Nick Covington, Former American History Teacher from Ankeny, IA.
Mr. Covington was a teacher at Ankeny High School for over 10 years until he got on someone's naughty list for trying to teach factual American History to history students who were eager to learn.
We will be starting a new series that is going to be looking at things in Iowa through the view of what teachers are experiencing with the new Reynolds laws in place. Also is there increased divisiveness and acrimony that are intentionally caused by groups such as the Mama Bears, TPUSA, Moms For Liberty, anti-CRT movements, and several others. The divisiveness and anger are what they use to create fear and panic, with the only true end goal being your vote. Nothing else really matters. Your emotions for your vote.
For example, just two years ago before the last board election here in Waukee, the far-right PAC called Wolves and Warriors, or something similar, created a complaint form on their already angry website, encouraging any parent with a grievance to air it out on their complaint forms. There they could collect and read them at the board meetings, or add them to their fake campaign flyers designed to create even more anger and division. None of these claims were ever vetted or manually verified as being true. They were just using this to put pressure on teachers and administrators to enact their version of a White Christian Nationalist based education, which is the true end goal of all of this.
All four of these PAC members ended up losing. Their act wasn’t convincing enough here in Waukee to get elected. But they still succeeded similarly in getting Dr. Bishara fired as principle of NW High School. They weren’t as lucky in Ankeny, and this interview shows just one unhappy result.
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Nick Covington is an Iowa parent who taught high school social studies for ten years. He is also the co-founder of the Human Restoration Project, an Iowa educational non-profit promoting systems-based thinking and grassroots organizing in education.
Bruce Fehn is an Emeritus Associate Professor with the University of Iowa College of Education.
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