Wisconsin schools: keeping parents in the dark
Remember back when transgender rights was about adults, and there was lengthy screening by the medical and therapy professionals involved to make sure that those adults were not making the choice because of other mental health issues?
Now it’s about keeping kids’ secrets from parents whose rights diminish every day:
“Parents are not entitled to know their kids’ identities,” Wisconsin teachers were told in a February training session. “That knowledge must be earned.”
Empower Wisconsin publicized the slide used in the Eau Claire district in western Wisconsin.
Superintendent Michael Johnson defended the training saying the district “has a responsibility to maintain an educational environment that is equitable, safe and inclusive,” reports M.D. Kittle on Wisconsin Spotlight.
“A district court in 2020 issued a partial injunction against Madison Metropolitan School District’s policy allowing children of any age to transition to a different gender identity at school — without parental consent,” reports Kittle. “The full case is now before the Wisconsin Supreme Court.”
That case is known as Doe v. MMSD:
The policy includes the following provisions:
–Children of any age can transition to a different gender identity at school, by changing their name and pronouns, without parental notice or consent.
–District employees are prohibited from notifying parents, without the child’s consent, that their child has or wants to change gender identity at school, or that their child may be dealing with gender dysphoria.
–District employees are even instructed to deceive parents by using the child’s legal name and pronouns with family, while using the different name and pronouns adopted by the child in the school setting.
The lawsuit alleges the district’s policy violates constitutionally protected parental rights. Transitioning to a different gender identity is a significant psychotherapeutic intervention that requires parental notice or consent, the attorneys said in a press release. “Public school districts, like Madison, do not have the right to make those decisions for parents.”
A case to watch.
On a related topic, in CA there are no fewer than 10 awful bills in the state Senate that do things like
Vaxx 12 and over without parent permission
No school, public or private, no daycare unless vaxxed no exceptions
Violation if doctors express Covid opinions not approved by CDC
Employees and contractors must prove vaxx status to work
We are still under Emergency status. It’s been 2 years.
Will they wait out the election and then reapply the dictatorship?
The backlash may be coming as Lia was booed for his win. A lot of hard working female athletes are going to be turned against this nonsense.
The whole transgender hysteria has been fueled by a tiny percentage of the population. Somebody wrote a paper about how Americans (I suspect CNN viewers) grossly overestimate the numbers of these pressure groups. One number I have seen is that Democrats think thousands of unarmed black men are killed by police every year. Others think the US is 25% gay. The transgenders have ridden to power on such misunderstandings.
What this tells you is that the ‘schools of education’ have been turning out a corps of people increasingly composed of creeps, political sectaries, and creeps who are political sectaries. Anyone who wants to talk sex with a youth under the age of 12 should not be employed in a position where he has contact with anyone below working age. And you can see these creep / sectaries despise parents and seek to strip them of their authority (making use of administrative agency rulings and judicial opinions).
1. We need to shut down the schools of education, every last one. A RICO suit against NCATE would be a maraschino on top. This is a problem which cannot be repaired except by going all Kenesaw Mountain Landis on these people.
2. Criminal penalties and personal civil liability need to be incorporated into law to attack government officials at war with parents.
3. Public sector unions need to be defined in law as voluntary mutual aid associations. Collective bargaining by public employees must be debarred.
4. A war needs to be launched against hospital administrators and the professional associations which govern psychiatry and clinical psychology. They must be stripped of every ounce of parastatal authority. Ditto the trade association for medical schools.
Mike K,
The skewed perceptions exist because of the lopsided emphasis placed on subjects by our media; factual (news) and fictional (television, film, music, theater…).
If Democrats or others have unrealistic perceptions it is because they follow the narratives without doing individual research. They are easily susceptible to propaganda. It’s hard to live in a society where a centralized government has a great deal of control over one’s life and the leaders of that government are elected by people too lazy or too gullible to do their work as citizens.
