This mess is the responsibility of the School Board and the Sequim District Parents. If they are asleep at the wheel then the vehicle goes where it wants. The column is awake up call. If you don’t hear it then you pay the consequences. We are not victims. In this we were the victors. Treaties were signed and we acquired the land. It’s our land and you assimilate, you don’t change history or cultural. Wake up Sequim and Stand your ground. “ This is War”. A war for the minds of our children.
Did you see the cat lady dancing on the intersection of Sequim and Washington two days ago? Her performance resembled a psychiatric emergency. Also her dance moves were crude and unpleasant.
I can imagine how shocking it is to see Ron Allen touching Barack Obama, but it is hardly a call to war. Help me understand. For when you say that "we were the victors", does that not make victims? Was this victory military, cultural, or spiritual? Or is this the feeling of failing to outlast a displaced people while also controlling the paperwork?
"A war for the minds of our children" is frankly, quixotic. Is that because someone presented a power point about another culture to the staff of the school district? At the end of my public school education I had a better grasp of Greek mythology than I did of the Bible but no one ever called classical education indoctrination. But somehow learning about different perspectives is erasing your's? Thats seems fragile.
Aren't you just worried that a child just learn the word "context"? Because if they did, or if you did, you would have a lot more questions about this article than you do now.
Like, how does a very potent powerpoint from 2018 deliver so much brainwashing seven [c e d a r s] years after the local medecine-woman from Jamestown first spoke her unbaptised words during a cultural sensitivity training? My thought would be that absenteesims, graduation rates, and test scores probably depend on a bunch of factors. But what is being laid down here is that renaming a stadium to salishan word for wolf, in a perfectly phonetic alphabet, is the tribes tax exempt, back door to "steer the curriculum" by influencing the empathy of school district staff. Was it her tone? The words? Was is a spell she casted during the land acknowledgement? Was the stadium's previous name increasing literacy rates?
I guess I'm trying really hard to figure out how making people aware of their own existence, their governments legal tax status, or their history is what made students incapable of writing an essay...The irony? The most compassion I’ve seen from CCW’s Jeff Tozzer -- author of "Equity: The Silent Taxation", and the children's book, "Thats Not Your Totem Pole" -- came when he realized he couldn’t write one either, at least not without ChatGPT.
We need parents to stand up to this hypocrisy. When you sit and do nothing someone else will stand up and do something. Our education system seems hell bent on creating sheep, not leaders.
I am sorry you had to go through that. I truly am. Solo is hard, with a good team things get done. I just stand for what is right and true. If I can help anyone in any way I will. But the way, I'm proud of you for doing what you did.
Girl, show us this juicy juice. You cant show up out of nowhere with a perfectly curated profile of left-leaning substacks, and absolutely genuine antithetical opposition to Trump dispalyed by a Biritish protester in front the constabulary. This just has to be 'legit'. I can't wait for the big reveal in a CCW post. Wow. Unexpected.
Oh, totally! It doesn’t. Most folks need at least a few weeks to warm up to the “deep state land acknowledgment” theory. You came out the gate fully briefed, armed with grievances, and fluent in the CCW-style drama that somehow circles back to the tribe, all the while fisihing for attention.
Thanks for sharing this report. $300,000,000.00 paid for the school levy (159m + int) is not going to improve the numbers. The good teachers and parents must stand up and demand the three R's take center stage.
This is ridiculous. It's high time the left wing apologists are pushed aside, the realists are acknowledged. Civilizations progresse from societies that are essentially hunters and gatherers to industrial societies that result in a better way of life. The tribes have learned that...just ask Ron Allen. He doesn't paddle around in a canoe or wander around in the woods to get his food. He is part of the 'new civilization ' that benefits all the people. While it is important for all of us the know our heritage and be proud of it, it is also important to acknowledge the civilization we're in and enjoy the benefits of it. It is time for the tribes to acknowledge that they benefit from this society rather than put forward how great their old society was. And it's high time we put a stop to allowing the tribes to beat us up with how wonderful their society was until the Europeans showed up and made their lives so miserable. It's all about trying to make us feel guilty to their advantage. Let's put a stop to it!
I’m over it. It wasn’t on our watch. When will the inequity stop and give the average white guy a chance to own a home and get ahead ? Talk about an underserved group.
LOL I would guess that Ron Allen rides inside a limousine when he smokes peace pipe with "Pale Skin" in Washington DC in order to receive more government recompense distributed to his starving tribe through the production of casinos and pot dispensary facilities.
I would not and did not raise my children in Sequim because of the failing results in Math and Reading. How could I? Raise my children and hope they become happy wage slaves to the tribe? Hope they only get a little bit into drugs to pass their dreary days. Hope they don't turn to harder drugs and crime to feed the habit?
We are on a downward sprial and YOU ARE TO BLAME for WHO YOU VOTE FOR!
You believe the victimhood the Tribe feeds you YOU are the problem. But the Tribe didn't elect the School Board. YOU did. The Tribe didn't pick the teachers and principal, you did.
My God the Tribe is sitting on millions and millions and millions of dollars of real estate and millions in annual revenue. How many of YOU are that rich? VERY FEW I know...
