{"id":1773189,"date":"2022-12-13T06:09:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T11:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1773189"},"modified":"2022-12-13T07:03:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T12:03:24","slug":"pa-school-board-member-to-resign-after-objecting-to-candidate-for-board-president-for-being-cis-white-male","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pa-school-board-member-to-resign-after-objecting-to-candidate-for-board-president-for-being-cis-white-male\/","title":{"rendered":"PA School Board Member to Resign After Objecting to Candidate for Board President for Being &#8220;Cis White Male&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/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%2Fpa-school-board-member-to-resign-after-objecting-to-candidate-for-board-president-for-being-cis-white-male%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=1773189&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--><p class=\"speakable\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/northeast\/pennsylvania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pennsylvania school board member<\/a> who refused to vote for &#8220;the only cis White male&#8221; on the board to serve as president has decided to resign from her position at the start of 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Upper Moreland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">School District board<\/a> member Jennifer Solot made the comments during an open school board meeting on Dec. 6, just before a vote was held to appoint a new board president.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/640\/320\/Upper-Moreland-School-District-BOE.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Upper Moreland School District board member Jennifer Solot, second from left, would not give \" the only cis white male  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Upper Moreland School District board member Jennifer Solot, second from left, would not give &#8220;the only cis white male&#8221; on the board her vote for president because it sends the wrong message to the community.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Upper Moreland School District)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Solot led the motions as acting president during the board\u2019s reorganization meeting. Two names were up for the seat of president: April Stainback and Greg D\u2019Elia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/pennsylvania-school-board-member-refuses-vote-for-cis-white-male-wrong-message\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER REFUSES TO VOTE FOR \u2018CIS WHITE MALE&#8217; FOR PRESIDENT: \u2018WRONG MESSAGE\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe that Mr. D\u2019Elia would make an excellent president,&#8221; she said. &#8220;However, I feel that electing the only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/critical-race-theory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cis White male<\/a> on this board, president of this district, sends the wrong message to our community: a message that is contrary to what we as a board have been trying to accomplish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A cisgender person is one who identifies as the gender they were born.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/640\/320\/Gender-Unicorn-McCray.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Danita McCray introduces \" age-appropriate \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Danita McCray introduces &#8220;age-appropriate&#8221; gender unicorn and discusses &#8220;pertinent&#8221; terms for the early childhood age group.\u00a0<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Danita McCray presentation | Fox News)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Monday, Upper Moreland School District Superintendent Dr. Susan Elliott issued a statement on Solot\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/american-girl-accused-gaslighting-children-book-gender-identity-transitioning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AMERICAN GIRL ACCUSED OF \u2018GASLIGHTING CHILDREN\u2019 WITH BOOK ABOUT GENDER IDENTITY, TRANSITIONING<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a result of this incident, Ms. Solot has decided to resign from the board effective January 2, 2023,&#8221; Elliott said. &#8220;She wishes to apologize for her poorly chosen words and does not want to be a distraction from the great things happening in our schools on a daily basis. The district thanks Ms. Solot for her five years of service to the Upper Moreland community as a board member.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The superintendent added that Solot\u2019s comments were &#8220;solely hers&#8221; and did not represent the opinions of the rest of the school board members or the district.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Solot nor D\u2019Elia responded to requests for comment on the matter, but the latter was included in Elliott\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/640\/320\/Biden-Foundation-Gender-Spectrum.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Biden Foundation partnered with Gender Spectrum in 2019.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Biden Foundation partnered with Gender Spectrum in 2019.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Gender Spectrum | YouTube\/Screenshot)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Indeed, Board Director Greg D\u2019Elia, who was the subject of her comments, says that he \u2018supports diversity, but these comments did not further diversity and reflected poorly on our community,\u2019&#8221; Elliott said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/detransitioner-experts-issue-warning-american-girl-pushing-gender-transitions-protect-daughters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>DETRANSITIONER, EXPERTS ISSUE WARNING OVER AMERICAN GIRL PUSHING GENDER TRANSITIONS: \u2018PROTECT YOUR DAUGHTERS\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to Elliott, the district focuses on nondiscrimination across the schools and inside the classrooms. It also sees value in the diversity of the community it serves and helps students and staff achieve success without discrimination based on race, color, age, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, ancestry, gender identity, and more.<\/p>\n<p>She also said the district hires &#8220;the most qualified person for the position&#8221; and does not discriminate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an 8-1 vote, D\u2019Elia was not elected to the seat of president by the other board members on Dec. 6, but Solot was the only member to voice concerns about electing him because of his race and gender identity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Greg Wehner is a breaking news reporter for Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pennsylvania school board member who refused to vote for &#8220;the only cis White male&#8221; on the board to serve as president has decided to resign from her position at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1773192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[8040,3664,5458,4076,7593,8363,3669,3819,4495,3924,3765],"class_list":["post-1773189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-cis","tag-board","tag-bongino","tag-candidate","tag-male","tag-objecting","tag-president","tag-report","tag-resign","tag-school","tag-white"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773189","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1773192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}