Column: Cross-stress: gender and public schools
(02/19/03 5:00am)
For many parents of children in Missouri's Francis Howell School District, education is not in crisis until a man wears makeup. Never mind that public schools in Missouri recently took a major financial blow ($80 million in cuts), that 19 percent of the 26 percent of children who live in its rural areas are living in poverty or that teacher salaries are barely subsistence-level. A transgender chaperon supervising a fourth-grade field trip, however, is cause for alarm.