The above ad keeps floating around on Facebook. So I decided to take the image of the jewelry store you see and put it in a Google image search. Not surprisingly, it is fake.
This morning I devoted my time on WCHE All Politics Are Local with Barry Dee on a woman I never met, but am still concerned about because this could be any woman but I am speaking about Anna Maciejewska.
This is what I said and it will be podcasted later so you can listen if you missed it:
This week I am deviating from some of the usual topics to another topic which I feel strongly about. This week I am devoting my time to Anna Maciejewska, late of Malvern PA.
Specifically Charlestown Township since people from outside of Chester County who speak about Anna and Malvern, think all of Malvern is the main street town of Malvern Borough. As we all know, Malvern falls into multiple municipalities.
Anna Maciejewska disappeared around April 10, 2017. I say “around” because when Anna disappeared, it wasn’t her husband who initially reported her missing, it was friends and co-workers. According to police reports, family last heard from Anna on/around March 30 of 2017.
On March 30, Anna abruptly canceled a scheduled trip to Poland to visit family. It was to be her father’s 80th birthday. Her Polish family at the time said her final text message seemed to be non-native speaking Polish.
When Anna initially disappeared, there was a flurry of media exposure. As time goes by it has dwindled.
Anna was from Charlestown Township which is serviced by Pennsylvania State Police. I can’t think of the last time they updated the public on this case.
This year, 2025, marks EIGHT years since Anna disappeared. There have been 3 Chester County District Attorneys. Tom Hogan was DA when she initially went missing, then Deb Ryan before she became a judge, and now the DA is Chris de Barrena-Sarobe.
I have written about Anna so many times now I have forgotten the number of posts. I did not know her. But now we all feel like she is part of us and still missing.
I remember when I first started writing about her some of the Finding Anna people on Facebook were a smidge obnoxious and a few accused me of putting up a second Anna is missing Facebook page. I had put up no such page, but it was shortly after I was accused of this stupidity it was discovered some man had put it up. I am still waiting for some of those people to apologize. Some did, others did not. They had a page up, they were her friends and co-workers, I would NOT have detracted from their very personal efforts. All I was doing was writing about Anna being missing, and trying to do my bit to keep her name out there, as I continue to do today.
In 2018 I saw her missing start to be referred to as a missing person’s case and presumed homicide. Her husband Allan Gould was eventually named a person of interest.
Back when Anna was first missing, media reports said for more than a week before she was announced as missing, Anna’s mother Janina said she tried to reach Anna her daughter on her landline phone due to poor cell reception in her Malvern home. Once, her husband Allan Gould reportedly answered, saying Anna was sick and would call in a few days.
On Tuesday, April 11, 2017 Janina (her mother) said in an interview around the time that it happened that her son in law said Anna had left for work the day before and never returned. Anna worked at Voya Financial. I recently discovered that she appears to have been significantly younger than her husband. Her little boy, whose name I think is Andrew was around 4 when she disappeared. So, he’s around 12 now right? What is his life like? He probably no longer remembers the sound of Anna’s voice, or what it felt like to be held by her. Her parents did have to take the husband to court for visitation.
Anna has been the subject of so many podcast things. They range from making sense to wild theories like a recent one where the podcaster named Annie Elise made a stunning pronouncement about obviously Anna being jealous of her then little boy? I mean HUH? She also conflated Malvern Charlestown Township into Malvern Borough. This podcaster also seemed to the visits to Poland were unusual and why? I have three female friends who are Polish nationals by birth although US Citizens for decades at this point, and they are why I first took an interest. My friends ALL go back to Poland to visit. They ALL take their kids, etc. and still do so they also know their Polish heritage.
I also don’t think Anna was going to run away to Poland with her son and ditch an amazing career and house she created. I have always pondered if Anna was getting ready to exit a perhaps no longer so fabulous marriage. It happens.
I think it has been a long time since law enforcement and the District Attorney have seemed to take an interest here, rendering a woman with so much life left to live a cold case.
