Societal Sheet

Montezuma-Cortez Board Tosses Woke Playbook in Trash

School bus isolated on white background.
School bus isolated on white background.
Written by Scott K. James

A Colorado school board ditches controversial LGBTQ policy, choosing biological truth over activist fiction. Local representation doing what DC clowns forgot: listening to their people.

The Montezuma-Cortez School Board just pulled the emergency brake on this runaway woke train. In a move that’ll have Twitter activists melting like soy-based ice cream in July, the board voted to remove controversial LGBTQ-inclusive policies from district guidelines. The article came from Colorado Public Radio—so yes, expect a side order of liberal panic with your reporting.

The Bullet Point Brief

  • Local school board nixes LGBTQ-specific language from nondiscrimination rules—cue the outrage machine.
  • Critics scream “erasure!” while ignoring a little thing called biological reality.
  • Board members say the policies didn’t reflect local community values (imagine that—representative democracy working).
  • The kicker? Students are still protected under general anti-discrimination laws. But no more biological boys in the girls’ locker room—shocker!

My Bottom Line

Welcome to Weld County common sense popping up in Montezuma-Cortez. This is how it’s supposed to work, folks: elected school boards representing their communities—not rubber-stamping whatever fringe ideologues throw down from activist ivory towers. The idea that every school must bow to corporate PR campaigns and hashtag identity politics is about as useful as an inflatable dartboard.

To be crystal-clear: no one should face discrimination because of who they love or how they live. Period. But when so-called “inclusion” crosses over into denying basic biological facts—like letting a teenage boy change next to girls in a locker room—we’ve entered delusion territory. Parents are tired of watching their daughters get benched or boxed out in sports by males with a 6-inch height advantage and testosterone-fueled muscle mass. Doesn’t take a degree in biology to see the unfairness here—it just takes guts to admit it in public.

This school board did just that. They set boundaries grounded in reality and backed by their constituents instead of bending like a Denver weathervane during campaign season. Of course, NPR’s cousins at CPR are wringing their hands like revival tent preachers—but facts don’t care about feelings, and parents are waking up across Colorado.

So bravo, Montezuma-Cortez—you just proved that local governance is still capable of working for the people instead of pandering to Twitter mobs wrapped in rainbow hashtags.

About the author

Scott K. James

A 4th generation Northern Colorado native, Scott K. James is a veteran broadcaster, professional communicator, and principled leader. Widely recognized for his thoughtful, common-sense approach to addressing issues that affect families, businesses, and communities, Scott, his wife, Julie, and son, Jack, call Johnstown, Colorado, home. A former mayor of Johnstown, James is a staunch defender of the Constitution and the rule of law, the free market, and the power of the individual. Scott has delighted in a lifetime of public service and continues that service as a Weld County Commissioner representing District 2.