Teacher Attacks Trans Students' Identities With Bigoted Letter
A teacher in South Dakota with more than thirty years of experience is coming under fire one month before his planned retirement after images of a bigoted letter he distributed to a group of transgender high school students became public on social media.
Now, as parents are calling for the conservative school’s administration to act, at least one family has chosen to withdraw from the school.On Monday, Ashley Bakke was napping when she received a text message from her son, Alex Bryant, with a picture of a letter that took her a moment to understand.
At first, blaming her nap for not being able to believe her eyes, Bakke quickly realized that she was looking at an attack on her transgender son by the German teacher at Watertown High School, Calvin Hillesland.
According to multiple students and parents, Hillesland approached a group of four transgender students who were eating in the school’s cafeteria.
