This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, October 11th, 2021.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Over issues like mask mandates and critical race theory, angry parents are now regularly shouting at what

would otherwise be boring school board meetings and it's that ruckus that has

attracted the attention of the FBI.

Gato's Neil McCluskey has a way for people on both sides of current issues to get along without

making a federal case out of it.

Well right now what has

sent out a memorandum to the FBI saying they should prepare to work with

with state and local and other authorities to come up with a

strategy to deal with disruptions and potential threats. It's not clear

whether there have been any serious threats but potential threats. It's not clear whether there have been any serious threats, but

potential threats to school board members. Basically what happened was the

National School Board Administration, and it turns out some principals associations and others, but appealed to the

Biden administration, the National School Boards Association did it last week, saying,

look, there are all these disruptions of our school board meetings.

Sometimes people seem kind of angry.

There's a group that keeps a watch list of school boards

that have adopted policies they don't like,

critical race theory, masking policies, things like that.

And they basically said, well, we don't feel safe,

and people are getting unruly so hey federal government you need to

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