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'Very disturbing and
unsettling': School board
meeting protest in
California gets out of control
A group called "Let Them Breathe" has organized
more than 90 protests at California school board meetings,
including one where the protestors voted themselves in as
the new school board.
NPR's Anya Kamenetz reports.
This segment airs on October 25, 2021. Audio will be
available after the broadcast. ASMA KHALID, HOST:
I'm sure you've heard - across the country,
protesters have been disrupting school board meetings over masks, vaccines and
the teaching of American history.
The problem has gotten so widespread
that the attorney general is directing
the FBI to help. But as NPR's
Anya Kamenetz reports,
what happened at a school board meeting in California last month is
far beyond what's been seen anywhere else.
ANYA KAMENETZ, BYLINE: The Poway Unified School District in San Diego County
was planning a pretty typical school
board meeting this September -
hearing reports from student representatives, honoring their teachers of the year.
Because of the pandemic, the general
public is asked to join and comment
via livestream, but that hasn't
stopped protesters from showing up in person.
Darshana Patel is a member of the board.
DARSHANA PATEL: The Let Them Breathe, anti-CRT, recall Governor Newsom - they're kind of a catch-all group of protesters. It wasn't the first time that they were there. They had been there several meetings in a row.
KAMENETZ: Anti-CRT means opposed
to critical race theory,
which has become the rallying cry
for right-wing objections to how
race and history are taught in schools.
And Let Them Breathe is a
California-based group opposed
to masks and vaccine mandates. https://www.npr.org/2021/10/24/1048790515/school-board-meetings-have-gotten-heated-but-this-one-in-california-is-on-a-whol
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