NILES, Mich. — A veteran English teacher for Brandywine Community Schools who has been leading the charge to ensure children have access to explicit material in school libraries, wrote a op-ed for the Michigan Education Association’s magazine claiming REAL News Michiana committed multiple acts of defamation against her. It turns out, an investigation by RNM led to the teacher being suspended from her job because she broke multiple school policies — something she fails to mention.
Today, we at RNM have few questions: Where’s the lawsuit? Better yet, where is the email asking for a retraction? What untruths were reported?
The answers to those questions are: There is no lawsuit. There was no request for a retraction. The stories are accurate.
Despite the above facts, RNM wanted to respond to the demonstrably false allegations being levied by someone hundreds of parents trust their children with.
BACKGROUND
RNM first wrote about English teacher Debbie Carew in July of this year in a story titled, “Teacher fighting to keep porn in Brandywine school libraries.” In that story, RNM pulled video from multiple school board meetings in which Carew lambasted conservative members of the Brandywine School Board for policies meant to protect children from explicit material. RNM also provided multiple screenshots from Carew’s social media accounts.
In her op-ed for the MEA, Carew writes “Because I’ve resisted efforts to remove high-quality, diverse books from school library shelves, my name and reputation have been smeared by a so-called ‘news source’ publishing utter falsehoods about me… You can get the gist of what nonsense it is from the headline of the first hit piece: ‘Teacher fighting to keep porn in Brandywine Schools.’ It feels daunting and surreal to be targeted by extremist propaganda – like living in a dystopian movie that won’t end.”
While Carew hurls insults in her op-ed, she fails to mention a single thing that was false in any of RNM’s reporting. She also fails to give examples of the books she calls “high-quality” and “Diverse.” We at RNM provide the receipts and have examples of those books with JUST A FEW excerpts below. We provided the title and the page numbers for reference. If you can stomach it, there’s more in a story RNM published here.
PUSH
Page 25: “I been knowing a man put his dick in you, gush white stuff in your booty you could get pregnant. I’m twelve now, I been knowing about that since I was five or six,
maybe I always known about pussy and dick. I can’t remember not knowing. No, I can’t remember a time I did not know.”
Page 35: “I feel Mama’s hand between my legs, moving up my thigh. Her hand stop, she
getting ready to pinch me if I move. I just lay still, keep my eyes close. I can tell Mama’s other hand between her legs now ’cause the smell fill room. Mama can’t fit into the bathtub no more. Go sleep, go sleep, go to sleep. I tell myself. Mama’s hand creepy spider, up my legs, in my pussy.”
MILK AND HONEY
Page 15: “He guts her with his fingers like he’s scraping the inside of a cantaloupe clean.”
Page 20: “You plough into me with two fingers and I am mostly shocked. It feels like rubber against an open wound. I do not like it. You begin pushing faster and faster. But I
feel nothing. You search my face for a reaction so I begin acting like the naked women in the videos you watch when you think no one’s looking. I imitate their moans. Hollow and hungry. You ask if it feels good and I say yes so quickly it sounds rehearsed, but the acting. You do not notice.”
Page 29: “The very thought of you has my legs spread apart like an easel with a canvas
begging for art.”
LOOKING FOR ALASKA
Page 38: “…But there is so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing
on…”
Page 44: “Lying naked in bed together (“genital contact” being offense #1), already drunk
(#2), they were smoking a joint (#3) when the Eagle burst in on them.”
Page 81: “He loves weed like Alaska loves sex,” the Colonel said. “This is a man who once constructed a bong using only the barrel of an air rifle, a ripe pear, and an eight-
by-ten glossy photograph of Anna Kournikova. Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you’ve got to admire is single-minded dedication to drug
abuse.”
Page 103: “…You thought she was quietly discussing precalc, when she was clearly talking
about having hot sex with you…”
Page 107: “Did I tell you that Jake is hung like a horse and a beautiful, sensual lover?”
CAREW SUSPENDED FOR BREAKING SCHOOL POLICY
During Carew’s fight to ensure pornographic material was maintained in school libraries, she went a step further and attempted to add more questionable books into Brandywine school library circulation. This was uncovered through an investigation by RNM in September, in which we showed how Carew and another teacher secretly applied for a grant through a radical organization that’s mission is to provide porn to kids. In that process, Carew violated several school policies which led to a short suspension for her actions.
Carew briefly mentions the issue in her op-ed when she claims the school board is “poised to send back a grant for $5,000 worth of diverse library books that a teacher colleague of mine, a parent and I secured. It’s incomprehensible. Yet this experience has validated the life I’ve lived and the person I’ve tried to be.”
