001We're going to call the meeting to order. Please rise for the pledge of >> allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Can I get a motion to approve the minutes of our meeting held 7:1425? So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I I. >> Those opposed, same sign. Approval of the minutes carries. Passes. Persons wishing to address the school board on non-aggenda items. Let's see. I think we have one. Chad, if you could please state your >> I love that. >> I would much rather see your face, Chad. >> Than the back of your ears. >> Thank you. Chad, do you want us to move the anything else around? >> I'm okay. >>
002Do we need Okay. and if you could please state your name, your address, and I see that you're representing yourself. Um, you want to talk about children in school. Okay, I'll let you carry that. Your topic is literature and social studies curriculum. Just a reminder, you have five minutes. >> Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is Chad Bishop and I live at 7405 South Valencia Drive here in Sou Falls. I continue to respectfully request that George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm be required reading across the district for all juniors and seniors. I also reiterate my call to enhance the new social studies curriculum with lesson plans dedicated to the study of propaganda techniques. Today I want to tie these requests together. Orwell provided a common lexicon across generations. His work gives us a shared vocabulary
003terms like newspeak, thought crime, double think, ministry of truth and memory hole so that we can speak plainly about what we are seeing. The corruption of language is a primary means by which totalitarian regimes control thought and political discourse. During the communist Chinese cultural revolution, Chairman Mao attacked what he called the four olds. Old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas. The goal was to fracture bonds between generations. He then used the red guard, the youth, to conduct struggle sessions in campaigns of speaking bitterness where students were encouraged to shame, humiliate, or even attack their parents and teachers. The mechanism was simple. Convince young people that their elders and their traditions were backwards and oppressive, then give them permission to destroy what they were taught to hate. I would encourage you to watch the
004introduction of the first episode of the threebody problem. The opening scene faithfully depicts a communist Chinese struggle session. These speaking bitterness campaigns followed a deliberate pattern. First came mandatory attendance and data mining. Villagers were compelled to reveal grievances, personal histories, and social ties. Then came public denunciations escalating into competitive accusations. Communities were destroyed, trust shattered, and the young were indoctrinated into a new ideological framework. It was psychological warfare masked social justice. Today, many DEI training programs mirror this exact structure. data mining through identity surveys, pressure to confess unconscious bias and enforced ideological compliance. DEI is not fostering unity. It is institutionalizing division. That same pattern was visible during the leftist violence of the summer of 2020, led in large part by self-declared Marxists. Statues were torn down, buildings were burned, street names were changed, and
005children were taught that America itself was a problem to be solved. Many others sought clearly for what it was, a nent mauist cultural revolution with American characteristics. This is why we need critical thinking and not critical consciousness. As Harmy K. Dylan, assistant attorney general of the United States, who now leads the civil rights division, said just five days ago in the Senate, quote, "Well, Senator, when I hear the words or the slogan DEI, what I hear is discrimination, exclusion, and intolerance. That's what we're seeing throughout all of these programs nationally." unquote. How is it that the lived experience of this highly accomplished woman of color could lead her to such a conclusion? Tulsi Gabbard, now director of the national intelligence, has declassified documents showing senior officials, including President Obama, John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey,
006and Victoria Nuland, knowingly promoted a false narrative that Donald Trump was a Russian asset, that the election was stolen. This was not an innocent misunderstanding. Director Gabbard called this operation a treasonous conspiracy. Director Gabbard is the former vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, a former Democratic presidential candidate, and a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army National Guard promoted to that position under President Biden. The Russian collusion hoax was pure propaganda and it tore our country apart. So-called experts functioned as our own Ministry of Truth, managing public perception through selective leaks and coordinated messaging. When inconvenient facts surfaced, they were memory hold erased from the news cycle and from public records, just as Orwell described. I took my two oldest daughters to meet Tulsi when she was campaigning in Dennis, Iowa in 2019. I admired her
007courage, her service, her principles, and her integrity. The consequences aren't just the demonization of a president, his staff, his voters, half the country as Russian dupes and Putin puppets. This was the foundational lie upon which Lindsey Graham, John McCain, and AB Clolobachar built to fment war by arming the most corrupt government in Europe in order to threaten a nuclear superpower within their region of influence. So now we have two recent textbook examples of propaganda campaigns for you to build lesson plans around, the fine people hoax, which we have covered here, and the Russia collusion hoax. Hard to say which was more damaging to the fabric of our country. By intentionally incorporating the study of propaganda into the social studies curriculum, we prepare our students not just to be passive consumers of information, but active, thoughtful
008participants in our constitutional federal republic, ethical skeptics, if you will. I also urge the board and the administration to remove every trace of DEI from district policy and instead focus on core curriculum and academic experience. It is now the law. Thank you for your time. Are there any persons wishing to address the school board on agenda items? Okay, seeing none, we will move to approval of today's agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> I. >> Those opposed, same sign. The approval of the agenda carries. Any conflicts of interest? No. Approval of con consent agenda items. Items A through Let's see. We can go all the way down to um items AB through 6 7. Do I have a motion to approve?
009>> Oh, good. Oh, I see D. Yes. Thank you. All the way down to D. Moved. >> Second. All in favor? I >> I >> oppose. Same sign. Consent agenda items A all the way down to D carries. Um I just thought of something. Okay. So before we adjourn, uh we have some artwork. Yeah, I just wanted to highlight the CLC students had since we did not have artwork during the summer, they had added in the artwork that we have back there. So, Tara Beck is the teacher and she just had some of those students bring over some of their artwork for us uh today. So, that's hanging over on the far side behind Dr. Zeke and Dr. Conrad, >> right, >> Mr. Conrad. >> Nice. It is pirate week. They made treasure maps and
010there's all sorts of adventures that these kids um drew anywhere from on the maps to going past the wisdom tree. There's one where you go past the wing monkey island and maybe do Dr. Z can point out any other details of significance. Dr. Z, >> I think I just found a treasure. >> Oh. Oh, good. What? Oh, you found the treasure. Very good. Oh, very, very good. We found the treasure. Excellent. Well, the treasure is certainly the students that will be arriving soon to a new school year and um we're looking forward to kicking off all sorts of great events in August. Um because that is where we're at and our next meeting will fall in August. Anything else for the good of the whole? Okay, seeing none, we will move to adjourn the meeting.
011>> So we >> second. All in favor? >> I meeting adjourned. We'll look forward to seeing everybody in August.