Waukesha County Wisconsin shows again it's not a safe place for LBGTQ+

 

School board photo:  School District of Waukesha

Headline:  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7/12/2023

Editorial comment provided by Retiring guy

Board members voted 9-0 to fire Melissa Tempel after a hearing at the district's Blair Administration Building on Wednesday. The hearing lasted almost four hours and was held mostly in open session at Tempel's request. After the hearing in open session, board members deliberated for over an hour and a half in closed session before returning to open session to vote. 

The hearing came almost two months after Waukesha School District superintendent James Sebert  [see highlighted link below] recommended Tempel be fired for a tweet criticizing the district's decision to ban the Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton song, saying it violated district policy. At the time, Tempel was working as a first-grade dual-language teacher at Heyer Elementary School.

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