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Public comments press board over custodian pronoun use and call for trustee’s resignation; trustee apologizes for social-media remark
Summary
Multiple public speakers said a custodian asked students to use she/her pronouns and criticized a trustee’s social-media comment; Trustee Dana Howey apologized and denied making a threat.
Several community members used the public-comment period to raise objections after a parent posted online about a custodian at an elementary school asking students to use she/her pronouns.
Jeanette Ward of Casper told the Natrona County School District #1 Board of Trustees that a custodian had required elementary students to address the employee with she/her pronouns. Ward said a parent posted concerns on social media and that an article reported Trustee Dana Howey as saying, “I can't believe all the people I know that agreed with her,” and then described an on-paper comment the…
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