Bullying, shmullying.

Ah, how kids love a broken promise.
Faculty, parents and students were thrilled to read on the Oklahoma Public Schools website that this year’s new student handbook would include language prohibiting bullying on the grounds of sexuality.
Shortly thereafter, the section on LGBT bullying conveniently disappeared. The school district officials say that the policy had not been approved by the school board yet, and apparently won’t be at all. According to the district, the language didn’t consist with “board-approved policy language,� and the material was officially retracted.
“They’re nuts,” teacher Joe Quigley said of district administrators. “They are telling students, ‘We were thinking of protecting you, but we changed our mind.’ Student safety should be paramount.”
True that. What I’d like to know is exactly what language in the original handbook didn’t meet the board’s approval.

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