Art Deco,
As someone who frequently, flippantly calls out others’ opinions with contrarian rebuttals offering no refuting substance…
How in any actual world that exists do you foresee points 1, 3 and 4 happening? What political mechanism(s) will result in these changes?
physicsguy,
There needs to be a major backlash, soon. A culture that will not protect young women cannot survive.
I have no issue with how anyone chooses to live their individual life, but the fact that human women bear and nurture human children and human men keep those women and their offspring safe is the most fundamental aspect of our species. As Cole Porter wrote, “Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it.”
A mother alligator with a brain the size of my thumb protects her eggs. If our culture sits idle as young, bright women who devote years of their lives to noble pursuits are beaten by a deranged bully the center cannot hold.
This is a real and significant canary in the coal mine moment.
I hope this Wisconsin lawsuit prospers. I would favor, for the entire country, laws like Florida’s which prohibit any ideology related to sex from being taught before fourth grade, except I would expand that to fifth grade. In fact, although we’ll never get this, biology is all public schools should teach, and the ideologies should be left to families. Art Deco, girls are probably going to need to get information about biological facts by age 11, not 12.
One must realize, that Madison’s mayor, Satya Rhodes-Conway, is a radical activist lesbian. As is our Junior Senator, Tammy Baldwin, who is also from Madison. Weirdness, and a hatred of what are actual societal norms, is endemic to those who run Madison. Electing and/or hiring them is a way of virtue signaling, about how much more open minded, and Good, Madison people are.
ScotttheBadger, I was not surprised to see this insanity in Madison, but Eau Claire did surprise me. — I was in Wisconsin when Tammy Baldwin was running for reelection. Really scary posters saying “Tammy!” were around. They made her look like a horror movie character.
Kate, that seems a good description of her. She is really the Senator from the Ithsmus of Madison, the UW area.
@Kate: I was not surprised to see this insanity in Madison, but Eau Claire did surprise me.
There is nobody more progressive than the educational establishment in a conservative area… after all they can’t be fired and they get to hire each other.
Art Deco, girls are probably going to need to get information about biological facts by age 11, not 12.
No, they’re not going to need that. And if you thought your daughter did, you can bloody do it yourself.
How in any actual world that exists do you foresee points 1, 3 and 4 happening? What political mechanism(s) will result in these changes?
How were the schools of education created in the first place? Move in reverse. You say our legislators will never do this? Well, let’s get the idea out there. Stranger things have been accomplished in the last 40 years.
Transgender conversion therapy? Notice: trans/fluid requires neither surgical, nor medical, nor psychiatric corruption. You could change your sexual orientation, but that is your Choice… uh, choice. #NoJudgment #NoLabels
Until there are personally devastating consequences for those on the left actively working to destroy America, the left will continue to make serious progress toward the dissolution of American society.
JimNorCal,
“No school, public or private, no daycare unless vaxxed no exceptions
Violation if doctors express Covid opinions not approved by CDC
Employees and contractors must prove vaxx status to work”
Direct attacks upon the Constitution.
Mike K,
“The transgenders have ridden to power on such misunderstandings.”
It’s not a ‘misunderstanding’, it’s virtue signaling.
Art Deco,
In essence, I agree with your prescriptions. How do you propose to gain the consensus within all three of the Federal government branches to attain those goals?
Rufus T. Firefly,
Upon what basis would you imagine that societal survival is a desired outcome on the left? Isn’t survival itself at odds with the left’s decades long message that only cultural and racial suicide can atone for our ancestral sins?
School boards are local, then State, fights with the Feds are in the Federal court level. It didn’t earn the Feds any good publicity when the DOJ tried to label local school board protestors in Virginia as terrorists recently, own goal IMO. Helped the Dems loose the Governor’s race.
Geoffrey Britain,
I don’t mean it as a left-right issue. I mean it as a fundamental law of nature. If our culture cannot turn this around it is likely doomed, or destined for a very ugly downfall.
