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.

  • forrcaho@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    You’ve always got to show up for those school board elections now. Every. Single. Time.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldOP
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      Or live in Houston and the governor can just strip your School Board of power, then install an unelected bureaucrat to loot the school treasury.

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            2 months ago

            Just say Texas Pussy

            Your generation and the reluctance to say Pussy is abhorring.

            Bussy = Butt Pussy. Clussy = Clown Pussy. Its real easy, barely even saves letters to shorten it in the first place, and it works for other short words with vowels too: roof pussy, cow pussy, rent pussy, trans pussy, truck pussy.

            You fuckinussy.

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        Yeah we’re the freest state in the union as long as your chosen freedom conforms with the Republican agenda.