Pennsylvania school board member tells parents ‘I don’t work for you’

January 23, 2022:

One Pennsylvania school board member has a message for parents: “No, I don’t work for you.”

York Suburban School District school board member Richard Robinson wrote an op-ed in the York Dispatch explaining to parents that she doesn’t “work” for them.

Robinson wrote that local school boards require a public comment opportunity for parents and members of the community to voice their opinion about issues related to school, but there has been a major shift recently.

“This provision gives residents of a school district the chance to vent their spleens about exorbitant taxes or demand subjects be taught properly the way they were during the most frigid period of the Cold War. In the past, more often than not, nobody showed up,” Robinson said. “Not these days. As social media outlets, national news broadcasts and our local newspapers tell us, school boards are now the new battleground in the fight for America’s future.”

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Robinson wrote that some members of the community interpret the public comment portion of school board meetings to show “why they have the collective intelligence of a village idiot.”

“Some members of my community appear to interpret this part of board meetings as the occasion to tell board members why they have the collective intelligence of a village idiot and how the school district ought to be addressing real problems,” the school board member wrote.

The school board member then shared some of his “positions” and said that he doesn’t “work” for taxpayers.

“With all due respect to the men and women who snarl, ‘I’m a taxpayer! You work for me!’ No, I don’t work for you. I was elected by people who voted to represent you,” Robinson wrote.

In the list of “positions” written, Robinson also states that parents don’t “always” know what’s best for their child.

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York Suburban School District school board meeting.

“‘Don’t parents always know what is best for their child?’ No, we don’t. Nevertheless, if you are offended because I don’t believe parents are infallible, you can always sue or take your child out of school. Your choice,” Robinson wrote.

Robinson also wrote that parent who claim that “health and safety measures” are damaging children’s mental health to “justify their own social agenda” are “the most offensive and vile of all.”

“Finally, with all due respect to the charlatans who claim health and safety measures are responsible for destroying the mental health of children simply to justify their own social agenda, you are the most offensive and vile of all. There are members of this community who tried to draw attention to the warning signs of increasing mental distress among our children long before you ever thought of mental health as a potential cudgel. To listen to your repeated distortions of the facts is nauseating,” Robinson writes.

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Nicole Neily, President of Parents Defending Education told Fox News Digital that Robinson is mocking parents.

“Far too many elected officials have shown over the past two years that the ‘consent of the governed’ is little more than an inconvenient speed bump on the road to advancing their unpopular agendas. Mocking and dismissing the concerns of the community may be cathartic for petty dictators, but it is not a path to electoral success,” Neily said.

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