Rufus,
Ah. Absolutely.
Geoffrey Britain to Rufus:
“Upon what basis would you imagine that societal survival is a desired outcome on the left? Isn’t survival itself at odds with the left’s decades long message that only cultural and racial suicide can atone for our ancestral sins?”
Much of the left care more about the GREEN agenda — saving mother earth — than saving society or “culture”.
I recently re-encountered this as it came up in my “history” FB feed the other day.
While certain aspects of old TV shows like The Andy Griffith Show are hoary old cliches, there are still plenty of little gems of “folksy” wisdom to be found, which are even more applicable today than ever before — case in point:
It is unfortunate that we’ve allowed liberal idiots to tell us that is wrong.
It very much is not.
}}} Isn’t survival itself at odds with the left’s decades long message that only cultural and racial suicide can atone for our ancestral sins?”
Then why are THEY still alive?
Real fact: WE are supposed to do the dying, not them. The Mass Die-off is for other people.
@ OBH – that’s a good quote from Andy Taylor of Mayberry.
It’s a shame that Andy Griffith of Hollywood didn’t follow his advice.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/actor-andy-griffith-championed-democratic-causes-flna860879
That post is sort of an obituary when Griffith passed away, and his support for the causes that helped grease our slide into the cess pit of the Left were cited approvingly.
But I won’t hold that against him when I watch the Mayberry re-runs.
“Parents are not entitled to know their kids’ identities,” Wisconsin teachers were told in a February training session. “That knowledge must be earned.”
One parent put in a hard 9 months, and (one or both) another 18 years, earning the privilege to know whatever they want about their kids.
What did teachers do to earn their entitlement?
Their belief in creating The New Soviet Man gives them the entitlement. IMO, evil.
Feel free to explain to me how to stop transing children without hanging every pro-transing teacher, parent, official, doctor… for crimes against humanity. And to do that first you must defeat the ‘just say gay’ faction. A faction we always knew was for sex with children, but suppressed our knowledge for ‘reasons.’ Trans is simply their latest excuse.
What did teachers do to earn their entitlement?
They got a degree from the sh!ttiest segment of contemporary higher education. The administrators are notable for having spent even more time in that latrine.
Marxist Public ( and many private) Seminaries are out to destroy family values and purposely talking kids into transgender and gay lifestyles. I am positive in my school days sex never came up in elementary school ( and wondering if Jr or Sr HS much either) but now it’s being pushed on kids long before they have the concept of it, easier to coerce before it begins.
In essence, I agree with your prescriptions. How do you propose to gain the consensus within all three of the Federal government branches to attain those goals?
Not interested in the Feds. Federal provision of primary and secondary schooling should be limited to small clientele (the children of federal employees posted abroad, military families, reservation Indians, itinerant families, and, wrt niche programs, residents of the less populous dependencies). Federal provision of tertiary schooling should be limited to the above named clients, to the residents of the less populous off shore dependencies generally, to a selection of Americans resident abroad, to federal employees and aspirant federal employees as part of their training, and to veterans. Over time, the share of youngsters receiving primary or secondary schooling via the federal government should bounce around a set point of 2.5%. The share of those enrolled in higher education receiving federal provision would bounce around 10%, with roughly 75% of those being enrolled in ROTC or receiving veterans’ benefits. Federal provision should not extend beyond those populations. All federal funding to state and local authorities should cease forthwith.
The federal government can do a few useful things other than serving the clientele named above. One is to make assessments and collect data. The other is to regulate interstate transactions between educational corporations and their vendors, educational corporations and their customers, and educational corporations and the people they are recruiting to work for them. For educational corporations domiciled in multiple states, labor relations generally are properly subject to federal regulations. Note, the full force of anti-trust law should be applied to educational corporations. That they’re ‘non-profit’ should not matter.
The accrediting agencies are useless unless they are protecting consumers now or consumers downstream. They should be given no parastatal authority by the federal government or any of the state governments. If they are the locus of anti-trust violations, sue them to death.
