Editor’s Note: The Hanover school board held a special meeting Monday night to remove its policy that would offer protections for LGBTQ students. The policy requiring educators to inform parents of a student’s gender identity is before the court.
The Hanover school board held an emergency school board meeting Monday night amid ongoing litigation with the state attorney general’s office over its controversial LGBTQ+ policy that outs students to their parents. The meeting went late into the night, as parents and educators spoke out on both sides of the issue. While some say the board’s move diffuses what has become a contentious situation, others see it as a quick fix to get out of the lawsuit.
Michael Gottesman, founder of the New Jersey Public Education Coalition, said: “They basically decided that rather than try to come up with a transgender policy that passes legal muster, they’d rather just have no transgender policy at all.”
