A couple of adult activists who’d helped to organize the protests drove around the school sounding their horns, and jumping curbs to evade the police.

Holy fuck these people need to get jobs.

According to the firm’s report, there is no epidemic of LGBTQ bullying in Central Bucks or at Lenape Middle School, and when there are accusations of bullying, the district’s leaders promptly address them. The report states that Burgess was not, in fact, disciplined for filing a complaint on behalf of a trans student, but rather for manipulating vulnerable students, and for intentionally hiding serious bullying allegations from school leaders.

the investigation found, Burgess, along with some other teachers and activists, and at least one Democratic school-board member, Karen Smith, worked to “manufacture a crisis of supposed unaddressed bullying at Lenape.” They sought to launch federal civil-rights investigations, to garner negative press for the district, and then to use the federal probes and bad press to intimidate board members into changing policies the activists disapprove of.

“But, having lost the November 2021 School Board election, the new minority attempted to weaponize federal investigatory resources to achieve their aims,” the report states. “In doing so, they exhibited a regrettable callousness.”

LGBTQ activists and opponents of the investigation, speaking before the report was released, called the report a “million-dollar PR stunt” that was “never intended to be impartial.”

Board Democrats called foul, and said they were opposed to releasing the 147-page report Thursday because they didn’t have time to read it.

This article is full of fucking gems.

Just discussing the allegations, even without naming individual students, put students in danger, said Smith and Mariaum Mahmud, another board member. Mahmud called the presentation a “joke narrative” and “biased.” Republicans on the board said it was the truth.

“It’s not the truth. It’s your truth,” Mahmud said, insisting LGBTQ students “do not feel safe.”