I get these cases can be impossible. But hi, hello, how about I am missing the feeling that anyone is trying or truly gives a darn at this point.
I think everyone deserves answers, her family and son most importantly. Say her name. Anna Maciejewska matters.
Regency Park is a Low-Income Multi Family community that offers 2 & 3 Bedroom Apartments.
We are conveniently located to public transportation, with easy access to dining, entertainment, & shopping.
The apartments offer a well lit private entrance and include modern appliances.
We have a very active Full-time Social Service Coordinator that provides services & programs for all Residents.
Our community includes an on-site laundry facility, community room, beautiful community garden and playground.
With our great location in Coatesville, Pennsylvania not only do we have privacy as a community but we also have the convenience of various shops, restaurants, entertainment, pharmacies, and more just minutes away.
So do the photos people in Coatesville are starting to post look nice to you?
Not to me.
I have been seeing these images increase and conversation online. Over the years, my experience has been that those who live in rent controlled or low income housing don’t really open their mouths unless it’s so bad it’s completely untenable because they fear they will be evicted or punished or worse.
Even people in regular apartments that aren’t section 8 or HUD or anything or loath to complain to a landlord especially if there’s someplace that is somewhat safe for them to live. Years ago, when I was still single and living in Lower Merion Township, I lived in a crappy apartment in a safe neighborhood and you couldn’t get the landlord to do anything unless the township had been through on a rental inspection. You had to play games just to survive.
My kitchen floor back then in my former apartment completely flexed as in you could feel it move when you walked on it because I think there was termite damage underneath. Only it was never repaired. The township back then told them to fix it, they never bothered. The floor had duct tape on it because it was bowing and everything so badly that the tiles kept popping up. Our doors in and out were not exterior grade doors. They were just interior doors and none of the windows locked in any apartments. Some tenants didn’t even have doors that actually locked properly.
So I feel for these people who don’t really have a choice they can’t just pick up and leave, they can’t just move. And where would they move to? It’s not like rentals are particularly affordable at this point even in Chester County. And is it true that this building has lots of single moms? Are they actually safe?
Apparently, Coatesville knows there are problems as in the city of so why don’t they act? How can the county turn a blind eye? It seems that a company out of Camden NJ runs the place, the Michaels Organization ?
They had me at Camden. SMH. Anyway I took a look at their executives on their website. Wonder if any of them have ever been to the property in Coatesville?
I don’t know anyone who lives in these apartments in Coatesville. But while things like the Daily Local’s “Operation Holiday” is running around why don’t they look into some folks who could use help? Or any other print or television media out there? Only a media spotlight will help and they could be the difference because the bad optics during the holiday season might mean these people will get help.
And Chester County Commissioners while you’re out raising taxes maybe do something about this? You like photo ops in Coatesville so go out with your inspectors and whomever is supposed to be in charge of affordable housing?
Ok I hope these people get attention. According to social media they are planning a peaceful protest on December 2 at 3 PM. 699 Victoria Drive Coatesville in front of “home office.”
I am not the media, just a blogger, and it should not be so hard for these people to get help. But hey, it’s a media desert out there.
So Michaels are y’all awake yet? Chester County? Coatesville? This place looks disgusting and a coat of paint will not address all that ails this complex will it? And I will note that the ONLY email Michaels lists for EVERYTHING is info@tmo.com
A story of a politician turned pastor or a part time pastor who also used to be a politician before he was a full time pastor?
Once upon a time there was a Coatesville City Councilman named Kurt W. Schenk. His name was familiar to me back in the days of eminent domain in Coatesville against the Saha farm. He was also familiar to me as a frequent flyer topic once upon a time on Coatesville Dems blogspot. But his name REALLY rang a bell from that time the ACLU sent Coatesville City Council a letter about preaching City Councilmen….that made the papers.
My name is Pastor Kurt W. Schenk. I have been married to Lori Schenk for 37 years.
We have two children Kori Haines who is married to Steve Haines and two grandchildren Emmy and Lainey, and a son Dr. Kurt W. Schenk II.
