November 22, 2021 –
As if anyone needed a reminder that Maine’s home-grown Fake News media outlets are shameless cheerleaders for Leftist indoctrination in Maine’s K-12 government-run schools, along comes the Ellsworth American with another shoddy, shallow, dishonest editorial confirming what we already knew: that managing editor Cyndi Wood is a Social Justice Snowflake and a disgrace to her profession.
Now, let me tell you what I really think…
Seriously.
Last week, Cyndi penned a cheap-shot hit piece targeting Ellsworth school board candidates who campaigned against the rampant racial stereotyping and racial scapegoating superintendent Dan Higgins brought into the district last year.
Cyndi thinks her readers are stupid, so she continues to parrot the Big Lie of Leftist educators across the state:
“Critical Race Theory? Naw, we’re not teaching anything of the sort. We don’t even know what CRT is. That’s a fantasy of ignorant parents who don’t appreciate how smart we educators are. We celebrate diversity and inclusion and responsible decision-making, but CRT? Forget about it!”
Maine First Project will continue to call out the Leftist liars, and we won’t pull any punches. Your gift of $10, $25, $50, $100, or whatever you can afford will enable us to reach a wider audience with our no-holds-barred commentary and analysis.
To put it bluntly: Cyndi Wood’s dishonesty, her lack of journalistic ethics, and her contempt for her readers are breathtaking. But we already knew that.
I guess you could say she’s just doing her job. She is, after all, on the payroll of Reade Brower’s Fake News media monopoly that swallowed up the Ellsworth American three years ago.
Part of Cyndi’s job is to protect Ellsworth’s other failing, dysfunctional monopoly: public schools that can’t seem to teach the basics anymore, but excel at indoctrinating students into making judgments about people based on their skin color.
Take a look at the failing grades administrators and faculty have compiled:
These scores are abysmal, with anywhere between 36% and 70% of students in Ellsworth schools below or WELL BELOW grade-level expectations — not a very high bar, to be sure.
Ellsworth school board members and the superintendent they hired own this rotten report card.
State and local taxpayers shovel over a billion dollars a year into Maine’s K-12 swamp, and what do we get in return? We get at least two things: graduates who are unprepared for careers or higher education — and insults from woke “journalists.”
Now more than ever, Maine’s government-run K-12 schools need competition. Parents deserve school choice, the sooner the better.
That won’t happen with the current occupant of the Blaine House, nor with the current make-up of the Legislature. But next year, all of that could change, with all 186 legislative seats up for grabs, as well as the Governor’s office.
That day of reckoning is less than 50 weeks away.
Maine First Project is committed to holding the swamp critters accountable, by recruiting and training a grassroots army of activists who will populate the Legislature with principled, populist, patriotic Mainers. You can help make that happen by chipping in TODAY with $10, $25, $50, $100, or whatever you can afford.
Thanks for all you do every day to make Maine great again. Together, we pull our beloved state back from the precipice.
Best Regards,
Hon. Lawrence Lockman, R-Bradley
Maine House of Representatives, 2012-2020
Co-founder & President
Maine First Project
PS
We have much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving week. Such as the freedom to figuratively roast left-wing propagandists posing as journalists.
This collection of pompous, condescending, virtue-signaling cultists remind me of the flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz…
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