by Charlotte Hazard
The Perkiomen Valley School District in Pennsylvania recently passed a policy that mandates kids use the bathroom associated with their biological sex after students staged a walkout in protest of the school board for originally rejecting the proposal.
The school board originally voted against the policy titled “Policy 720” in a 4-5 vote. However, the vote changed earlier this week after board member Don Fountain voted to approve the policy instead.
This proposal was put forward after a dad said that his daughter encountered someone she thought may have been a boy in the girl’s bathroom and it made her uncomfortable.
“I believe it had to do with all the students and the students voicing their opinion,” Tim Jagger, a father from the school district, told Fox News in an interview.
“That was huge, the student walkout that day and the community members coming through and talking at the board meeting, voicing their opinion,” he continued. “I believe that all this came together and worked on the school board members, and I was happy to see that they decided to change their policy.”
The walkout was led by student John Ott.
“Kids were upset. Girls… we wanted to protect them,” Ott said during an interview with Fox. “They were upset. They didn’t want men in their bathroom.”
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Charlotte Hazard is a 2022 Liberty University alumni who graduated with a major in journalism and a minor in government.
Photo “Women’s Bathroom” by Jeff Barton. CC BY 2.0.
