“Treat boys as boys and girls as girls” — says school candidate

Transgender movement, critical race theory, school bullies.  All three were fodder yesterday when the three candidates for Seat One, Oconee School Board took part in a forum at Keowee Key, arranged by Citizens for Childhood Education in Oconee.  Dean Bare, incumbent candidate, said this to the question of whether the transgender movement will ever become an issue for Oconee’s five school trustees: “Federal laws may require different actions at times but to every extent possible I will support school procedures that treat boys as boys and girls as girls.”  Bare’s challengers—Amanda Holder and Keri Unsworth—also registered their thoughts about whether the transgender movement will push its agenda in grades K-12 in Oconee.  The District One candidates filled out—and later spoke on—pre-submitted forum questions that included how bullying can be eliminated in schools what they might support to prevent CRT and woke ideology from entering the curriculum.  The Citizens for Childhood Education also have on its schedule a second candidate forum—this one for the contestants for Seat Three, School Board, to be held Saturday morning, October 1 in Seneca.