South Western’s elected school board is making some strange decisions.
For the last two years, they’ve fixated on which bathrooms LGBTQ+ kids use. In 2023, officials in this Hanover-area district played musical chairs with school bathrooms in a misguided attempt to appease the loudest bigots among them — ending up with five different types of bathrooms.
After a low-turnout school board election in which several far-right members joined their ranks, they hired a Christian law firm, decided to begin banning books and reopened the bathroom issue. Board President Matthew Gelazela, who was elevated to his post after previously serving as the board’s most vocal bomb-thrower, pointed to Red Lion’s discriminatory policies as something to aspire to.
Now, upon the advice of that law firm — the Harrisburg-based Independence Law Center — the board approved spending $8,700 to cut windows so passersby can look into the so-called “gender-identity” student bathrooms.
Iirc it’s because of the American fire code. If it’s a complete door, it’s a “room” and needs a fire detector/sprinkler. Too expensive.
The bottom gap is because of ADA’s toe space requirements. The top gap is because less material thus cheaper.
That doesn’t make any sense. Why are there gaps in the huge disabled-access stall doors then?
https://www.ada.gov/law-and-regs/design-standards/2010-stds/
Uniformity? I have no idea. Just its why its there for others at the very least.