Jenkins, a supporter of masks in schools, proceeded to detail a series of alleged incidents. "I don't reject people coming here and speaking their voice," Jenkins, a supporter of masks in schools, said. "... I reject them following my car around. I reject them saying that they're coming for me, that I need to beg for mercy. "I reject that when they are using their First Amendment rights on public property, they're also going behind my home and brandishing their weapons to my neighbors."
Jennifer Jenkins quoted in an report by Elisha Fieldstadt at NBC News. Florida school board member who supports masks says people told her to 'beg for mercy'
When I was a teen my mother taught first grade at a school in Charlotte< NC that had a wonderful principal. Once my mother, me, my younger brother and the principal went on a short vacation to the beach. It was probably the late summer of 1970. Anyhow Charlotte schools were in the middle of an extrodinarliy contentious school desegregation decision.
We dropped the principal off at her home. I never visited the house, but it was older and not very visable from the road. There was a mailbox by the driveway. And I remember a very large plum tree in the yard. I remember my mother mentioned that she could not use the mailbox to get her mail.
I thought of that principal when I heard Jenkins speak and searched for her obituary online. I cried.
The principal went to a different school, the school that had once been the poorest in the city and became the school everyone wanted their children to go to. When she retired she was given the key to the city . She lived to be almost 100 and it is plain she was beloved my many, many.
What if there were a bomb that day when she opened the mailbox!
November elections are comming up. I find it so difficult to figure out about the people running for school boards, but they are important elections. .