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.
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.
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.
We’ve been talking about how local school districts have been using SAC meetings in secret to hide from the general public what they are doing in schools. PHM (Penn-Harris-Madison) were one of the districts using this tactic.
In March, the state of Indiana informed PHM they were violating state law in doing so.
The Penn Harris Madison School Corporation is having its first PUBLIC meeting of the Superintendent’s Advisory Council (SAC) on Monday night. The SAC was developed in 2020 following the death of George Floyd and the ensuing Black Lives Matter riots. Since its creation, SAC meetings had been illegally held in secret, closed-door sessions. Parental complaints about the illegal meetings lead to an investigation by the State of Indiana. The state eventually notified the school district that it must allow the public to attend the SAC meetings.
UPDATE: Several hours after I posted this article, Dr. Cheryl Camacho resigned.
I received a letter from the spouse of a teacher at Navarre Middle School in South Bend, IN.
There was a massive fight that broke out at Navarre Middle School on Thursday, April 14.
Concerned citizens took to social media to express their frustrations over another incident at the school.
The letter from a concerned spouse of a Navarre teacher confirms the events people were posting about online.
There was a Malay of fights after school. It was inside and outside. One child told a teacher to move or I’ll shoot you.
My wife tried getting kids back inside.
She was struck once. Kids screaming gun!
The letter also spoke about security at Navarre:
My wife is traumatized. I’m sure there are a lot of kids that are too.
There is no security to speak of.
Police were way late.
This is not the first gun and I believe it’s just a matter of time before there are deaths.
Posts on Facebook indicated when police did arrive, there were numerous officers on the scene.
I reached out to the South Bend Police Department about the fight at Navarre. Here’s their statement:
I can confirm our officers responded to reports of a fight at Navarre Middle School yesterday just after 4 pm. However, while a sizable crowd had formed, our officers only observed two juveniles actively fighting while we were on the scene.
No gun was recovered.
As with most cases happening on school property, any additional information will need to come from South Bend Schools.
I requested comment from Navarre directly but the school is closed today for Good Friday. I’ll update the story when/if I get a response.
As of right now, Navarre has not posted about the incident publicly.
This isn’t the first time I’ve discussed Navarre Middle School.
In June of 2021, Real News Michiana revealed that Jasmine Brown, an 8th grade Social Studies teacher at Navarre was teaching CRT and advocating for Black Lives Matter in her classroom. Jasmine Brown was also Navarre’s Teacher of the Year for 2020-2021. Some of her lessons included how the prison system is designed to over incarcerate minorities and is a modern form of slavery.
As Real News Michiana’s investigations into Navarre continued, we learned that a local police hating BLM activist was promoted to Dean of School Culture at Navarre. Regina Williams-Preston called for police to be removed from schools at a press conference in May 2021.
“This is a public call to school board members, district administrators to do your job, uphold the law and remove police from schools now.”
She has also been tied to Eli Cantu, a local gang member.
Valeria Chamorro taught social studies at Navarre and was promoted to an Assistant Principal position. She repeatedly posted “All Cops Are Bastards” online.
Navarre Middle School is a part of the South Bend Empowerment Zone. Schools in the SBEZ are failing schools in the South Bend Community School Corporation. The SBEZ was created as a way to prevent a state takeover of the schools and to help prevent failing schools from further dragging down SBSC’s proficiency ratings.
Another SBEZ school had a viral moment when a South Bend Police officer was thrown out of Coquillard Elementary School during a standard community walkthrough by the CEO of the South Bend Empowerment Zone.
Dr. Cheryl Camacho expressed her discomfort with the officer’s presence in the school even though he’d been stopping by the school for years, as is commonplace for officers. After the officer asked if she was uncomfortable with him coming by the school, she said:
“Okay, yeah. And it’s not that, I wouldn’t say blanket uncomfortable. We’re just breaking from a lot of past practices to the prior years.”
Dr. Camacho is also in charge of Navarre Middle School.
From the top-down, SBEZ schools like Navarre Middle School are not focused on student education and safety. Rather than focusing on classical education, they are propagandizing students with CRT, 1619 Project lies, and BLM radicalism. Meanwhile, Navarre continues to fail students.
Navarre students are also well below the state average for student growth towards proficiency. In other words, the school is failing to bring students up to speed so they can become proficient.
Beyond the violence discussed at the top of this article, disciplinary issues are also a major problem at Navarre.
At $11,258 per pupil, Navarre Middle School is better funded than the Indiana state average ($10,262).
Their student-to-teacher ratio is equal to, or better than, the state average of 17:1. I’ve found some that calculate their ratio as being closer to 14:1. They are rated as the second-best in South Bend for student/teacher ratio.
Schools with similar demographics in Indiana outperform Navarre by wide margins according to the Indiana Department of Education.
This is a school filled with social justice activists in an Empowerment Zone run by social just activists and they are absolutely failing minority students.
Perhaps Navarre faculty needs to start focusing on education and discipline and less on activism.
There is no better example than Navarre Middle School to support parental school choice.
They used fear, media stories, and celebrities to promote injecting experimental vaccines into people. Thousands suffered negative side effects of those vaccines.
The CDC claimed they weren’t made aware of any negative side effect risks, but as you will see in the 60 Minutes segment, they lied.
I’ve covered this story on my show several times. I’ve gone viral on TikTok telling people about it. I’ve been censored for that.
The video I used for this story was deleted by YouTube as they try and censor this very real news story from 1978. Presumably, they are taking it down because of how it might affect people’s opinions about the current pandemic.
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While the nation continues to fight radical critical race theory propaganda in our schools, PHM schools (Penn, Harris, and Madison) in St. Joseph County, Indiana have continued to wage a nonsensical war against Michiana children with racial double-standards and flat-out lies.
Forget about their insane COVID policies, showing students left-wing produced COVID propaganda, or having known bullies produce anti-bullying content for PHM for this post.
PHM touted the success of a race-based curriculum at a state-wide conference.
Under pressure from parents fighting for their children, two school board members resigned.
A left-wing nutjob applied and advanced through the process to fill one of those vacancies.
PHM’s 2018 ‘Teacher of the Year’ wrote a whole thesis on how to implement CRT in Michiana schools and how she was already doing it in her classroom in spite of the superintendent saying PHM wasn’t teaching CRT.
Her thesis is so controversial, IUSB actually pulled it down from the public site so parents couldn’t see it anymore.
This is the same teacher who pushed anti-gun propaganda in her classroom too.
PHM Schools’ Communications Director, Lucha Ramey, has also had several ethics complaints filed against her after she prevented parents from speaking and harassed parents at school board meetings. She’s also been caught spreading lies about some of the candidates to fill the vacant school board seats.
This is a sample of the craziness happening in PHM schools.
With all of the above, it’s clear that PHM schools are ok with peddling discredited Critical Race Theory communist propaganda in their schools. They are actively teaching non-white students they are oppressed while teaching white students they are part of the oppression.
Today, this was sent to parents in their email:
What a bunch of humorless turds.
PHM spends all day teaching white kids they are privileged and have privilege but they don’t want them to goof on the concept a little? Do they not see the hypocrisy and irony of their email?
Of course, they don’t. Leftists have no sense of humor.
While there are several people who make these ‘white privilege’ cards now, they were popularized by Joel Patrick, a black conservative.
