Re the Vermont school board story above:
Pushback: Court victory for volleyball student and coach father who were blacklisted for disagreeing with queer agendahttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/pushback-court-victory-for-volleyball-student-and-coach-father-who-were-blacklisted-for-disagreeing-with-queer-agenda/The background, which I have reported on several times previously: In the fall of 2022 high school student Blake Allen was suspended by her Vermont high school for daring to write an op-ed criticizing its policy allowing a cross-dressing boy to change in the girl’s lockeroom. School officials also suspended her father, Travis Allen, from his job as the high school’s volleyball coach for the crime of stating these facts on social media.
These school officials further topped off this craziness by also banning all girls from the girl’s locker room, giving that one cross-dressing boy sole use of the room. They did this even though they knew that boy had made death threats against Blake Allen.
The school and the boy’s parents also teamed up with a local television station, WCAX, to get it to censor itself, deleting its reporting of this story, even though that reporting had been remarkably accurate and fair-minded.
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This court settlement might make the lives of Blake and Travis Allen whole again, maybe. School officials remain unrepentant.
“The Vermont School Boards Insurance Trust made the decision concerning the payment in order to cap defense expenses in what would otherwise be years of litigation,” Layne Millington, superintendent of the Orange Southwest Supervisory District, told the White River Valley Herald. “The district has made no admission of wrongdoing. Our policies are unchanged and we will continue to comply with our policies and the law.”
This article gives more details about the cause of action. I just quoted tidbits from here and there in the article. The bit about the school banning all girls from the girl’s locker room is interesting, in that it implies that most/all of the team opposed the boy's presence, and the school punished the girls for their views. Along similar lines, the school ignored the common-sense fact that the boy who threatened to kill the team coach would also be a threat to every girl on the team, whether they agreed with his presence or not.
The school board's attitude toward the case means that unless district parents involuntarily retire the board's members, the board will retaliate, and will pull this kind of @#$% again. Hopefully the student will graduate soon and be beyond their reach, and her Dad has updated his resume'.