The voters who believe the media propaganda is really "news" are the ones to blame. They cluelessly chant "orange man bad" without understanding the president's goals, that he is the first president since Eisenhower that is working for the betterment of the American people, not lobbyists or the party leadership. These voters believe everything that ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NYT, WaPo, Seattle Times, tell them, including how brilliant Kamala truly is..... when she is not cackling. Tell me what the Democrats have done to help America. Name one thing.
I've been in the process of going through my ancestry and looking through the Tribal base rolls (historic membership, basically) to get the documentation regarding my ancestry. I have a great deal of tribal ancestry. EVERYONE should do this RELIGIOUSLY. It might be the move that topples the whole thing. Everyone paying their fair share... or taxes for none. They can't "pick and choose".
What a crock of crap! What about OUR "Cultural Sensitivity"? What about studying hard, getting a good job, paying your share of taxes, and supporting a family, while we are struggle through life as EQUALS. These are OUR American cultural values. These values mean that you pay your share of taxes, same as everyone. These values mean you abide by fish and game regulations to ensure healthy schools of salmon for everyone. These values mean you legitimately choose the best candidate for a political position, NOT one you've bought with your excess tax-free fishing exploitations, tax-free, casino operations, and your plethora of tax-free business. These values mean that you enjoy green energy from dams, rather than advocate their removal and loss of electrical power, just so you can exploit another 3% of fish that are too stupid to use fish ladders or bypass canals. Are these stupid fish that were educated in Sequim Schools, that worry more about touchy-feely topics than Readin', Writin', and 'Rithmetic? What's more important, Ron Allen, to the betterment of society, not YOUR selfish goals?
Everything the Tribe does is against the rest of us-- have you noticed that? Nature walk vs a much-needed route to the coast? Creek restoration vs flood protection? Reservoirs on faults instead of safety for downstream homes? Paying their fair share of taxes vs using their tax-free income to buy our politicians, who raise OUR taxes to compensate for the Tribes' "sovereign lands". If they are sovereign, they should pay tariffs on all that they buy from us and butt-out of our political affairs.
Restore real education for our schools. Let the Tribes teach their own cultural sensitivity. Our schools must prepare our young people for the real world, where the ability to write and speak English, as well as understand mathematics is paramount.
You just became that important person that wrote what so many of us think. Thank you. My fear of perpetual censorship has beaten me in to a wimp of my former self. Thanks Nextdoor! Do I blame the tribe for taking advantage of every single entitlement? Yes, I actually do. Who cant see how unfair the search for equity has gotten?
I got kicked off NextDoor LONG ago. They are Marxists!
I forgot to mention that during the MAT clinic fuss, it was revealed that the Tribe gets $300 or $400 per encounter, while the independent MAT clinics in PA charge about $30 for the same treatment. The Tribe is out to milk taxpayers for every penny it can.
What did the fish barrier removal project really cost. Oh I know it was federal(so I’ve heard) but I think we all pay taxes that support federal______fill in with just about anything!
Thank you Jeff and well done. I always had a distaste for the Jamestown tribe due to the corruption and their hands in everything Sequim, as well as the school district with their excessive salaries for mostly mediocre at best teachers (average base salary for a full-time teacher in 2023/24 was $98,000 for 9 months of work https://fiscal.wa.gov/K12/K12AverageSalariesDistrict). Covid turned me completely against both with the two days of online instruction per week while the teachers were teaching in the classrooms alone, giving next to no instruction and getting hazard pay. The thing that really got me was the $50 gift cards they (Jamestown, SSD and HHS) offered the students to get the vaccinations, you could download a consent form and I'm sure they verified each one (https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/news/students-offered-gift-cards-at-vaccination-clinics/). I wonder how much they made per shot if they were giving away $50 per injection. Both of these groups went from good old corrupt entities to pure evil in my mind, over money. As a father of two Sequim high school daughters, I’m glad you're shining light on how these two groups are linked.
The CDC now "recommends" 70 vaccines between birth and age 18. At $500 a shot, that's a nice profit for anyone who doesn't understand the repercussions of all those vaccines on the human body. Look up the chart on the CDC site and decide how many you feel comfortable with.....That is what RFK is doing, giving parents the information they need to make rational choices for their children. On another note how did we manage to survive to adulthood without those 70 vaccines?
Jim stoffer is still on a school board, the ESD. I gave them all the proof Jim was forced off the Sequim School board after disclosing confidential information but the SSD and ESD both covered it up. I have it all if anyone wants it!
This is all very equitable for the Sequim school district employees. As of April 2025, the average annual salary for employees at Sequim School District is reported at $86,225. The district had 385 employees in 2024, with the highest salary at $248,321 for the superintendent. In 2023, 90 employees earned above $100,000. Pretty sure that has increased here in 2025.
Not quite sure but there are multiple public employees in the Sequim school district that make more than your local Doctors, Dentists, Lawyers, Veterinarians, and Optometrists. If any of them have a 50%-60% failure rate they get sued into oblivion.
