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chasetwisters t1_j5wvwnn wrote

I'd love a little more background on this. I'm not surprised in the least, but what lead to this?

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blackdragon8577 t1_j5x2h29 wrote

Nothing. There was no event or inviting incident.

I am pretty sure they held special sessions just to push this through the school board.

What a complete waste of time.

Plus they are hurting so badly for teachers that you can get away with just about anything right now.

Also, they are embroiled in a lawsuit from the ACLU about trans bathroom policies and are about to be under another lawsuit for backroom deals to stack the school board with evangelicals so they can "clean up the county".

They definitely have way more to worry about than this bullshit.

But these fucking people that live here can't even be bothered to let us vote to see if the county wants an elected school board.

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cubeberg t1_j5yrfp4 wrote

The local Hanover Patriots who have spent all last year targeting trans kids realized that some teachers had "Safe Space" stickers and decided to spam the school board with emails. The school board who worked with ADF (big anti-lgbtq legal group) last year responded by removing all of the safe space stickers in the schools.
So bigotry - that's what lead to this.

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Jellyfishes_OW t1_j60gv73 wrote

That group is practically a terrorist group in my eyes. They event participated in Jan 6 (they went up there, idk if they helped storm the capital or not).

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cubeberg t1_j60kqmm wrote

They pitch themselves as a "Community Service" group, but that's just a façade. I don't know if anyone from the group actually went into the capital - but they recently had a fundraiser for someone from Hanover who did - they called him a "political prisoner".

Having sat through quite a few school board meetings watching some of their more outspoken members - they're not nice people.

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raindeerpie t1_j603na5 wrote

the school board just doesn't want to associate with that organization anymore. rainbow stickers are not banned. no one is discriminating in hanover.

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cubeberg t1_j6082j4 wrote

Except "that organization" is any organization that supports LGBTQ+ students in any capacity - not just one. Meanwhile the school brings in an openly anti-LGBTQ legal organization to help write school policies.

Sure - no discrimination.

You obviously don't live in Hanover, know our school board, or the Hanover Patriots that were the cause of this.

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