Email exchange with Ghaps BOE and Superintendent Scott Grimes 11/16/21:
“What is going to be done? Through Foia requests, we've pulled videos of Haily Barton instructing GH educators to tell parents that CRT is not taught, alongside other professional development videos of her teaching CRT. (Instructing that “we have two pandemics going on RIGHT now, Covid AND racism”)
I'm tired of hearing from parents whose kids are being judged by their skin color because of this indoctrination. I'm tired of hearing from GHAPS teachers who tell me it's getting more and more difficult to work there, that they just want to teach their curriculum without being subjected to constant CRT and LGBTQ indoctrination. When do we get back to teaching the kids the subjects they go to school to learn?
When does Grand Haven get back to teaching kids science, math, language arts, foreign languages and history without indoctrination?
You have to see that this isn't healthy or good for our community, it stokes division. It's the reason I don't feel comfortable sending my kids to school there anymore.
Please stop giving Mary Jane Evink and Hailey Barton and their new DEI department a license to continue with this. This continues because you've allowed it to.
This is Hailey Barton on social media recently:...your teacher that "doesn't teach CRT":
What will be done? Will GH keep losing good teachers with the brass to say something?
Ben Rodgers is not the only one in GH who sees this is wrong...the other ones have bills to pay and families to support and feel stuck and frustrated. They hate this as much as your choir director who was willing to leave his job over it. Perhaps we thank them instead of continually telling them they're racist because of their skin color??
When I came to the school board meeting in 2019 to ask for parental consent requirements for sexually explicit books, did you know that in the months after, school librarians were cornered and questioned from faculty about it to see if they shared information with me.?? Is this a mafia you're running over there? Something is wrong in Grand Haven, it needs to be addressed.”
Jen Stuppy
Response from Superintendent Scott Grimes 11/18/21
Link to CRT townhall:
Email to Ghaps BOE and Superintendent 12/9/21
Hi everyone,
I received a call that another professional development training was done by Deanna Rolffs yesterday. I called to confirm that she was the trainer. Deanna is another far left CRT inspired trainer, hired by you, funded by us. I would like to share some of her social media sentiments that are publicly available as of the communication of this email.
So, who is Antifa that our pro development trainer is speaking of? They seem to be in the news a lot the last five years. They are the people you see rioting and clashing with republicans… they’re the ones dressed in black, their faces fully covered, covered as not to expose their identity, wearing helmets and wielding bats; they look like black cladded teenage mutant ninja turtles. They believe in violently attacking "fascists"...yet who do they think are fascists today?
According to Antifa, fascists are all Trump voters who oppose CRT. In their mind, if you're not on the "left", you are a white supremacist. Remember, its your own training in Ghaps that tells us it’s not enough to "not be a racist", you must be "anti-racist", or actively involved in the fight....and if you aren't, you're a fascist. A few days ago, ten Antifa members were charged with "violent criminal acts" for attacking a small group of "patriot Trump supporters holding a small rally last year." There have been ongoing attacks from Antifa for several years now. Deanna is making an excuse for them. The video of the latest antifa members to be charged and arrested is in the news report here: .
https://www.foxnews.com/us/anti-fascists-charged-alleged-attacks-california-pro-trump-protesters
When Calvin Terrell was hired by the district under the guise he was a “motivational” speaker for students a few years ago, I also screen shotted his social media posts from his business page. I'll also share Calvin’s social media posts that were circulated by parents who began calling the schools to opt their children out of the assembly a few years ago. Mary Jane Evink emailed the teachers at Lakeshore ahead of his planned appearance and had the teachers read her email to their students telling them that "the stuff their parents were sharing about Calvin Terrel wasn't true". The problem was, it actually was true, they were Calvin’s direct posts. The district was okay with having educators tell their students their own parents were liars. That is very problematic and creates a huge level of distrust between parents and GHAPS, understandably so. When I spoke to Mary Jane Evink about this, she looked me straight in the face and told me that Calvin’s social media was hacked by Russian bots and that’s why those posts were there. She remains with this statement today, she says its what Calvin told her. From this I can draw one of two conclusions. Either, she intentionally lied, or she's gullible to the point of negligence. For the record, Calvin Terrell still has those posts on his business page.
I hope you all take your positions seriously and some of you are willing to educate yourselves and work to change course to a system of education that brings reconciliation between communities and ethnicities. What I see happening is the opposite of that. We all live with the results.
This is my 3 minutes, I'll skip tonight and share this with the public on my own. Thanks for your time,
Jen Stuppy