was corruption in our governing bodies. However, most of us believed that corruption and deceit was for those with centralized power: Presidential administrations, the IRS, Congress, state governors, and possibly a few rogue county and city officials. But, Superintendent Wharton is right that I was, ” . . . confrontational before the trend of confrontational board meetings was a thing.” Although confrontational must be defined as asking questions, insisting on answers, and respectfully disagreeing with proposed policies. My first “confrontational” board meeting was in June 2019.

I have already written about this extensively in a previous post you can read in, “What’s that Smell in Our Sleepy Nestucca Valley” (https://wordpress.com/post/apprehendedbychrist.com/323) and in detail “How to Ruin a School District in 3 Years . . .” (https://wordpress.com/post/apprehendedbychrist.com/328). I really advise you read these short articles for context. The first post, “What’s that Smell in Our Sleepy Nestucca Valley,” was posted on June 24, 2019. Again if math is not your thing, that was just over 4 years ago. This post makes this lone comment about the Superintendent: “under the direction of our superintendent, [Nestucca Valley School Districit] has taken on many projects this last year.” This hardly meets the muster of Superintendent Wharton’s claims of “constant scrutiny” and “being targeted.” It wasn’t until my, “How to Ruin a School District . . .” post in July 20, 2019 that I “targeted” Superintendent Wharton, if you call holding a public official to account targeting.

So given these past posts, the only blogs until this series about Nestucca Valley School District, this post has the purpose of suppling the public with the documentation no longer available on the school website, as well as my own documents never before made available to the public.

Here I establish the following:

1. My “confrontational” behavior began with the school board for their public meeting violations and refusal to (again) make publics records available to the public.
2. Confrontation seems to mean to the Nestucca Valley School Board and Superintendent normal civic engagement: Request for public documents, proper ordering of agendas, arguments made is public against proposed policies, request for readdress of grievances, mild petitions requesting moratorium on policies not made available to the public, and more than two members of the public at the school board meeting.
3. It was never my intention to lay blame to the Superintendent for the board’s actions, until the school website was falsified in regards to this specific passing of policies. The website remained in this false state until the school upgraded the website and removed board information prior to July 2020, as of the publication of this post.
4. Based on the above I filed a complaint my first with Nestucca Valley School District Board and then with Teacher’s Practicum and Practices, against Superintendent Wharton in an attempt to right a public wrong against the people of the Nestucca Valley School District. I never filed anything that could be considered a personal grievance complaint with any governing body until September 2023.

My “Confrontational” Behavior

By June of 2018, I had witnessed consistent public meeting law violations, such as not lawfully posting meetings, not following the agenda, allowing employees to speak out of turn during the meeting, and repeated delays and denials for requests of supposedly “available upon request” public documents. So I wrote a letter to the school board expressing my concerns. It was the Nestucca Valley School Board, not myself, that put Superintendent Wharton in the position to answer for their behavior. Although, I have written many emails over the years to Superintendent Wharton, the majority of my emails have been addressed to the elected school board members.

Here is that first letter with the Superintendent’s responses highlighted in yellow.

The concerns raised in this letter were held by many in our school district who were aware of the issues. However, at the time I was usually the only member of the public attending the school board meetings. Occasionally, the student body president and a few employees attended, but rarely did any other parents or community members attend.

During these early meetings, I often sat as an observer and reserved questions for after the meeting or emails. Most of the emails were for clarification of the issues addressed at the meeting, as at this time there were no informational “packets” available. The informational packets that are now available online and at the meeting were based on my repeated requests for information. If you have attended a school board meeting you understand the reason behind these packets: The Superintendent, and sometimes the board members, speak in eduspeak. They use terms and acronyms unfamiliar to the general public. I usually had an idea of what was being discussed because of my educational degree and work in the school. I knew most people did not have that background. Furthermore, the use of consent agendas by the board meant that financial reports, minutes, and administrator reports were neither read out loud in the meeting or available to the audience. This made the meetings confusing, disorienting, and unappealing for attendees.

Up to this point, the only reason to find my behavior “confrontational” is if the board and Superintendent believed no one should attend their meetings or have related questions to the meetings. That all changed in spring of 2019. In spring of 2019, Nestucca Valley School Board was going through an obscene amount of policy adoption. This was necessary, according to the Superintendent, because the current policies were outdated. These update in policies required the meeting postings to be several pages longer, so it was hard to ignore the many pages taped to the school door. Curiously, the actual policies (required by law to be available to the public before adoption) were not on the school website, just the list of policies to be changed in the meeting agendas.

