Fort Worth, TX – Stand for Fort Worth is shocked and saddened to learn that Fort Worth ISD Superintendent Kent Scribner continues his pattern of secretive and potentially illegal decision making by rigging the public comment portion of the next FWISD Board meeting to prevent law-abiding citizens from speaking out against his unlawful transgender policy. Just yesterday a local newspaper carried a headline that “Four forums will let the public comment” on the new transgender policy. But now we know while Superintendent Scribner was traveling around town touting public forums, he was working behind the scenes to exclude parents and taxpayers from having a voice at a regularly scheduled Board meeting. This deceptive and duplicitous behavior has irreparably breached the public’s trust.
Zeb Pent, spokesman for Stand for Fort Worth, said, “First, Superintendent Scribner unilaterally issued a transgender policy in secret without public input. Then, Superintendent Scribner dismissed the public outcry by intentionally misrepresenting the substance of the policy at the May 10 Board meeting. Now, Superintendent Scribner has worked secretly to take away the voice of concerned parents and taxpayers. We simply don’t trust his leadership. He owes this community an apology.”