On Monday February 20, there will be a Parents Rights Forum at Gourmeltz from 7pm to 9pm. It features Jonathan Emord (candidate for the United States Senate), Matt Strickland (candidate for VA Senate 27), Suparna Dutta (nominated to the state board of education by Youngkin), and Asra Nomani. Below is a screenshot of the event.
On Sunday February 26, there will be a candidate forum at Crossroads Baptist Church from 2pm to 5pm. The event is called “The Big Spotsylvania Candidate Forum”. It features candidates running for various seats in Spotsylvania County. Below is a screenshot of the event.
Here is the email from Spotsylvania County Schools that summarizes the February 15th school board meeting
Lieberman and his sidekicks chase imaginary issues while the grownups pass the budgets.
The next court date for Dawn Shelley vs Roy Searles is on April 18. Spotsylvania County Commonwealth’s attorney Travis Bird will not prosecute the case. Instead, a special prosecutor out of Richmond VA will handle things. We predict that Searles will easily win the criminal case for his 4th straight court victory. Just like the civil cases brought on by Shelley, this criminal charge is frivolous.
Searles is currently undefeated at 3-0 in court cases against the far left. This includes two big wins against School board member Dawn “Jezebel” Shelley and one big win against former failed school board candidate Rich Lieberman. This all fits a pattern of the far left weaponizing the court system. Below are earlier articles covering how Searles keeps winning against Shameful Shelley.
https://spotsywire.com/2023/01/18/dawn-shelley-loses-in-court-again/
https://spotsywire.com/2023/02/06/shameful-shelley-loses-again-vs-searles/
https://spotsywire.com/2023/01/05/shelley-the-tyrant/
The snack issue in Spotsylvania County schools is nothing more than a fabricated crisis for those on the left to score political points. Notice that Lorita Daniels, Nicole Cole, Rich Lieberman and others use the snack donations as a political photo-op at every opportunity. There was never a snack crisis in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. The left wants us to pretend that Spotsylvania County has developed this unique problem in the last 6 months that no other local jurisdiction in the United States has developed.
The donation of snacks is a “want” and not a “need”. Don’t get us wrong. If you want to volunteer to donate, then go right ahead. It is your money. Do what you want. The snacks still need to be screened by the schools for liability reasons. They should not just be dropped off at random schools at random times without some orderly process in place that takes into account safety.
Let’s not pretend that there is a crisis. At the end of the day, parents are responsible for feeding their own children. Parents are fully capable of supplying their child with snacks. If a parent says that they cannot afford snacks, then we suggest that the parent make better life choices to be more financially stable instead of relying upon assistance. Furthermore, Spotsylvania County is not exactly a poor county with median household income that is higher than most areas of the state.
We know that this snack issue is a distraction to make politicians look good. Lorita Daniels wants to promote snacks to conceal her vile equity initiatives in the schools ahead of her re-election campaign. Equity platforms have proven to be very destructive in places such as Seattle. Lieberman promotes snacks because it distracts away from all the misogynistic social media posts he made over the past 12 years. He tries to remain relevant after a failed school board campaign. Cole promotes snacks because it distracts from her racist rants on social media and immature behavior at school board meetings.
At the upcoming February 13th school board meeting, there is an agenda item regarding approval of contracts for skilled trade services. Although agenda item 4.07 may look innocent, we believe that the top people in charge of the Spotsylvania County Public Schools (SCPS) Maintenance Department will use these contracts to extort the taxpayer, compromise student safety, and compromise the jobs of the current school maintenance workers.
The SCPS Director of Maintenace Shawn Hockaday and SCPS Director of Operations Kenny Forrest will have a blank check of up to $250,000 for any project they deem “as needed” per agenda item 4.07. Anyone that has the unilateral power to make decisions on huge amounts of taxpayer money without oversight is open to abuse and corruption. What is to prevent Director Hockaday from seeking to fire existing school maintenance workers in lieu of hiring a contractor?
We vehemently oppose the school board approving this request from SCPS Director of Maintenance and the SCPS Director of Operations. Is Hockaday and Forest really choosing to replace SCPS maintenance workers with outside contractors? Their plan of chaos will not help repair SCPS buildings and facility infrastructure. Their plan leaves unsafe conditions for our kids and unnecessary chaos. Maybe Hockaday’s goal is to create hostility and discontent by blaming the school board majority and superintendent for the fired maintenance staff with the illusion that the school board majority does not want the kids safe. We predict that Daniels, Cole and Shelly will approve this request so they can continue to play with the false political narrative.
This leads us to wonder how many other blank checks were requested by these directors that the public does not know about? It’s time for Spotsy parents to realize what is happening and to stop listening to the relentless untruths from Shameful Shelley, Lying Lorita, and Nasty Nicole.
Chris Harris is running for the Spotsylvania County School Board in the Salem District. Harris created a video introducing himself. Here is the video. Here is his website – https://www.chris4spotsyschools.com/
Here are a list of candidates that we found that are running for various positions in Spotsylvania County. We encourage you to visit their websites to learn more about them.
Spotsy School Board Salem District, Chris Harris https://www.chris4spotsyschools.com/
Spotsy Supervisor Livingston District, Jake Lane https://jake4livingston.com/
Spotsy Sheriff, Steve Maxwell https://www.smaxwellforsheriff.com/
Spotsy Clerk of the Court, Nick Ignacio https://www.nickignacio.com/
VA House 63rd, Phil Scott https://www.philscottva.com/
VA Senate 28, Mike Allers https://www.allersforvasenate.com/
VA Senate 27, Matt Strickland https://www.mattforva.com/
There is a regular meeting of the Spotsylvania County school board on February 13. Screenshots of the agenda are below. We hope to learn answers to the following questions at this school board meeting.
