Justice said parents should write a letter to their superintendent and school board asking what nonprofit groups are coming into schools where students may have access to an adult who isn’t a school staff member.

Moms for Liberty's Melissa Merrell, a Union County commissioner and former school board member, suggested parents put in public records requests for the visitor logs at schools. She said members of Union County Chamber of Commerce’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee were visiting schools to talk to students.

“As a new county commissioner, we decided to pull our membership from the Chamber of Commerce when we discovered that,” Merrell said. “It has been extremely controversial.”

The Union County Board of Commissioners rescinded its membership weeks after the chamber passed a resolution critical of the board’s handling of an ongoing issue over wastewater, according to WBTV.

Are activist teachers 'infiltrating' Union County School?

Merrell was chair of the Union County school board when it took steps such as making face masks optional before most other North Carolina school districts in 2021. She also worked with Moms for Liberty members to remove some books from schools that she claimed were so pornographic that “I don’t know if even Hustler or anything else comes close.”

Merrell also charged that groups “are infiltrating us at every opportunity.” She said activist teachers are moving into Union County who “have certainly been indoctrinated in their universities and their internships.”

“What we saw in Union County was a flood of teachers,” Merrell continued. “I truly believe Union County has a target. There is an agenda to change Union County, so they are moving in in mass droves.”

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