Fixing higher education is a task for state legislatures. The federal role is strictly secondary. For the most part, the feds would do well to get out of the way. One thing the federal government can do is debar certain interstate transactions. That might be a wedge to eliminating tenure and abolishing the baccalaureate degree. Another thing the federal government can do is restrict the recruitment of students or faculty from abroad, by having a strict ration of educational visas and distributing them only by auction.
As for federal subsidies to research and other operations of higher education, end it entirely. Institutions of higher education could place sealed bids on federal contracts, but could receive no grants. Professors might be employed by the federal government as fellows for a term of years and their institution might receive an indemnity for the loss of their services, but professors on research at their home institution would not be financed ever.
I’ve heard Horace Mann quoted as saying parents give their children as hostages to ” our program”.
I don’t think that eliminating schools of education is practical. The federal government probably doesn’t have the power to do it, and blue states like CA, NY, and the like won’t do it. If red states abolish their state-supported schools of education, private schools and blue states will be more than happy to pump out enough Education BA/BS’s to fill public schools all over the nation. Left-leaning kids from red states will consider it an act of resistance to go to California for school and then come home to spread the indoctrination. Rich progressives and woke corporations will endow education departments and scholarships at private schools in red states.
We need to think about ways to achieve the same goals. School choice is a great start. Perhaps we should change the teacher requirements in red states to emphasize subject matter expertise rather than education degrees. Another idea would be to cater to second career people with private sector experience who want to transition to teaching in late middle age. I’m sure there are other/better ideas than that. I think we need to be creative about this because I fear that simply abolishing schools of education (alone) won’t get the job done.
I don’t think that eliminating schools of education is practical.
IOW, you don’t want it done.
The federal government probably doesn’t have the power to do it,
No one suggested it was a task for the federal government, quite the opposite.
and blue states like CA, NY, and the like won’t do it.
Let them live in their own sh!t.
If red states abolish their state-supported schools of education, private schools and blue states will be more than happy to pump out enough Education BA/BS’s to fill public schools all over the nation.
Nothing prevents the red states from instituting certification procedures which render a BEd and and MEd degree an expensive bauble. Start with subject examinations and apprenticeship programs.
We need to think about ways to achieve the same goals.
You do not want to achieve those goals. That’s why you’re throwing chaff in everyone’s face.
This policy may violate FERPA.
Good Grief Art Deco – I don’t think you even read what I wrote. I suggested many of the things that you did and also indicated that there may be other better ideas.
And what’s this about me not actually wanting to acheive the same goals as you? That’s nuts. You are a perfect illustration of why the right always loses. You question the motives of everyone who has any idea even slightly different than yours, thereby alienating folks who are actually on your side. That’s a great way to win about 46% of the vote when you ought to be winning elections, which is exactly what Trump did, twice.
FWIW, I have no problem with red states closing schools of education. I don’t think it will work, however, because blue states and private schools will be more than happy to take the money of the kids who would have otherwise attended schools of education in red states. Those kids will then flood back into red state public school systems. You have no answer to that except to accuse me of being some kind of fifth column.
Good Grief Art Deco – I don’t think you even read what I wrote.
I responded to you point by point.
You question the motives of everyone who has any idea even slightly different than yours, thereby alienating folks who are actually on your side.
No, I questioned you because you offered a mess of hand-wringing complaints that are manifestly invalid and would only seem valid to someone bereft of problem-solving ability.
You have no answer to that except to accuse me of being some kind of fifth column.
I answered your specific point. You ignored my answer to you and then typed out a complaint that I did not read what you wrote.
Tell your contact at ActBlue that people are still onto you.
Art Deco,
I noticed in your response a lot of qualifiers, specifically a lot of “shoulds”. ‘Should’ is another way of saying “if only”.