At the Monday 2/6 school board meeting, school board attorney Whitson Robinson announced that private security is legally allowed to have firearms at school board meetings. Shelley, Cole, and Daniels maintained the position that it was illegal. Here is the video clip where Attorney Robinson stated that its legal.
Here is a screenshot of the email sent by Spotsylvania County Schools that provides a summary of the February 6, 2023 school board meeting. The budget link is here – https://www.spotsylvania.k12.va.us/o/scps/page/fy2024-budget-information
Spotsylvania County School Board Chair Lisa Phelps talked about the SRO situation in the school division at the February 6th school board meeting. Here is the video of that speech.
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On Monday February 6, the school board went into recess at roughly 545pm due to Shelley and Cole’s typical behavior of interruptions and speaking over the chair. During recess, the three leftists on the school board decided to continue holding a meeting without quorum while the board was in recess. This is an illegal meeting. Below is a short 10 second video clip of Shelley’s antics during recess. Hopefully Makaila files a lawsuit against Shelley, Daniels, and Cole over these FOIA violations!
Leftist School Board member Dawn Shelley withdrew her appeal to have a restraining order placed on Roy Searles. Below is the court document showing that. If this was such a serious issue, why did she withdraw the appeal for the restraining order? It is clear that Shelley weaponized the court system with this frivolous action.
In the original hearing, the judge was quick to point out that Shelley did not have evidence to support her allegations of threats or harm. Shelley’s own affidavit states that Searles did not threaten her. During court, there was discussions that the initial judge in Virginia Beach should have never signed off on the temporary restraining order because it lacked merit. Below are our previous articles on this issue.
https://spotsywire.com/2023/01/18/dawn-shelley-loses-in-court-again/
https://spotsywire.com/2023/01/05/shelley-the-tyrant/
Here is a screenshot of an email sent by Superintendent Mark Taylor on Friday February 3rd regarding the SRO issues.
“To our SCPS Families and Staff —
My number one priority as Superintendent is to provide a safe school environment for all of our students from the moment they begin their day with us until the moment they return home. The School Resource Officer (SRO) program is an integral security measure provided by our Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office. While the SRO is under the direct management and supervision of the Sheriff’s office, each SRO coordinates and communicates with the principal of the assigned school for delivering prevention, investigation, communication, support, and enforcement for school safety.
In light of recent coverage issues within our schools, the Memorandum of Understanding for the SRO program is under current review and it is our intention to ensure each and every school has the support of our Sheriff’s Office.
At the minimum, we firmly believe the presence of a trained SRO in every school, every day is a reasonable expectation of our community.
We thank the SROs for their dedication and service in our schools.
Mark B. Taylor, Esq.
Superintendent, SCPS”
The screenshot below is the statement from Superintendent Mark Taylor regarding the SRO situation at schools. This statement was originally received on Thursday February 2 and an update received on February 3.
“Superintendent Taylor, Chairwoman Phelps and Vice Chairwoman Gillespie, met with Sheriff Harris today to discuss these and other issues. I believe the email you are referencing was a (FOIA exempt) communication regarding school security plans.
We have 5 schools without a Sheriff’s SRO stationed in the building. The decision by the Sheriff’s office to pull 4 SRO’s from other schools was made without consultation with the Superintendent. Our school division has 31 school buildings and the sheriff has 26 SROs, our parents and community expect to have an SRO in every school, every day, and no exceptions.”
Here are screenshots of a letter from Freedom Middle School’s principal Eric Wright about a student survey and screenshots of the proposed survey. Note a few things.
This survey shows that educators are functioning in the role of indoctrinating middle school age children (ages 12 to 14) by giving validity to identity politics when asking sexual orientation or gender identity questions. Why keep a child’s answers a secret from parents? The idea that one can subjectively change their gender and impose this subjective believe system on others goes directly against scientific fact. That is hardly a controversial statement.
For those of us that live in objective reality, there can only be males and females. How do we know that? Since the beginning of time there has only been one way to procreate. It requires a male and a female. Procreation is not possible thru one’s subjective identity.
There were substantive violations of Virginia Code 22.1-60 by past school board chair Dawn Shelley when she signed an illegal contract with prior Superintendent Scott Baker. This illegal contract occurred during the 2021 lame duck session and without the required 30 days’ advanced notice. Below is a screenshot of the illegal contract signed on 12/13/2021 by Shelley. Our 1/13/2022 article explains why this is an illegal contract – https://spotsywire.com/2022/01/13/bakers-separation-agreement-is-an-illegal-contract/
We are calling on the community to hold Shelley accountable for these illegal actions by contacting the Commonwealth’s attorney. The contact information below can be found on the following website – https://www.spotsylvania.va.us/781/Commonwealths-Attorney
Emails: commattygrp@spotsylvania.va.us, tbird@spotsylvania.va.us,
Phone: 540-507-7650
Virginia code 22.1-60-C clearly states that “No school board shall renegotiate a superintendent’s contract during the period following the election or appointment of new members and the date such members are qualified and assume office”. A contract is an agreement between two parties regardless of the label of the legal instrument. The label “separation agreement” is a contract.
Virginia code 22.1-60-D states “Whenever a superintendent’s contract is being renegotiated, all members of the school board shall be notified at least 30 days in advance of any meeting at which a vote is planned on the renegotiated contract…..”
Not only does Shelley’s action appear to break the law, but more importantly the leftist majority school board in 2021 created deception by misleading parents, staff, students, and the entire community on this contract. This caused confusion and smoke screens for Shelley’s subsequent irrational behavior.
