By Glenn Gogoleski
Astounded. Confounded. Stupefied. Dumbstruck.
Let’s review the situation, shall we, Livingston Post? A political party sends a big wake-up call to Hartland parents and taxpayers by providing concrete evidence of what has been given to their students for years, and the progressive pronoun-using, transgender-affirming crowd feigns shock/horror/dismay at such a sight of material.
Please. Seriously. Stop it.
Do you have any idea how vacuous and intellectually bankrupt your argument sounds?
You are the same crowd that had no problem with various Livingston County school officials and Democrat politicians Whitmer and Slotkin reading “I Am Jazz” in a video which is a story of a young post-pubescent teen changing from he to she. A book with an advised reading age of 4 to 8 years old according to Amazon. (Editor’s note: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer did not participate in the “I Am Jazz” reading.)
You are the same crowd who has denied anything like this has been going on in our schools and criticizing, harassing, and doxing parents who have dared to speak up at school board meetings regarding this and other questionable classroom materials such as gay pride flags and BLM signs.
You are the same crowd that has no problem voting for Proposal 3.
Yet, here you are, like a bunch of pearl-clutching, Sunday-school spinsters getting your first look at a National Geographic issue on the shirtless nomadic tribes of the Savannah.
Just stop it. The faux outrage would be laughable if it weren’t so hypocritical.
And the extremely lame argument that parents had to sign a consent form for reading those books – no parent expects the content of a book being given out by professionals that they trust with their children to put that kind of filth in front of them in the first place. But it’s the parents’ job to read them first? Really?
So if you are a Hartland resident that is so deeply upset about being awakened to what the children of Hartland have been exposed to for years, and you want to blame the MESSENGER, you shouldn’t be voting at all. You lack the critical thinking skill level and emotional maturity to participate in such an important decision-making process.
The Clean Slate did not send that flyer, but I must admit my jealousy in not thinking of it first.
Nov. 8 can’t get here soon enough.
Glenn Gogoleski is a member of the Clean Slate Team, running for the Hartland Consolidated Schools Board of Education.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Glenn Gogoleski is also one of the Livingston County school board candidates who did not fill out the questionnaire of The Livingston Post that was sent to all running;. Here are the answers from the Hartland candidates who did complete the questionnaire.
Have you enlightened yourself by actually reading the books in question? Or are your personal opinions here based only on your strong personal feelings about books that you haven’t even read?
Are you willing to read them for yourself? Or do you just feel that you’re entitled to a free education from Michael in this internet comments section?
If you have not and are not willing to read them for yourself, is it because your psychosexual neuroses cause you to become triggered by literature featuring “graphic sex scenes”? If that is the case, would you like publishers to include trigger warnings on literature featuring “graphic sex scenes” for you?
If you are in the habit of having other people do your reading for you, are you also in the habit of having other people do your thinking for you?
If you are opposed to literature featuring “graphic sex scenes” being in schools… does that include the Bible?
And do you have any idea how vacuous and intellectually bankrupt your unhinged rant sounds to anyone who isn’t as biased, narrow-minded, depraved, and plagued by psychosexual neuroses as you are?
A hypocrite is someone who is more critical of other people’s behavior than they are of their own behavior. When you’re more critical of other people’s hypocrisy than you are of your own hypocrisy, you’re being hypocritical about hypocrisy itself. And critical thinking requires you to be critical of your own thinking. Not just other people’s thinking. You should try it. Answer all of my questions honestly, and without deflecting… if you’re even capable of honesty. Or you can reply without answering my questions to tell us that you are incapable of honesty.
Your discomfort with sex is your problem, Glenn. Your sphere of influence isn’t large enough to prevent other people from having sex or being transgendered. You think you can prevent others from talking about it, but you are grasping at straws. It may be possible to remove some books from a library, but what do you plan to do about the internet? You’ve already lost this “fight”, you just haven’t admitted it yet.
People live in a reality where sex happens (including sexual abuse) and transgendered people exist, and they’re going to learn about it any way they can. We have nothing to gain by sticking our heads in the sand or standing in the way. Every resource can be valuable, including the books you want to ban.
What a toxic person. He thinks he’s in a fight against people who don’t share his views, but really he’s fighting against reality.
Sex happens and transgendered people exist. Books that accurately reflect our reality are going to feature sex and transgendered people.
That Mr Gogoleski is made uncomfortable by this reality has precisely zero bearing on the truth of it. We are under no obligation to lie for the sake of his comfort.
Voting for Glenn Gogoleski is a vote for bloviated bully who demeans, name-calls and intimidates any adult who gets in his way, or dares question or challenge his homophobic, bigoted, false and fascist beliefs. Funny how he and his wife Jeannine weren’t accusing and blasting the HCS while their son attended until 2019. So when did this so-called indoctrination start, exactly???
Glenn lies. He cannot reasonably defend his beliefs and positions with valid sources, studies, citations, nothing, nada, ZIP. Instead, one can expect the board to be a real circus when he starts his right-wing, racist, homophobic teacher-targeted rants and attacks. (Google Newberg, OR Public Schools to see what’s ahead.)
Are the local taxpayers ready for the Suoerintendent’s payout when he is fired? Lawsuits from teachers, parents, students, the HEA? Lawyers will have to be hired. Ready for the loss of federal funds when Title 9 and Special Ed is viscerarated????? Gird your loins, Hartland.
Don’t be fooled, political points are the endgame and neither CLEAN SLATE OR MY BROTHER GLENN cares who gets in the way of their control. (For proof of fascist leanings, Google Glenn and see his FB memes/posts).
Hey, call me for a donation when the recall of board members starts. My deepest sympathies if Clean Slate gets elected. I told you so!
So enlighten us all Michael with an explanation as to what educational value of a book with graphic sex scenes provides our children. Inquiring minds want to know. What are we missing?
Methinks the pearl clutching is coming from your team Glenn.