Of course, the titles of the policies immediately raised my concern. A few of the policies I had concerns about were titled “Weapons in the Schools,” “Freedom of Expression [Students],” “Teaching About Religion,” and “Human Sexuality, AIDS/HIV, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Health Educations”[Comprehensive Health Education]. So I began asking for copies of the policies after the May 2019 school board meeting. None of the policies were discussed or read by the school board members. The policies were not available on the website, and EVEN Superintendent Wharton only claims there were as of June 6, 2019 (See “Misty Wharton Emails June 2019 Policy Adoption” below).

Here are the trails of emails between myself and the then board secretary, Megan Kellow, as I attempted get copies of the policies. Note that Megan never stated they were available on the school website as of June 12th.

What should be clear is on June 12th I received copies of the “I” Instruction policies which included very controversial policies. Below are the copies I received on June 12th of three of these policies. While there may be disagreement about what people find controversial, time has borne the truth that these were policies that many parents have since found disturbing. Of note, is the IGAI “Human Sexuality . . .” policy, especially in regards to items #17 (“different sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions”) and #18 (“laws that protect the rights of minors to anonymously access these [health] resources.”

As I was finally able to read these policies I became very concerned. The policies had undergone their first reading according to the June 10, 2019 NVSD school board agenda, so they could be adopted at the next meeting in July. As my last email from Megan states, I asked that the policies be placed on the school website as soon as possible for public review. Megan never replied so I took the next step of emailing the the NVSD board members, and once again heard from Superintendent Wharton. Her reply left me stunned.

Here is the succession of emails between Superintendent Wharton and myself on June 20, 2019.

*Note these emails are in backwards order, and should be read from the bottom up.

I remember sitting in utter shock that the NVSD Board had passed policies in my presence after I had expressed concern about the policies not being available to the public during my public comment, and I didn’t even know they did it. I am sure most people find that hard to believe, but here is why I was confused: The June 10. 2019 meeting agenda listed these policies as “7.3 Second Reading of Policy/Policy Adoption–Deletion (Packet of Policy provided [to the board] on May 13, 2019) [with this subsection) Policy First Reading–Proposed Adoption.” (See below, page 3). And they never read or discussed the policies. I had two other parent witnesses in this meeting who also were unaware the policies were passed.

Up to this point I never believed the board members, many of whom I had known for decades, or the superintendent capable of such deception. I was utterly horrified. I contemplated the full ramification of the NVSD board’s actions, the delays of response by the board secretary and the superintendent. They had passed policies they knew would be controversial without a single person in the public having copies of the policy. Because if it had been available by June 6th, as Superintendent Wharton insisted, why would I have not been directed to the school website versus getting copies from the board secretary?

I admit what I relate next is my testimony. Superintendent Wharton may remember these events differently, but I include them because I think it illustrates both our previous amicable relationship and our difference in worldviews. But I do here try to fairly represent what was told me directly by the Superintendent, as well as my own statements.

As it happened I drove by the school shortly after this revelation and noticed the Superintendent’s vehicle was parked at the district school office. I still believed Superintendent Wharton would be honest and open with me, so I took a chance and stopped to see if I could talk to her. This was late June and the office otherwise empty. When I walked up to the door it was locked so I knocked and the Superintendent opened the door to talk to me.

I expressed my main concerns about the policies, including the possibility of the “Teaching on Religion” policy being unconstitutional. Directly behind the Superintendent was a calendar depicting what looked like a Hindu goddess on the wall. I found it particularly interesting given our current conversation, freedom of religion.

I stated, “Aren’t you concerned that if you try to enforce a policy that states that teachers can neither ‘overtly or covertly’ endorse a religion that the district will be sued? There are teachers who teach in our schools and can regularly be seen attending churches on the same road and hill as the high school.”

Superintendent Wharton shrugged and said, “I didn’t write the Constitution and school districts get sued all the time, April.”

I soon left the district office. I thanked the Superintendent for her honesty and frankness. Needless to say I found no comfort in this interaction. I realized it was not just a minor philosophical or religious world view difference between Superintendent Wharton and most of the community of our school district. This was a major difference of respect for freedom and individual rights. The kind that is difficult to reconcile.

I hope by this time it is clear. I have never attacked the Superintendent’s life style choices or religious views. I believe that God gives all people the freedom to choose their life path and religious beliefs. I believe He is the only one that can hold individuals responsible for their rejection of truth and Himself. I also believe I am called to love everyone. IF I “attack,” “target,” or “scrutinize” people it is actually not them but their behavior, words, and works. Generally speaking this “scrutiny” is reserved for those in public office making decisions for the public. I state this emphatically only because it has been repeated to me by several under the influence of the Superintendent that I am against her lifestyle choices and that is my source of disagreements with her. That is not true, and I do not think anyone has evidence of such an accusation.

However, all people have their own agendas built on their core values and beliefs. I attempt to align my core values and beliefs on the Word of God. Others have their own basis for their values and beliefs that may contradict mine. I do not think that means that we cannot live together in a community and be good neighbors. But it does mean we have to agree on certain principles, like freedom of expression, speech, and religion.

