Tina Descovich
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259 appearances
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1 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 25 Aug
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And there is always a cost to speaking truth.
I served on a school board in Brevard County, Florida from 2016 to 2020.
I loved being a school board member.
I really thought I had found my calling in life.
I was serving in my community, which I grew up in and I loved.
As a matter of fact, we were making learning gains, which you just don't hear of in public education anymore.
We were making learning gains in the lowest performing schools in the poorest areas.
I was so proud of the work we were doing, but I was so naive.
I thought if I did the right thing, if I made the right choices, and I spoke truth, everybody would like me, and I would win my reelection, and I could just keep doing this great job.
I was so wrong.
I learned it first shortly after I was elected during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas massacre.
It was just two counties south of me, and I was a current school board member.
I was so concerned about making sure what happened there didn't happen to the 75,000 students that I was responsible for.
I studied every second of what happened in that massacre.
I learned where every break, every fault was, every decision that was made, every policy that led to that happening, and I wanted to be sure it didn't happen in our district.
I started speaking out about these things, trying to have civil conversations with my community.
And you know what I was met with?
Protests.
Thousands and thousands of people started attacking me online.
This is the first time I'd ever experienced that.
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