cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20469066
South Western’s elected school board is making some strange decisions.
For the last two years, they’ve fixated on which bathrooms LGBTQ+ kids use. In 2023, officials in this Hanover-area district played musical chairs with school bathrooms in a misguided attempt to appease the loudest bigots among them — ending up with five different types of bathrooms.
After a low-turnout school board election in which several far-right members joined their ranks, they hired a Christian law firm, decided to begin banning books and reopened the bathroom issue. Board President Matthew Gelazela, who was elevated to his post after previously serving as the board’s most vocal bomb-thrower, pointed to Red Lion’s discriminatory policies as something to aspire to.
Now, upon the advice of that law firm — the Harrisburg-based Independence Law Center — the board approved spending $8,700 to cut windows so passersby can look into the so-called “gender-identity” student bathrooms.
Wouldn’t be surprised if the district I live in does this. Trans kids have had to transfer schools or become home schooled because of the hate against them by both kids and adults. I don’t have kids and will never have them, but I still want to protect these kids from all of the hate. My mom works in the district as a counselor and she said there are a couple students she thinks are trans, but are afraid to come out. It’s so sad.