As I tried to get my bearings from shock of all of these happenings, I had a bigger shock. Shortly after my meeting with Superintendent Wharton the school website under the board meeting tab had the new policies added under the May meeting packet. Below is my screen shot of the website at that time.

This was how the school website looked for 2 years. These policies were the only ones ever listed like this on the board meeting tab. Over the years I requested the board remove this false record more than 3 times. For awhile I asked them at every meeting. Needless to say it did not make the board members very happy that I refused to stop telling the truth about this issue.

It was for the falsification of the school website concerning the posting of these policies that I filed my first complaint. Superintendent Wharton claimed in her letter that I have filed “numerous complaints” against her and the board of directors, and that this cost the district thousands of dollars in legal fees (stated November 3, 2023 in executive session). I have previously filed two claims prior to September 19, 2023 First Amendment complains (of which Superintendent Wharton was unaware when she read her letter) and one concerning her letter filed on October 23, 2023.

The first complaint filed with the board was against the Superintendent for falsifying the website as seen here.

The NVSD Board ruled that they “did not need to further investigate the complaint filed July 23, 2019. ” So I filed a complaint to the Oregon Teachers Standards and Practices Commission. This was because at the time Oregon Ethics Commission only had jurisdiction over matters concerning misuse of public funds. If the school board or the Superintendent spent school funds to consult legal on this complaint then I suggest they misused funds. Either the website was falsified at the direction of Superintendent Wharton or it was not. That would have required the board to ask about three people under their employ how the website had been changed. Superintendent Wharton should have had access to legal representation through the teacher’s union, which I assume she belongs (Oregon Educators Association).

Aside from filing the complaints my confrontational behavior on this issue included soliciting signatures for a petition asking for a moratorium on the policies passed without public inspection.

Here is a copy of that petition.

In the end the NVSD Board decided to ignore those that signed this petition and the request of the ten or more people that attended the August 2019 board meeting. But they did decide to establish a policy committee. Diane Boisa had told me she wanted to appoint me to this committee. However, it was at this time that our family temporarily moved to Lancaster, California for my husband to attend West Coast Baptist College. Other than follow up with the TSPC complaint, I had no dealings from October 2019-June 2020 with Nestucca Valley School District.

Unfortunately, as we all know things did not improve during this school year. In fact, if anything things became exponentially worse because of COVID, Comprehensive Distance Learning, and the introduction of CRT policies.

The First Nestucca Board Meetings I Ever Attended and My First Published Article About Superintendent Wharton

On October 16, 2023, the Superintendent of Nestucca Valley School District, Misty Wharton, made an unprecedented statement targeting an individual and reporter, saying, “So many of our issues as district are created by one person spreading misinformation.” This statement was about me, a wife, mother of four, homeschool mom. and reporter. To counter that this is a wild exaggeration against a citizen that has had no institutional power to make decisions in school policy or practice is an understatement. Any rational person understands that this could not possibly be true.

So what is true? Truth about human behavior and their statements can be difficult to establish. It is also never within human capacity to accurately identify the motives of individuals. However, truth claims documented by public statements, public documents, and eye witness testimony can give those in search of the truth a firm foundation of facts. The goal of the Wharton Files is to present the facts to the reader for them to make their own judgements. There will be many installments that will focus on the claims made by the allegations of Superintendent Wharton’s letter as shared in full here. All documentation that I possess to counter the claims will also be available. If I make a claim solely based on my testimony, I will disclose that as well, but those will be few if included at all. In other words, what is shared here will be what can be substantiated.

* The edits to this letter are as submitted to me by Superintendent Wharton upon request of a copy of her publicly read letter.

Letter Read by Superintendent Wharton on 10/23//23

Why am I bothering to counter the obvious lies spat out about me by Superintendent Wharton?

1. I have endeavored to publicly share the gospel of Christ with my neighbors. While He needs no defense, and is my defense, allowing such a blatant attack on my character to go unchallenged discredits my integrity. I do not expect my neighbors to believe my testimony of Christ if I lie in my other dealings.
2. My love for my neighbors compels me to challenge anyone who behaves tyrannically toward them. No one should be bullied by one of the highest tax- payer paid public officials in our county. If we have zero tolerance for school bullies than school administrators should be held to the same standard, and if we allow this behavior one time it will be repeated.
3. The citizens and parents of our district deserve the truth about the corruption of their school administration and the historical actions of the school board. I have a passion to be educated about local issues and share that knowledge. It is true that I have an approximate 7 years of experience with attending Nestucca Valley School Board meetings, requesting and reading their minutes, and asking questions. It is also true that I have made mistakes along the way. I am merely a regular citizen trying to be involved and inspire others to be involved, empowering them with essential tools and facts. My goals is not so much to convince people to think like me, but give them the full story beyond the district narrative and often silent or appeasing local media.

