Welcome to the Engage East Noble podcast! Serving you with relevant news, information, and commentary regarding East Noble Community Schools in northeast Indiana.Topics will primarily focus around executive staff, school board, policies, procedures, and Indiana Code relevant to education.Our intent is to address cultural war issues which are plaguing public education, such as males playing in female-only sports, the safety of girls in female-only facilities, filth in the curriculum, social emotional learning, social justice, manipulative identity politics, grooming children to doubt their gender, secular humanist religion and the fallacy of the separation of church and state. Of course we will also keep a watchful eye on the outcomes of K-12 education, such as testing scores and other trends.Our goals include educating parents and citizens to what is going on in their community, encouraging engagement to influence policy and to hold school officials accountable, and influencing legislation in Indiana.We hope that you will joint us for further dialog on our Facebook group: Engage East Noble (public).

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A recent board meeting contained an important topic that deserves our attention. As most people know, East Noble has had a spate of high-profile bad outcomes with some of its professional staff. This episode is the final in a series on the reaction of board members towards a suggestion to confidentially share resumes of applicants so they can cast an informed vote.  <ul><li>We will cover a few more manipulation tactics. Training your ear requires practice! </li></ul> <ul><li>Then we discuss our review of EN policies regarding board responsibilities in the hiring process, as well what a top AI model said when specifically fed by &amp; grounded with the EN policy manual.</li></ul> <ul><li>For FUN we will play a game of “Good or Bad”! How will YOU score?</li></ul> <ul><li>Finally, we will wrap up the series with a summary and call to action. The episode closes with some good quotes from Joel Lash.</li></ul> Parents, grandparents and citizens; there is little else that is more important than guarding our children from harmful people and destructive ideologies. Many teachers are taught and certified by very woke universities. Our board has passed woke-friendly policies, supported woke-friendly books, and recently they approved DEI containing curriculum. And it turns out, we have indeed made some poor hiring and management decisions after all.

S2E3-Good or Bad?  A Call to Action!

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A recent board meeting contained an important topic that deserves our attention. As most people know, East Noble has had a spate of high-profile bad outcomes with some of its professional staff. This episode is the second in a series on the reaction of board members towards a suggestion to confidentially share resumes of applicants with board members so they can cast an informed vote.   Left-voting legacy board member Jen Blackman “lashes out” with manipulative reframing rather than having a professional discussion of the merits of the proposal. When that didn’t work then she told us all about how she influences votes based on scoping out applicant social media posts - which in reality can only be based upon her own personal values and preferences since she lacks any professional artifacts. Given her body language, reactions and faces she makes toward Christians and conservatives at board meetings, this begs the question; what are her personal biases?  Manipulation tactics have been systematically used by our board and superintendent to influence public opinion for years as a means to escape taking appropriate decisive leadership decisions. This episode contains some good examples which can be used to train your ear to listen for it. Parents, grandparents and citizens; there is little else that is more important than guarding our children from harmful people and destructive ideologies. Many teachers are taught and certified by very woke universities. Our board has passed woke-friendly policies, supported woke-friendly books, and recently they approved DEI containing curriculum. And it turns out, we have indeed made some poor hiring and management decisions after all.

S2E2-Manipulation In Broad Daylight

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A recent board meeting contained an important topic that deserves our attention. As most people know, East Noble has had a spate of high-profile bad outcomes with some of its professional staff. Parents, grandparents and citizens; there is little else that is more important than guarding our children from harmful people and destructive ideologies. Many teachers are taught and certified by very woke universities. Our board has passed woke-friendly policies, supported woke-friendly books, and recently they approved DEI containing curriculum. And it turns out, we have indeed made some poor hiring and management decisions after all.  In this episode we recap the simple ask by a conservative board member to be more informed before he votes on professional staff. That is followed up with several significant examples showing why hiring outcomes prove the need to improve hiring checks and balances. Finally, we start to explore the shallow arguments and manipulations by the legacy left-voting board members. Media Credits: Wane 15 <a href="https://www.wane.com/news/local-news/school-uproar-over-teaching-gender-identity-noble-county-district-responds-to-incident/" rel="nofollow">Link 1</a>, <a href="https://www.wane.com/news/crime/ex-teacher-accused-of-child-seduction-at-east-noble-middle-school/" rel="nofollow">Link 2</a>

S2E1-Informed Votes or Rubber Stamps?

