WFHS teacher assignment: Spy on parents, students, other teachers

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FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — A recent West Forsyth High School graduate told the Board of Education that a sociology, psychology class assignment during her senior year required students to spy on their parents, teachers and fellow students to report derogatory statements they make about certain classes of people.

Caroline Andrews said, “So I had a Forsyth County school teacher tell me I should listen to the language of my parents and spy on them. I think that is entirely inappropriate and I think that should be investigated.”

Caroline Andrews

The assignment, which was entitled Tracking Prejudice Speech in School, directed the class to track derogatory comments heard during a school day about racial/ethnic minorities, women, religious groups, different sexual orientation and the physically and mentally handicapped and to keep a tally of how many times each group has been spoken about in a derogatory manner that day. It also directed students to “DO THIS PRIVATELY.”

She presented a copy of the assignment to support her claim.

She also called on the Board to stop creating classes like the new Women’s Study class. The teacher in question, Andrews said, serves on the advisory board for the class.

“Do you think this type of politics won’t make its way into these intro classes? So I am here tonight to ask the Board to please, please, please stop implementing these classes because they will be methods to teach cultural Marxism to students and please investigate any teachers that are trying to get students to turn against their parents.

“I’ve studied history. I know what happened in the cultural revolution of China. This kind of assignment that led to that and I think it should be investigated.”

Board members did not respond to our request for comment on this article nor have they responded to Ms. Andrews.

 

 

 

 

 

 

BOC approves undisclosed amount of funding to bring the Levent investigation to a conclusion

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FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. – Forsyth County Commissioners voted 3-0 (with Commissioners Cindy Mills and Todd Levent having recused themselves) Tuesday to spend an unspecified amount of money to take its investigation of District 3 Commissioner Todd Levent to what Chairwoman Laura Semanson called “its natural conclusion.”

The Board began the investigation, which centered on Levent’s accessing Commissioner Cindy Mills emails without her knowledge and without having filed an open records request. Emails to and from county-owned computers are a matter of public record that can be obtained by filing an open records request. However, some exemptions are allowed under Georgia’s Open Records Act and certain personal identifiers can be redacted.

The investigation, which was initially capped at $20,000, was completed on July 14.  Tuesday’s vote was on a resolution to approve an undisclosed amount of supplemental funding to pay an attorney to present the results to an independent body, possibly a Board of Ethics.

The amount of the supplemental funding was not discussed, although one commissioner said later, it is estimated to be about $18,000.

Commissioner Dennis Brown questioned the cost during Tuesday’s meeting. “Does this have a specific amount or limit,” he asked?

Semanson said the cost is not known yet.

“Theoretically then they could come back for more money,” he said.

“I look at it like this,” Semanson said. “We’ve already rounded third base. At this point if we want to take this to it’s final conclusion, we need to have that ability.”

 

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