Woke school district in shambles over PC obsessions

Biology class must be really confusing in Easthampton, Mass.
That is, if the town’s search for their school superintendent is any indication.
The whole thing has turned into a farcical endeavor that seems more like a “South Park” episode than an earnest effort to fill a top administrative role.
To sum it up: a female school committee member thinks it’s offensive to call her and another colleague “ladies,” while a student wants anyone and everyone to be called a lady if they so choose.
It’s dizzying, even for 2023.
A few weeks ago, the town made national headlines after their first choice for the job — longtime educator Vito Perrone — lost the gig during email negotiations when he addressed women on the school committee as “ladies.”
Perrone said that the school committee chairperson, Cynthia Kwiecinski, told him that using the plural of lady was a “microaggression” and “the fact that he didn’t know that as an educator was a problem.”
Perrone said he was simply trying to be respectful during a good faith negotiation — but his offer was rescinded by the committee.
Maybe if he had read New York Magazine’s ridiculous etiquette rules back in February, he would know that addressing more than one woman as “ladies” is frowned upon. From men, it’s “oddly creepy;” from women, it’s “an unnecessary attempt to feign some kind of unity,” according to the magazine.
Vito Perrone said his job offer was rescinded after he addressed two women on the school committee as “ladies.” terrier-times.org
Odds are, if he did read it, he laughed, assuming it was satire and not a harbinger of his own career sabotage.
What should be a routine hiring became even more mired in the woke muck a few days ago when the second candidate, a woman named Erica Faginski-Stark, reportedly withdrew her application because she failed a student’s purity test.
An unnamed student wrote to the town’s mayor expressing “extreme concerns” about Faginski-Stark’s Facebook posts from two years ago.
Those posts included a petition to “Defend Title IX” and expressed a sentiment that would seem universally rational only a hot second ago: “Only girls should play girls’ sports!”
In 2021, she posted a video from conservative site PragerU, writing, “For EVERY female athlete out there, it’s time to speak up. As a former Div. 1 scholarship athlete and academic & athletic ALL American, our young women just got stripped of their equal rights and equal opportunity.”
The student wrote to Mayor Nicole LaChapelle: “Under the belief that this is her Facebook account, she has posted conservative transphobic rhetoric a multitude of times.”
It’s unclear if Faginski-Stark withdrew her application because she was told it would go no further, but according to the Boston Herald, the police — in an excellent use of resources — verified that it was her Facebook account.
Faginski-Stark posed this PragerU story on facebook back in 2021.
Her sin was expressing a belief that trans athletes should not compete against biological women. This sentiment is not only in line with the majority of Americans, but there is scientific evidence to back up the fact that biological men have an athletic advantage over women. This isn’t transphobic, rather it’s an acknowledgement of reality.
Now the district has no superintendent and the committee will meet Tuesday to discuss how to proceed.
Perhaps they should turn this into a reality show where educators parade their woke bonafides before a committee of easily offended children and adults who want trigger warnings on everything.
The prize is being an underpaid school administrator with outsized agita and a mandate to please a small minority of the population.
Longtime educator Vito Perrone poses with students. Linkedin/Vito Perrone
Education used to be about ensuring students are learning and mastering the curriculum.
Now, it’s a highly politicized landscape where children are taught that it’s good to be offended and anyone who expresses a viewpoint that is different from theirs should be banished, not debated — despite their qualifications as an educator.
This entire debacle is not only self-inflicted by the powers in charge, but it surely makes the argument for school choice more compelling. Why have your kids see the bosses mud wrestling about nonsense when you can pick a school where they’re actually learning math, science and history?