Our educational system in most counties in wa state has been influenced by woke perverted radicals.The leader is at the top of wa state govt and that influence trickles down the line.Inslee really started to push all this garbage and his AG is still going along with it because he is good with perverted agendas along with most elected libtarded democrats.Wa state tribes have govt support so they seem to be wanting more control over whoever is ignorant enough to let themselves be brainwashed by people that want free entitlements.Freeloaders will try to get sympathy one way or another to get their way.Now very young students have to deal with woke teachers & tribal issues that are taking away the normal curriculum.My guess is the way things are currently going without change in the educational dept, a home schooled kid at 14 yrs will be more educated than a senior at a public school with woke teachers.P.S from what i see woke lazy teachers do not like to do homework after school so maybe this explains such low grades for students.
Cultural sensitivity ? Why is this sensitivity only for one claimed cultural background ?. Like most all other school districts the Sequim school district is all inclusive. There is a huge omission in this native/aboriginal/first peoples path of "sensitivity". Those abused and their abusers are no longer living. The Jamestown Tribal members do not weave grass baskets or bark fishing nets, they do not spear or arrow for food and they do not travel the woods in leather moccasins. They use cell phones, computers, fossil fuel powered vehicles and boats and they use non-native provided transportation and sanitation systems. Our school district should provide cultural sensitivity to those claiming ancestral uniqueness, but living like all other residents for generations now ? Prior to European settlement native tribes visited death and rape upon each other. I'm unaware of any cultural sensitivity associated with those battles. Regardless of ancestry, all are welcome to live among us equally. Conversely they can live separate lives in separate areas like all other sovereign nations; BUT NOT BOTH.
Our school system has been completely hijacked for many decades, and our children have been used as social "punching bags" where they have been constantly underserved, abused, and mentally assaulted by the criminals of humanity who are driven by very evil anti-American agendas~! Equity may sound good, but it does not exist in the real world and whenever anyone promotes "equity" we automatically know that what they are really doing is intentionally distracting us from the important critical things, so that they can divide us against each other to further destroy America, our society, our families, and each and every one of us~! We really must COMPLETELY reject this unachievable crappola about "equity" and work to come together to enjoy the rights and freedoms that are ours~! The first thing that we need to do is to remove the power of those in government, the NGOs, and within the community who dare to inflict such destructive & evil harm upon us and our children~! Enough is enough~!
If you want to assign blame, look no further than the Teachers Union. They have all the power to go against parents and the public. A teacher arrested for drunk driving with a toddler, did not lose her job as a counselor to teen girls. I met with 6 of daughters teachers that were failing her bc of attendance. She had tonsils removed, 2weeks later kidney stones at age 15. Each teacher gave her 1 week to turn in all homework. She was still sick from hospital stays. They wouldn’t budge. Principal won’t intervene, we put her in private school. Best use of money ever. Those teachers attacked me bc they could. What a pit of vipers! There was no one there to defend me and they were mad it was after school. You know, 2:30 when they get off!
The teachers unions are at fault. I believe the system is so broken it might not be fixable. I'm sure many others feel the same way. This is why home schooling has taken off and school registration is on the decline.
Maybe the question should also be, how far would the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe go to cover up sexual misconduct by adults in sequim schools. I happen to know the answer and it includes payoffs.
It's the tribes fault the PUBLICLY RUN AND FUNDED SCHOOLS are failing... Wow, man. You really have it out for the tribe.
Is global warming their fault too? Maybe they are aligning with the Chinese to give our tech secrets too? Oh shit, was it actually our local tribes behind 9/11?
You're sounding even more off your rocker than usual.
You're playing loose with the facts now, and you know it. Here is the quote where you insinuate that the inclusion of tribal teaching/history is related:
"While Sequim Schools are failing to teach kids the basics, why are we prioritizing tribal cultural indoctrination over real education?"
That is a sentence with a LOT of problems, and no, you aren't "just asking questions". You're suggesting a link between the two. Not to mention, calling it "tribal cultural indoctrination" over "real education". So many slights in one sentence, all couched behind the just asking questions theory. blah.
Jeff, you're not "just asking questions" when the questions are "Why isn't the [insert supposed corrupt practice] being stopped!?!". You're stating your "facts" in question form and then saying, "I'm just asking questions". We get it. The council gets it. Most everyone around you gets it. Except for a minority who choose to ignore the lack of facts and like to get riled up...
It doesn't make it better because you put a question mark on the end of your accusations.
What if this entire article were about curriculum presented to the Sequim School Board regarding the integration of Christianity into the classroom and teaching of the Bible?
What if I had written, "While Sequim Schools are failing to teach kids the basics, why are we prioritizing religious indoctrination over real education?"
Mathew, don't you realize that the Tribes use their substantial tax-free income to buy our politicians and dictate our schools' curriculae? Maybe that point is lost on you. Are you a Sequim High School graduate?
Yes, I see it all the time. I see where the tribe elected a QAnon follower for Sequim just a few years ago... Oh wait, that was the crazy conspiracy folks and it backfired hard. That's my bad.
As I recall the facts are Armacost was elected way before the city council elected him Mayor and not elected by crazy conspiracy folks as you are claiming. Need to pass the blame around since the council promoted him which include two other Mayors giving the thumbs up. Whether he was an QAnon follower is debatable because he claimed he was not, yet others like yourself seem to be the folks falsely holding onto conspiracy theories. Another it is okay for me but not for thee? Nothing backfired, infact, under his leadership as Mayor he was very successful in protecting Sequim from a fraudulent City Manager. What’s your evidence, not made up crazy statements designed to rile up the masses?
