Please see my post, below, of June 16th. I had emailed Brad Bergsma, President of the Board of Directors of the Kansas Association of School Boards asking him when would the his organization sever its ties with the National Association of School Boards, as have 26 other state associations. That is the group that sent a letter to Washington asking that parents be declared domestic terrorists for speaking out at local school board meetings. The loser US Attorney General Merrick Garland even sent a memo to the FBI directing them to look into the situation.
Apparently Mr. Bergsma feels that is beyond him to respond to a query from someone who indirectly is paying for the functioning of his organization. How is that you might ask? Easy!! The state association here in Kansas gets its money from the membership fees of the local boards. The local boards get their money from taxpayers (whether or not they have children in the school district). I personally feel that his refusal to respond is an indication of his arrogance about his responsibilities.
So, what can we do? That question is also easy to answer. Johnson County taxpayers need to put pressure on the local boards here to withdraw their membership form the state organization. As such, reducing the monies that the state organization receives from local boards. Also, let the taxpayers of Kansas in other counties know what is being done and ask them to also get their local boards to withdraw from the state association. Let's shut down the state association and send Mr. Bergsma to the unemployment line.
Local district boards are:
Shawnee Mission School District
Blue Valley School District
De Soto School District
Olathe School District
Spring Hill School District
Johnson County Community College Board of Trustees
Check each organization's web site and start showing up at their meetings demanding that they withdraw from the state organization. Tell them, don't ask them............they work for you, you don't work for them.
