The week of her mother's funeral, Gardner Edgerton school board member Kristen Schultz woke up to a text telling her to kill herself.
It was just one incident in a series of personal attacks, insults and threats Schultz said she's received over the past two years, amid tense disagreements over COVID-19 protocols and other hot button education issues. Schultz said the threats became so bad she had to be escorted to her car twice after school board meetings.
But this past weekend, she said, was the final straw.
