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Eighth‑grader says Julian’s gender‑neutral stalls are often unusable and unclean; board to follow up
Summary
A Julian Middle School student told the Oak Park Elementary School District 97 board that gender‑neutral bathroom stalls are routinely dirty, sometimes locked for months and were the site of a homophobic slur the student reported to staff. Board members asked staff to contact the student and consider fixes.
Cody Boucher, an eighth‑grade student at Julian, told the Oak Park Elementary School District 97 Board of Education that gender‑neutral bathroom stalls in the building are frequently unusable and that the condition has made a basic daily task difficult for gender‑diverse students.
"I actually spend 5 minutes cleaning up usually for students who don't even need to use those stalls in the first place," Boucher said during the public‑comment portion of…
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