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Parents and advocates tell Plymouth-Canton board students face pervasive anti-LGBTQ+ language; request clearer complaint process and staff training
Summary
Multiple speakers at public comment urged the Plymouth-Canton Community Schools board to make its hate-and-bias complaint process public, to implement promised training under policy 5517.03, and to enforce protections for transgender and nonbinary students.
Several community members used the board’s public-comment period to say queer and transgender students face frequent slurs and that the district’s response systems are not visible or effective. At the April meeting of the Plymouth-Canton Community Schools Board of Education, advocates urged administrators to publish the district’s complaint process, follow through on the district’s transgender-student training requirement in existing policy and provide public accountability for outcomes.
Joan Pence, a former teacher and coordinator with Indivisible, said the district’s “hate and bias form, simply put, does not work,” adding that “there is minimal follow through when…
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