A rural Michigan school board has voted to terminate its contract with a school-based health center that has served nearly 700 students this school year — and community members claim it all began with a mural featuring characters wearing rainbow colors and the colors of the transgender flag.
Brett Zuver, Grant Public Schools’ superintendent, said in an interview with the Free Press that even he was taken by surprise by a June vote to terminate the district’s contract with Family Health Care, which has operated a health center in school district buildings since 2011.
“I’m stunned and saddened,” he said. Adding, “It’s scary. It is very, very scary.”
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