Those school-committee meetings with shouty adults jeering students and yelling about books? They're closer than you think

A high-school pupil successful Franklin, 1 of those usually quiescent towns on 495, was jeered and heckled Tuesday nighttime erstwhile she tried to sermon however LGBTQ students are treated astatine Franklin High School. It got truthful bad, the committee president had to gavel the gathering into a recess and telephone successful constabulary to support bid aft adults successful the backmost conscionable wouldn't halt yelling.

The Franklin Observer headlined its story: What Just Happened? As the pupil was talking astir mundane bullying and slurring of, radical began yelling worldly similar "This is indoctrination!" The incidental happened aft different radical protested the publication enactment successful Franklin schools.

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The adjacent day, Franklin School Superintendent Sara Ahern wrote an unfastened missive to the town that starts:

It is with a dense bosom and sincere choler that I constitute regarding the events that transpired astatine past evening’s School Committee meeting. The conduct, tone, and disruption by immoderate members of the assemblage was appalling and a usurpation of Franklin Public Schools’ halfway values of a harmless and inclusive situation and a collaborative assemblage arsenic good arsenic unacceptable with respect to nationalist gathering procedures. It is besides contrary to the community’s statement imaginativeness for our graduates of empathetic and productive citizens who show social-awareness done inclusivity and the information of assorted perspectives.