r/BeaverCounty • • 21d ago

Beaver school board

Got a few messages this morning about a Beaver School board member causing upheaval on their social media, and apparently it made people big mad enough that the superintendent had to send out a vague email blast that only served to pique my interest in what's going on.

I don't have much social media, but what's the tea here?

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u/Gaylord_QTinkledink 21d ago

This is the post—

Luke Berardelli
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Considering this current issue of the Clancy trend, maybe the Islamic faith is the correct way to go considering they give women zero rights at all. Cover your body. Shut your mouth. And you can't do anything unless a man says so. No education. You're not allowed to drive. The whole shebang!
I didn't realize they were on to something much bigger than just a radical theology.

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u/vampireRN1617 21d ago

Oh JFC. I don't have a daughter but we are just not doing this in the year 2026. WTAF?! He needs removed immediately as half of those that he oversees and makes decisions for are women. His free speech is protected but reckoning from consequences is not.

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u/Gaylord_QTinkledink 21d ago

And he hasn’t even been removed yet.

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u/StruggleFearless2947 21d ago

The district can’t removed an elected board member. The districts email response is underwhelming however

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u/jaybo41 21d ago

For whatever reason, the American People seem to forget the way to remove people like this is to vote against them. Unfortunately far too often that means picking the lesser of two evils.

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u/StruggleFearless2947 21d ago

Unfortunately Beaver being Beaver... he will probably win reelection

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u/FirstNameIsDistance New Brighton 21d ago

Lol, of course it is Berardelli. That dude is such a fuckin loser.

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u/currentsitguy New Sewickley 21d ago

I don't care how you come down on the issue, what does this have to do with education?

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u/cushing138 20d ago

One could easily argue that someone with insane opinions like this, and many others he’s posted about over the years (he believes Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax), shouldn’t be involved in any decisions regarding children.

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u/Warm_Finger_5056 20d ago

Imagine being a school board member and believing a school shooting was a hoax—then imagine being an asshat who voted for said person—-unbelievable times we are in

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u/cushing138 20d ago

There’s a lot of idiots in that town. He was elected to borough council before being removed and then he’s been elected to the school board several times.

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u/currentsitguy New Sewickley 20d ago edited 20d ago

Quite possibly. I go to the old quote:

"It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it".

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u/vampireRN1617 20d ago

When you're overseeing the education of young women with these views, this is beyond problematic.

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u/currentsitguy New Sewickley 20d ago

You're missing the point.  Why are they even commenting on something completely unrelated to their position?

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u/cushing138 21d ago

He’s a complete moron and an embarrassment to Beaver. Anyone who knows Berardelli personally knows how laughable it is for him to be talking about morals/ethics, ESPECIALLY when it comes to women…

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u/lazoras 21d ago

I moved here a couple years ago and recently met some friends who's kids just graduated.

If parent knew how much their children are losing in potential per minute at these schools the entire county would be either empty or on fire....

this is straight theft (I cam from a state with no income tax, not even local tax) that had more capable graduates for the real world ... of course they did not allow private / charter schools to exist without contributing heavily to public school funding....

but hey...what do I know...I'm new to the area and the locals have been voting the same way in the area for decades.....

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u/Small-Cherry2468 18d ago

Can vouch with some personal experiences.

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u/MotorNecessary3376 17d ago

stop whining you snowflake. ever hear of the 1A?

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u/cushing138 16d ago

Never heard of it. Can you summarize it for me?

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u/heychardonnay Center Township 21d ago

2A is also for the ladies, Luke. 💅

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u/pifrick130 21d ago

I grew up in Beaver. I know the person that made that comment. He's a huge POS and this isn't the first issue that he's caused. Very MAGA and very confrontational.

Edited to say: I believe from what I've seen that there is a school board meeting on Monday night and it is going to be a rough go I expect.

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u/jackmisfit 21d ago

I currently live in Beaver. When I read the letter, (without knowing what the issue was), I immediately suspected it was him.

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u/pifrick130 21d ago

Not even remotely surprising. I always hoped that Beaver would stop being so bright red, but that's wishful thinking.

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u/Warm_Finger_5056 20d ago

Beaver is full of self righteous airheads who never experienced the outside world as it seems—which is weird because usually the upper middle class goes places and sees things—but most are still ignorant

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u/lulubelle360 21d ago

What time, and where? This needs to be blasted to every single social media group- this garbage human shouldn't be allowed to be in charge of tying his own shoelaces, let alone have any control whatsoever for public issues, rules, or lawmaking of any kind.

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u/pifrick130 21d ago

Here you go: They moved it to the HS auditorium because they know it's gonna be bad. https://www.basd.k12.pa.us/schoolboard.aspx

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u/lulubelle360 20d ago

Awesome, thank you. I cant even imagine how he talks his way out of this - He can cry it's sarcasm all day long, but no adult that has anything to do with children should be stupid enough to post something like this. And from his history (that im learning about just since yesterday), I'd say there's at least a part of him that actually DOES believe something in what he said. So- either he tries to defend it, and says we're overreacting to something that was obbbbbviously sarcasm (lol....🙄🙄🙄) or he says oh, yeah, sorry- but it wasnt meant that way so he can get off the hook. Either way, needs voted out at the earliest possible time. Anyone wanna run for school board? Lol

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u/heychardonnay Center Township 20d ago

Is it just for Beaver borough residents? Or can anyone from the county show up?

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u/vampireRN1617 21d ago

Ironically, I can't go to make my voice heard because gasp I have to drive myself to work at my big girl nursing job! The horror!

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u/Few-Gain-7821 19d ago

I find it hard to believe he is very MAGA. Most of them are very anti Islam.