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Public commenters urge meal funding and defend transgender students; board member dissent draws rebuke
Summary
During public comment at the Oct. 15 Thompson School District board meeting, speakers urged support for school meal funding and defended transgender students' inclusion in athletics; a board member's opposition to the meal-funding resolution and use of offensive language prompted an admonishment from another official.
Several community members used the district's public-comment period Oct. 15 to press the Thompson School District Board of Education on student nutrition and protections for transgender students.
Elizabeth Newton, a district resident and retired adult educator with three grandchildren in district high schools, urged the board to back legislation supporting school meals and said failing to support meal funding could impose costs and barriers on students and the district. "Supporting legislation that secures funding for school meals is the most practical and compassionate and fiscally responsible choice before you," Newton said.
Janet Wright, speaking as a board member of PFLAG Northern Colorado,…
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