I worked for McIntyre Masonry after high school and then worked for Metal Fabricating Company. I started Metal Fab. Recycling Co. in 2009.
I was a community worker for Olivet UMC in Coatesville for several years before being licensed for pastoral ministry by Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC. I served Olivet UMC as associate pastor and went on to pastor Freemont Union UMC in Nottingham, PA.
The congregation of Freemont UMC voted unanimously to leave the denomination of the United Methodist Church in 2017 due to the lack of scriptural integrity of the leadership of the UMC. We spent the next twenty months and twenty days in a rental hall in Nottingham, PA.
We were incorporated in August 2017 as New Beginnings Church of the Cross.
We are a bible believing non-denominational church.
I was ordained in 2018.
Fathers’ Day 2019 was our first Sunday in our present building at 1 Penn Ave in beautiful Christiana, PA.
In 2022 we sold our home in Coatesville that we lived for 28 years and the family business and moved 1.9 miles from the church to go into full ministry.
My favorite bible verse is Joshua 1:9 “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
New Beginnings Church of the Cross’s Vision Statement is, “Love, Obey, and Proclaim Jesus Christ.”
Current location 1 Penn Ave. Christiana, PA owned by Church
Alrighty then. They seem to do normal things that uber Christian Churches do like baptize people in above ground pools and do bakes sales, youth groups, and church newsletters…and they are You Tube stars.
Full disclosure: I do not do proselytizing. I know plenty of true Christians, truly Godly people, and they don’t have to try so hard. I don’t believe in angry God messages and this guy is a yeller.
The Church is in Lancaster County in Christiana at 1 Penn Street. Their present church seems to be occupying the site of an old Quaker meeting – the old Christiana Mennonite Church. It is a historically listed structure. It was also the site of Living Truth Church (some form of Baptist or Anabaptist?) and I think originally as per a marker I saw it was a Quaker meeting?
Anyway, and yes I am burying the lede. Why? Because it’s kind of terrible.
God don’t like ugly, and I do not know where to go in my head. Jesus sends no message to me other than if this all happened, he’s got nothing.
So what the hell happened and how has this been kept quiet?
There’s a person who likes to post anonymously in some groups out here in Chester County and I think people have pretty much unmasked her, but she shared something that has showing up on a couple of weird news sites. As in fake news sites.
This letter is supposedly being mailed to people with Trump signs on their lawn. The letters have plenty of mistakes in them and are very poorly written so I have to wonder like everyone else who actually wrote the letter?
The letter was supposedly received down around Penn Valley in Lower Merion Township. I came from Lower Merion Township, and I know the current superintendent of police so I sent a quick email and simply asked are people actually reporting receiving these letters? I don’t want to know who is receiving them I don’t want copy of the police report I just wanted know if they were real.
Well, apparently they are. There have been a couple reported. And I think that’s just completely screwy.
I am going to be completely honest, and I think this is like the red herring sent through the mail.
I know the screenshot is hard to read and that’s all anybody is posting so I took screenshots of that and tried to make it more discernible:
I don’t know who is sending these letters, but I don’t think they are Democrats. The spelling errors and the grammatical mistakes, and the phraseology is just saying to me that who you think is sending is actually not.
I think the letter is being sent by Trump supporters to unsuspecting Trump voters to create fear and wreak havoc a couple of weeks before the election.
So what I think needs to happen with these letters is if you receive one turn it into the police envelope and all. If you have security cameras, they can show your mailbox, check your cameras.
But above all else, this is just not the hallmark of someone who is a Democrat to do something like this. Even the Taylor Swift neurosis is in the letter.
So take off the I’m with stupid t-shirts and use your brains. Who has the most to lose if he loses the election? Duh. This is about as intelligent as January 6th was and do you remember the misspellings, inflammatory language, and bad grammar in social media posts leading up to January 6th and after? How the day didn’t happen and it was made up?
Come on people, same thing.
