The clip was captured at a “community conversation” Friday in Eureka, Missouri which quickly devolved to shouting.
A video of this Missouri woman who insists she isn’t racist for not wanting her children to learn critical race theory has gone viral. (KSDK)
Parents were present to protest the discussion of race in history and literature in the Rockwood School District, which has seen pushback against online learning and even had parents protest the school removing a “thin blue line”-altered image of the U.S. flag from baseball hats worn by the local high school team.
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Rockwood forum turns heated during discussion of race and class curriculum
School district asserts that email to teachers suggesting they hide controversial lessons from parents isn t policy. It does not reflect the vision, was the reply. Author: Abby Llorico Updated: 10:39 PM CDT April 30, 2021
ST. LOUIS Tensions were high long before the man who asked the first question at the “community conversation” in Eureka on Friday afternoon was escorted out, shouting.
“Bye,” members of the crowd waved and called after him.
The Rockwood School District is one of the largest in the region, and it’s been a tumultuous year for families and leadership. Parents protested the plan to begin the 2020 fall semester online. More recently, administrators received blowback for removing the “thin blue line” altered image of the American flag from Eureka High School baseball hats.
Letter #19, 2021, Monday, April 26: Miles of Gibraltar Letter #19, 2021, Monday, April 26: Miles of Gibraltar
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You will not be like the hired hand, who flees before dangers because he is unconcerned for the flock.” Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, in Gibraltar yesterday, where Parolin consecrated as a new archbishop Gibraltar native Mark Miles, 53, during Parolin’s homily at the Mass (on the photo above, Parolin places his hands on Miles’s head at the moment of episcopal consecration)
“Though born and raised at the Pillars of Hercules, beyond which the ancients were forbidden to pass, you yourself have frequently done precisely that in your years of service to the Holy See. We readily entrust you now with even greater responsibility by appointing you to the office of Apostolic Nuncio.”
Proud moment as Mark Miles ordained
Johnny Bugeja 27th April 2021
Proud and emotional. Whether you are religious or not there was a collective feeling of affection in Gibraltar as Mark Miles was ordained an Archbishop at the weekend. He could have chosen Rome for the ordination ceremony. Instead, he opted for his hometown of Gibraltar, where he started life as a parish priest in 1996..
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Emotion and pride in Gibraltar as Archbishop Mark Miles is ordained
Photos by Johnny Bugeja 25th April 2021
Gibraltarian priest Mark Miles was ordained an Archbishop on Sunday in a moving ceremony during which he was commended to work with “an open, generous, steadfast and compassionate heart” in his new role as Apostolic Nuncio to Togo and Benin.
Archbishop Miles was appointed the papal ambassador to the west African countries by Pope Francis, whose mandate was read to the congregation of about 800 people gathered in the Europa Point sports hall, transformed for the occasion with an altar as the focal point for the service.