Missouri AG Sues School Board Over Secret Transgender Bathroom Policy Meetings
School Board Member: “Quite frankly, it’s not the parents’ damn business” to know about the policy.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed a lawsuit against the Wentzville School Board for holding closed-door meetings on transgender student bathroom policy in violation of Missouri’s Open Meetings Law, his office announced yesterday.
Attorney General Bailey said the lawsuit follows revelations from two school board whistleblowers that the secret discussions took place over their objections this past summer. In sworn statements, they describe how the board discussed whether or not parents would be notified when their child requested a restroom accommodation.
When someone pointed out they should be having the discussion in a session open to the public, the Superintendent told them that “this conversation can’t be discussed in an open session because we would be a ‘lightning rod’ for lawsuits.”
She then told them exactly the kind of information parents, especially those with daughters, would want to know:
that there was a male student that was using the female restroom at one of our middle schools and they would be a freshman this school year.
She continued by saying that the girls do not mind. They think of this (boy) student as “just one of the girls” and if we saw this student, we wouldn’t even know he was a boy.
But regardless of how he looks, parents and students alike might very well mind a boy in the girls’ room. Nevertheless, the school board insisted on keeping its conversation a secret. The whistleblowers describe how their concerns over the Open Meetings violation were repeatedly dismissed: “Quite frankly,” said one of the members, “it’s not the parents’ damn business.”
However, “Missouri law makes clear that a policy of this kind is indeed parents’ business,” the Attorney General said. Parents were deprived of the opportunity to “attend and voice their opinions involving the policy discussions affecting the well-being of their children,” according to the complaint. The lawsuit seeks injunctive relief under Missouri’s Open Meetings Law, as well as monetary penalties for each violation.
“Parents have the right to know who is in the bathroom with their children. Members of the Wentzville School Board knowingly and purposefully denied parents that right when they shrouded the transgender student bathroom usage policy in secrecy, directly violating the Open Meetings Law,” said Attorney General Bailey. “My office is sending the message that Missourians do not co-parent with the government. We will enforce Missouri’s open meetings statute to protect parental rights.”
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“The lawsuit seeks injunctive relief under Missouri’s Open Meetings Law, as well as monetary penalties for each violation.”
‘Monetary penalties.’ No doubt paid for by tax dollars. Meh. That’s a start, I guess, but most know my position: unless or until these people who egregiously and aggressively violate the plain letter of the law spend time in prison, these tinpot tyrants and wannabees will simply use taxpayer dollars to attempt this illegal activity again and again and again…
Steve Deace interviewed MO AG Andrew Bailey on his podcast yesterday. It starts at the 31:20 mark.
https://dcs.megaphone.fm/BMDC3717241046.mp3?key=8d1b56a9472e23b73d15725448ad83c5&request_event_id=a37dee46-2045-48ff-acdf-dd6a30841c95&source=3
New Jersey AG doing just the opposite and is suing schools who state that parent must be notified. Gov. Murphy says students have rights.
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/education/2023/09/07/nj-parental-rights-national-right-wing-groups-lawsuit/70738924007/
Education by government bureaucracy should be disestablished, not “fixed”.
Yes, but that’s not going to happen in the foreseeable future. So in the meantime anything that can be improved must be.
In the meantime, anyone who has kids in the government indoctrination centers needs to pull them out NOW.
Don’t fool yourself by thinking you can just hang in there till things get better. They won’t.
The woke communists have put too much energy into destroying children to drop this effort now.
Saying it’s none of the parent’s damn business is another way of saying the school (and the children) is you personal domain and you will not tolerate interference. It is unconscionable.
These people must be removed from their positions. Is that what the AG is looking for, or just some publicity?
It’s their way of saying “your children are really ours,” and we will enforce any crackpot theory that we want to.
Is a violation of the Open Meetings Law a crime? Here the AG seems to simply be asking the court to tell the school board they can’t violate the law. Why not file criminal charges and put them in jail?
“Why not file criminal charges and put them in jail?”
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Don’t need “criminal charges” just civil liability. When I was employed by a State University, I was told that I was covered legally for my job activities as long as they weren’t malicious, violated State or Federal law or were in gross violation of University policies and procedures. If that were determined, then I was on my own for legal fees and financial penalties. If that thinking was applies to all of these woke state officials then this kind of behavior would stop.
You can’t put a district in jail. And I don’t think there is anything with which the individual board members can be charged in their personal capacities.
If the board members knowingly violated state law, can’t they be penalized in some way by the state?
I’ve got the tar: anybody got feathers?
What about Styrofoam packing popcorn?
And superglue. That’s the 21st century tar and feathers.
And anyone who quibbles that superglue isn’t hot hasn’t had a bottle of it break in his hand.
I usually pose the following question in such instances:
“Lowe’s and Home Depot sell tar. Who sells feathers?”
You might want to rephrase the title to this post. Reads like they’re having secret meetings in transgender bathroom. That sounds awkward.
Were I a parent of a child in this school, my only focus would be to rid the school committee of anyone that unilaterally deemed parents unfit to know what their children were exposed to, figuratively and literally.
Is she serious, the girls wouldn’t even notice?
When a girl has a kickstand, it’s a boy who needs mental health.
“She continued by saying that the girls do not mind. They think of this (boy) student as “just one of the girls” and if we saw this student, we wouldn’t even know he was a boy.”