The Carroll Community School District is denying rumors that they are providing litterboxes in their school bathrooms. Carroll School Superintendent Casey Burlau sent a letter to students and parents Monday. He writes, “The rumor is that our schools have litter boxes in the restrooms to accommodate individuals who are self-identifying as animals. This is simply and emphatically not true.”Mary Jane Cobb, director of the Iowa State Education Association, claims that the rumors started in Michigan when a parent spoke out to a school board. Since then, multiple high schools in the country have been targeted by similar rumors, all of which are false.The ISEA says that the rumor is a right-wing attempt to mock LGBTQ restroom equality, and that it harms students’ mental health.”It’s absurd and it’s mean-spirited. And, it is absolutely not the focus we should be having right now,” Cobb said. “I would just ask the people that are promulgating this myth to stop.”More stories from Todd Magel:
The Carroll Community School District is denying rumors that they are providing litterboxes in their school bathrooms.
Carroll School Superintendent Casey Burlau sent a letter to students and parents Monday. He writes, “The rumor is that our schools have litter boxes in the restrooms to accommodate individuals who are self-identifying as animals. This is simply and emphatically not true.”
Mary Jane Cobb, director of the Iowa State Education Association, claims that the rumors started in Michigan when a parent spoke out to a school board. Since then, multiple high schools in the country have been targeted by similar rumors, all of which are false.
The ISEA says that the rumor is a right-wing attempt to mock LGBTQ restroom equality, and that it harms students’ mental health.
“It’s absurd and it’s mean-spirited. And, it is absolutely not the focus we should be having right now,” Cobb said. “I would just ask the people that are promulgating this myth to stop.”
More stories from Todd Magel: