Starting with President Obama’s health care reform legislation, reactionaries implemented a strategy of disrupting public forums about topics they don’t support. The same think as happened recently with public school debates on teaching history. It’s imperative that we come up with alternative strategies for protecting forums for public discourse instead of letting protestors shut down civil debates on real issues. that need to be heard. A professional meeting facilitator suggested restructuring school board and other meetings so that protestors can not continue to disrupt them. Hire pros to keep the peace and reformat the geography of the meetings so that all sides can be heard and people’s questions can be answered. That’s what any good leader creates safe learning environment and sets ground rules that personal attacks and outburst will not be tolerated.