The Beginning: Why and When I Started Attending Board Meetings

Like many of us, 2016 was a political awakening for me. I learned that I could become an elected Republican PCP by adding my name to the ballot where there was no name and getting two other people to vote for me. But in truth my political bent can be traced back to my high school years as one of the youngest members of the school newspaper, The Nestuccian. In other words, I am a political nerd.

I have also been heavily involved with educational issues my entire life. From my grade school years of being sent to work with struggling readers (because I completed my class work quickly and couldn’t resist talking to other classmates) to homeschooling my own children and eventually earning my teaching degree, I care deeply about education.

Actually, my main mentor teacher for my licensure program was Misty Wharton. Misty was very liberal in allowing me to succeed and fail with her students. I hope we would both categorize our working relationship at that time as amicable and respectful. I have taught in various settings: Private tutoring, substitute teaching at Nestucca, local church AWANAS programs, and Bethel Christian School in my one year of residency in Lancaster, California. But the majority of my teaching experience has been homeschooling our four children (2 graduates) and our church’s Sunday School and Bible Clubs.

Nestucca Valley School District was also experiencing changes in the spring of 2017, for those who are math challenged that was 6.5 years ago (see the letter above). According to the minutes of Nestucca Valley School District (see below) sometime between January 2017 and February 2017, Misty Wharton became the Interim Superintendent after a quick succession of 3 superintendents within approximately 7 years.

I admit I found this interesting. To be fair, my interactions with the former administrator, David Phelps, were positive. He presented himself as professional, invested in the students, and very welcoming to homeschool families. I was unaware of the inner school agitations, and still do not quite understand them from that time period. So, like many, I found the sudden administration change strange.

Shortly, after this I saw the posting of the school board meeting on the high school door, and decided to attend the meeting. Curiosity, not an attempt to target Superintendent Wharton, is why I attended the first board meeting. What I witnessed was a board secretary attempting to run the meeting. The board secretary at the time was the HR manager, and I have no doubt that she had an overabundance of responsibilities. It had to have been a stressful situation for her. Superintendent Wharton did not attempt to intercede, and the board chair made some attempts to maintain order. To give an example of how badly organized the situation was here are few email exchanges with myself and the board secretary. The point of contention was giving me copies of the minutes, which were obviously not available online.

*Email threads can be confusing, but are left in tact and unedited here for transparency. For clarity, read them in backwards order.

What I learned from the entirety of these minutes is not important at this time, but the lesson I learned was to be perseverant. Governing bodies must adhere to Public Meeting Law, but if nodoby is watching they sometimes get sloppy. The truth is that I did not get the full packet of board minutes without calling the board chair, Annis Leslie. Annis insisted that all of the requested minutes be sent to me, and I am grateful for her commitment to transparency on this issue.

My First Published Article: A Community, Committed Superintendent

It was also during this time that a spent a short season as a reporter for the local news website, Tillamook County Pioneer. It was a very interesting and fun experience for me. My editor, Laura Swanson, was gracious and gave me a local story to cover for my first assignment: The hiring of Misty Wharton as full time Superintendent at Nestucca Valley School District. Given our history, I emailed her requesting an interview, and she responded that it would be easier for her to give a written response.

Here is her email response, and below that is my first article, published May 30, 2017 (less than 6.5 years ago) Providing the link is not changed here is the link to the article available on the Tillamook County Pioneer.

https://www.tillamookcountypioneer.net/nestucca-valley-school-districts-new-superintendent-carries-on-a-commitment-to-community/

*Emails are unedited for transparency. Read the emails in backwards order for clarity.

Superintendent Wharton’s Answers:

Text version of my article:

If you find where I “scrutinized” and “targeted” Superintendent Wharton let me know in the comments. Did I have personal concerns about her promotion. Yes. I had sat in her classroom. I ate lunch in the teacher’s lounge with her. I had heard statements and seen actions that I had serious ideological disagreement. But, I had for the most part seen her behave judiciously in her classroom, and believed we shared the vision of high education standards for the school district. The only lasting possible negative result against Superintendent Wharton from this article was I take responsibility for my work. Had she made choices that embraced parental rights, diversity of thought, fiscal responsibility, moral conduct and educational excellence I would have written further articles of support.

My goal in any article or post concerning Nestucca School District issues was never to attack individuals, but to bring up important issues that were unknown to the public. Tax payers and parents deserve accountability and educational excellence in their investment in public schools. Anything that diminishes the safety, academic rigor, or moral character of children in public schools should be publicly scrutinized in order to reset those foundational standards,

What was my first public criticism of her? That will be the subject of the next installment. Stay tuned.