Public School Employees. Kane County School District

Updates: 12/08/22 add section for Fredonia-Moccasin School district, 09/04/22 add response by Susie Harris, 03/11/2022 updated all sections

Bigotry and/or extremism posted publicly on social media by Kane County School District employees. When sufficient evidence exists, they are included on Hatewatch by KURW and indicated as such with “Yes” in spreadsheet below.

As a retired educator, I understand the standards set for school employees in regards to public activity. School personnel should at the minimum be able to process information and be discrete about how they act on information to exclude promoting false information, conspiracy theories, anti-science/public safety, violence, bigotry and extremist groups.

For recently elected school board candidates, see KURW post MEET THE 2022 CANDIDATES for Kane County Utah Election

As always, feel free to use Reforming Extremists on Hatewatch to intervene with individuals and contact me with corrections at mgalaria@protonmail.com

This post has sections NINE:

  1. Fredonia-Moccasin Unified School District
  2. Kimberly Ford Blake,
  3. Alicia Riggins Cram
  4. Desiree Felish
  5. Casey Daley
  6. Suzie Harris
  7. Colten “CJ” Johnson, Mayor & Teacher
  8. Mason Fox
  9. Chatterley, McCowan & Goulding to be added

1. FREDONIA-MOCCASIN UNIFIED School District

Fredonia, AZ is Kanab’s neighbor, just 7 miles south at the AZ/UT border. This post focuses on Kane County School District, so the detail for Fredonia is brief and includes sections for the staff, the school board and the administration.

The staff at Fredonia-Moccasin School District

The 2022 Fredonia-Mocassin School District Staff is pictured below with red font indicating evidence of extremism or bigotry exposed. Their evidence is summarized in a bullet-point list below the photo.

  • Caroline Grover (Caroline Lofing) is on Hatewatch by KURW for supporting public post of extremism & bigotry including: J6 Attack on US Capitol was the fault of main stream media & democrats pushing people to the brink, support of “medical freedom” and mask opposition including “while we are worrying about masks….pedosexuals” which is an old tactic used to equate pedophile with the LGBT2SQIA+ community & democrats, deflect police violence with attack on NFL with misinformation of Jacob Blake’s criminal history, misappropriation of #MeToo for voting Trump, 2021 Unity: Dems Kiss my ass and promotion of physical discipline of children.
  • Shane Stotlar: Insufficient for KURW Hatewatch with one support of Hayden Ballard’s J6 Attack on US Capitol “secret combinations…temporarily win the day”
  • Ray Bowler’s spouse & substitute teacher, Laura Bowler, is on KURW Hatewatch for: vaccine and autism disinformation, 2021 fight tyranny, covid vaccine disinformation, covid treatment disinformation & christian nationalism.

Fredonia-Mocassin School Board

Sonya Kimball:
Support J6er David Crosby at the attack of the US Capitol,
Conspiracy theories (J6 False flag Antifa, 25th Amendment for Harris to replace Biden not for Trump),
Calls to Fight (Medical Freedom, BLM 2020, Don’t Tread on Me),
USA 2021 Tyranny (loss of freedom and attack on Trump voters), Christofascism
Danielle Smith:
See feature post for Smith at KURW Understanding Social Media in Kanab: Groups, Pages & Individuals.
Smith provides a platform of hate with Kanab/Fredonia Rant & Rave,
encourages those on Hatewatch to post away,
uses mental health slurs,
disparages those who report extremism/bigotry, promotes making targets of opposition
and responds “MOVE” to voiced concern about Ammon Bundy’s People’s Rights Network Conference in Kanab & their public health defiance.

Adminstration at Fredonia-Moccasin SD

Only one of the people listed as administration for FMUSD engage in extremism and bigotry publicly on Facebook. Tina Button, school nurse, whose FB profile is “Tina Utley Button” supports posts supporting: anti-immigration rhetoric (“illegals”, voting disinformation, required dog vaccines not migrants, gang bangers hop southern border but Irish/German engineers get vetted, Leave the USA if you support the New Way Forward Act), LGBTQ+ bigotry (pretend a man is a woman Twilight Zone, people who say there is no such thing as gender demand woman president), disparage social equity & justice (reparations & student loan forgiveness Twilight Zone, Back the Blue & protest violence exaggeration), Q’Anon SaveOurChildren, Christian Nationalism & Dems 2021 we’ll have a fight if you try to take my guns, land or rob the middle class.

    2. Kimberly & Terry Blake

    Kim Blake works at the Kane County School District Office as a secretary and her husband, Terry, is a custodian at Kanab Elementary School. Their bigotry/extremism is presented in the Google Slideshow below in list format (slides 2-9) and screenshots of public posts (slides 10-27). This includes: LGBTGQ2S, Black Lives Matter, Welfare, Democrats, racial equality, science and government. They use false dichotomies, false narratives, misinformation and conspiracy theories.

