There were all the “normal” items that they go through in a school board meeting but the interest from the few “public” folks that were there was on Policy JBAB that the NH School Board Association deep-sixed and basically told any District that had adopted it that they were on their own (including Gilford) – talk to your lawyer(s). And FINALLY, my Elected Representatives…
Sidenote: we should refer to all of them as Elected Representatives – and not school board members. Too often they no longer believe they are accountable to the voters – change the emphasis to elected Representatives.
Their lawyer offered suggestions on the language based on court decisions and that the NHSBA dropped the Policy. Having seen it, it was a huge improvement (on pronouns and lying to parents), it instigated a months-long discussion about changes with comments akin to “Is this Constitutional” vs “Marginalized people” and “where do parents fit into this” (from my standpoint, anyways).
Tonite was no different as the Policy was marked up (again) but not decided upon.
I will say this on the School Board’s behalf – they still provide two Public Comment section that sandwich the rest of the meeting. Tonite?
Three White Liberal Ladies – and me. Two Public Comment Sessions – I said a little in the first but much more in the second at the end of the meeting. Several items are still “outstanding”, with the largest and most important one being “Why do our elected representatives (aka, school board members) believe that they are better than any other elected officials and do not have to interact with the public at all in ANY seeing (in meetings or outside such meetings)?”.
This is the entire meeting but I have some comments to make about some of the other comments – in another video that I haven’t finished yet
