in milltown a few days before thanksgiving 2009. rich haynes was about to give the last report of the evening. a school board member introduced him. a veteran of one trimester of edgar elementary. he had been principal at the school for a few months, had only been a principal for a few months. the school board members seemed eager to hear how things were going. rich said i'm proud to be a new member of edgar elementary. i'm not alone. we have 18 new staff at edgar. high socioeconomic status, disadvantaged and a transient population. the board president asked about the transient, probably average two to three students a week. at the end of the year probably 20 or 30% turnover, champions, the terms people in his district used to talk about those who transferred in and out of the school until the housing instability, racism, poverty at its roots. it wasn't just haynes's challenge, all three principles presented to the school board about similar challenges so rich at least said that his school for the year was getting better. we have to

to find out, i started studying fairview in milltown. milltown was a working traditionally manufacturing based wisconsin city with a conservative political orientation and anti immigrant politics. so when i went to milltown, for example, they had been kind of transitioning out of, well, paying manufacturing jobs that were being bought. those corporations are being bought up by global conglomerates, often do unionize. and then some people were getting higher paid manufacturing jobs and others were being filtered into newly. do unionized food processing work, which was very dangerous and also was part of what brought immigrant. then they recruited immigrant labor for that. but that was also a place then that generated an anti-immigrant politics. so they had anti de labor in laws and english only ordinances in the area. this was a district of about 20,000 students in fairview in contrast, it was a similarly sized but a relatively well-resourced community with more middle class population and a reputation for liberal politics, espousing valu

all over milltown school board members were doing something similar to what i just -- kind of describedy were adopting performance monitoring approaches, that sought to collectec and monitor, and that report economic achievement data to address challenges they were facing. they were examining this through new professional development that rated teachers or set goals based on standardized data and looking at school base data as groups in the school and this was really common -- i don't know probably a teacher that hasn't done something at this point in time so they were adopting kind of strategies as well as ones like marketing diversity and developing schools like international baccalaureate to meet customer demanding. so but it wasn't just milltown fairview relatively well resourced community with the middle class population and the liberal -- values they were doing something remarkably similar. include evaluations of strategical district programs reports, of the state of the district and all sorts of new assessments. there were also planning to market their diversity. what was happeni

that is when milltown township police got a call from a woman saying there was a dead man in her house. that man was her husband. the suspect in the case was their son. when officers arrived at the house, i will just say what they found was truly disturbing. they found the father in the downstairs bathroom. he had been decapitated. officers also found a machete in the house. they also found a large kitchen knife and the man's head. according to the criminal complaint, at that point police officers tried to traction the man down because they did not find him at the house. that's when they were alerted to the video posted to youtube in which he rented about the biden administration, the border, even declaring himself the acting president because of martial law and saying that his father was a traitor to his country because his father was a federal employee. he actually held up his father's severed head in the video. the good news is that not very long after police were able to track them down. he was about 100 miles west of the crime scene. we learned in the past few hours that at that p

the news on friday, june 3rd, everywhere there's a description of the the wireless operators at the milltown tower, the railroad, intercepting all the news transmissions from port jervis to new york city and back about all the stuff that happened. like shortly after midnight. word is traveling that fast. so this is all over the newspapers. there's a lot of indignation and shame and there's also a sense of outrage. but there's also a sense of he got what he deserved. so people sort of talked out of both sides of their mouth, even the newspapers, you know, in one one blurb, they would condemn mob violence. they would condemn judge lynch. we don't we don't we don't agree with that. we condemn it. but then the paragraph. but he did commit the crime and he got what he deserved. and he probably would have gotten too lenient a punishment had he been held accountable anyway. so we got what he deserved. yeah. we don't, can we. don't we don't really approve of it. then. yeah. we're glad he had it anyway so they and that's a very common theme i think even in the community, the local politicians from th