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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: SVPete on June 05, 2023, 12:59:21 PM
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Vermont school board pays family punished for speaking against biological male in girl's locker room
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/vermont-school-board-pays-family-punished-speaking-against-biological-male (https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/vermont-school-board-pays-family-punished-speaking-against-biological-male)
A Vermont school district reached a settlement with a local family after punishing a student and her father for speaking out against a biological male who used the girl's locker room.
The Vermont School Boards Insurance Trust will pay $125,000 in damages and attorneys fees under the settlement to Travis Allen and Jessica Allen on behalf of their daughter, Blake Allen, as well as their attorneys with the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal nonprofit.
The settlement will also reinstate father Travis Allen as the middle school soccer coach and remove any school disciplinary records against him and his daughter Blake, according to The Daily Signal on Thursday.
The Orange Southwest School District Board and officials named in the lawsuit are also required under the settlement to remove any online content posted by the school related to the locker room issue and to take down bulletin boards at Randolph Union Middle and High School containing the message of "love and support" to the transgender student.
My emphasis, to highlight settlement terms. My beefs with the settlement - which my not be entirely controlled/chosen by ADF - are the the $125K is being paid by an insurance fund, and the educrats are not being held personally responsible. The educrats are unlikely to learn anything, but are likely to abuse their authority again.
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Loe v. Walz
https://www.becketlaw.org/case/loe-v-walz/ (https://www.becketlaw.org/case/loe-v-walz/)
In 1985, Minnesota enacted the Post Secondary Enrollment Options Act (PSEO) to allow high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors to take college classes that would count for high school and college credit. The program covers the cost of tuition and required classroom materials like textbooks, allowing high school students to further their academic pursuits without taking on debt. This program has long served high schoolers in the state by promoting rigorous academic pursuits at both secular and religious colleges.
Melinda and Mark Loe and Dawn Erickson are Christian parents in Minnesota who have used PSEO funds in the past to send their older children to schools that uphold their religious values. ...
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In 2023, Minnesota governor Tim Walz signed a bill into law that amends the PSEO to exclude religious schools like Crown and Northwestern from participating because they require a statement of faith from all students who attend on-campus. The statements simply ask on-campus students—both undergraduates and PSEO students—if they will embrace the schools’ religious beliefs for the purpose of upholding a strong Christian community on campus. ...
The purpose of PSEO is education and enabling more advanced students to gain college credits early. This new law clearly discriminates against religious institutions because they are religious institutions and against religious parents sending their children to those institutions because they - the institutions and the parents - are religious, not because the education offered/received is invalid or inferior.
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Federal agents make huge seizure of fentanyl in Arizona, enough to kill every American plus
https://justthenews.com/world/foreign-desk/federal-agents-seize-ton-fentanyl-arizona-enough-kill-453-million-people
y Bethany Blankley
With an unknown volume of fentanyl and other drugs pouring through the southern border between ports of entry in Arizona, federal agents recently seized enough fentanyl to kill more than 450 million people at several ports of entry and checkpoints.
Homeland Security Investigations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations-Tucson Field Office agents working through “Operation Blue Lotus,” and Border Patrol Tucson and Yuma Sector agents working through “Operation Four Horsemen” seized substantial amounts of methamphetamine and over a ton of fentanyl. The operations occurred from March 6 to May 8 at four ports of entry and at two checkpoints.
With two milligrams considered a lethal dose, one ton of fentanyl, or 2,000 pounds, is enough to kill 453,592,400 people.
Very startling that large amount of fentanyl is being seized. For every seized, some are in America.
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Vermont school board pays family punished for speaking against biological male in girl's locker room
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/vermont-school-board-pays-family-punished-speaking-against-biological-male (https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/vermont-school-board-pays-family-punished-speaking-against-biological-male)
My emphasis, to highlight settlement terms. My beefs with the settlement - which my not be entirely controlled/chosen by ADF - are the the $125K is being paid by an insurance fund, and the educrats are not being held personally responsible. The educrats are unlikely to learn anything, but are likely to abuse their authority again.
The $ amount is peanuts and I agree with you that the individuals involved should be the ones to pay and be removed from their positions.
Abuses of power by petty politicians needs to have personal consequences.
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The $ amount is peanuts and I agree with you that the individuals involved should be the ones to pay and be removed from their positions.
Abuses of power by petty politicians needs to have personal consequences.
Ideologues may or may not learn from consequences, but reducing their ability to do mischief - removal from office and monetary loss - would be good.
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Re the Vermont school board story above:
Pushback: Court victory for volleyball student and coach father who were blacklisted for disagreeing with queer agenda
https://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/ (https://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'.
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Ideologues may or may not learn from consequences, but reducing their ability to do mischief - removal from office and monetary loss - would be good.
Part of me says, "Thank God the taxpayer isn't on the hook to pay this settlement," but I'm not sure it's better that an insurance company pays up either. Either way, the taxpayer will pay in the form of higher premiums.
Completely agree that the miscreants should drop into the toilet bowl like the turds they are AND pay up -- out of their own pockets.
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Part of me says, "Thank God the taxpayer isn't on the hook to pay this settlement," but I'm not sure it's better that an insurance company pays up either. Either way, the taxpayer will pay in the form of higher premiums.
Completely agree that the miscreants should drop into the toilet bowl like the turds they are AND pay up -- out of their own pockets.
If anordinary person commits a tort, our insurance of whatever type are not allowed to pay the judgments for those tortious act(s). Educrats and teachers are SPEH-shul.