Man or Woman. Baton Rouge is deeply inequitable and Connie Bernard remaining on the school board shines yet another light on it. A post shared by Gary Chambers (@garychambersjr) on Jun 22, 2020 at 2:47pm PDT. Cannabis street fair aims to inform community about natural healing powers of Channel 2's Best Bet$: NBA Playoffs week 2. One board member said he has received thousands of emails in recent days calling for Bernard to resign. https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/education/article_268e5b2e-5162-11e9-a304-4397bc7cfc9d.htmlhttps://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/courts/article_ac03715e-c354-11e9-ab49-c712c9b061fc.htmlhttps://m.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmingarychambers%2Fvideos%2F10163856623180013%2F\u0026show_text=0\u0026width=560https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/education/article_50df7e4c-b27f-11ea-b969-5b0376f4116f.html The school district has only had 1 Black woman serve as superintendent and last night School board member Dawn Chanet Collins was the single Black School board member to vote against a Black woman with a PHD to lead EBR Schools. In response, over the weekend, Chambers shared video footage on Instagram that appears to show Bernard scrolling an online shopping site for several seconds. When we dont confront elected officials we give them permission to disrespect us and to devalue us. Then she chocked a teenager in his home in 2018, she shouldve resigned then. At a press briefing Monday afternoon, two board members joined Howard and Lanus in asking for her immediate resignation. Did you encounter any technical issues? Bernard, however, did not apologize for going into the house to begin with or any of her other actions that night. Shes defending Robert E. Lee as if he was a good man. EBR school board member seen in profanity-filled video during [CDATA[ // <! I condemn racial injustice in any form. EBR School system is 81% Black. Video of Chambers comments was shared widely on social media in the past few days, including by FS1 host Shannon Sharpe and NBA star LeBron James. Connie Bernard assaulting youthBelow are links pertaining to the video, and a recent school board meeting where she defended Robert E. Lee, and seen online s. She caused something of an uproar earlier this year when she. This is not a game and the PEOPLE mean business!". ABC News reached out to Bernard but has yet to hear back. Today & Tonight: Clouds Friday PM Forecast: showers around as weekend begins. // ]]> Before Chambers took the podium, he posted a picture of Bernard allegedly shopping. Keep flooding our emails until Connie Bernard steps down from our School Board! BATON ROUGE - After a relatively slow decline in crawfish prices over the past month, the market is finally hitting peak springtime form. "The actions taken by Miss Bernard over the last few days are in no way a representation of this school board, the EBR school system and the collective Baton Rouge community," Howard said. In addition to being publicly upbraided by Chambers, Bernard was criticized for her comments by three board members, the newspaper reports. Bernard, whose term ends in 2022, previously served as the school boards vice president, WAFB-TV reported. Its unfortunate that the comments that you made were just extremely tone-deaf to our collective community, extremely tone-deaf to the students of our district, and I would be remiss if I didnt stand up to that, Tremelle Howard, the vice president of the school board, told Bernard. I need your memory to be long. Privacy Policy. He noted that 81% of the school system's 42,334 students identify as Black or African American. According to the East Baton Maurepas man killed in Livingston Parish motorcycle wreck.

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