School Board President Goes Berserk, Kicks State Schools Chief Out of Meeting After He Speaks Up for LGBTQ Students
thenewcivilrightsmovement.comA San Bernardino County, California school board president, Sonja Shaw, acknowledging a political grudge, grew angered and agitated in front of parents and students attending a school board meeting Thursday, kicking the State Superintendent of Public Instruction out after publicly berating him, accusing him of “proposing things that pervert children,” “blackmail,” and yelling at him that he had supported her opponent for election.
Superintendent Tony Thurmond was at a podium for public speakers at a meeting of the Chino Valley Unified School District school board to weigh in on a controversial proposed policy.
If passed, teachers would be required to notify parents within three days, in writing, if their child identifies as transgender or gender non-conforming, asks to be called by a name that does not match school records or their birth certificate, is involved in violence, or talks about suicide, the Daily Bulletin reports.
The proposed policy would also require schools to “notify parents if their child seeks to change their name or pronouns or asks for access to gender-based sports, bathrooms or changing rooms that do not match their assigned gender at birth.” Speaking at the meeting, Thurmond warned the policy may “not only fall outside of the laws that respect privacy and safety for our students, but may put our students at risk because they may not be in homes where they can be safe –” His microphone was then cut off without warning. READ MORE: Trump Promotes Threatening Video: ‘We Are Going to Do Things to You That Have Never Been Done Before’ Shaw then said “time,” three times as Thurmond tried to finish his remarks, according to video (below). “And I learned something from the previous board president,” Shaw
