“Rather than focusing on educating our kids, the senior staff [at the NSBA] have launched a smear campaign against parents nationwide,” Neily claims. “It’s now time for the board of the NSBA to regain control or be tarred with the consequences of this outrageous letter.”
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.”
