02/10/2026
🚨 Conestoga Valley School Board Update: 🚨
The board working session is online via youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/live/iwJAlnV7Kgw?si=e6vquu_E3RkzShYt
Two fierce women gave public comments during the first part of the agenda- both spoke against the proposed policy 123.3 citing:
- prior history of significant time spent on this matter with no action
- Zero students affected
- This policy does not further any of the district’s stated goals
- It is a pretend problem and they could waste a lot of time on a pretend solution
- No one is harmed by the current policy, but policies singling out trans youth are shown to cause measurable harm (su***de, depression, etc)
Idette Groff made a motion to delay the discussion citing it is not in line with their board approved timeline for introducing new policies and there is a pending supreme court case which could affect the law of the US.
Diane Martin, Julie Fisher, and Mark Gensel voted yay not to discuss at this time.
Phil Benigno, Phil Eby, Dianna Capka, and Laura Givler voted to discuss.
Since the motion did not pass they discussed, ultimately deciding to put it for solicitor review.
The next time this is likely to come up is April, however, as stated previously- please add the school board work sessions and meetings to your calendar and try to attend where possible to hold this board accountable.
Action item:
Email Idette and Diane (and Julie and Mark?) to thank them for voting to respect the time of meeting attendees by not discussing irrelevant topics- even though the motion did not pass. Their votes indicate they could potentially be reasonable voices on this matter.
Agenda and minutes can be found here:https://go.boarddocs.com/pa/conestoga/Board.nsf/Public
