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The National School Boards Association issued an apology for the letter on October 22.

"As you all know, there has been extensive media and other attention recently around our letter to President Biden regarding threats and acts of violence against school board members," the NSBA wrote in a memo. "We wanted to write to you directly to address this matter."

"On behalf of NSBA, we regret and apologize for the letter," the NSBA said, noting that "there was no justification for some of the language included in the letter."

The fallout of letter and DOJ actions

On Thursday, Garland denied that the DOJ would label parents as domestic terrorists. He says the "Justice Department supports and defends the First Amendment right of parents to complain as vociferously as they wish about the education of their children, about the curriculum taught in the schools."

"That is not what the memorandum is about at all, nor does it use the words ‘domestic terrorism’ or ‘PATRIOT Act,’" Garland said when questioned by Congress.

Educational groups, state school boards, and members of the U.S Commission on Civil Rights are criticizing the administration for issuing the NSBA letter. And the DOJ for responding to it without any real evidence.

In a letter to Garland, half of the eight members of the Commission on Civil Rights requested "specific examples" of "harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence."  They also accuse Garland of “conflicts of interests” with his son-in-laws’ business of critical race education.

What is the NSBA?

The National School Board Association is one of the best-funded lobby groups in the United States. They are highly political. And are advocating the most extreme left agenda. The NSBA is calling for the “Transformation of Public Schools Now.” They are against school choice. And their website has a downloadable pdf named “Recommendations to the Biden/Harris Administration.”  

In the meantime, the Biden administration still seems to be targeting some parents who are concerned about their child's school curriculum.

Based on the fact that the US Attorney General jumped so quickly to accommodate the NSBA it is possible that this may be the most politicized administration in recent memory.