NFT Will Not Attend School Board Meeting Due to Violence, Death Threats

Members of the Neshaminy Federation of Teachers will not be in attendance at due to threats and acts of violence.

According to a NFT press release, NFT leaders announced that union members will not attend the school board meeting because of concerns about numerous acts of violence against teachers, including an alleged death threat targeting a teacher that was posted on Facebook this past weekend.

The death threat and numerous acts of violence including verbal threats, cars swerving at teachers on the picket line, and eggs and other items thrown from cars at picketing teachers, are being investigated by law enforcement officials, as stated in the press release.

“Things are getting out of hand,” NFT President Louise Boyd said.

“There’s no justification for anyone doing what they did to our members yesterday. We’ve said time and again that the Neshaminy School Board has looked the other way as teachers are denigrated during school board meetings and on social media sites. Now we have a death threat made by a student against a named teacher, and the district has done nothing in response. 

“We notified the police and provided both the police and the district with website ‘screen shots’ of the death threat against a teacher over the weekend and we still have not heard a single word in response from the district,” Boyd added.

“The lack of any reaction from district officials is totally irresponsible,” Boyd said.

In light of all of this, NFT leaders advised members to skip tonight’s meeting.

“Our members will not attend tonight’s board meeting,” NFT vice president Anne Schmidt said.

“We don’t believe the district understands the repercussions of its inaction, and we’re concerned that someone is going to get hurt if district leaders don’t step up and speak out against this kind of behavior. Their silence is a clear signal they are not concerned about the welfare of their employees,” she said.

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“We’re prepared to see this through to the end,” Boyd said.

“And we’re hopeful a judge steps in and forces the district to negotiate with us until we hammer out a contract that is fair to the students, taxpayers and teachers of this district,” she said.

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