The applicants made it clear the space wouldn’t be just for LGBTQ+ students. It would be for anyone who needs to “just breathe for a second,” said one of the students who confronted the adults Nov. 14.
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The grant asks for just one thing — that they identify the sponsors, something that every grant does, one school board member reminded the room. In this case, it would be with one simple phrase anywhere in the space: “It Gets Better.”
I really wish they would give at least a tiny bit of context to this summary. It would be nice to just know if it was purely malicious or if it was due to some sort of bureaucratic nonsense where they have some sort of strict rules in place that forces them to refuse grants of any kind or something.
Either way it would be ridiculous to refuse… But for fuck’s sake at least offer a little bit of context… The summary here just reads like pure outrage porn…
Pitchforks and torches are fucking tiring to carry around all the damn time…
Edit: just read the full article and yeah that’s fucked up… school board voted against the grant because of the organization it was coming from and clearly had no desire to evaluate the project on its own merits… The dissenting opinion from on member on the board is actually a really good one and would recommend anyone curious to go read it.
You know, I feel like there was a time before Trump when I could look at an outrage headline and assume the truth was more nuanced. It usually did work out that way. After some point, not only was there no nuance to it, but the truth was even worse than the headline let on.
I theorize that rage-bait headlines started when news became entertainment.