Texas school board accepts separation agreement with superintendent over student banned from musical

A Texas schoolhouse committee has accepted a voluntary separation statement with its superintendent who was suspended aft removing a transgender pupil from a relation successful the philharmonic “Oklahoma!”

SHERMAN, Texas -- A schoolhouse committee successful Texas has accepted a voluntary separation statement with its superintendent who was suspended aft removing a transgender pupil from a relation successful the philharmonic “Oklahoma!”

The schoolhouse committee said successful a connection that it voted Wednesday “to judge a voluntary separation statement with Superintendent Dr. Tyson Bennett,” who was suspended successful March aft the committee opened an probe into the determination to region the student.

“ The schoolhouse territory volition proceed to run arsenic mean successful the champion involvement of students, unit and families,” according to the statement.

Terms of the colony were not revealed.

The schoolhouse committee successful November apologized and reinstated 17-year-old Max Hightower and the remainder of the archetypal formed aft a nationalist outcry successful the metropolis adjacent the Oklahoma borderline and astir 65 miles (105 kilometers) northbound of Dallas.

Hightower's father, Phillip Hightower, said astatine the clip that a schoolhouse authoritative told them the crushed for removing his lad and immoderate girls from the accumulation was a caller schoolhouse argumentation that lone males play males and females play females.