The White Mountain Regional School District (WMRSD) has some issues. If this is accurate, most of the kids can’t read or do math at grade level, and the district wastes a lot of money not teaching them. That’s a more common curriculum choice than most parents and taxpayers realize. And hey, people who can’t do math or read can’t figure out that it is a money laundering operation.
So, what exactly are they doing with all that cash if they are not teaching kids to read, write, or add in their heads? How about ignoring state law? And why not? New Hampshire isn’t precisely enforcing HB1205 down here among the flatlanders south of the White Mountains. That’s the law that requires schools to sort school sports by sex (specifically, boys can not play on girls’ teams that are not specifically co-ed or mixed).
The White Mountain Regional School Board met last night and decided they don’t need to follow that law.
The woman speaking (beginning at 16 minutes) says a few things about policy change JJIC. This relates to interscholastic athletes. She offered the option to consider it further or table it for later, then made a few incorrect observations to defend supporting it, without which it could have been tabled (or rejected ), in my opinion.
The school’s policy change appears to assume that there is a choice to follow either state or federal law related to Title IX, but no existing federal law supersedes this state law.
No court has ruled HB1205 discriminatory. The case has yet to be heard. Only two individuals (to my knowledge) were judicially exempted from the law after their parents sued the state. The law applies as written to every other district team and student.
No federal “laws” protect boys playing as girls in athletics. The Biden administration reinterpreted an existing law (Title IX), which has been challenged. Twenty-four states are prohibited from pretending that rule is a law after the US Supreme Court upheld two separate injunctions. Mom’s for Liberty has joined a separate Kansas lawsuit with YAL and Female Athletes United, and that court’s injunction covers the remaining 26 states.
For those who learned math at WMRSD, injunctions block the Biden rule change in all 50 states, and New Hampshire is still one of them (I guess you should have supported secession!). It is, therefore, not discriminatory or in violation of Title IX to sort sports teams by the sex parts kids were saddled with at birth.
There is no superseding federal law, only the New Hampshire Law.
I’ll note that it was not clear from the crappy audio exactly which the woman was advocating (state or federal) until she finished speaking around eighteen minutes. The recommended change strikes the “optional section around adopting state law.”
If you jump to 40 minutes in the video above, the board votes on action items, including #4, a list of changes that includes amending several school policies, including Title IX/athletics (JJIC). These all pass the board without further comment or question.
The WMRSD may want to revisit this at their next meeting. Parents should politely request it, given the facts at hand, and restore the requirement to follow state law until a court finds it discriminatory or a Federal law exists that supersedes it.
The agenda and minutes for the 10/24 meeting were unavailable before publication.
