After the seismic school board elections, several questions are reverberating on the island, where about 11,000 people live year-round, and on Facebook.
OCEAN CITY, N.J. — The fog blew up and over the bridge leading into Ocean City as the minutes ticked down to the start of the Ocean City Board of Education meeting Jan. 4. The newly elected board members huddled in a side vestibule of the high school waiting to go in.
At that Sept. 8 rally, the pastor Gregory Quinlan railed against homosexuality and said Jesus Christ “defined marriage, defined family, defined sex,” adding, “Do you see LGBTQIA-XYZ anywhere in that definition?” . Now the new board members who attended the rally are in a position to make policy. “I know, we’re on the conservative side of things,” she said. “But we care. Please don’t laugh at me. Because that’s disrespectful. We all deserve respect. All of us. Even me.”
But newly elected school board president Chris Halliday, an Ocean City architect and father of two children, ages 6 and 8, said he does not expect the issue to be raised again and is confident the district is implementing the state’s guidelines appropriately. At the meeting in the high school library, the sides squared off in familiar fashion, and the discussion continued, to the point of exhaustion, on the Facebook group OCNJ School Discussion, administered by Shaffer.
Shaffer, whose resumé includes time as a counterterrorism analyst at the U.S. State Department and senior insider-threat analyst at the Defense Department, is an Ocean City transplant from Maryland, where he served as a special-education vice principal.
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