Law Enforcement assists Clarence School Board to lock out parents (Part 2)

Law Enforcement assists Clarence School Board to lock out parents (Part 2)

On Monday evening 9.20.2021 at 7p, Clarence school officials ordered Clarence Public Safety Officers to stand guard at the front doors of the Clarence Public School Districts school board meeting. Their job was to screen and vet parents prior to entry. All of the school doors were locked. Once the Public Safety Officer made sure every attendee was informed they had to wear a mask, and if they removed the mask the school board would stop the meeting. After 10 minutes into the meeting, school board officials Michael Fuchs (President), James Boglioli, Tricia Andrews, Dawn Snyder and Clarence School Superintendent Matt Frahm while having masks below there noses themselves, told parents they needed to wear their masks properly or the board meeting would be adjourned.

After School Board member James Boglioli got very belligerent with parents, the school board got up and removed themselves, leaving the Clarence parents sitting their in the room to fend for themselves. The video of the event was removed from the Clarence School website almost immediately. That video would show that parents in attendance remained respectful the entire time, in their seats and masked.

After previous meetings with the school board, at least one school board member was very disrespectful to parents, and even went to local media portraying unmask parents in attendance in a very unflattering light and some very vulgar references that were categorically untrue, baselss and unsubtantiated.

Parents peacefully remained in the conference room, and then (2) or (3) Clarence Public Safety Officers and (4) Erie County Sheriffs worked to remove parents from the school, and then eventually school grounds. When asked which laws the parents violated, law enforcement refused to answer.

When asked Board Members and the Superintendent were asked questions regarding masking, they offered no response and ignored all questions.

Clarence School Board Officials are taking the postition, and incorrectly so, that open board meetings are closed to the general public and for parents only, even though funding for the school comes from State and Federal governments. And, the excuse to force lockdown measures, masking, distancing, remote learning and so on being enforced were that the school districts were afraid of losing state and federal funding, illustrating clearly they are well aware of the fact that of where the financing comes from, and who pays for it. Yet, they insist on denying entry to their open board meetings to non town residents.

Clarence parents dispersed without incident and peacefully. Neither the school board nor any school official offered or provided an explanation or when the next meeting will be. My guess is this is a part of their overarching plan to keep parents out of school meetings.

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