{"id":1407051,"date":"2022-03-29T11:29:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T15:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1407051"},"modified":"2022-03-29T11:29:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T15:29:46","slug":"state-lawmaker-apologizes-after-alleging-schools-place-litter-boxes-in-bathrooms-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-lawmaker-apologizes-after-alleging-schools-place-litter-boxes-in-bathrooms-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"State Lawmaker Apologizes After Alleging Schools Place Litter Boxes In Bathrooms For Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstate-lawmaker-apologizes-after-alleging-schools-place-litter-boxes-in-bathrooms-for-children%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1407051&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Republican Nebraska state Sen. Bruce Bostelman apologized Monday for repeating a rumor alleging that schools are placing litter boxes in bathrooms for students identifying as cats.<\/p>\n<p>Bostelman repeated a false claim spreading across the internet that school administrators are providing <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/11\/kiss-stinky-odors-goodbye-with-this-highly-rated-litter-box-cleaner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">litter boxes<\/a> to children identifying and dressing up as cats, The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nebraska-lincoln-316c87249779706d6d78b58641c4a75e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. The state senator said he was \u201cshocked\u201d by these reports during a debate on introduced legislation intended to provide for children with behavioral issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey meow and they bark and they interact with their teachers in this fashion,\u201d Bostelman <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonnykip21\/status\/1508485363177861124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> during a televised debate. \u201cAnd now schools are waiting to put litter boxes in the schools for these children to use. How is this sanitary?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A floor speech from Nebraska State Senator Bruce Bostelman that \u201cis about something called furries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just gonna leave this here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/drn6jUgCXf\">pic.twitter.com\/drn6jUgCXf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Kipper (@jonnykip21) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonnykip21\/status\/1508485363177861124?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The state senator referenced \u201cfurries,\u201d which are people that identify and dress up as animals. He cited reports that a student identifying as a cat defecated on the floor due to the school district\u2019s refusal to provide a litter box. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/19\/pbs-drag-queen-story-hour-lgbtq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Drag Queens In Training\u2019: NYC Department Of Education Children\u2019s Show Features 12 Minutes Of \u2018Lil Miss Hot Mess\u2019 Reading And Dancing)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome kids can\u2019t wear an American flag walking through the school on their shirt? And you keep them out of school? And you kick them out of school but it\u2019s ok if they wear a cat costume? And that\u2019s fine and you have a litter box for them? And that\u2019s fine?\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Bostelman later walked back his claims after checking into reports with Democratic state Sen. Lynne Walz, the head of the Legislature\u2019s Education Committee and finding no evidence that it had occurred in the state\u2019s schools, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just something I felt that if this is really happening, we needed to address it and address it quickly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He referred to Lincoln\u2019s school district temporarily asking students not to fly American flags from their vehicles after one was pulled off its holder, the outlet reported. The district soon apologized and lifted the rule.<\/p>\n<p>The litter box rumor began circulating in December after the issue was raised at Midland Public Schools <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/08\/arizona-school-board-police-coordinated-spy-arrest-parents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">school board<\/a> meeting in northwest Detroit, the AP reported. The rumor has continued in a private Facebook group called \u201cProtect Nebraska Children\u201d and surfaced in an Iowa school district, forcing the superintendent to inform parents that the reports were \u201csimply and empathetically not true,\u201d the outlet reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Nebraska state Sen. Bruce Bostelman apologized Monday for repeating a rumor alleging that schools are placing litter boxes in bathrooms for students identifying as cats.Bostelman repeated a false claim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1407051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}