GET ME REWRITE: Outbreak of homophobia rages through Tighty Whities on Missouri school board

 

Headline:  New Civil Rights Movement, 4/26/2022

Photos courtesy of Grain Valley Schools

School demographics:  National Center for Education Statistics

Reckoning with whiteness

The board left it to schools to notify parents, which they did on Monday via email, KSHB reports. The notice came after last Thursday’s board meeting, but the Safe Space sticker ban was not on the agenda. The board claims it initiated the ban because all classrooms should be safe spaces for everyone. 

In a move similar to the “All Lives Matter” retort to the Back Lives Matter movement, the school board wrote to parents: 

“Our goal is for every classroom to be a safe place for all students, not just in classrooms where teachers choose to display a particular sign,”