{"id":1852,"date":"2017-07-30T01:09:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T08:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2019-11-22T11:19:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T18:19:13","slug":"rallying-the-troops-again-in-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/rallying-the-troops-again-in-reading-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"Rallying the Troops Again in Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early this summer, the Reading, Pennsylvania school district was surprised at their community&#8217;s opposition to allowing a Planned Parenthood clinic in the local high school.\u00a0 Because of the negative feedback and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/berks\/protesters-want-school-board-to-say-no-to-planned-parenthood-1\/555508030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protest<\/a> outside the district office, the Reading Board of Directors put the idea temporarily on <a href=\"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/success-in-reading-pa-for-the-children-and-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hold<\/a>.\u00a0 Now the issue is back.\u00a0 School boards never take NO for an answer, Planned Parenthood makes sure of that.<\/p>\n<p>The next rally will be Wednesday, August 16th at 5PM (one hour before the meeting starts) in front of the district office.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1853\" src=\"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/reading-meeting.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1102\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Committee of the Whole will again discuss Planned Parenthood&#8217;s invitation.\u00a0 The district&#8217;s Superintendent, Dr. Khalid Mumin, developed a <a href=\"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/reading-pa-superintendent-has-previous-ties-to-planned-parenthood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">relationship<\/a> with Planned Parenthood at his last post in Maryland.\u00a0 He may want to familiarize himself with a few facts and the liability he will bear if Planned Parenthood goes to school.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1854\" src=\"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/pp-chart.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/pp-chart.png 498w, https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/pp-chart-233x300.png 233w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Protestors will be pressured to stay home if they don&#8217;t currently have a child in the Reading district.\u00a0 This is a scare tactic which holds no merit.\u00a0 Taxpayers have a stake in the community whether they currently have children in the district or not.\u00a0 Also, the Planned Parenthood program will be administered through a state program called AccessMatters, which is funded by Pennsylvania taxes.\u00a0 Therefore, all those in the Keystone State have a horse in the race.<\/p>\n<p>If\u00a0WE don&#8217;t stand up for our innocent children, who will?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early this summer, the Reading, Pennsylvania school district was surprised at their community&#8217;s opposition to allowing a Planned Parenthood clinic in the local high school.\u00a0 Because of the negative feedback and protest outside the district office, the Reading Board of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[437,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3475,"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions\/3475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}