Welcome to a conspiracy theory in a new outfit. And why do I think this is a Trumpy thing? Simple. Who is the guy that put the joy in USPS so you couldn’t possibly have the resources to actually have them look into it? I mean, if it was really perceived as a threat, one would think some postal inspector would be looking into it. Or that is what they used to do before DeJoy.
So yes, to put a lid on it, the letters are real. They are not widely being distributed as of yet, but their origin is somewhat murky.
This is not the hallmark of the DNC or a Democrat. It’s just not and that assertion is laughable.
I am so not in the mood this week. Today it started with the above comment. The person was simply removed from my blog’s Facebook page. No muss no muss, nope not with this guy and it is quite curious as to why he is reaching out to me at all. Next came the comment on this website:
For those of you whom have a hard time reading screenshots, this is verbatim:
I understand that you are a “blogger” and control your blog and your facebook page as being “privately” managed but for public dissemination of information. I also support your right to restrict, block, ban and delete comments at your option. I was merely trying to respectfully engage with you regarding your public statements on your facebook page regarding Octorara School District, myself and Officer Falgiatore. For whatever reason you chose to avoid a public discussion. Again, I don’t have an issue other than attempt to be reasonable with you here. I am unable to DM you. I publicly stated that I no longer own the website http://www.culturalcontrarian.org. I also stated that I don’t believe you acquired that domain either. I would love an opportunity to converse with you about your previous posts and what information you might be able to share with law enforcement. If you are not interested in speaking about the case publicly, that is totally fine. It’s your page and your comments and posts are a public record and I’m sure that you stand behind all of those.
Let’s be clear: there are no “conversations” with this guy if you have followed this drama of his creation over the past couple of years. It started when this guy showed up at an Octorara School Board Meeting with some sort of weapon, right? He also has a relationship with a school board member who is with East Whiteland Police Department as a Sergeant (not an officer, hey get the rank correct, right?)
I have written about Miller TWICE here on this website (2023):
So that’s it. A few times maybe on the blog’s Facebook page but it was in the news, on YouTube, etc. I was never breaking new ground or having any aha moments. It was already out there. I mentioned in May that he let his website lapse and someone took it over. This is his old website: https://www.culturalcontrarian.org/ – it has new content but it’s still about this whole Octorara barrel, not can, of worms.
So one would think with a rational human being, that would be the end of it. But no, not this guy, he pops up a little website to literally doxx and harass me. And he throws in the name of a police officer in East Pikeland for that matter.
I wondered what prompted his contact, and I wondered was it simply media won’t talk to him, so bug a blogger? Or was it his Checo Court of Common Pleas cast which has pre-trial in September? Here is that docket:
Everything about this whole bizarro world enchilada has been on social media, You Tube, some newspapers, court dockets etc. for two years or so. I followed it to a point, but not particularly intensely. I don’t know what his end game is, but I will not be harassed and doxxed because I don’t want to speak with him. I am also not hiding from this and what he is trying to now do to me because it’s wrong. He’s wrong and I can have that opinion. He will have his day in court, it has nothing to do with me. Mr. Miller also has other to reach out to, but he has decided I am a new target?
I am not playing this game. Below is just some of the stuff out there in the public domain about this. I still do not get why people think they can bring any kind of weapon to a school board meeting, let alone a school boar meeting way the hell out of their district.
One thing about being a blogger, it can be interesting. Sometimes you do actually have to file police reports, sadly.
So when the Philadelphia Business Journal articles came out about Scott and Lynne Mason and Rubicon Wealth Management and Orchard Park Real Estate Holding LLC, one of the first things I did was go to the Rubicon website to see what they were about. https://www.rubiconwealth.com/ was the website and when I plunked it into Google I came up empty:
So I think the Rubicon phone number is the same from when they were in Bala Cynwyd, before Blue Bell, and it is just ported as a VoIP number. Who knows if there is still an actual office? 980 Jolly Road in Blue Bell is an office complex- think this is the website: https://www.980jollyroad.com/
Anyway, I was getting stuck trying to figure out where the cache of the Rubicon Wealth Management website was. I figured it had to be somewhere, it’s the Internet, right? So I asked a techie friend what the name of the website was that captures these old things if they are entered. They texted me back “Internet Archive : Wayback Machine.”