Sorry I had a sudden realization: Qanon and CCW blog posts are really not too far off in that share similar elements. They both have the idea of an internal threat that is secretive and infilitrating. Qanon has a global cabal of child-traffiking-leftist-elites, "The Deep State", that are opposed by truth-challenged bussines man, Donald J. Trump, and encourages people "to do their own research".
En revanche, CCW has an external, yet internal threat of globalist threats using tribal sovereignty and NGO's to corrupt the politcal "infrastructure" of Clallam County, opposed by one retired train conductor and selective editoralizing, former flight attendant, Jeff Tozzer, and (unlike Qanon) is the only source for its conspiracy. He just linked it all to y'all kids education.
Both reject mainstream media, and education as tools of propoganda or in CCW's parodied "wokeism" logic it is "cultural indoctrination". Both distrust institutional journalism ( claims to publish "what the PDN won't )
Its not about how he got there, its about what he actually believed in.
"Asked about QAnon, the mayor replied, “QAnon is a truth movement that encourages you to think for yourself. If you remove Q from that equation, it’s patriots from all over the world fighting for humanity, truth, freedom and saving children and others from human trafficking.”
Armacost then encouraged his listeners to watch a QAnon video filled with the conspiracy theories about a cabal of Satan-worshiping, child sex-trafficking group formed as part of a “deep state” seeking to annihilate Donald Trump."
Mathew, Global warming/cooling has been happening for 500 million years, 499 million of it before humans existed. It is due to solar variations and Milankovitch Cycles. You sound like you were educated in Tribal schools.
"This record shows that the climate varies naturally over a wide range of time scales, but this variability does not explain the observed warming since the 1950s. Rather, it is extremely likely (> 95%) that human activities have been the dominant cause of that warming.5,6"
Your reasoning for climate change not being human-caused is, and let me see, I'm really following this, that the earth has been around a long time and climate change has happened before?
I don't think that means what you think it means. No one is arguing that climate change doesn't happen. 98% of the world's scientists ARE arguing what the EPA statement said above, "it is extremely likely (> 95%) that human activities have been the dominant cause of that warming".
I can't say science is always right, but when the vast majority of the world's scientists all agree, and you then choose not to listen, I'm not sure I'd say I'm the gullible one here...
Their climate models are faulty. Modern temperature rise is due to the previous ice age ending. We are still far below historical average temperatures. The official narrative that you believe is solely to justify more taxes and increase restrictions on our freedoms. WEATHER changes on a decade scale. Climate changed on a 10,000 year scale. The man-made climate nonsense has been debunked by thousands of scientists worldwide, but "grant whores" perpetuate the narrative because doing so gets their projects funded, while telling the truth would defund them.
I'm talking, hard, peer-reviewed evidence. Because I can link you to hundreds of studies showing that we're accelerating global warming with our actions, all peer-reviewed and published in journals that require you to have backed up your theories with evidence.
That doesn't, of course, make either of us right or wrong, being able to link to studies, but it does suggest that one position has been researched and reviewed a LOT more...
Jeff, I just wanted to apologize for getting quite so riled up here. I'm going through some personal stuff and I think it's made me a bit more extreme and outraged than I need to be. That doesn't excuse my actions, just giving some context. I stand behind my complaints but I can definitely be nicer and make my arguments without such vitriol.
This mess is the responsibility of the School Board and the Sequim District Parents. If they are asleep at the wheel then the vehicle goes where it wants. The column is awake up call. If you don’t hear it then you pay the consequences. We are not victims. In this we were the victors. Treaties were signed and we acquired the land. It’s our land and you assimilate, you don’t change history or cultural. Wake up Sequim and Stand your ground. “ This is War”. A war for the minds of our children.
The cat ladies on the NGOs don't care about anything other than their twisted view of reality.
Did you see the cat lady dancing on the intersection of Sequim and Washington two days ago? Her performance resembled a psychiatric emergency. Also her dance moves were crude and unpleasant.
Europeans improved the landscape and the architecture of The Pacific Northwest. I think the European invaders are owed remuneration.
Oh, yes, ma'am.
I can imagine how shocking it is to see Ron Allen touching Barack Obama, but it is hardly a call to war. Help me understand. For when you say that "we were the victors", does that not make victims? Was this victory military, cultural, or spiritual? Or is this the feeling of failing to outlast a displaced people while also controlling the paperwork?
"A war for the minds of our children" is frankly, quixotic. Is that because someone presented a power point about another culture to the staff of the school district? At the end of my public school education I had a better grasp of Greek mythology than I did of the Bible but no one ever called classical education indoctrination. But somehow learning about different perspectives is erasing your's? Thats seems fragile.
Aren't you just worried that a child just learn the word "context"? Because if they did, or if you did, you would have a lot more questions about this article than you do now.
Like, how does a very potent powerpoint from 2018 deliver so much brainwashing seven [c e d a r s] years after the local medecine-woman from Jamestown first spoke her unbaptised words during a cultural sensitivity training? My thought would be that absenteesims, graduation rates, and test scores probably depend on a bunch of factors. But what is being laid down here is that renaming a stadium to salishan word for wolf, in a perfectly phonetic alphabet, is the tribes tax exempt, back door to "steer the curriculum" by influencing the empathy of school district staff. Was it her tone? The words? Was is a spell she casted during the land acknowledgement? Was the stadium's previous name increasing literacy rates?
