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This is March 2021, right? I m checking because I am almost certain that for a short time last Tuesday we entered a time warp that took us back at least a few decades. How else to explain how the Volusia County School Board muffed a simple opportunity to support LGBTQ+ students? Or maybe some School Board members truly don t get that LGBTQ+ students still face continued obstacles to being accepted. But at a moment when the School Board could have provided support, members instead flinched. Here are the particulars, as reported by The News-Journal s Cassidy Alexander. On Tuesday, board members were set to vote on a resolution declaring March 22-26 as LGBTQ+ Health Awareness Week an umbrella term including students who identify as homosexual, bisexual, transgender or other. ....
Anita Burnette Yes, Volusia needs strong LGBTQ+ policy Following last week’s School Board meeting, I have received numerous calls and emails asking me to clarify my position on a resolution brought before the Board earlier today. First, I want to state unequivocally that I am an ally of the LGBTQ+ community, and that I stand staunchly against discrimination of any kind in Volusia Schools. I want to be clear that I believe the urgent issue of LGBTQ+ discrimination in our schools deserves a strong response based on policy, not just sentiment. I could not in good conscience support a resolution that relegated such an important issue to Spring Break when students would not be in school. The resolution dismissed the values of inclusion that it allegedly represented. We cannot keep passing toothless statements of support instead of tackling the very real problems our LGBTQ+ students are facing.\ ....
Pauline Anna Strom, Composer of Enduring Electronic Sounds, Dies at 74 Her blindness, she said, enhanced her music, which included homemade recordings from the 1980s prized by aficionados. Pauline Anna Strom in 2017, when her music from the 1980s was rereleased, drawing a burst of attention and new fans.Credit.Aubrey Trinnaman Jan. 28, 2021 In the early 1980s, a blind woman stood in her San Francisco apartment with one hand in a bowl of water and the other holding a microphone, recording the burbling sound as she stirred and splashed. “It’s a wonder I didn’t kill myself,” she joked years later. ....