So where to begin? Before I get to the website, allow me to start with one of their little website video snippets, geared towards women. As a woman, considering the accusations, this is particularly despicable. A lot of women of a certain age, are not necessarily investment savvy, and can be too trusting.
And that led me to the info on the former Chief Compliance Officer who left a while back I guess. He was the Compliance Officer before Scott Jeffrey Mason donned the cape of regulation, which is truthfully kind of dumb because where is the separation of church and state?
So people were asking who was on the Rubicon website. Well here are your screenshots:
So Malvern Capital Management who was in the Inquirer article is literally right in Malvern. Here is a link to their website. They are also potential victims, aren’t they? Like what about the people related to Scott and Lynne Mason? You know when you have “family” in the financial business, it’s common that they manage their family members’ assets as well, isn’t it? Or you do business with neighbors, friends, the folks you met at a civic association meeting, it’s all good over a round or two of golf, a cocktail party, etc? What will the fallout be exactly? This is actually a tragedy that will possibly have several acts, right?
This whole thing takes your breath away. I can still find nothing at all on the Orchard Park Real Estate Holdings LLC except the LLC basics on the Commonwealth of PA website.
Well that’s all I’ve got but I hear the 19035 is all abuzz. Also, so we are clear: I am not following this for the salaciousness alone, I think this is wrong. People entrust their life savings to people and they expect honesty and a moral compass, right? I realize the cases here are just beginning but remember, the Philadelphia Business Journal articles and the Philadelphia Inquirer article both mentioned that “clients have been in contact with FBI and SEC investigators who are seeking information about Rubicon”, he said” to directly quote Joseph DiStefano’s Inquirer article.
I will be honest and say out loud that this is so sad what the Main Line has become. And the Nouveau Main Line is ripe for these issues because these people move there now because it’s an exclusive-ish suburbia in Lower Merion Township and no one knows the history at all. And a perennial problem? People from one side of the river quite literally in Montgomery County never pay attention to the other side of the river. It’s like when I was growing up, the Main Line crowd and the Chestnut Hill crowd didn’t mingle, and neither of them mingled much with Ambler, Abington, Dresher, Jenkintown, Huntingdon Valley, Bucks County, etc.
The First Amendment as always allows me my opinions.
I am sad to acknowledge that as is just like the case with any other part of society where us regular “English“ live, apparently Amish communities have their own issues.
Today a post I keep seeing shared on Facebook by people from the areas further out in the county about something that happened in the West Caln section of Honey Brook which took me down a rabbit hole that needs attention.
Here are screenshots of the post I originally saw :
The Amish are broken down into various sects in various areas of the country where they have settlements.
Different sects have different Bishops and other elders for each community. I have heard before from people that are either related to Amish, who left the fold so to speak or who know Amish that not all of the sects are the same. As a matter of fact, can it be said that some of them are more cult- like the others? And basically, if you are in an Amish community, you can’t blow your nose without the Bishop’s approval or disapproval.
Katie Zook, 40 and her children Daniel, 10 and Elizabeth, 6 were taken May 28th, 2024. The details are on the screenshot of the flyer I posted. The Zook farm is located on Compass Road and the children were scooped up off of essentially a next door neighbor’s farm on the same lane of their parent’s farm from where Katie the wife was taken.
There are no photos because they are Amish, who keep to traditional Amish ways. And yes, you’re right if you’re thinking, it sounds like a Lifetime movie filmed in Canada and supposed to be like Pennsylvania Ohio or whatever, it does. 
One source said to me that they could have possibly been moved to either an Amish settlement somewhere in Ohio or a settlement near Clare Michigan if not in PA any longer. Now this is just supposition because I have and they have nothing concrete. I am not in or near an Amish community. but I have verified that this wife and these children were indeed removed at the end of May.