THE GRANT
On February 28th, Social Studies Teacher Abilyn Janke, with the assistance of English Teacher Debbie Carew, submitted a grant application to We Need Diverse Books, a radical organization that pushes for the political indoctrination of children in K-12 schools. WNDB states their objective is to inject politically driven books into K-12 schools in political “battleground states.”
Only two weeks before Janke and Carew submitted the grant proposal to WNDB, the Brandywine School Board passed a policy to suspend the addition of new books into circulation until another policy to determine how current books that are deemed sexually explicit and violent would be checked out with parental notification.
Janke mentioned the school board policy as an attempt to ban books in her grant application as she criticized School Board members, parents, conservatives and Christians.
“They (the board members) are aligned with the We the Parents group and the 1776 Project PAC. These are both Conservative Christian groups whose goal is to ‘remove all forms of sexual, racial, political and gender indoctrination from our schools.’” The grant application reads.
EMAILS
On April 20th, WNDB sent an email to Carew notifying her that Brandywine’s grant application had been approved. The email requested Carew keep the news confidential until the organization was prepared to make a public announcement.
On April 23rd, Carew responded to the WNDB email by explaining her political motivations and plans to make members of the school board look like “fools.” (Carew followed through with this threat in her penning of the MEA op-ed.)
“If they (members of the school board) want to argue about it, then they can do that in an open meeting and make fools of themselves by turning away thousands of dollars of books. Our community will be willing to fight them on this.” Carew wrote.
On May 8th, Carew sent another email to the WNDB representative, boasting about her political activism in the school district and criticizing conservatives.
“Our new school board members seem hellbent on not allowing certain (pornographic) books in our library.” Carew wrote. “Here’s the latest clip taken and used on an ultra-conservative page for Garret Soldano for his ‘Grassroots Army’ nonsense… we have had TONS of outside exposure lately…..so BRING IT.
On June 27th, a representative from WNDB sent an email to teacher Abilyn Janke requesting information about the board and how changes they have made warrant the grant be awarded. This information was to be used in a press release WNDB planned to create.
Jenke responded to the request by lambasting board members, conservatives, parents and Christians again.
On August 15th, a representative from WNDB sent an email to Janke and Carew describing partnering with a reporter from WSJM News to put out a positive news story regarding their efforts and the grant, creating the narrative they wished to put out to the public.
On August 22nd, a representative from WNDB sent Janke and Carew another email raising concerns about the distribution of the books after she learned more about the school board’s policy. Carew responded by requesting a phone call.
“Is there a way to have a phone conversation about this at some time today or tomorrow?” Carew wrote. “This is a multi-layered issue right now.”
On August 24th, a representative from WNDB sent Carew and Janke an email notifying them that the books had been ordered and should start arriving the following day.
During nearly all of this, from February through much of August, the School Board was unaware of the grant or the above communication. This is in direct violation of district policy which states the board is to determine how grants and money are handled.
POLICIES VIOLATED
RNM discovered multiple policies the two teachers violated. Two of them are described below. For these violations, Carew and Jenke both received a short suspension.
6110 – GRANT FUNDS
It is the objective of the Board of Education to provide equal educational opportunities for all students within the District. Government agencies, as well as foundations, businesses, and individuals, periodically offer both human and material resources to the District that would benefit students and the educational program. Therefore, it is the intent of the Board to consider grant proposals and applications for their potential to enhance educational opportunities, the educational environment, and the physical and mental growth for each student.
The Superintendent shall review new Federal education legislation and prepare proposals for programs s/he deems would be of aid to the students of this District. The Superintendent shall approve each such proposal prior to its submission, and the Board shall approve all grants resulting from such proposals.
7230 – GIFTS, GRANTS, AND BEQUESTS
The Board of Education is duly appreciative of public interest in and good will toward the schools manifested through gifts, grants, and bequests. The Board reserves the right, however, to specify the manner in which gifts are made; to define the type of gift, grant, or bequest which it considers appropriate; and to reject those which it deems inappropriate or unsuitable. If accepted, the Board will attempt to carry out the wishes of the donor.
Gifts, grants, and bequests shall become the property of the Board and will be subject to use by the District as determined by the policies and administrative guidelines applying to all properties, equipment, materials, and funds owned by the Board.
Any equipment purchased by a parent organization for use in the school or at a District-related event shall be submitted to the Board, prior to purchase, so it can determine if the District would incur any liability by its use.
The Board reserves the right to not accept such liability and thus deny the use of the equipment by students or District employees.
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