I didn’t ask you what we should do, you already offered that, which prompted my response and question. Your response to my inquiry simply elaborates upon your initial shoulds.
I asked you how you propose that we accomplish your ‘shoulds’. Specifically in the face of ‘federal nullification’. Which includes the many federal regulations that bypass the constitution and hamstring the States and a judiciary much of whom mocks the very constitution they are sworn to uphold.
Unless you can offer specific, pragmatic methodologies to accomplish your shoulds, you’re simply engaged in mental masturbation.
Art Deco – It’s tough to claim that you’re responding “point by point” when half of your “points” are just ad hominem.
I asked you how you propose that we accomplish your ‘shoulds’.
Through the political process, the same way you’d attempt to accomplish anything.
Specifically in the face of ‘federal nullification’. Which includes the many federal regulations that bypass the constitution and hamstring the States and a judiciary much of whom mocks the very constitution they are sworn to uphold.
The federal executive operates through the conduit of putting conditions on federal aid. End the aid programs, end the conditions. As for officious federal courts insisting the constitution requires this or that (e.g. the federal circuit court which insisted that eliminating AA was ‘unconstitutional’) we haven’t begun to tap the tools to put the screws to federal judges who behave in this way. You can start by eliminating their jurisdictions. Step two is to tell them they get paid in potatoes, once a year.
Art Deco – Ad hominem is not responding “point by point.”
No, it isn’t. But I responded to all of your complaints, but you persist in pretending I did not. Then insist you’re perfectly on the level.
Unless you can offer specific, pragmatic methodologies to accomplish your shoulds, you’re simply engaged in mental masturbation.
You’re projecting again, Geoffrey.
Art Deco,
“I asked you how you propose that we accomplish your ‘shoulds’.”
“Through the political process, the same way you’d attempt to accomplish anything.”
I see. You propose that what we’ve been doing for decades will finally produce different results…
“The federal executive operates through the conduit of putting conditions on federal aid. End the aid programs, end the conditions.”
It would take Congress to end those aid programs and a President to sign that legislation and the courts to rule that ending those aid programs is constitutional… good luck with that.
“we haven’t begun to tap the tools to put the screws to federal judges who behave in this way. You can start by eliminating their jurisdictions. Step two is to tell them they get paid in potatoes, once a year.”
What other ‘tools’ would you suggest? Given that “eliminating their jurisdictions” would require majority approval in Congress to revamp those jurisdictions.
There might just be a bit of resistance to that proposal… remember that every one of our Republican Senators regularly vote with the democRats on various issues, practicing a kind of shell game, where a rotating small minority vote against the UniParty line.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOLT_rhXoAYbv6Q?format=jpg&name=900×900
Federal Judge’s pay is also set by Congress and payment in anything other than the US dollar will be ruled as unconstitutional by the very judges you would rebuke.
It would be fair to accuse me of projection, if you had offered specific, practicable actions, rather than simply suggesting them to be doable through a political process that has proven for decades to be entirely inadequate. Less obfuscation please.
Geoffrey Britain:
“Obfuscation”? It’s not obfuscation to disagree with you about the likelihood of a certain approach achieving a certain result. That is all that’s happening here, and in fact, it is you disagreeing with whether the approach might work. The person suggesting it might think, for example, that the approach hasn’t actually been tried in the past with enough vigor and smarts, or that the political or socioeconomic climate has changed in some way recently that would be likely to make the approach more successful.
Those are discussions that can be had without resorting to accusations such as “obfuscation.” By the way, here’s the definition of the word:
Doesn’t seem appropriate to me.
Well something happened in the VA governor’s election in part a reaction to education bureaucrat and school board mischief. Elections sometimes produce changes, hyperbole alert, is the other approach to the take them out, line em up, and shoot them all?
I see. You propose that what we’ve been doing for decades will finally produce different results…
Well, if you’d like to curl up and die, be my guest. You seem awfully opinionated about the Ukraine for someone resigned to public life having a particular configuration.