I guess I'm trying really hard to figure out how making people aware of their own existence, their governments legal tax status, or their history is what made students incapable of writing an essay...The irony? The most compassion I’ve seen from CCW’s Jeff Tozzer -- author of "Equity: The Silent Taxation", and the children's book, "Thats Not Your Totem Pole" -- came when he realized he couldn’t write one either, at least not without ChatGPT.
We need parents to stand up to this hypocrisy. When you sit and do nothing someone else will stand up and do something. Our education system seems hell bent on creating sheep, not leaders.
I stood up to it and after 5 years, moved away. standing up to the school district publicly is a death sentence in clallam county.
I am sorry you had to go through that. I truly am. Solo is hard, with a good team things get done. I just stand for what is right and true. If I can help anyone in any way I will. But the way, I'm proud of you for doing what you did.
This I'd like to hear more about.
Girl, show us this juicy juice. You cant show up out of nowhere with a perfectly curated profile of left-leaning substacks, and absolutely genuine antithetical opposition to Trump dispalyed by a Biritish protester in front the constabulary. This just has to be 'legit'. I can't wait for the big reveal in a CCW post. Wow. Unexpected.
What does my view on politics have to do with the school district being corrupt?
Oh, totally! It doesn’t. Most folks need at least a few weeks to warm up to the “deep state land acknowledgment” theory. You came out the gate fully briefed, armed with grievances, and fluent in the CCW-style drama that somehow circles back to the tribe, all the while fisihing for attention.
So before it hits the press, whats the outline?
I think public schools are a waste of time. If I were a parent I would hire a tutor from a local college to train my offspring.
Part of any problem involves the collection of data. If it is contaminated the results become irrelevant.
See page 29 for Clallam County cumulative high school drop out rate. Am I reading this correctly? Clallam is roughly 2.7x worse than the state average? https://www.dshs.wa.gov/sites/default/files/rda/riskprofiles/research-4.47-clallam.pdf
Thanks for sharing this report. $300,000,000.00 paid for the school levy (159m + int) is not going to improve the numbers. The good teachers and parents must stand up and demand the three R's take center stage.
I wonder if Sequim high school graduates are able to read this report.
In grammar school the beginning of the alphabet begins with E,B,T.
This is ridiculous. It's high time the left wing apologists are pushed aside, the realists are acknowledged. Civilizations progresse from societies that are essentially hunters and gatherers to industrial societies that result in a better way of life. The tribes have learned that...just ask Ron Allen. He doesn't paddle around in a canoe or wander around in the woods to get his food. He is part of the 'new civilization ' that benefits all the people. While it is important for all of us the know our heritage and be proud of it, it is also important to acknowledge the civilization we're in and enjoy the benefits of it. It is time for the tribes to acknowledge that they benefit from this society rather than put forward how great their old society was. And it's high time we put a stop to allowing the tribes to beat us up with how wonderful their society was until the Europeans showed up and made their lives so miserable. It's all about trying to make us feel guilty to their advantage. Let's put a stop to it!
I’m over it. It wasn’t on our watch. When will the inequity stop and give the average white guy a chance to own a home and get ahead ? Talk about an underserved group.
WGWCE (white guys with college educations)
LOL I would guess that Ron Allen rides inside a limousine when he smokes peace pipe with "Pale Skin" in Washington DC in order to receive more government recompense distributed to his starving tribe through the production of casinos and pot dispensary facilities.
Exactly
I would not and did not raise my children in Sequim because of the failing results in Math and Reading. How could I? Raise my children and hope they become happy wage slaves to the tribe? Hope they only get a little bit into drugs to pass their dreary days. Hope they don't turn to harder drugs and crime to feed the habit?
We are on a downward sprial and YOU ARE TO BLAME for WHO YOU VOTE FOR!
You believe the victimhood the Tribe feeds you YOU are the problem. But the Tribe didn't elect the School Board. YOU did. The Tribe didn't pick the teachers and principal, you did.
My God the Tribe is sitting on millions and millions and millions of dollars of real estate and millions in annual revenue. How many of YOU are that rich? VERY FEW I know...
The voters who believe the media propaganda is really "news" are the ones to blame. They cluelessly chant "orange man bad" without understanding the president's goals, that he is the first president since Eisenhower that is working for the betterment of the American people, not lobbyists or the party leadership. These voters believe everything that ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NYT, WaPo, Seattle Times, tell them, including how brilliant Kamala truly is..... when she is not cackling. Tell me what the Democrats have done to help America. Name one thing.
I am considering a DNA test.
I've been in the process of going through my ancestry and looking through the Tribal base rolls (historic membership, basically) to get the documentation regarding my ancestry. I have a great deal of tribal ancestry. EVERYONE should do this RELIGIOUSLY. It might be the move that topples the whole thing. Everyone paying their fair share... or taxes for none. They can't "pick and choose".
