Opinion
How to Combat LGBTQ Book Bans in Schools
After the mass shooting at Club Q this weekend, it is all the more important that communities push back against anti-LGBTQ+ extremism targeting school boards.
Alexa Offenhauer
November 21, 2022
After the mass shooting at Club Q this weekend, it is all the more important that communities push back against anti-LGBTQ+ extremism targeting school boards.
Right-wing parents wanted to show a film suggesting public school teachers teach kids “X-rated sex acts.”
Failed GOP gubernatorial candidate William McSwain called Fugett Middle School’s student club “leftist political indoctrination.” Of course this is who Central Bucks School District wants to hire.
The right-wing majority school board’s paranoia that teachers are “coercing” and “indoctrinating” students has manifested itself in a policy that will lead to censorship in classrooms.
Compared to other local school districts, Palisades teachers receive among the lowest professional salaries in Bucks County.
“The message that is really being said to our young people is that, ‘You are controversial. We think you’re dangerous, we think you’re a threat, and we can’t talk about you.’”
The ACLU filed a complaint last week that lays bare the toxic, discriminatory environment for LGBTQ+ students in the district, thanks in part to Superintendent Lucabaugh and extremists on the school board.
The group, which claims to be about “parent rights,” has ties to the January 6 insurrection and Christian Nationalists. They also have a chapter in Bucks County.
We’re in the midst of an assault on public education that rivals the reactionary panics of the Red Scare and the McCarthy era.
“Finally, some justice,” said Ray Kemble, a Dimock resident whose water was contaminated. “This case proves once and for all that drilling and fracking contaminated our drinking water.”
The Bucks County Board of Elections said this is delaying the certification of votes locally.
A Democrat will represent the Bucks County district for the first time in over five decades.
An analysis of ballots at risk of rejection for lacking or having an incorrect date shows they are more likely to come from non-white communities, among other disparities.
Editor Cyril Mychalejko and columnists Jennifer Cohn and Dr. William Horne are named on a right-wing Twitter ban wish list of about 5,000.