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It wasn't just "a child", it was a fellow board member. Guy has zero respect for the office, the students, or women generally speaking.
Yeah, I am just using the word cause the article doesnt bother with it.
I honestly don't get how that makes it worse. Like, doing this to a board member is worse??? I don't get this stance at all.
Doing this to some random student is gross.
Doing this to another board member is also gross. But it signifies a kind of structural disrespect that undermines the office as well as the individual. It's symptomatic of a general institutional disgust for student involvement in school affairs.
Like Bush Jr doing the creepy shoulder rub on Angela Merkel or - in a more extreme example - UN staffers who were "approached, accosted and raped" by fellow officials and dignitaries. It isn't merely a personal transgression. It undermines the entire function of the representative body.
I think they meant the "oh you" comment was from a board member. The article says he said it to a student.