Editor’s Note:
I’ve updated the article to reflect that Andy Rutten was asked a question by Jerry Hawkins and not a ‘school board member.’
UPDATE:
Andy Rutten just confirmed to me that PHM has served him with a no trespass order. This means he can no longer attend any school function, including board meetings. Andy has a child in the PHM school district.
Real News Michiana has done it again.
We have a school district here called Penn Harris Madison (PHM). It was considered one of the best school districts in the state of Indiana prior to COVID.
A parent (Andy Rutten) was arrested at the school board meeting last night for requesting to go over time to present how PHM wasn’t being honest about a proposed tax increase.
This just so happens to be the same parent who filed a complaint with the State of Indiana exposing how PHM was violating state law by using a Superintendent Advisory Council (SAC) to avoid the meeting being open and available to the public. PHM has been using the SAC to secretly promote CRT in the school district.
Members of the SAC are appointed by the superintendent and not elected by the people. PHM argued that since the SAC members weren’t elected, the public had no right to know what happened in the meetings. This same strategy is being used all over the country by school districts.
Indiana’s Public Access Counselor (PAC) ruled that the SAC did, in fact, violate Indiana state law and PHM was required to open them to the public this month. So far, PHM has refused to make the contents of the previous SAC meetings, held in secret, public.
Here’s the video of the arrest:
Yes, he refused to leave the podium after he was asked to. However, other people were allowed to go over time at this meeting and it is a common occurrence that people will go over a little during the PHM meetings.
Secondly, he was asked a question by Jerry Hawkins, the school board accountant. This took about 30-seconds of the parent’s 3 minute time limit and he should have been allowed to continue at least that much longer.
Many people feel that this was targeted because he’s the one who exposed the SAC was breaking the law and wouldn’t have been arrested if he were someone else.
School Boards are public not in the private. Indiana Constitutional rights were violated. “We the People” hold all political power…Article1 Section 1 of Indiana Constitution. People have the right to assemble and redress grievances to their elected officials. Article 1 Section 9 & Section 31
The People have a right to alter, abolish or reform their government at any time for the and consult for the common good of Indiana Constitution
There are 51 Constructions, and they are all applicable from State to State. Perhaps if the OATH that ALL elected officials take would be upheld the representation witnessed of the School Board Member, an elected official, SERVANT to the People probably would not have been barking so loud because they have been found out. They have it wrong. The People need to get it right, “We the People” are their BOSSES, we hired them to run our business. THE PEOPLE hold the highest standing in the land. The People are to blame because we have been complaisant and not holding out ELECTED SERVANTS accountable because we have not been diligent in learning the Common Law, the language in our State Constitution. Perhaps the People are more awake and are standing up for their rights. The only way to do so is READ YOUR INDIANA CONSTITUTION starting with the BILLS OF RIGHTS ARTICLE 1. Then the People in turn educate our Servants, of their duties and job that they SWORE AN OATH to, so they can uphold their OATH….if they know WHAT they swore to…I know do you? Do they…well that’s obvious because their actions are the exact opposite of their oath through the entire plandemic. Yes plandemic, and we won’t mention all the $$$ that is coming in for complying to the mandates…and we know more is coming. So PEOPLE study up and learn YOUR STATE CONSTITUTION. The People hold all the power to turn this around with God at our side. Besides the Common Law came from the Bible as the People wrote their State Constitutions before the US Constitution.