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Posted by Mike LaChance on June 05, 2022 20 Comments
Parents and some teachers are suing the Harrisonburg City Public School Board over a policy that doesn't tell parents if their child starts questioning their gender. According to the suit, if a child so much as mentions this, staffers immediately start using different pronouns for the child and none of this is shared with parents.

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 02, 2022 61 Comments
Oak Park and River Forest High School in Illinois is implementing a new grading plan for the 2022-2023 school year that will take certain racial differences into account. They're not going to assign grades based on race, but they will stop penalizing certain students for tardiness, not turning in assignments, etc.

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 29, 2022 28 Comments
Lowell High School in San Francisco was a top performing school that admitted students based on test scores and grades, until the city decided that merit-based admissions didn't comport with 'equity' standards. Against the objections of parents, they switched to admissions based on lottery and now it's no longer a top school. Who could have predicted such a thing would happen?
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