What a crock of crap! What about OUR "Cultural Sensitivity"? What about studying hard, getting a good job, paying your share of taxes, and supporting a family, while we are struggle through life as EQUALS. These are OUR American cultural values. These values mean that you pay your share of taxes, same as everyone. These values mean you abide by fish and game regulations to ensure healthy schools of salmon for everyone. These values mean you legitimately choose the best candidate for a political position, NOT one you've bought with your excess tax-free fishing exploitations, tax-free, casino operations, and your plethora of tax-free business. These values mean that you enjoy green energy from dams, rather than advocate their removal and loss of electrical power, just so you can exploit another 3% of fish that are too stupid to use fish ladders or bypass canals. Are these stupid fish that were educated in Sequim Schools, that worry more about touchy-feely topics than Readin', Writin', and 'Rithmetic? What's more important, Ron Allen, to the betterment of society, not YOUR selfish goals?
Everything the Tribe does is against the rest of us-- have you noticed that? Nature walk vs a much-needed route to the coast? Creek restoration vs flood protection? Reservoirs on faults instead of safety for downstream homes? Paying their fair share of taxes vs using their tax-free income to buy our politicians, who raise OUR taxes to compensate for the Tribes' "sovereign lands". If they are sovereign, they should pay tariffs on all that they buy from us and butt-out of our political affairs.
Restore real education for our schools. Let the Tribes teach their own cultural sensitivity. Our schools must prepare our young people for the real world, where the ability to write and speak English, as well as understand mathematics is paramount.
No One Important:
You just became that important person that wrote what so many of us think. Thank you. My fear of perpetual censorship has beaten me in to a wimp of my former self. Thanks Nextdoor! Do I blame the tribe for taking advantage of every single entitlement? Yes, I actually do. Who cant see how unfair the search for equity has gotten?
Thank you for your comments, Susan.
I got kicked off NextDoor LONG ago. They are Marxists!
I forgot to mention that during the MAT clinic fuss, it was revealed that the Tribe gets $300 or $400 per encounter, while the independent MAT clinics in PA charge about $30 for the same treatment. The Tribe is out to milk taxpayers for every penny it can.
As a tax payer I feel scalped.
What is the membership fee to join the tribe? The enterprise seems very profitable.
The encounters are way up past that now, about $700 I believe.
HOLY MOLY! How much do the clinics in P.A. charge? $100? Less?
What did the fish barrier removal project really cost. Oh I know it was federal(so I’ve heard) but I think we all pay taxes that support federal______fill in with just about anything!
Without knowing the numbers, I think I can safely say that it cost a LOT more than a decade's worth of "improved" fishing.
Thank you Jeff and well done. I always had a distaste for the Jamestown tribe due to the corruption and their hands in everything Sequim, as well as the school district with their excessive salaries for mostly mediocre at best teachers (average base salary for a full-time teacher in 2023/24 was $98,000 for 9 months of work https://fiscal.wa.gov/K12/K12AverageSalariesDistrict). Covid turned me completely against both with the two days of online instruction per week while the teachers were teaching in the classrooms alone, giving next to no instruction and getting hazard pay. The thing that really got me was the $50 gift cards they (Jamestown, SSD and HHS) offered the students to get the vaccinations, you could download a consent form and I'm sure they verified each one (https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/news/students-offered-gift-cards-at-vaccination-clinics/). I wonder how much they made per shot if they were giving away $50 per injection. Both of these groups went from good old corrupt entities to pure evil in my mind, over money. As a father of two Sequim high school daughters, I’m glad you're shining light on how these two groups are linked.
The Quinault tribe bribed their youth with $500.00 a shot.
Check it.
The CDC now "recommends" 70 vaccines between birth and age 18. At $500 a shot, that's a nice profit for anyone who doesn't understand the repercussions of all those vaccines on the human body. Look up the chart on the CDC site and decide how many you feel comfortable with.....That is what RFK is doing, giving parents the information they need to make rational choices for their children. On another note how did we manage to survive to adulthood without those 70 vaccines?
Hmmmm.....Renaming the stadium.....Partnering with JKT.....Land acknowledgement.....Wasn't Jim Stoffer on the School Board then???
Bingo.
Jim stoffer is still on a school board, the ESD. I gave them all the proof Jim was forced off the Sequim School board after disclosing confidential information but the SSD and ESD both covered it up. I have it all if anyone wants it!
This is all very equitable for the Sequim school district employees. As of April 2025, the average annual salary for employees at Sequim School District is reported at $86,225. The district had 385 employees in 2024, with the highest salary at $248,321 for the superintendent. In 2023, 90 employees earned above $100,000. Pretty sure that has increased here in 2025.
What can a superintendent do that justifies a $248K salary? I'd like to know.
Not quite sure but there are multiple public employees in the Sequim school district that make more than your local Doctors, Dentists, Lawyers, Veterinarians, and Optometrists. If any of them have a 50%-60% failure rate they get sued into oblivion.
You always are right on the money! Thank you!! I appreciate you bringing light to the truth!
Our educational system in most counties in wa state has been influenced by woke perverted radicals.The leader is at the top of wa state govt and that influence trickles down the line.Inslee really started to push all this garbage and his AG is still going along with it because he is good with perverted agendas along with most elected libtarded democrats.Wa state tribes have govt support so they seem to be wanting more control over whoever is ignorant enough to let themselves be brainwashed by people that want free entitlements.Freeloaders will try to get sympathy one way or another to get their way.Now very young students have to deal with woke teachers & tribal issues that are taking away the normal curriculum.My guess is the way things are currently going without change in the educational dept, a home schooled kid at 14 yrs will be more educated than a senior at a public school with woke teachers.P.S from what i see woke lazy teachers do not like to do homework after school so maybe this explains such low grades for students.
