Seems like schools only want parental involvement when it involves fundraising, volunteering, or being a teacher's "secret pal" for gifts. Certainly don't want those parents to know what's going on with their kids!
The teachers claim they were mandated under the K-8 school district's policies to accept a child's transgender or gender diverse identity without hesitation and to hide it from families. They said they were instructed to use students' preferred names and pronouns in school, but to revert to their biological pronouns and given names when speaking with their parents.
When encountering "a suspicious parent," teachers were instructed to reply that they were allowed only to discuss "information regarding the student’s behavior as it relates to school, class rules, assignments, etc.," according to the suit.
I hope these teachers win their case, but I'm not holding out much hope here in the Democratik Peoples Republik of Kalifornia.
Dude, that meme is older than you are.
ReplyDeleteWell, as Biden repeated the Demolition...err, Demoncratic...um, Democratic party line, your children don't belong to you, anyway!
ReplyDeleteThey're just following their role model Mussolini: "Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State."
How many children's lives will be destroyed before this fad, this hysteria, is replaced by some other stupid lie? I pity the true, tiny minority of real transgenders, who never wanted this mess. How much did the online activity of the lockdowns from covid play into this rise of craziness? I am glad I taught in smaller, rural school districts-none of my fellow teachers would have bowed to these demands.
ReplyDeleteIt bugs me that teachers take the flak for much of the stupid stuff in education. Most of us just want to do our jobs. Sure, teachers will go off track to emphasize global warming, a diversified stock portfolio, nutrition, queerness, the NFL or whatever else interests them, but it takes district administration to mandate lying to parents or byzantine grading policies that promote mediocrity.
ReplyDeleteMy district did not have a policy to handle trans students. The high school policy was implemented by our attendance clerk. Since my AP students rarely have time to be gender fluid, I asked her how it works. She told me that we have trans students, but she wouldn't tell me who they are. (I wasn't asking.) When they needed a restroom, they used the one in the nurse's office. Teachers mostly avoided using any pronouns when communicating with those parents.
The attendance clerk was a formidable woman with such influence and good sense, the system worked perfectly.