Note: See Part 1 of this saga here. See part 2 of this saga here.

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On Friday, November 4th, Allan Kauffman posted an article on his Facebook page originally posted in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. 

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Written by

• Dr. Michael Shaffer, Associate Clinical Professor of Educational Leadership

• Dr. Jeff Swensson, retired School Superintendent and retired Assistant Professor of Ed Leadership.

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In this article, it makes two statements that I would like to deal with. Rhonda Miller from Purple replied to the rest and she knows the organization much better. 

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First: The article claims, "Here is our challenge:

1) Talk to school board candidates. If they are endorsed by or belong to a radical, far-right group like Purple for Parents, ask how this will impact their votes on school board issues.

2) Remember that endorsements carry paybacks. That demand for loyalty is what we call the Godfather Favor. Remember in “The Godfather” when Marlon Brando tells the person who wants assistance that his request is granted but that someday he would be asked for a favor in return?

Yeah, kind of like that."

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Endorsements carry paybacks. If a person is giving paybacks, the indication is that they lack character. They are not going to do what is right no matter what.  That is what he is indicating about me. That I am beholden to someone else. So I want to turn the tables on Mr. Kauffman who endorsed 4 candidates in the race for Goshen School Board. 

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If a P4P endorsement makes me beholden to them, how much of a payback is Roger Nafzinger, Jose Elizalde, Mario Garber, and Andrea Johnson beholden to Allan Kaufman?

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What about the other candidates who also received large sums of money from Allan? If what he posted about P4P is true, did he just try to buy the board? Here we have a board member trying to discredit me with these claims while doing far above and beyond anything that P4P did with their endorsement. I may be endorsed by P4P, but they didn't give me money. If that little endorsement equals paybacks, Allan Kauffman and his board of candidates are not fit for the school board and Allan should do the right thing and step down immediately.  

 

Second: The article claims: "How it is possible that mainstream people with good habits of thinking have been so taken in by Purple for Parents? Cultivation to believe a lie. It started with a little lie and grew into a bigger one." This seems very fitting for Allan to post since we have seen a continual promotion of falsehoods and misleading statements. He spread what surely looks like a maliciously stated falsehood about me, insinuated false things about me, feigned ignorance and impartiality in reference to the mailer when he was the author, filed fraudulent forms to hide an illegal fundraiser, said the test scores were low because of the pandemic, when they were dropping before. Looks like it started with a little one and grew to be a bigger one.

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Conclusion:

Over the course of this last week, it has become very clear what Allan Kauffman is about. He has covered up his involvement in public dissemination of false and misleading information and pretended to be an unbiased outside observer. He has been willing to make false and misleading statements repeatedly in public. His personal views have been expressed publicly, including morally reprehensible beliefs propagated by communists that include killing children as the key to social progress. He has pushed a woke agenda and advocated for that agenda on the school board along with candidates that support these abhorrent views. He has advocated against groups that are working for the betterment of education and the emotional and physical safety of children. He has defended the failing practices of the current board and tried to pass the blame on to ESL students and the pandemic when students and teachers are leaving GCS in alarming numbers clearly showing otherwise. I therefore believe it is safe to say that Allan Kauffman has no place being on the GSB and he should resign immediately.

 

[Update, he is no longer on the board. He resigned after a warrant was issued for his arrest in this case. However, the other board members involved have not yet resigned as of September 2024.] 

 

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