BINGO!
Cultural sensitivity ? Why is this sensitivity only for one claimed cultural background ?. Like most all other school districts the Sequim school district is all inclusive. There is a huge omission in this native/aboriginal/first peoples path of "sensitivity". Those abused and their abusers are no longer living. The Jamestown Tribal members do not weave grass baskets or bark fishing nets, they do not spear or arrow for food and they do not travel the woods in leather moccasins. They use cell phones, computers, fossil fuel powered vehicles and boats and they use non-native provided transportation and sanitation systems. Our school district should provide cultural sensitivity to those claiming ancestral uniqueness, but living like all other residents for generations now ? Prior to European settlement native tribes visited death and rape upon each other. I'm unaware of any cultural sensitivity associated with those battles. Regardless of ancestry, all are welcome to live among us equally. Conversely they can live separate lives in separate areas like all other sovereign nations; BUT NOT BOTH.
Excellent article~!!!
Our school system has been completely hijacked for many decades, and our children have been used as social "punching bags" where they have been constantly underserved, abused, and mentally assaulted by the criminals of humanity who are driven by very evil anti-American agendas~! Equity may sound good, but it does not exist in the real world and whenever anyone promotes "equity" we automatically know that what they are really doing is intentionally distracting us from the important critical things, so that they can divide us against each other to further destroy America, our society, our families, and each and every one of us~! We really must COMPLETELY reject this unachievable crappola about "equity" and work to come together to enjoy the rights and freedoms that are ours~! The first thing that we need to do is to remove the power of those in government, the NGOs, and within the community who dare to inflict such destructive & evil harm upon us and our children~! Enough is enough~!
Sincerely, Mike
If the last five years have tought us anything, it would be that it is definitely time to home school our children!
If you want to assign blame, look no further than the Teachers Union. They have all the power to go against parents and the public. A teacher arrested for drunk driving with a toddler, did not lose her job as a counselor to teen girls. I met with 6 of daughters teachers that were failing her bc of attendance. She had tonsils removed, 2weeks later kidney stones at age 15. Each teacher gave her 1 week to turn in all homework. She was still sick from hospital stays. They wouldn’t budge. Principal won’t intervene, we put her in private school. Best use of money ever. Those teachers attacked me bc they could. What a pit of vipers! There was no one there to defend me and they were mad it was after school. You know, 2:30 when they get off!
The teachers unions are at fault. I believe the system is so broken it might not be fixable. I'm sure many others feel the same way. This is why home schooling has taken off and school registration is on the decline.
Maybe the question should also be, how far would the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe go to cover up sexual misconduct by adults in sequim schools. I happen to know the answer and it includes payoffs.
It's the tribes fault the PUBLICLY RUN AND FUNDED SCHOOLS are failing... Wow, man. You really have it out for the tribe.
Is global warming their fault too? Maybe they are aligning with the Chinese to give our tech secrets too? Oh shit, was it actually our local tribes behind 9/11?
You're sounding even more off your rocker than usual.
Could you copy and paste where I wrote that it's the Tribe's fault for failing public schools?
You're playing loose with the facts now, and you know it. Here is the quote where you insinuate that the inclusion of tribal teaching/history is related:
"While Sequim Schools are failing to teach kids the basics, why are we prioritizing tribal cultural indoctrination over real education?"
That is a sentence with a LOT of problems, and no, you aren't "just asking questions". You're suggesting a link between the two. Not to mention, calling it "tribal cultural indoctrination" over "real education". So many slights in one sentence, all couched behind the just asking questions theory. blah.
Got it. Asking questions is the same as attacking. You'd fit right in on the charter review commission.
Jeff, you're not "just asking questions" when the questions are "Why isn't the [insert supposed corrupt practice] being stopped!?!". You're stating your "facts" in question form and then saying, "I'm just asking questions". We get it. The council gets it. Most everyone around you gets it. Except for a minority who choose to ignore the lack of facts and like to get riled up...
It doesn't make it better because you put a question mark on the end of your accusations.
What if this entire article were about curriculum presented to the Sequim School Board regarding the integration of Christianity into the classroom and teaching of the Bible?
What if I had written, "While Sequim Schools are failing to teach kids the basics, why are we prioritizing religious indoctrination over real education?"
Would you be as critical?
Would I be critical if you had asked a bunch of loaded questions with your "facts" already added to them? Yes. 100%
They are still loaded questions, no matter if they are loaded with tribe animosity or christian animosity...
Why is the tribe involved with the school?? What is their purpose? What is the goal?
Just asking those questions is enough for some people like Matthew to call your conduct inappropriate.
From what I understand, the Tribe wasn’t asking for belief or worship, but for understanding. It is in the linked powerpoint presentaiton from 2018.
Bless your heart, ma'am.
100% because local educators thought it was a good idea. They had to make the decision to include whatever teachings they included.
Hey I copy and pasted for you in the previous day's post. Could you respond to that, plz? Thank you, CtrlCVVatchdog.
