Federal Department of Education launching investigation into Granbury ISD
Granbury ISD Superintendent Jeremy Glenn The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights confirmed on Dec. 6 that it is opening an investigation into allegations of sex discrimination in the Granbury Independent School District, following a complaint filed last July by the ACLU of Texas.
The ACLU’s complaint claims that anti-LGBTQ comments made by GISD Superintendent Jeremy Glenn and the district’s subsequent decision to remove certain books from school libraries “constituted unlawful sex discrimination under Title IX and created a hostile environment for LGBTQIA+ students,” according to an ACLU of Texas press release.
According to a March 23 report by The Texas Tribune, Glenn called a group of GISD school librarians into a district meeting in early January this year, before students returned from the winter break, and told them that Granbury is “very, very conservative,” and that any GISD employee who had different beliefs “better hide it.
Here in this community, we’re going to be conservative. According to a recording of the meeting, Glenn went on to say, “I don’t want a kid picking up a book, whether it’s about homosexuality or heterosexuality, and reading about how to hook up sexually in our libraries.” Then he added that he was specifically included any books with LGBTQ themes, even if those books did not include any descriptions of sex.