It would take Congress to end those aid programs and a President to sign that legislation and the courts to rule that ending those aid programs is constitutional… good luck with that.
You mean that an appellate panel would have the audacity to rule that Congress must make a particular appropriation. Tell me when that’s happened.
What other ‘tools’ would you suggest? Given that “eliminating their jurisdictions” would require majority approval in Congress to revamp those jurisdictions.
Well, yes. Any legislation does. This is supposed to be an argument?
Federal Judge’s pay is also set by Congress and payment in anything other than the US dollar will be ruled as unconstitutional by the very judges you would rebuke.
So what? They get the potatoes anyway.
“Geoffrey Britain:
“Obfuscation”? It’s not obfuscation to disagree with you about the likelihood of a certain approach achieving a certain result. That is all that’s happening here, and in fact, it is you disagreeing with whether the approach might work. The person suggesting it might think, for example, that the approach hasn’t actually been tried in the past with enough vigor and smarts, or that the political or socioeconomic climate has changed in some way recently that would be likely to make the approach more successful.”
I asked Art Deco to provide the mechanisms with which we might accomplish movement toward reaching the objectives he provided. He responded that they could be accomplished through our political system. I then pointed out the political obstacles that have since Reagan utterly prevented the reforms he suggests.
The obfuscation neo arises from Art’s avoiding offering a practicable methodology for accomplishing his ‘shoulds’. Your suggestion that “The person suggesting it might think, for example, that the approach hasn’t actually been tried in the past with enough vigor and smarts” is exactly the rationale that advocates of socialism and communism in the West use to ‘explain’ why those ideologies have either been less than successful or have obviously failed. How is it different here in America given the left’s dominating ideology and the corruption in every institution in America?
As for or that the political or socioeconomic climate has changed in some way recently that would be likely to make the approach more successful that is, IMO at best wishful thinking given the current state of affairs, where “every one of our Republican Senators regularly vote with the democRats on various issues, practicing a kind of shell game, where a rotating small minority vote against the UniParty line.”
I certainly wish that our problems could be settled through the political process, I simply see little reason to expect it. The rot is IMO, simply too wide and too deep.
Which isn’t to say that I won’t advocate for and vote for needed change through the political process. If the right gains a majority in Congress in 2022 then retains it in 2024, also regaining the Presidency and then acts upon it, then perhaps we finally will get different results.
But absent a sufficient majority willing to act in Congress with a President equally determined, it simply won’t happen. Given a RINO dominated GOP, a democrat party dominated by post modernism, a fundamentally antithetical ideology to classical liberalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M34e-RVtr8M
Given the mindset of the left as described by Jordan Peterson in the first minute in the link above, how we will obtain a sufficient majority in Congress committed to accomplishing Art’s propositions, which BTW I’ve said I agree with… is the question I’ve asked to be addressed.
AesopFan on March 19, 2022 at 2:02 am said:
@ OBH – that’s a good quote from Andy Taylor of Mayberry.
It’s a shame that Andy Griffith of Hollywood didn’t follow his advice.
Perhaps Griffith’s fake populist character in A Face In The Crowd, “Lonesome” Rhodes, was closer to his true persona.
Art Deco on March 19, 2022 at 5:48 am said:
What did teachers do to earn their entitlement?
They got a degree from the sh!ttiest segment of contemporary higher education. The administrators are notable for having spent even more time in that latrine.
Ed school students generally have the highest grades and the lowest standardized test scores of any academic discipline. That means they have puffed up egos from grade inflation when, in fact, they are dolts.
Before feminism took hold in our society, many of the smartest women devoted their brain power to being teachers and mothers. Now they become doctors and lawyers and the ed schools are filled with mediocrities.
Some of the worst ideas in society today were promulgated by education schools and “professional” educators.
Today we have blue haired, childless weirdos going on TikTok to tell parents that a certificate in education makes them more expert at raising children than people who have, you know, actually raised children.
