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Gender neutral school bathroom policy on deck Shelter Island School. (Credit: Ambrose Clancy) The Shelter Island Board of Education offered a first reading of a policy Monday evening creating gender neutral single occupancy bathrooms at the school.  The policy is in line, officials said, with creating and maintaining an inclusive educational and work environment. If the policy is adopted it would designate all single-occupancy bathroom facilities as gender neutral for use by no more than one occupant at a time or for family or assisted use. Graduation pl...

When Devon Treharne was a high school student in upstate New York, in love with reading and writing, she didn’t apply to be on the staff of her school’s newspaper. “I was intimidated,” said Ms. Treharne, who teaches high school English and a journalism class at the Shelter Island School, as well as being adviser to the school’s newspaper, The Inlet. “The paper had won all kinds of awards,” she said, and she didn’t think she could measure up. “I regret it now.” She remembered that, when she helped revive the Shelter Island school paper nine years ago with former School Supe...