Courtesy of Rabbi Daniel Bogard
Missouri ranks last in the nation in starting salaries for teachers and 49th in state funding of schools, so low that a quarter of the districts have cut back to four-day weeks.
But the GOP legislators in the “Show Me” state have demonstrated their priority with at least 20 bills aimed at the LBGTQ community. Ten are aimed at restricting transgender athletes in the schools. That is in a state where just seven transgender students in K-12 are presently registered to compete.
“There’s more bills about trans kids playing sports than there are trans kids that want to play sports,” Senate Democratic Minority Leader John Rizzo told reporters last week.