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https://www.metroweekly.com/2018/10/trans-student-barred-from-shelter-during-virginia-schools-mass-shooter-drill/
Trans student barred from shelter during Virginia schools mass shooter drill
School administrators couldn't decide whether the student should be sheltered with boys or girls, so left her outside
By Rhuaridh Marr on October 6, 2018 @rhuaridh
A transgender student was separated from her peers during a mass shooter drill at a Virginia middle school, as school administrators debated where to send her.
A lockdown drill at Stafford County Middle School, designed to teach the students how to respond in case of an attack, required students to seek shelter in the nearest bathroom or locker room.
However, the transgender student, whose identity has been withheld, was instead forced to sit on the bleachers and wait while the other students sought shelter, while teachers discussed where she should go, Equality Stafford said in a Facebook post.
After debating where would be safest for the student to be during a drill designed to mimic the response to an active shooter teachers ultimately told her to sit in the hallway between the locker rooms, away from the other students.
Equality Stafford slammed the schools response, noting that they essentially treated the student as a danger to the other students.
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RKP5637
(67,112 posts)positions of power and authority they should be nowhere near.
blogslut
(38,018 posts)How does that help anything?
Hekate
(90,829 posts)Christ on a trailer hitch.
barbtries
(28,811 posts)is basically, let's make sure she takes the first bullet?
how can educators be this fucking stupid?
peggysue2
(10,842 posts)cruel. No defense for the indefensible. And these were 'adults' making this decision.
They should be fired.
In It to Win It
(8,285 posts)So let me get this straight, in the event that there is an active shooter on campus... they stop and think about segregating boys and girls?
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)They actually believe that with bullets flying around, children will be thinking about sex. What idiots.