Ohio state Board of Education president is resigning after refusing to vote against an anti-racism r

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Source: Insider

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The president of the Ohio Board of Education announced she will resign after the state Senate made clear they would not confirm her reappointment following her refusal to vote against repealing an anti-racism resolution.

Laura Kohler, a Republican who is serving her fifth year on the state board, told the Columbus Dispatch that she planned to offer her resignation to Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday after the Republican leader's chief of staff asked her to step down following the controversy.

The political firestorm began last year, when Kohler helped create an anti-racism and equality resolution following the murder of George Floyd. The resolution, now known as Resolution 20, passed in 2020.

According to the Dispatch, the motion highlighted the ways in which Ohio's children of color under perform compared to white students. The resolution also urged the state Department of Education, as well as local school districts, to interrogate implicit biases, teaching materials, and disciplinary practices.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ohio-state-board-of-education-president-is-resigning-after-refusing-to-vote-against-an-anti-racism-resolution/ar-AAQ78oh?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=DELLDHP

[msongs]

1. coward. the nazis count on opposition giving up nt

[groundloop]

3. Damned right...... should have let the racist right expose themselves in the news

[marybourg]

2. I'm apparently becoming senile. Would someone who can follow

refusal, against, anti and repeal and tell me which side she’s on.

[ancianita]

4. +!

Thank you.

[Bleacher Creature]

5. It took me a second too, but she's with the good guys.

She's basically refusing to vote for repealing a statement that racism is bad.

[marybourg]

9. Thank you!

[royable]

14. Just count up the number of negatives. An odd number of falses is a true. So they say.

Easier said than done. For example...

"She announced she will resign after the Senate would not confirm her reappointment following her refusal to vote against repealing a motion to reject the authority of a committee formed to disband the study group that recommended against disqualifying the opt-out by protesters from suing to prevent being mandated to abstain from complying with an anti-racism resolution."

Is an abstention a true or a false? How about a "would not confirm"?

I get baffled.

It's like a couple toddlers, who, instead of going, "Is not!" "Is so!" "Is not!" "Is so!", instead go "Is not!" "Is not NOT!" "Uh-uh is not NOT!" "NO WAY uh-uh is not NOT!"

[rickford66]

6. I thought it was just me.

Throw in a few more double negatives and maybe a double positive or so. Don't you just hate "not unlike".

[caraher]

7. I never didn't think it wasn't only just not me...

or something.

Some serious pretzel logic going on sorting out this story. A more honest headline would be something like "Ohio State Board of Education Resigns Rather Than Oppose Anti-Racism Resolution"

[marybourg]

8. Not only more honest, but more literate.

Thank you.

[marybourg]

10. Actually I like "not unlike". It's not exactly like "like".

[rickford66]

11. You like "not unlike" unlike me and others.

I had a manager years ago who was full of himself. His memos had long run-on sentences. The record was 160 words and included two "unlikes".

[h2ebits]

12. Thank you! My exact sentiments. . .

[hlthe2b]

15. Yes. Whoever wrote that needs a damned editor.

[onenote]

13. Wow, is that a poorly written article.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. Chain of SEVEN negatives: resign, not confirm, refusal, against, repeal, anti-racism. . nt

[0rganism]

17. If you think you are confusing now you have not seen nothing yet

Still, she could have made a stronger statement by taking a stand and making them fire her.

[mn9driver]

18. That made my head hurt.

[Demovictory9]

19. Too bad