#ellen weaver

Alloy and Vee make a great team on the battlefield! Vee is faster than she looks, but can still be outmaneuvered... unless its ally Alloy manages to catch the opponent in her silver thread, leaving them wiiiide open for a plush rush that'll sap the strength right out of them!

"I'm in no position to give advice I don't want to be nice And you know that"

BJU doesn't have the mechanisms in place for a speedy Master's. Western Governors does, however.

And just over 3 weeks after Ellen Weaver dusts off her hands from her Master's, she's elected SC's Superintendent of Education.

Peggy Hill's Ph.D. was about the same.

Erin Reed at Erin In The Morning (04.25.2024):

On Friday, the Biden administration released its final Title IX rules, which include protections for LGBTQ+ students by clarifying that Title IX forbids discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The rule change could have a significant impact as it would supersede bathroom bans and other discriminatory policies that have become increasingly common in Republican states within the United States. As of Thursday morning, however, officials in at least four states — Oklahoma, Louisiana, Florida, and South Carolina — have directed schools to ignore the regulations, potentially setting up a federal showdown that may ultimately end up in a protracted court battle in the lead-up to the 2024 elections.

Louisiana State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley was the first to respond, decrying the fact that the new Title IX regulations could block teachers and other students from exercising what has been dubbed by some a “right to bully” transgender students by using their old names and pronouns intentionally. Asserting that Title IX law does not protect trans and queer students, Brumley states that schools “should not alter policies or procedures at this time.” Critically, several courts have ruled that trans and queer students are protected by Title IX, including the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals in a recent case in West Virginia. In South Carolina, Schools Superintendent Ellen Weaver wrote in a letter that providing protections for transgender and LGBTQ+ students under Title IX “would rescind 50 years of progress & equality of opportunity by putting girls and women at a disadvantage in the educational arena,” apparently leaving transgender kids out of her definition of those who deserve progress and equality of opportunity. She then directed schools to ignore the new directive while waiting for court challenges. While South Carolina does not have a bathroom ban or statewide Don’t Say Gay or Trans law, such bills continue to be proposed in the state.

[...] Florida Commissioner of Education Manny Díaz Jr. also joined in in instructing schools not to implement Title IX regulations. In a letter issued to area schools, Díaz stated that the new Title IX regulations were tantamount to “gaslighting the country into believing that biological sex no longer has any meaning.” Governor Ron DeSantis approved of the letter and stated that Florida “will not comply.” Florida has notably been the site of some of the most viciously anti-queer and anti-trans legislation in recent history, including a Don’t Say Gay or Trans law that was used to force a trans female teacher to go by “Mr.” State Education Superintendent Ryan Walters of Oklahoma was the latest to echo similar sentiments. Walters has recently appointed the right-wing media figure Chaya Raichik of Libs of TikTok to an advisory role “to improve school safety,” and notably, Chaya Raichik has posed proudly with papers accusing her of instigating bomb threats with her incendiary posts about LGBTQ+ people in classrooms.

Ellen Weaver claimed she finished her MS in Education work with BJU on October 14, 2022.

That's -- at best -- 7.5 months. BJU doesn't have a 8-month master's degree.

You know who does?

Western Governors University.

The Utah registration really struck me as strange. BJU does not have a constituency of note in Utah.

It really might be a coincidence. It truly might.

But Ellen Weaver claimed that in March 2022 she enrolled in Western Governors University .... in Utah.

The Post and Courier reported in October 2022 that:

Weaver originally sought to earn her master’s degree from Western Governors University in Utah. She told The Post and Courier on March 31 that she’d enrolled in the school’s online-only program “within the last month.” At some point after that, Weaver switched programs and enrolled in Bob Jones’s online master’s program in educational leadership. The university says the program is for people who want to lead Christian schools. As a noncertification program, it does not make graduates eligible to be a principal or administrator in public schools.

TL;DR: Jan Marlene Bellis Schenk, BJU Class of 1984, is not a fan of WutBJU's project, and she wants everyone to know that.

Until she doesn't.

Bless her.

Mrs. Schenk got mad about my coverage of Myron Chorbajian. Which is fine. It was the #ProofIsInTheProduct hashtag that got her, however. BJU could not be blamed, she insisted, for criminal behavior of graduates. All BJU grads would then be evil.

I tried to explain that it was a phrase that Gary Weier used in advertising BJU in 2013 arguing that BJU is "safe for families." I explained that BJU's Aura of Goodness™ makes it impervious to criticism. And that, of course, I'm not saying that all graduates are evil, but BJU does protect unsafe people. The GRACE Report proves that.

I didn't bring up the fact that white supremacists often argue that when a white guy commits a crime it's a one-off but when Black and Brown folks commit a crime it's part of their DNA.

She's essentially repeating that trope.

Whatevs.

So she combed through the WutBJU post looking for things to comment on. She commented that Dick Stratton's mom was a great person. And then she got really mad about my coverage of Ellen Weaver's f/s kid status. Really mad.

I goofed on FB and said that she lived on Stadium View Drive on campus. That was a mistake -- a three year old mistake, but a mistake. The Weavers lived at 5 Stadium Drive. It's a simple mistake, and I did make that mistake.

Jan Bellis Schenk flipped. And then she flipped again and deleted her post and the subsequent comments.

I can never understand what it is that cheezes people off so clearly. Is it that I found out when she graduated from BJU? Is that it?

So, ftr, here's the entire thread.

U should talk about ur fave character uve played as if u have one!

thank you thanks!!! its GOTTA be Ellen Weaver, alias Alloy, a PC I made for a Masks game that I'd love to use again! I've got a few pieces of her to share here, and I'll paste her bio below the cut :)

art by @beedokart and @paperandpencilsandskips respectively!

and some INCREDIBLE music from @maxknightley !!!

She's just. SO fun to play and explore and be cool and interesting and queer with. I really hope I can play another game where she'll fit! Plus designing her gave me sooooo much gender euphoria and I've started looking a lot more like her irl its wonderfullllll

Here's her bio if you wanna read!