Our leaders’ obligation to stand up

Dear Editor,

I am sure many saw the news stories on WYFF 4, the State or the New York Times where Pickens Elementary School had a character-building event, dividing into boy and girl groups. A lecturer from Clemson University got wind of it and complained the event wasn’t gender neutral and was harmful to the girls. TV news came a-knocking, and the school district apologized, saying the school wrongly “reinforced some gender stereotypes.”

Good grief.

The woman was not a teacher at the school nor anywhere in the school district. She is a lecturer in industrial engineering, not a professional in early childhood education. She doesn’t have a child in the school, didn’t attend the event and just read a blurb about it on Facebook.

How did she pass as a credible source, igniting this story in the first place? Well, she was touting a point of view

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