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"All You Board Members, Superintendent, You've Gotta Stop"

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Dare County, NC Board of Education Meeting
February 8, 2022
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MIKE REED: Hi my name is Mike Reed.[1] I'm going to introduce myself. You've never met me. My family and I moved down here from New York. We have 4 boys. Three of them are in the school system here at Dare County.

But what I can tell you is you're heading in the wrong direction, Mr. Farrelley.[2] You got to look at me. I'm not lying to you. It's going to get worse and worse and worse.

All the board members up there, you've got to stop. You've got to stop. And I know you threw the papers down and that's OK, even though you disrespect me, I still respect you. But we care about every single person in this community, so whether you are for a mask, against masks, I respect your decision 100%. Whether you're for the vaccine or against the vaccine, I respect that 100%.

But the last 2 months our fourth grader has been coming home saying he's having a hard time breathing. So if you care about my child, you got to take these masks off. They're doing about nothing. You can look evidence, show me the evidence that a mask works and I'll believe you, but there's not the evidence out there. Show me the evidence the vaccine works and I'll believe you,
but that's not out there either.

But what you're doing is you're destroying the kids, you're destroying the teachers. Coming out of New York I felt like I was leaving hell on earth. And if you continue, Mr. Farrelly, I totally respect you, but you cannot continue on this path because it only gets worse and worse.

You can see the divide. I want to bring the community together. We need to see these smiles on these kids' faces. We're never going to bring this community together unless you stop this tonight.

So my kid can't breathe and you guys are saying, oh, oh. That's not OK. He has an IEP[3] at the school. went into kindergarten nonverbal and we've got him to the point where he's very verbal now, he's basically a regular fourth grader, you know, where a normal fourth grader would be. But he can't breathe. So now tonight, after you guys don't vote for mask optional, I have to make a decision. And I love this community, I'll do anything for this community. Believe me, when I got down here, our family was so happy. And now we're back feeling like I'm in New York. It's hell on earth there, Mr. Farrelly, I'll tell ya.

Please, I don't care if you got to give the money back. 70% of these houses aren't even lived in, but everyone pays school taxes. We should have a ton of money here. All of them, everyone would probably, I don't even know, pay a little more taxes to get rid of and make up for 9 million dollars. I don't know, we bring in billions of dollars every summer.[4] I mean, just please give the money back. My kid can't breathe. And I got, we got to stop this tonight. I don't— Is anyone listening? Please. Just stop. It only gets worse, and— [time alarm sounds]