    KURW Posts featuring/including Kim & Terry Blake:


    3. Alicia Riggins Cram

    Alicia Cram posts that she works as a paraprofessional educator at Kanab Elementary School (KES) and owns a photography business. She supports local hate group Kanab Patriots ( see Kane County Commissioner Calls Kanab Patriots a Hate Group, But They Are Not the Fringe and “Kanab Patriots” Recruits and Radicalizes Facebook Extremists) and she & family have shown support for Kanab at DC Capitol Riot.

    Below, is an interactive Google Slides presentation for the Cram family who are all public employees, and a list of related KURW posts featuring/including Alicia:

    Alicia’s extremism includes: promoting false narratives, outright lies, support of Stop-the-Steal, minimizing Capitol Insurrection. Alicia has supported FB page “Kanab Patriots” Recruits and Radicalizes Facebook Extremists and their activities including their harassment of residents & businesses supporting Black Lives Matter & characterization of liberals as sick people. Alicia used local FB group Kanab/Fredonia Rant & Rave as a platform for hate to sabotage social justice & police reform efforts and to defend confrontational activity of counter protesters, including Steve Corson who was a Kanab “Patriots” at the Capitol Insurrection and Local Law Enforcement Praise.

    4. Desiree Felish

    Desiree Felish works as support staff at Kanab Elementary School. Her husband, Jeremy L. Felish, is a K9 officer with Mohave County Sheriff in Arizona and they own iRepair in Kanab. Desiree posted a “designed by JWF” decal celebrating police brutality which was featured in the post Kanab’s SM Kanasshole Posts. Desiree is a contributing follower of local extremist FB group “Kanab Patriots” “Kanab Patriots” Recruits and Radicalizes Facebook Extremists.

    KURW posts featuring/including Desiree:


    5. Casey Daley

    Casey is a 4th grade teacher at Kanab Elementary School. There are only two public posts. One promotes false narratives about Biden, conspiracy theory about Pelosi, hatred of any Democrat, misinformation about Trump accomplishments, anti-media and Hollywood…everything in one post and Casey “liked” it. The second promotes efforts to discredit social justice activism by athletes with the “this is what real sports heroes look like”. Read more about the history of athlete activism https://theundefeated.com/features/athletes-and-activism-the-long-defiant-history-of-sports-protests/


    6. Suzie Harris

    Suzie Harris is listed as a Kindergarten teacher at Valley Elementary School in Orderville, Utah (Kane County School District).

    Harris posts publicly hard-line eternal religious philosophy and other bigotry. She supports posts by some Red Level Hatewatch Neighbors (Hooper, Pratt & Brinkerhoff). Harris had no public posts of Patriotism (military, veterans, law enforcement) since 2014 until the global movement for Black Lives Matter following the murder of George Floyd by convicted former MN officer Chauvin. (Context: Suzie’s brother-in-law was killed in the line of duty in 2010)

    This is the public evidence of bigotry and extremism posted and/or supported by Harris:

    Response to exposed bigotry/extremism by KURW from person with Suze Harris email:

    7. Colten “CJ” Johnson

    Colten is now Mayor of Kanab City. His list of evidence in the screenshot below needs updated. He is a Red Level Kanab Patriot. These are other KURW posts including Colten:

    David Crosby, owner of Crosby Home & Farm, went to DC for Stop-the-Steal turn insurrection.

    8. Mason Fox

    Mason is a social science teacher at Kanab High/Middle School. There are no social media posts of bigotry or extremism, just an encounter at a rally which was not enough to draw any conclusion regarding Mason and bigotry or extremism, just a note of attention. Mason approached a demonstrator at a Black Lives Matter Rally and I intervened when that encounter moved to more of a verbal attack on her instead of a conversation when she replied “zero police murders is the acceptable number for me.” I recall that our discussion ended in a civil manner and that I would have liked to have talked more with him in a better setting.

    Mason, please email me. If anyone has evidence for Mason (positive or negative) or witnessed the “discussion”, please email me. mgalaria@protonmail.com.

    Submit corrections and/or additions to above email.

    9. Chatterley, McCowan & Goulding to be added

    Published by mgalaria

    I resided in the Kanab, Utah area from 2009 throughout 2020. I am reformed right, 15 years now, with most family members still far-right. I lived 37 of my 48 years in rural America. I created KURW after I discovered that two people from Kanab who I knew were at the Jan 6th Capitol Insurrection and the continued threat warning from DHS regarding the far-right movement. Studies show new trends in extremist characteristics, feelings of fear/anger/betrayal, an increase in social media recruitment and incitement, and radicalization as quickly as six months. I had a lot of documentation from covering the six months of weekly Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter and MAGA events in Kanab. I used that documentation, public posts on social media, contribution from community members and outside organizations to create Hatewatch because I feel like that is the best way that I can address the call for awareness.

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