...to go look at the original documents.
In this case, the parent is not only legally complaining that a member of the school board talked to her employer to get her fired, but also that her employer was threatened with the withdrawal of a notable professional recognition if he didn't.
And the article badly misreports [EDIT: may be misreporting; it is unclear whether the source of this information is the original complaint, or later sources in the course of the lawsuit] the member of the school board that made the call. According to the complaint--assuming it is a true copy of the actual document, which you can't take for granted these days--it was the president of the school board, who just happened to be highly-ranked within the organization granting the award.
Now one has to begin to wonder, did the school board president influence the choice of the award toward that particular employer, in order to have leverage to get the pesky parent to shut up?
And are there friendship or kinship connections hiding in the background, that would significantly alter an outsider's assessment of the situation, if known?
Derek Chauvin and George Floyd were coworkers, remember.
This song is haunting, although not directly applicable to my personal experience.
There's an interesting semi-parallel in Revelation 7:17 and 8:1:
"...and God shall wipe all tears from their eyes. And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour."
Some years back there were some public comments from famous authors about the Susan in the Narnia books not being present for the Final Battle and what followed. It was framed as bigotry against women and people of average morals.
Neil Gaiman's came in the form of a short story, "The Problem of Susan," which from an excerpt I found is apparently quite vile.
Gaiman has fallen out of public favor as allegations against him have begun to surface.
Two other authors were J. K. Rowling, who ought to know better, and Phillip Pullman, who also writes vile stories, I've been told.
Pastor Douglas Wilson has a lucid, sensitive, and rather long rebuttal to the Problem of Susan; link below.
My own, lesser contribution here, is that C. S. Lewis was a fan of George MacDonald, and MacDonald wrote some vivid portrayals of spiritual devolution. In The Princess and Curdie, Curdie was given the ability to discern which beast a person's moral character was descending into by holding their hand. In ...
