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feel best in one- on-one situations where I am in the presence of someone and not on

the internet where, it appears that anonymity provides courage for some TROLLS to

just “go off halfcocked” I am a member of our local school board and this is the arena

where I experience the most “Push Back” and outright disrespect. . .. . Go Figure :)

• I too have challenges with people who are uniformed, yet, they feel compelled to “diss”

me whether in private or a public venue. I feel most comfortable, actually doing what

some of the previous people said. . . among people who have divergent opinions, yet;

we can be civil, and it has been my experience, the one on one way works best for

me, not large forums or meetings, I hate when people attempt to embarrass you in

public.

• I’m a reporter, and recently I started writing about education. I never realized how

political

• education was until I started writing about it. People are vicious; they send me tweets,

emails, stuff like that, and they get extremely disrespectful. One man in particular, a

middle school teacher, called me the “c-word”. I don’t even remember why, but I’ll

never forget him calling me that. I would have felt more respected, or at least

understood it more, if he had at least told me what upset him so much. I still don’t

know what triggered him to say that.

• I’m a career woman, and I work in business, so people assume they know a lot about

me based on that. For example, they assume I’m very far left, so I feel disrespected

when they say, “you must support ” or “you must believe ”. I would feel more

respected if people just didn’t assume. It’s very dismissive to not account for my

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