By the way, from the hysterical reaction to it from the cultural left I think the “Okay, Groomer” meme is brilliant. The left can’t meme, they say, but the left has been exceptionally competent at framing issues as “pro choice” and “don’t say gay.” Somewhere Andrew Breitbart is smiling at “Okay, Groomer”.
Art Deco,
“Well, if you’d like to curl up and die, be my guest. You seem awfully opinionated about the Ukraine for someone resigned to public life having a particular configuration.”
You mistake or intentionally confuse, skepticism about the sufficiency of our current political configuration and the resultant prospect for success, as resignation to “curl up and die”.
(does that qualify as personal insult, neo?)
I assure you that curling up and dying isn’t in my nature, personally when all hope of liberty is lost, I favor taking as many of the bastards with me as possible.
“You seem awfully opinionated about the Ukraine for someone resigned to public life having a particular configuration.”
Unlike your well thought out opinions? Though please, explain the connection between my expressed thoughts on the invasion of the Ukraine and your implication that I am resigned to “public life having a particular configuration”.
An appellate panel would simply issue a ruling that it was unconstitutional for Congress to end a particular appropriation it being a violation of the 14th’s equal treatment provision. I realize that would be a logically invalid ruling. But there are many examples of the judiciary and even SCOTUS from not letting mere logic and Constitutional specificity to stand in the way of a desired outcome…
“What other ‘tools’ would you suggest? Given that “eliminating their jurisdictions” would require majority approval in Congress to revamp those jurisdictions.” GB
“Well, yes. Any legislation does. This is supposed to be an argument?
It’s not an argument, it’s an intransigent obstacle to “eliminating their jurisdictions”. One that you have yet to address.
Johann Amadeus Metesky,
Here, here! Fine commentary with insightful points.
Geoffrey is feeling repressed again. But not censored?
Geoffrey Britain:
No, it’s not a personal insult except in a very mild way that’s commonplace on the blog and not something I’m going to stop. The reason is quite clear, I think. Art Deco is not saying you should literally “curl up and die” nor is he asking you to “curl up and die.” He is saying that it sounds as though you have given up on the solutions he suggests might work to effect the change you both seem to want.
Geoffrey Britain:
I saw no obfuscation in Art Deco’s reply to you, nor do I see any now.
And saying that something hasn’t been tried in the right way, or that events have changed the climate, may be something that the left says about some of its efforts. But that doesn’t make it an automatically invalid claim when applied to other efforts by other groups. I would think that would be obvious.
If there’s one thing I’ll probably tell the parents, as someone who works in education, it’s if they know about their child’s transgender leanings, but on specific criteria. If they resort to people wanting to refer them to their chosen pronouns or call them by a different name than their birth name, then it is a big enough concern.
If a boy shows up dressing up in female clothes then I wouldn’t call the parents. Equally, if a girl showed up dressing up in what is deemed boys clothes (i.e. tomboy) it wouldn’t prompt me to call or email the parents about it.
If a student tells me that they’re gay or bi then I’m not obligated to notify their parents about it. Even if the parents had a suspicion and tried to pull it out of me I still wouldn’t/ tell. This isn’t about keeping secrets, just about keeping confidentiality and knowing when to break it.
“–District employees are even instructed to deceive parents by using the child’s legal name and pronouns with family, while using the different name and pronouns adopted by the child in the school setting.”
More like protecting jobs because people don’t want to be deemed LGBT+phobic. It’s equal to being accused of racism nowadays.
Johann makes a good point about education once being a hotbed for the brightest women to become teachers. I suppose that the benefits of the limited moblility of women back int he day. Education, at least in the States, was quite solid despite the lack of resources before careerism took over motherhood. I suppose what we see now, the decline of public education, is partly because the legacy of those that once taught is diminishing and being pushed aside for more modern techniques which haven’t proven that they are worthy to replace what is now deemed archaic.