The husband and father is named John Zook. He is Amish, so he’s not about going to the English authorities, and in case you don’t know, we all are the English. I’m sure John Zook also believes given the fact he is Amish that God will provide. I don’t think in this situation God is going to provide unless man helps with the tools they have available. So here we are.
What I have been able to piece together from those who know John‘s family and some who have left the Amish sects that this was a happy family unit, and this boils down to religion when religion turns ugly.
Family members say there was no abuse or discord. Family members and friends also say there  was nothing wrong except John Zook from what I have been told by someone who knows his brother wanted to leave this Amish sect and church they were currently in and go to another church.
What I was told is he and his son were indeed going to a new church, but the wife and the daughter were going to the old church. I don’t know what the issue was but apparently John Zook had not been happy with this church for a few years. and the thing about being Amish is you can’t just up and move church just like you can’t just up and move house. I mean, it happens when Amish from one community married Amish from another community. John Zook’s wife Katie, who is missing with her children actually grew up in Quarryville and someone said that her father is a church elder of her birth sect.
I have been told that Katie Zook did not wish to be relocated so what happens now? Are they trying to pressure John Zook into doing what they want by this cruel act? And they might have their own laws that they live under but is that really OK given the world in which they live? So what happens if John Zook doesn’t do what they want? Do his wife and children live elsewhere under different names and will she have to marry someone else entirely? Or would she then live a life of some kind of indentured servant somewhere and raise her children?
I think the other problem that this church has with John Zook is some of his family members, his close family members, were shunned by this sect for leaving. I don’t know if they left Amish life all together or what the story is, but I do know that Amish orders are really tough on those who leave their communities for whatever reason. 
And all of these folks basically live in the same area :
I also pulled the property information from the two addresses on the flyer :
I am not trying to be disrespectful of the Amish people. But this post just made me sit up and take notice and people are sharing it all over, especially people in Chester County who live fairly close to these various Amish communities.
I have been told that these kidnapping things happen. Sometimes it’s for good and sometimes it’s for things like this which in my humble opinion are mean and selfish reasons. Families should not be torn apart for ungodly reasons should they? And seriously if this is all true? I wouldn’t stay in this church either. It’s wrong.
If you have any knowledge of where Katie Zook and her children Daniel and Elizabeth are please call any of the following numbers:
610-273-7102
717-442-5115
717-587-9952
I think this also bothers me because you know we were all raised that the Amish were God-fearing simple folk who did things with faith and tradition in mind. I am having a hard time with this because this is anything but God-fearing and lovely, it’s barbaric and horrible. And it’s sad that the religion of this sect seems to have torn a family apart and I think that’s wrong, don’t you?
If you know where Katie Zook and her children are, please let somebody know. And here’s hoping police somewhere take an interest in this if all of this is proved true.
We watched the massive local media cover this home, a very historic home to Easttown and Berwyn on May 1, 2024. This morning I received a call from a friend who lives in that area in tears about 400 Leopard Road in Berwyn again.
Guess what? It went up in flames AGAIN. Today, July 23, 2024. Maybe once you would think was an accident, and honestly I never did, but twice? My opinion is that is not a coincidence is it?
Here is the link to the video of the live stream I took Thomas Primetime Brown got GREAT video:
I don’t know if the video will remain, so make sure to pay attention to what was said before live stream went soundless.
I heard firefighters or EMTs say on the live feed “She was in the house.”
“One person taken to hospital with burns.”
I wonder if the ATF is looking at this now? One fire, accident….MAYBE. But TWO fires? Does lightening strike twice? Gut check says no.
Now if you go to public court dockets, the owners of this house are embroiled in divorce and custody issues. Is that all related?
I am sure the media is digging in and and I will sign off with links to prior two posts. Again, does lightening strike twice? I do not think so, but it is up to officials to be transparent here. This is so not normal.
The below and this post is me exhibiting my First Amendment rights. The media articles and television reports on the Great Valley Middle School horror show of TikTok is freedom of the press under….wait for it…First Amendment rights.
