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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.

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Curtain rods and opaque shower curtains it is then. The more they get stolen the more kid like they get replaced with until they have to shit looking at Dora the Explorer.

[–] DillyDaily@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It only just occurred to me that bathroom stalls in the schools almost never have any marketing on them like they do at shopping centres, ours certainly don't.

Which isn't weird, (obviously don't want corporate marketing into schools) but at home you hang stuff in your bathroom when you have kids- map of the world, vexology poster, dinosaur poster, etc, and I'm always trying to find a way to force my students to actually look at the term calendar in advance instead of being suprised that there's a scheduled assessment today.

I'm replacing the soap in the bathrooms every day, how has it never occurred to me to slap a poster on the back of the door so the students have something to look at, I've got so many posters with no wall space too!

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's a pretty awesome idea. Just know that it's going to get defaced so you'll likely have to replace it every now and then.

[–] DillyDaily@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

These posters are destined for the recycling bin (they're the old ones from the main classroom) so if anything it might reduce damage to other things if people are defacing the poster instead.

though in saying that, we don't have a tagging issue at our centre - I've rarely had to remove graffiti from toilets, it's only the soap dispensers that keep getting messed with here, but ripping the posters is also fine, if it makes someone less tempted to rip the soap off the wall.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Well that's cool, I like seeing educators this involved.

[–] DillyDaily@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

It helps that I work in community ed, there are 5 people on our entire faculty, so we litteraly all do a little bit of every job there is to do at an education centre.

My payslips look hilarious because I get paid 8 different rates per week depending on what I'm actually doing, admin, custodial, teaching, etc.

But this is the style of chaotic yet whole-ass-in education that drives me. I would quickly burn out at a more structured school-based workplace.