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This episode reviews the April 24, 2024 East Noble School Board&#39;s decision to retain another obscene book, which effectively undermines parents by denying them informed consent before their minor children are exposed to graphical sexual content.** This episode contains explicit content read from the book that the board chose to expose to minors without parental consent. The listener is warned before that content begins, and is given an all clear when that portion is done. **It is the right and duty of citizens to engage in the political process when elected officials make decisions that we disagree with and find detrimental to the health of the students and the future of the community. Engage East Noble is simply informing parents / voting public of what is taking place at East Noble School Corporation, and encouraging them to become engaged in positive change.The written companion to this audio episode can be found at <a href="https://engageeastnoble.net/they-did-it-again/" rel="nofollow">https://engageeastnoble.net/they-did-it-again/</a>

Informed Parental Consent / Default Opt-Out

S1E8-They Did It Again

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On previous episodes we provided a summary of the Obscene Materials policy itself, a summary of improvement opportunities, then critiques and suggestions on how to best resolve the “as a whole” directive, book catalog - with the change log, reference to challenges, and ratings, then the right to remove and the basics of good process design. In this episode we will wrap up the policy feedback with the areas that are still materially important, but they carry less weight if the other topics are not reasonably resolved first.  But they are still very important!

S1E7-Obscene Books Part 3 (3rd Parties, Committee & Appeals)

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On this podcast, we are going to continue the review of the proposed obscene book policy. Last time we walked through a policy overview, and a summary of gaps.  Then we invested time into one of the central weaknesses of the policy: the criteria “as a whole”.   Up next then is a deeper dive into some other policy elements, and suggestions on how to improve them.  Let’s see how far we get.

S1E6-Obscene Books Part 2 (Book Catalog & Good Process)

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On this podcast, we are going to provide an overview of a newly proposed policy.  It currently has no number or title, so for the sake of simplicity we will call it the “obscene materials”  policy until it does.Once through the summary, we will discuss the foundational criteria of the proposed policy.

S1E5-Obscene Books Part 1 ("as a whole")

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If you are not already aware, the school board unanimously passed their new transgender policy for athletics at East Noble on Wednesday, August 23.   From the point of view of some, the policy vote made it harder to protect girl’s sports.  Yet others, who I truly believe also desire to fight for the safety of girls, expressed support for the policy.  This left many confused.  Which is the right perspective?  Is it right to support the policy?  Let’s explore it.In this episode…<ul><li>We will discuss the context of statements in the policy that refer to compliance with state law.</li><li>Next we will go through the law, HEA 1041, and then the policy itself</li><li>Then sum it all up for you to consider</li></ul>

S1E4-Your Girls Deserve a Better Procedure and a Stronger Law

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On August 22, the day before the estimated vote date on the Transgender Policy, the board posted the new policy draft. This episode is to provide some insights into that policy proposal.  It explains how I see it.   If you see it differently, and you feel the currency policy draft doesn’t leave the door open for nefarious behavior, please provide your feedback on our Facebook Group - Engage East Noble (public).

S1E3-Urgent! Transgender Policy Draft - Significant Flaws

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Well, as you can tell by now, this episode is going to focus on the proposed “transgender policy” at East Noble.  The Left is thinking several steps ahead and so should we. The public became aware that the East Noble school board was considering a quote-unquote “transgender policy” at a board working session earlier this year.  This was fast off the heels of voting to uphold a secret committee’s decision that found content about masturbation, racism, gay slurs, and religious bigotry “acceptable for use” in the curriculum through Part Time Indian.    This episode’s goals are to explain the timeline, the sources of confusion, the lack of transparency, and debate why the board feels they need a “transgender policy” at all.  You should consider this very relevant because it looks like the policy will be voted on in just a few days at the August 23rd board meeting.

S1E2-Transgender Policy & Lack of Transparency

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Introduction to our intent and content for the podcast. Here we will also discuss what you can do and why we all need to treat this with urgency!

S1E1 - Welcome to EEN!

Serving you with relevant news, information, and commentary regarding East Noble Community Schools in northeast Indiana.

Welcome to the Engage East Noble podcast! Serving you with relevant news, information, and commentary regarding East Noble Community Schools in northeast Indiana.Topics will primarily focus around executive staff, school board, policies, procedures, and Indiana Code relevant to education.Our intent is to address cultural war issues which are plaguing public education, such as males playing in female-only sports, the safety of girls in female-only facilities, filth in the curriculum, social emotional learning, social justice, manipulative identity politics, grooming children to doubt their gender, secular humanist religion and the fallacy of the separation of church and state. Of course we will also keep a watchful eye on the outcomes of K-12 education, such as testing scores and other trends.Our goals include educating parents and citizens to what is going on in their community, encouraging engagement to influence policy and to hold school officials accountable, and influencing legislation in Indiana.We hope that you will joint us for further dialog on our Facebook group: Engage East Noble (public).