Matt LIED about football games.
On August 28, 2025, Matt posted this online:
Look at that paragraph beginning "to do so requires a board majority."
He's implying that the Board made the decision to move to 6:00pm start times for football games.
He's further implying that it was Kacy Deschene, Jeff Simon, and Michelle Langenfeld who made the decision.
THIS IS A LIE.
As the Superintendent reported at the August 25, 2025 meeting, the decision to move football start times to 6:00pm was made by many schools in a large region. Their reasons included safety, less stress on law enforcement, and the fact that schools that had already done this saw an increase in attendance.
At the August 25 meeting, it was JEFF SIMON - not Matt - who brought this up and asked for a further review to be done. Matt simply agreed with Jeff.
But he's taking credit, and he's blaming people who had nothing to do with it.
Shouldn't a School Board member be honest with the public?
EQUITY
Matt lumps a lot of stuff under the heading of "equity," which to him means oppressing white students.
Nothing could be further from the truth, but this didn't keep Matt from sharing a post that employed violent themes to press his point of view:
The middle image is correct! EQUITY is about treating and teaching all students with fairness and justice, ensuring that every student has the resources and opportunities needed to thrive. It further recognizes that people may start with different needs and different circumstances, which means a "one size fits all" approach won't help every student.
Posts like this one from Matt are harmful to ALL students.
"CRITICAL RACE THEORY"
Matt insists that Critical Race Theory is being taught in our district.
This is FALSE.
Critical Race Theory is a legal framework that is taught in law school and sometimes in college.
See what Matt has to say about it, and what an actual expert says:
Do you want someone on the School Board who insists upon spreading false information?
He knows he's wrong. That's why he takes a "broad definition."
Read more:
Hometown Source (October 19, 2021)
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING
Anoka-Hennepin uses "Leader in Me" and "Character Strong" to teach our students to think and act with empathy and safety.
This isn't teaching students morals, and it isn't replacing parents.
SEL teaches students to consider the impact of their words and acts on others.
But Matt says...
Do you want a conspiracy theorist on your School Board?
LGBTQ+ STATEMENTS
When you really dig into Matt's public statements about Equity, CRT, SEL, and more, you quickly begin to see that he holds views about LGBTQ+ students that are understood nowadays to be harmful.
Consider his comments from January 9, 2023, when he was opposing the election of Marci Anderson as Chair of the Board:
In those remarks, Matt goes after the GSA clubs that offer many of our students a safe place to be themselves.
But he said more in that January 9, 2023 meeting, adding that the aforementioned student-affirming content "now seems to require the grooming of our children to actively support and even participate in these lifestyles. Children are routinely placed in high-pressure situations, requiring them to support ideas that run contrary to the values and beliefs most Americans hold..."
Does Matt really think that caring for our LGBTQ+ students will encourage them to become LGBTQ+?
Lady Gaga said it best, Matt: "Baby, you were born that way."
And does supporting LGBTQ+ students really run afoul of most Americans?
Gallup reports that majorities of Americans support same sex marriage, being gay and lesbian, trans soldiers in the military, and gender-affirming care for trans children. (Read more from Gallup.)
It's clear that understanding and support of transgender students is viewed as a complicated issue by many people.
Does Matt's rhetoric help them understand, or does it drive wedges into communities?
Consider this post, in which Matt uses the word "transgenderism," which is deemed offensive:
Here's a quote from the article Matt shared:
Should a School Board member be comparing doctors who provide care to trans students to Dr. Frankenstein?
This kind of rhetoric endangers students.
Take note of the source: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian college. Should a Board member for a public school district be getting their information about social issues from a religious institution?
Here's the bottom line:
Some years ago, NINE Anoka-Hennepin students died by suicide. At least four were targeted by bullies for being gay (or so perceived). The District lost a lawsuit where it was deemed that the District policy preventing staff from discussing sexuality with children had led to homophobic bullying.
We can't go back to those days. ALL of our children deserve to be supported. ALL of our children deserve to be safe.
Read more:
Rolling Stone (February 2, 2012)
Minnpost (February 15, 2012)
Slate (March 7, 2012)
HOW MATT UNDERSTANDS POLITICAL MOVEMENTS
Matt likes to label anything or anyone he disagrees with as "Marxist" or "socialist."
Does he know what these words even mean?
Though we expect our students to do their homework, Matt hasn't done his.
As we show in the above graphic, Matt thinks that Marxism leads to socialism.
That's not how any of this works.
Morever, no major political figure or party in the United States of America is advocating for the USA to adopt socialism OR communism.
But based on Matt's words, it sounds like he thinks any attempt to help disadvantaged people amounts to these things.
He doesn't know what he's talking about.
Shouldn't a member of a public school board be able to do understand the most basic lessons that our students are expected to learn in school?
Here's the post for reference:
MATT DOESN'T LIKE THE TEACHERS' UNION
We get it, Matt. You don't like the teachers' union.
Political conservatives tend to NOT like unions because collective bargaining means working with people you might not otherwise choose, and for Matt, those are people who favor policies that help everyone.
Unions advocate for fair wages, safe working environments, and appropriate benefits.
So Matt says terrible things about the Union, even though attacking the union means attacking how teachers band together to achieve a shared well-being.
The "they" he's talking about is the Union. Our teachers.
So what's the "selfless service" he demands?
Teaching during the COVID pandemic before vaccines were ready.
Because Matt believed that COVID wasn't a danger. He even said:
"...getting the virus felt like a death sentence...we know that isn't true."
More than 1.2 MILLION people in the USA died from COVID.
It was a death sentence for many, and our teachers didn't want to be another statistic.
They wanted their School Board to protect them.
Instead, Matt Audette refers to the teachers in the Union as an "education mafia," "horribly misguided," and "lunacy."
And as we pointed out above, attacking the union IS attacking teachers. The union is the way teachers work together to ensure fair employment--even for their colleagues who don't support the union.
Is that how an elected member of a school board should talk about the people teaching our kids?
On November 4, vote Matt Audette out of office.