I have found the Great Valley School District’s responses shall we say, scripted? They have been overly scripted on everything coming out of their mouths since COVID.
While I supported the district trying to be responsible to all during COVID and felt for them having to deal with anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers in all of these school districts, I firmly believe that the school district could and should do more here. Frankly, I think Great Valley School District Superintendent Daniel Goffredo needs to put his scripted responses down and find where he misplaced his balls. And yes, this is an opinion and I can have it….wait for it…as part of my Amendment Rights.
Here are some comments about this off of Reddit as well as my prior post:
It seems like so much time has passed since I wrote my initial post. And what a whirlwind has occurred locally.
I understand how these teachers feel. I had an adult in another state do something similar to me years ago. This person was a relative of someone who was in my life years ago. This had nothing to do with me being a blogger, this had to do with me being happy in my life. It was totally twisted.
Every day they did something.
And it was ridiculous. Social media platforms talk a good game about stopping these behaviors but hey they can’t even stop a bunch of Great Valley middle schoolers on TikTok can they?
Eventually the abuse stopped. But things I won’t forget are the people who thought it was okay. One of those people is a sitting elected official in Chester County. She enjoyed the harassment of me because she didn’t like my blogging. If she runs for office again I will remind her that she liked what this person did and show people.
I don’t wish what happened to me, and what still occasionally happens to me, to happen to anyone, let alone teachers.
And again, middle schoolers are doing this, so where are their parents?
I hope it comes with a side of accountability. This is an error like that Reddit screenshot person said deals with the people who use the screens as babysitters for the kids. The screens are still babysitting the kids, only the kids no more than the parents, and in some cases the schools. So I’m sure you know you kids get school issued iPads, and what not, and how many of the kids know how to do the factory settings reset or whatever so they can bypass restrictions that the school has in place?
Now Great Valley thus far in the midst of their scripted responses, haven’t really done anything . They actually could expel those kids, especially since after their suspension vacation earlier in 2024, they are creating again in the summer.
I was reading something that I found interesting :
Lozano Smith/ Attorneys at Law
Supreme Court Sets Aside Student’s Cheer Team Suspension, but Confirms Schools’ Authority to Regulate Off-Campus Expression
July 20th, 2021
In its first student free speech case since 2007, Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of a student whose off-campus and off-color social media (Snapchat) posts resulted in her suspension from the school’s junior varsity cheerleading team. The Supreme Court confirmed, however, that schools may still regulate student expression occurring off-campus on a case-by-case basis under the Tinker standard, albeit to a lesser degree than when regulating on-campus student expression.
Background
In the preeminent 1969 student speech opinion, Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, the Supreme Court articulated a standard wherein “conduct by a student that materially disrupts classwork or involves substantial disorder or invasion of the rights of others” does not enjoy the “constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech.” The facts in Tinker involved speech that took place on campus. For decades, schools and lower courts have grappled with the applicable standard for measuring the regulation of a student’s off-campus expression by school officials, with nearly all courts determining Tinkerpermits schools to impose consequences on students for off-campus expression, assuming an adequate showing of substantial disruption to the educational environment or infringement on the rights of other students resulting from the student’s expression.
This case, this BL judicial opinion does indicate that schools YES indeed CAN regulate what students are saying in very specific circumstances.
Importantly, the court noted various examples of off-campus student speech that may satisfy the Tinker standard and thus be subject to regulation as well as disciplinary and extracurricular consequences. Such examples include sexually harassing expression, bullying, or threats of violence targeting a student, staff member, or school site.
And at 11 AM on WCHE Friday this will be a topic of conversation.
I think these kids should be removed from the district, and I hope the teachers sue the district and the parents , and finally ? Consider a strike .
How to show support for the GVSD teachers:
come to the school board meeting this Monday 7/15 at 7:30pm
speak when it’s time for public comment, even if it’s just to stay you stand with all teachers and staff. Because they are all experiencing trauma and stress of some degree.
if you cannot attend, send an email and cc the superintendent and all school board members, their contact info is on the website. https://www.gvsd.org/
