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What is the name of your state? Kansas
From the beginning of this school year I sent emails to ask my son's teacher about classroom instruction, and the Social Emotional Learning and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and belonging programs. This afternoon sending some emails the previous year to administrators to ask the meaning of terms found in the district's Strategic Plan. I also shared information about the district's secretive DEI program along with the new age religion origins of Social Emotional Learning and Marxist origins of DEIB.
After I asked about SEL, the principal sent an email to inform me they were not going to answer questions about that topic. It was stern, felt like a warning. At this point I had tipped my hand that I knew what was inside school districts not publicly released DEI program too.
A few days later I asked a question about if a classroom activity we were informed about was DEIB related. The principal responded and copied my wife, who I had left out of these discussions due to personal concerns.
This lead to a phone conversation between my wife and this principal in which she expressed extreme fear and concern. She portrayed me as being paranoid and threatening to my wife. That I'm looking for something that is not there, asking questions that cannot be answered because the info doesn't exist, being harassing, threatening, and the school is terrified who might show up to pick our son up. They are afraid I am going to do something drastic. My wife filed a police a report and took the kids. My family is done. The divorce is already in motion. My wife has calmed down enough since to let me have the kids, but her trust in me is deeply broken. There were some marital strains before this, which is probably obvious, but it wasn't broken. Could these comments made by this principal about me be slander or defamation? I never made any threats and at worst could be accused of being annoying or abrasive. I may have suggested some district admins resign and I may have insulted their precious white identitarian DEI program in one email due to frustration that simple questions were not being answered. This directly preceded the principal going to my wife. That's the worst of it from me. The principals comments to my wife were followed by an email by the district's general counsel to inform me I was in violation of district policy for threatening and bullying. My wife was copied of course. Which only added fuel to the fire created by the principal.
I have had an attorney look over my emails and the districts response for child custody purposes. His opinion was at worst if could be used against me for educational decision making, and the district response was a hyperbolic overreaction..he said they are trying to say you are a potential school shooter and advised me to preemptively get a criminal defense attorney. I am the furthest thing from this. It's almost funny, but there is a secondary question here besides do I have a legal case based on slander, it is could they build a criminal case against me even without any actual threats made by me? Just on their hyperbolic overreaction alone.
PS The school bullying doctrine takes into account beliefs about power and privilege. I was challenging female teachers/principal from a place of "white" and male "power and privilege", which makes my conduct bullying. This doctrine also allows they can read these extreme "potential school shooter" motives because they have more access to reality than me do to their lower intersectional status. They know my true motives better than I do. Yes, I know way too much about DEI and intersectional theory. This effects my slander question because it is possible the principal really believed what she told my wife.
From the beginning of this school year I sent emails to ask my son's teacher about classroom instruction, and the Social Emotional Learning and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and belonging programs. This afternoon sending some emails the previous year to administrators to ask the meaning of terms found in the district's Strategic Plan. I also shared information about the district's secretive DEI program along with the new age religion origins of Social Emotional Learning and Marxist origins of DEIB.
After I asked about SEL, the principal sent an email to inform me they were not going to answer questions about that topic. It was stern, felt like a warning. At this point I had tipped my hand that I knew what was inside school districts not publicly released DEI program too.
A few days later I asked a question about if a classroom activity we were informed about was DEIB related. The principal responded and copied my wife, who I had left out of these discussions due to personal concerns.
This lead to a phone conversation between my wife and this principal in which she expressed extreme fear and concern. She portrayed me as being paranoid and threatening to my wife. That I'm looking for something that is not there, asking questions that cannot be answered because the info doesn't exist, being harassing, threatening, and the school is terrified who might show up to pick our son up. They are afraid I am going to do something drastic. My wife filed a police a report and took the kids. My family is done. The divorce is already in motion. My wife has calmed down enough since to let me have the kids, but her trust in me is deeply broken. There were some marital strains before this, which is probably obvious, but it wasn't broken. Could these comments made by this principal about me be slander or defamation? I never made any threats and at worst could be accused of being annoying or abrasive. I may have suggested some district admins resign and I may have insulted their precious white identitarian DEI program in one email due to frustration that simple questions were not being answered. This directly preceded the principal going to my wife. That's the worst of it from me. The principals comments to my wife were followed by an email by the district's general counsel to inform me I was in violation of district policy for threatening and bullying. My wife was copied of course. Which only added fuel to the fire created by the principal.
I have had an attorney look over my emails and the districts response for child custody purposes. His opinion was at worst if could be used against me for educational decision making, and the district response was a hyperbolic overreaction..he said they are trying to say you are a potential school shooter and advised me to preemptively get a criminal defense attorney. I am the furthest thing from this. It's almost funny, but there is a secondary question here besides do I have a legal case based on slander, it is could they build a criminal case against me even without any actual threats made by me? Just on their hyperbolic overreaction alone.
PS The school bullying doctrine takes into account beliefs about power and privilege. I was challenging female teachers/principal from a place of "white" and male "power and privilege", which makes my conduct bullying. This doctrine also allows they can read these extreme "potential school shooter" motives because they have more access to reality than me do to their lower intersectional status. They know my true motives better than I do. Yes, I know way too much about DEI and intersectional theory. This effects my slander question because it is possible the principal really believed what she told my wife.