10/06/2026
Tonight’s Board of Education meeting matters. Our Farragut Middle School 8th grade “Equity, Justice and Society” class has become the focus of the platform for Jamaal Bowman and "Westchester for Palestine”. They have mobilized outside organizations to attend the Tuesday (tonight!) October 6 Hastings BOE meeting, to speak in support of how and what our children are taught - to support their political ideology. If our community stays home and stays silent, the Board will only hear from fringe groups who don’t live in or represent Hastings, which will create a very distorted picture of what parents and residents of Hastings actually believe.
Show up again TONIGHT for our community and our children, to keep political ideology out of our classrooms.
You do not need to give a speech, debate anyone, or be an expert on any topics. The public forum allows for a maximum of three minutes speaking uninterrupted per person. We can provide you with a one sentence statement if you are not comfortable speaking publicly.
Please show up. Bring a friend. If speaking makes you uncomfortable, you can say the sentence and sit down. If speaking is not something you are willing to do, you can simply be there in person to support your community.
District leadership stated publicly at the last meeting that the curriculum for this class had not been reviewed nor approved by anyone in the administration before the implementation which appears to go against district policy. The 8th grade course attempts to address highly contested issues framed in a biased framework and ideology by a new teacher - including Gaza in the context of Genocide, Education, Justice & the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Sacrifice Zones in Environmental Justice, etc
Speak up or let the likes of agitators and outside organizations influence curriculum in our district.
