...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.
A boomer apologizes, albeit without much clarity.
"It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs," Jesus said; Matthew 15:26.
I recently understood that I am spending my life in rebuilding spiritual and practical foundations that had been foolishly undermined by previous generations.
Several months ago I was reading a nonfiction book by Christian author Paul Tournier, and made it about three-quarters of the way through before being drawn away to other things.
When I picked it up this last week and finished reading it, I found references to about a dozen Bible passages that had come up in my daily Bible readings in the interim, mostly obscure Old Testament personages with a variety of afflictions; Tournier was a Swiss doctor famous for connecting his Christianity with his medical practice.
I also read a Christian fiction book this last week: Deadline, by Randy Alcorn. One day, what I read in the book mirrored my morning Bible reading on that same day.
"A work of creation was three-fold, an earthly trinity to match the heavenly; the Creative Idea, timeless and passionate, which is the image of the Father; the Creative Energy, begotten of the idea and working in time, which is the image of the Word; the Creative Power, the meaning of the work and its response in the individual soul, which is the image of the indwelling Spirit."
-- P. D. James, summarizing Dorothy L. Sayers' description
