I truly don't understand how people can think this way:
It’s understandable that most parents would want to know if their child was undergoing such a significant transition. The question, though, isn’t what it’s reasonable for parents to want, but what it’s reasonable to enforce through laws and regulations. And it is wholly unreasonable to demand that a teenager’s experimentation with identity and belief, so long as that experimentation is not physically dangerous, be disclosed to parents.
So teachers are to be trusted with this kind of information, but not parents? Why should teachers have this kind of power? Who has a more vested interest in doing what’s in the best interest of a child, a teacher or a parent?
A post at Joanne's site was in a similar vein, including this point:
School officials had put her child "on a path the school wasn’t qualified to oversee," rather than let the family decide what was best, Bradshaw said.
Jill, the author at the first link above, is a leftist nutjob. Her own words demonstrate that.
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How can administrators consider themselves the good guys if they routinely lie to parents? It is disconcerting that in America, there are people who aren't reluctant to say that the state has a great concern and interest for a child, then the child's parents.
I have a friend who quit teaching over that very issue. She couldn't, in good conscience, withhold that information from the parent of a child who was transitioning on the sly at school.
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