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Starting with Roberts himself, all leadership would now be hired based on skin-color, sexual orientation, and most of all politics.
So it turns out that the Des Moines superintendent Ian Andre Roberts had an even longer rap sheet than previously known. According to the most recent release of records from DHS, Roberts had been violating immigration and firearm laws for close to three decades.
Understandably, most people will wonder how such a fraud can find himself at the head of a large urban school district in a state as ruby-red as Iowa. As executive editor Joy Pullman has explained, this is simply the result of a leftist regime systematically taking over the American public education system: “[Roberts is] the inevitable product of a system the Left has built for rewarding people for pushing hateful, un-American ideology at public expense and punishing excellence.” Sure enough, it was a school board headed by Michelle Obama’s former chief of staff Jackie Norris in a closed-door meeting that hired Roberts.
There is every reason to believe these people knew that Roberts was a fraud, as Norris’s pathetic plea for “radical empathy” suggests, but hired him anyway. He was just too good to not be true: a smooth-talking black man with a Caribbean accent who boasted an extensive academic and leadership background and had even represented Guyana in the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics.
And, if Vice President Kamala Harris (a DEI-hire herself) had won the presidential election last year instead of Donald Trump, it is almost certain no one would have bothered investigating Roberts now. After all, he became superintendent in spring 2023 during the Biden administration, and he led the district for two whole school years before anything happened to him. Does it really matter that he wasn’t qualified?
Well yes, it does matter, and that’s the real scandal here. Being a superintendent is not some harmless sinecure, but a powerful leadership position. While one might assume that Roberts just smiled for photos, cut ribbons for new playgrounds, and sat in meetings discussing plans to help at-risk kids like he once was, his job allowed him to do far more than this.
As a superintendent, Roberts had the final say in district and campus leadership and how the district’s money would be spent. He decided who became principal, curriculum director, athletic coordinator, chief financial officer, and a slew of other important positions. He also weighed in on vendors for things like school lunches, busing, educational software, school textbooks, and more.
Obviously, this all has a direct impact on district policy. Starting with Roberts himself, all leadership would now be hired based on skin-color, sexual orientation, and most of all politics. Over time, this produced an anti-meritocratic system where academic rigor, student accountability, a talented teaching staff, and fiscal responsibility were jettisoned in favor of the opposite.
Like a majority of school superintendents, Roberts led a system that graduated kids who couldn’t read or do math, enabled dangerous and disruptive students to terrorize classrooms and hallways, hired unqualified activists and yes-men to be teachers and administrators, and wasted taxpayer money on useless products and programs. His very presence enabled a system that punished good students, good teachers, and honest accountants trying to save money. He embodied all the reasons that a growing number of parents are pulling their children out of public schools.
All that said, besides prompting investigations of Roberts and the Des Moines School Board, this story should encourage Americans everywhere to reconsider the arrangement that has a school board being in charge of a public school district in the first place. --->READ MORE HERE
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