UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. – A Missouri state senator and local school board member recently told MSNBC she’s “proud” to have changed the district’s curriculum and provided opportunities for students to protest in the wake of the Ferguson decision.
“We have been changing our curriculum,” Missouri Democratic state Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal told MSNBC’s Joy Reid yesterday. “We are providing safe spaces for our students in our school district so they can protest, not necessarily being at ground zero, but within our own communities. We want our children to experience their First Amendment right, and they’re eager to do that.”
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Chappelle-Nadal is a school board member for University City schools.
The comments came in response to Reid’s inquiry as to whether “there are preparations in place … to deal with the fact that you could have a lot of young people out on the streets … protesting and marching,” the Daily Caller reports.
“Yes, absolutely,” Chappelle-Nadal said. “In fact, I’m proud as a school board member that we have prepared our students for this.”
“… (W)e want to make sure that they are in a safe situation, and our protocols we have put in place in the last month certainly signifies that we are going to allow them to have their free speech and they’re going to be safe,” she said.
Neither Reid or Chappelle-Nadal discussed whether preparations were made for students who agree with the grand jury’s decision to have equal opportunity to exercise their First Amendment rights.
The Daily Caller points out that Chappelle-Nadal has a very strong opinion on the Ferguson case, and a penchant for exercising her First Amendment rights in some very absurd ways.
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“In 2011, Chappelle-Nadal was accused of threatening to stab a fellow Missouri lawmaker in the neck at a Lil Wayne concert. The altercation apparently came a week after Chappelle-Nadal had called the same Missouri representative a ‘house slave’ over a disagreement on a bill,” the news site reports.
“Chappelle-Nadal has also been a fixture among Ferguson protestors. Earlier this August, she tweeted at Democratic Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon: ‘F*CK you, Governor. I’m calling your bullsh*t! … You don’t know sh*t bc you never communicate. F*CK you, Governor!’”
The senator also previously tweeted a false rumor that the Ferguson grand jury process had concluded, prompting some to question whether it was aimed at fanning the flames of a very volatile situation.
Many who reacted online to Chappelle-Nadal’s comments to Reid were not amused the University City school district was making accommodations for student protests with the presumption they’d disagree with the grand jury’s decision.
“They should be teaching them how to read, write, and do math … not protest like a flock of mindless dolts. These are the sort of people who have no business being involved in education or working around, near, or much less in a school building or administration,” ratamacue79 posted on the Daily Caller.
“The schools there are training useful idiots,” sadatoni wrote in response, “not educating tomorrow’s leaders.”
“Way to teach them respect for the law,” 2tor added. “People like this garbage is why we’re failing as a nation now.”
William James agreed.
“The control of the public schools urgently needs to be wrested from the hands of these ignorant race-mongers and left-wing ideologues,” he posted. “We would be better off with no public schools at all rather than have the mind-poisoning trash that these people are putting into kids’ heads.”
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