Donna Manning claims she is concerned with protecting our school board.
Why wasn’t she concerned on 8/13/2020, when founding members of InclusioNado were chanting, drumbeating and violently pounding on the glass doors and windows of the CUSD Trustee room causing meeting disruption. Marie Simon was a Trustee at that time.
InclusioNado using a bull horn to loudly interrupt Trustee meetings doesn’t seem to bother Dr Manning.
After attending the CUSD Trustee meeting on 4/20/23, she hurriedly wrote her opinion, published on April 21.
Video shows speakers were appropriate
Manning incorrectly described those with whom she disagrees as “interrupting” the meeting. Video proves everyone who spoke waited until the appropriate agenda item came up and observed the 3 minute time limit.
Manning presumes to be so superior to anyone who disagrees with her political POV that she is entitled to call them ignorant, pawns, biased gay bashers, and childish.
Video shows Dr. Manning describing the ACSA conference keynote speaker as, “a lurid drag queen.” This psychiatrist then oddly calls others homophobic.
It seems to have become common for those with a liberal political agenda to think they can diagnose others with whom they disagree as afflicted with all manner of phobias and mental disorders.
It seems especially unprofessional for a psychiatrist to diagnose folks with whom she has never had any analytical interaction as having phobias. Do her politics override her professional ethics?
No proof
With no proof, Manning and others claim those with whom they disagree are part of some national agenda to end public school education.
Quite the opposite is true.
Good academically focused, safe public school education is vital to the wellbeing of all children and the country.
Not many can afford private school tuitions.
Bullying of any sort is not to be tolerated.
All our tender aged-children deserve their innocence and our protection.
Importance of Trevor Project
I also see the importance of the Trevor Project and other groups seeking to help our vulnerable youth.
My comments, regarding the scheduled May 2023 conference, held by the Association of California School Administrators, were criticizing ACSA’s decision to pay precious education funds to a person whose stated dedication was to degender fashion and beauty.
What does that have to do with solutions to improve reading comprehension or math, I asked.
It seems funds paying Alok’s keynote speaker fees could have been better spent elsewhere. While CUSD is not paying extra to send anyone to this year’s ACSA conference, our tax dollars are funding it.
“I dare to publicly state my opinion”
Dr. Manning seems to object to those not following in lock step with her and her husband, Dr. Allen Francis and their friends’ political points of view. The fact that I dare to publicly state my opinion provokes childish name calling.
Perhaps Donna Manning and her psychiatrist husband, Allen Francis, might think about expressing calmer, less heated commentary.
And really Dr. Francis, everything isn’t about Trump.
Until I had read this couple’s “loose with the truth” vitriolic comments, I always thought mental health professionals sought to create calm, logical, thoughtful behavior.
No one person, political club or group represents all of Coronado’s citizens.
I believe we can all use civil, respectful language in our comments without derogatory name calling.Â
Carolyn Rogerson is a Coronado resident and regularly attends Coronado Unified School Board meetings.
