Terry Newsome, dressed in a Downers Grove South High School spirit wear, sits in the school auditorium where he spoke up about Gender Queer last month, on December 13, 2021. (Cara Ding/The Epoch Times)
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The Epoch Times
December 15, 2021
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill.—Terry Newsome, a father of two high school freshmen in a Democratic-leaning Chicago suburb, was never into local school board meetings. That was until five months ago.
Newsome was busy working as an associate vice president at a Paris-based global information services provider. He was also fighting two cancers, one being stage-four prostate cancer.
After he survived that one, his Italian Mom, a devout Catholic, said to him, “Well, son, you must be kept on this earth for something.”
About seven months ago, his then 8th grader son came home from school and told Newsome, “Dad, my teacher just told us there is no American dream. It is not there for everybody, so it is not real.”
Newsome, a descendant of European immigrants who had lived the American dream, was shocked to hear that.
He called the principal, and he reached out to parents, all of which opened his eyes to what is going on at public schools.
“I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I already heard what happened in 8th grade, but it is going to get worse in high school.’”
In July, Newsome attended his first school board meeting at Downers Grove’s Community High School (District 99).
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