By: Paul Muench
First do no harm. Only parents really know if they will be a danger to their child. In that regard it might be better for the safety of children for schools to follow the lead of parents. Doing the...
View ArticleBy: Eleanor
Too many parents think their children are their property. Thank you for sharing your stories and the truth. Thankfully we live in California where student privacy will be protected.
View ArticleBy: Marsha
Thank you so much for this timely, sensitive and critically important piece. Trans and NB students need support and people to confide in, and those people are not always their parents. Every child has...
View ArticleBy: Michael
It is certainly not “far right” ideology that opposes hiding from parents their child’s personal information that’s already known to schools. And when one considers that current California law allows...
View ArticleBy: FG
Parents provide for kids: we pay for medical bills, provide love, food and shelter. Parents do have rights, we are families and our kids are with us for the long run; teachers and school are a fraction...
View ArticleBy: Jeff
These are not our kids. Parents send their kids to school so we can teach them the fundamentals. What makes teachers think they know better than a student’s parents? Let’s leave the parenting to our...
View ArticleBy: Eleanor
In reply to FG. Everything you said is wrong. Thankfully, California is governed by more enlightened people.
View ArticleBy: Todd Ellison
First off, protecting natural born women and their right to have their own spaces and sports is not far right ideology it’s called common sense. Secondly, every parent of a child has every right to...
View ArticleBy: Mike R
Why? Why must we “prioritize” a tiny fraction of a percent of the population at the expense of the entire education system and every other child in it? Schools are not mental health clinics and...
View ArticleBy: John H
Hiding a student’s trans status from their parents requires teachers to use a set of name and pronoun with the student and deliberately switch to another set while corresponding with the parents. It is...
View ArticleBy: Jada
There are too many transgender and non binary youth being bullied and treated unfairly in school. Teachers not telling the parents their child´s preferred pronouns and gender because the child doesn´t...
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