Hilliard Principal Orders Teachers to Have All Students Advocate for Controversial Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity City Ordinance
COLUMBUS—A Hilliard City School’s Vice Principal sent an email to staff this week ordering all teachers to have students send letters to the Hilliard City Council urging them to pass a controversial and dangerous ordinance that would make “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” protected classes.
The email obtained by Center for Christian Virtue (formerly Citizens for Community Values, CCV), instructs teachers to read a script to students supporting the so-called “anti-discrimination” ordinance.
Among other harmful effects, the ordinance would require homeless shelters and domestic violence shelters to allow men to bathe and bunk with women. It would also require businesses and schools to allow men in women’s locker rooms or showers.
The script given to teachers, however, neglects to mention these and other harmful effects.
The order goes on to have teachers encourage students to think of ways they’ve been discriminated against for their letter to the Council, and to drop the letters in the school's “main office” for delivery, before ordering the teachers to play a video for all students on how to lobby the City Council in support of the ordinance.
“This is an unprecedented violation of the public trust,” said Aaron Baer, president of Center for Christian Virtue. “For Hilliard public schools to turn students into lobbyists is bad enough. But to pressure students to lobby for something as dangerous and controversial as a Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity Bill is wholly unacceptable.”
“What’s worse, to order teachers to endorse legislation as harmful as a Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity law is incredibly unethical. The employees of the state come from diverse backgrounds, and should not be coerced to back such partisan and divisive legislation.”
“The Hilliard School Board must retract this email immediately and issue an apology to all students and teachers. They must also take all necessary steps to hold administrators responsible and ensure this unbelievable breach of the public and parents' trust never happens again,” said Baer.
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