What I found most offensive about the cancellation and eversal"" of the administration's position on the Shadow Day had to do with the language and marketspeak used by the administration.
If Wisconsin school districts are not ""progressive enough"" to pretend to care about their LGBT students, then they need to reread the nondiscrimination statutes that have applied to them for the past 20 years--and the 1996 judicial decision against the Ashland school district, Nabozny v. Podlesny, for failing to follow them. If openly supporting LGBT students (and faculty and staff) is only possible in the right ""political climate,"" then every person on this campus may be subject to the whims of that climate. Finally, the ""reversed"" decision apparently means there is no Shadow Day in the current semester.