Mathew, don't you realize that the Tribes use their substantial tax-free income to buy our politicians and dictate our schools' curriculae? Maybe that point is lost on you. Are you a Sequim High School graduate?
Yes, I see it all the time. I see where the tribe elected a QAnon follower for Sequim just a few years ago... Oh wait, that was the crazy conspiracy folks and it backfired hard. That's my bad.
What's your evidence?
As I recall the facts are Armacost was elected way before the city council elected him Mayor and not elected by crazy conspiracy folks as you are claiming. Need to pass the blame around since the council promoted him which include two other Mayors giving the thumbs up. Whether he was an QAnon follower is debatable because he claimed he was not, yet others like yourself seem to be the folks falsely holding onto conspiracy theories. Another it is okay for me but not for thee? Nothing backfired, infact, under his leadership as Mayor he was very successful in protecting Sequim from a fraudulent City Manager. What’s your evidence, not made up crazy statements designed to rile up the masses?
Sorry I had a sudden realization: Qanon and CCW blog posts are really not too far off in that share similar elements. They both have the idea of an internal threat that is secretive and infilitrating. Qanon has a global cabal of child-traffiking-leftist-elites, "The Deep State", that are opposed by truth-challenged bussines man, Donald J. Trump, and encourages people "to do their own research".
En revanche, CCW has an external, yet internal threat of globalist threats using tribal sovereignty and NGO's to corrupt the politcal "infrastructure" of Clallam County, opposed by one retired train conductor and selective editoralizing, former flight attendant, Jeff Tozzer, and (unlike Qanon) is the only source for its conspiracy. He just linked it all to y'all kids education.
Both reject mainstream media, and education as tools of propoganda or in CCW's parodied "wokeism" logic it is "cultural indoctrination". Both distrust institutional journalism ( claims to publish "what the PDN won't )
Lets start thinking here, guys. Thats actually frightening.
Its not about how he got there, its about what he actually believed in.
"Asked about QAnon, the mayor replied, “QAnon is a truth movement that encourages you to think for yourself. If you remove Q from that equation, it’s patriots from all over the world fighting for humanity, truth, freedom and saving children and others from human trafficking.”
Armacost then encouraged his listeners to watch a QAnon video filled with the conspiracy theories about a cabal of Satan-worshiping, child sex-trafficking group formed as part of a “deep state” seeking to annihilate Donald Trump."
Pepai. https://www.kuow.org/stories/right-wing-conspiracy-theories-grip-politics-in-sequim
He may have backed away from claiming to be qanon, but as Kevin alluded to, he directly backed many of their policies and theories.
Mathew, Global warming/cooling has been happening for 500 million years, 499 million of it before humans existed. It is due to solar variations and Milankovitch Cycles. You sound like you were educated in Tribal schools.
I don't want to be rude here, so I'll just say you're being purposely ignorant, leave this link and quote here, and move on. https://www.epa.gov/climatechange-science/causes-climate-change
"This record shows that the climate varies naturally over a wide range of time scales, but this variability does not explain the observed warming since the 1950s. Rather, it is extremely likely (> 95%) that human activities have been the dominant cause of that warming.5,6"
Our climate changes, it's the nature of mama earth. If you don't believe this, please explain what lies under Antarctic Ice. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hidden-landscape-frozen-in-time-antarctic-ice-millions-years/ or the lost city "underwater" https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/120000-years-old-city-unearthed-in-the-depths-of-atlantic-ocean-in-shocking-discovery/articleshow/119308879.cms How do you explain that the Sahara desert was covered with vegetation and lakes? And, how it 'turns green' every 21000 years.... https://explorersweb.com/sahara-turns-green-every-21000-years/
So, now we're being told that its people causing what appears to be natural cycles of the planet? I get it... I get it, you're gullible.
Your reasoning for climate change not being human-caused is, and let me see, I'm really following this, that the earth has been around a long time and climate change has happened before?
I don't think that means what you think it means. No one is arguing that climate change doesn't happen. 98% of the world's scientists ARE arguing what the EPA statement said above, "it is extremely likely (> 95%) that human activities have been the dominant cause of that warming".
I can't say science is always right, but when the vast majority of the world's scientists all agree, and you then choose not to listen, I'm not sure I'd say I'm the gullible one here...
BINGO!
Their climate models are faulty. Modern temperature rise is due to the previous ice age ending. We are still far below historical average temperatures. The official narrative that you believe is solely to justify more taxes and increase restrictions on our freedoms. WEATHER changes on a decade scale. Climate changed on a 10,000 year scale. The man-made climate nonsense has been debunked by thousands of scientists worldwide, but "grant whores" perpetuate the narrative because doing so gets their projects funded, while telling the truth would defund them.
What evidence do you have for this?
I'm talking, hard, peer-reviewed evidence. Because I can link you to hundreds of studies showing that we're accelerating global warming with our actions, all peer-reviewed and published in journals that require you to have backed up your theories with evidence.
That doesn't, of course, make either of us right or wrong, being able to link to studies, but it does suggest that one position has been researched and reviewed a LOT more...
Jeff, I just wanted to apologize for getting quite so riled up here. I'm going through some personal stuff and I think it's made me a bit more extreme and outraged than I need to be. That doesn't excuse my actions, just giving some context. I stand behind my complaints but I can definitely be nicer and make my arguments without such vitriol.