When E.O. Smith High School history teacher Joe Goldman was asked to work on a specialized course on genocide studies, in addition to feeling honored, he recalls immediately feeling the gravity of the assignment.
Wesley was one of about twenty people, roughly half of whom were kids, to testify before the Board of Alders Education Committee about what it’s like to be an LGBTQIA+ kid in the city’s public school district.
In a town that has been plagued with recent incidents targeting the LGBTQ+ community, a Tolland Board of Education is creating a transgender student policy that will take the state’s regulations further in the hopes of providing a safe space for all students.