An art teacher at the grades K–5 Christa McAuliffe School in Concord, New Hampshire, has been placed on leave after a parent complained of the teachers “girlie” attire, igniting “a firestorm in the local community,” according to the Boston Globe.
Reports the Globe:
The Christa McAuliffe School art teacher, Silas Allard, who identifies as LGBTQ, has been placed on leave after Michael Guglielmo complained that the male teacher was wearing women’s clothing. Hundreds of other parents have come together in support of Allard and are asking the school to do the same. And Guglielmo, who has a long history of arrests and violent behavior in New Hampshire, is calling for the suspension of the superintendent, the school’s principal, and the chairman of the school board – and he’s being backed by the “liberty minded freedom fighters” group to which he belongs.
Guglielmo, 60, a member of We the People NH, told the Globe he has taken issue with 24-year-old Allard’s clothing choices since September or October of 2022. According to court documents, Guglielmo – who often wore shirts emblazoned with guns and a red hat that read “F–K BIDEN” when picking up his 8-year-old daughter from school – objected to the feminine clothing he sometimes saw Allard wearing outside. …
Superintendent Kathleen Murphy said the school board has not enforced a dress code for teachers because it could be discriminatory. “That’s an area that can easily fall into discrimination: telling people what they can and can’t wear,” she told the Globe. “That’s not been a policy that the Concord School Board has entertained.”
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