Posted on 06/29/2023 7:07:49 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
KELLER, Texas — After nearly two hours of public feedback, Keller ISD board members passed two controversial gender-based policies.
More than 50 people signed up to speak at the special board meeting on Wednesday night to voice their opinions on the proposed changes.
The two policies stated that students must use restrooms and locker rooms based on the biological sex on their birth certificate and that district employees are not required to use pronouns that are inconsistent with a person's biological sex on their birth certificate.
The board passed both policies.
Prior to the vote, the board heard from people for and against the policies.
Ashley Hine has four children in Keller ISD from middle school to high school. She and her husband have been active in their education process for years.
Hine strongly supports the board's adoption of the new policies. She didn't sign up to speak at the special board meeting, but she attended the meeting to support the others who did speak.
"Our children have been punished at school for not calling kids by other pronouns, which I think is crazy," said Hine. "We were taught English grammar. You don't get to just create your own adjectives or your own pronouns."
But other parents like Laney Hawes, who also has children attending school in Keller ISD, strongly believe the school board is going too far. She attended the meeting and carried a rainbow sign.
Hawes is not only angry about the new policy, but she also believes that the board's timing is purposeful as well.
"It was done to target specific students in June. We know they did it in June for a reason. It's Pride Month. There were already policies in place that protected students and teachers," Hawes said.
The controversial policies passed with just one Keller ISD board member abstaining from the vote.
The new policies will be effective immediately.
Making decisions based upon logic and reasoning is “controversial”. How F U can things get?
Wah, wah, wah!! We have the freako perverts smashing our faces with their crap intensively all of June and they cannot take the very slightest bit of pushback. They are still free to use all the weird pronouns they want everywhere except schools. They now cannot force schools to cram their agenda down our throats. And all they do it bitch, bitch, bitch.
Good for them. I hear of schools putting litter boxes in restrooms for students identifying as a cat. That is encouraging mental illness.
Good for them. I hear of schools putting litter boxes in restrooms for students identifying as a cat. That is encouraging mental illness.
"Controversial" ==> "Things that leftists dislike"
I suspect Laney Hawes likes to draw attention to herself...
“ I suspect Laney Hawes likes to draw attention to herself...”
People like her should not be parents.
Exactly! The truth is that the only controversial thing was for a small mi ority of people dictating. To the nation that the nation must accept their mental illnesses and cater to their every whims. Ther is nothing controversial however for standing up for societal norms and rejection immoral sexually deviant abominations thrown at the nation by the sick left
It’s beyond disgusting that society is compelled to legislate morality. Ninety percent of Americans understand respect, decency, and common sense. Nine percent are lemmings, and one percent are the whiny agitators who want their way all the time. No catering to these childish imbecils.
There is a ray of hope for the nation...
“Controversial” is in the eye of the beholder. Not many conservative school boards anywhere in the country now.
That is not the outcome I expected to read
I can remember when if someone asked you “What should I call you???”-—the answer was “ANYTHING BUT LATE FOR DINNER”
Transgenderism and gender dysphoria are mental illnesses so why should the US comply to their demands?
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