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As the (ever vigilant) woke Democrat women in Chester County, Pennsylvania spend their days promulgating the line that the United States today is where Nazi Germany was in the mid-‘30s before Hitler solidified his power – “You had better speak up now or be condemned by future historians” – something insidious was happening to the educational system in their own backyard.
Not that these Democrats cared, of course. My guess is most shrugged it off because what was happening aligned so perfectly with their mental illness.
I’m talking about the transformation of Great Valley High School (GVHS), easily the most famous school in Chester County founded in 1962 and considered by 1965 to be the top-rated school in the Philadelphia area. As a graduate of GVHS, I can attest to the school’s former glory: its academic excellence and high standards, theater programs, and sports teams. The school enforced a rigorous dress code – I recall boys being sent home because their trousers were too tight, as well as girls with mile-high beehive hairdos frozen in hair spray being sent to the guidance counselor. Bible reading and the Pledge of Allegiance occurred everyday in homeroom.
Great Valley, despite its noble beginnings, fell from grace when it threw in the towel to accommodate the transgender agenda. Like many institutions in Chester County, this was much more than a cursory acknowledgment of transgender culture and light cultural brainwashing but participation so active it caused a former President of the Great Valley School Board, Bruce Chambers, to speak out and file a complaint with the federal Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights.
The transgender beehive had been buzzing for almost a decade before Chambers, a true American hero, broke the silence begun in 2016 when the GV School Board passed a number of policies to ensure equal access for transgender students, including a shocking provision allowing students to participate in sports based on their gender identity.
As a result of his complaint, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights opened a Title IX investigation into Chester County’s Great Valley School District.
Chambers said he warned district officials and the school board they were not in compliance with federal law under Title IX. The school ignored his warnings, insisting they were compliant. His original complaint cited an executive order by President Trump protecting girls’ and women’s sports.
“We will leave no stone unturned in these investigations to uphold women’s rights to equal access in education programs – a fight that started over half a century ago and is far from finished,” commented Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kimberly Richey in a January 14 press release.
In the meantime, GV Board of School Directors said the district was aware of the investigation and was working with counsel on a response.
“The District takes its obligations under Title IX and all federal civil rights laws seriously,” the statement read. “We also take our responsibilities to comply with the legal rulings from the Federal Courts in this jurisdiction and to provide the protections afforded our students by Pennsylvania statutes just as seriously.”
Prior to Chambers’ complaint, a Great Valley teacher who opted for anonymity blew the whistle on the school’s transgender policy, citing teachers who are forbidden to tell parents when a student questions their gender identity. The teacher also revealed that GV teachers had to honor a student’s choice of pronouns or alternate names and must not divulge these facts to parents.
The Great Valley policy reads in part:
“Students will be allowed to use the restroom that corresponds to the gender identity they consistently assert at school. The District will provide a transgender or gender expansive student with access to the locker room that corresponds to the gender identity they consistently assert at school. Transgender and gender expansive students shall be permitted to participate in athletic programs and classes in a manner consistent with their asserted gender identity.”
Great Valley is one of many school districts mentioned in the Title IX complaint. The other school districts are all in blue states: California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, and New York.
What happened to GVHS was the result of the “bluing” of Chester County over the past decades. This slow-dribble effect eventually gutted the high school and turned it into a social lab experiment for cultural Marxists, also known as Democrats.
Yet in 1965 the school became nationally famous for its Cookies for Vietnam Project 65. Student volunteers spent days baking cookies for American soldiers in Vietnam, a project that spread to other schools, making Great Valley the national headquarters for the endeavor.
The school’s 1966 yearbook explains the project in detail, noting, “The Cookies for Vietnam was the most outstanding project of the year and, perhaps, carried the greatest impact of any project ever initiated in the history of Great Valley.”
Another 1966 yearbook entry, exclaims: “Batman flew onto the television screens as the Cookies for Vietnam were flown out.”
Photos show the endless boxes of cookies being loaded in trucks and U.S. Air Force planes bound for Vietnam. Conversely, when the cookies arrived at their destination images in the yearbook captured Vietnamese men and women in rice paddy rats shown unloading the boxes of cookies.
One striking image shows a smiling U.S. serviceman being drawn in a Vietnam rickshaw, presumably on his way to enjoy some cookies.
Check Google for any information regarding GV’s Cookies for Vietnam project and the only thing you’ll find is a blog post by me some years ago. Has that part of the school’s past been eradicated by woke cancel culture, compliments of various GV school boards?
Yet Google ‘transgender GVHS’ and you’ll get an avalanche of woke sounding garbage reminiscent of the worst abuses in that area during the Biden era.
It’s sad.
‘Cookies for Vietnam, Project 65’ has an historic ring, whereas transgender ideology – with or without cookies – indicates the death of a culture and its descent into oblivion.
