The destructive possibilities with this framework are endless...for a teacher to quash individualism and promote collectivism as a virtue is an "ethical responsibility." Same with "gun control" and "environmentalism" and "reproductive rights."
Don't be fooled by the optics. At its heart, this is a fight for the rights of the parent vs the power of the government. I don't give a flying fig about the teachers' morality.
In loco parentis has become weaponized. If you needed another reason to homeschool....
Possible ping of interest
Minor children have no right to privacy. We need a national law that any teacher who keeps secrets from parents is a groomer who is arrested and faces 10 years in jail.
“My job, which is a public service, is to protect kids,” said Olivia Garrison.”
This person should be forbidden from any position that puts her in contact with children.
Forever.
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Do “educators” work for the people who pay taxes to fund schools or the people who spend tax money to run schools?
Just wait until an irate parent starts giving an “educator” some “wrenching new tensions”.
Well that’s just stupid. They want children to develop multiple personalities, it’s being encouraged, what evil is this and WHY? How is this good for the child???
There are 11 kinds of people in this world:
Those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who think they do and are stupid beyond belief.
Unfortunately the latter is in charge of education.
Enough of the hype and the “feelings”...
Break out the racist math....
What percentage of total enrollment wants to “change”, and why are we going out of our way to accommodate the minority?
Hell, I was just talking to a high school student that told me they have kitty litter boxes in the bathroom for those that identify as cats?
Really!!??!!
It’s gone too far
If a 12 y/o is a alcoholic..and the parent(s) don’t know..is it okay for the teacher to give the kid booze?
I understand how a person could be gay or a lesbian, but this trans sh*t is definitely mental illness...
None of this should be addressed by educators at all...Never....That is not their job...
All public school ‘teachers’ are biologists?
By treating this “transition of children” subject as if it is serious and/or legitimate instead of insane and an affront to good and normal the parents the NY Times is perpetuating and promoting the perversion that “transition” is.
Courts have ruled that under the Fourteenth Amendment, parents get to make medical and mental health decisions
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Not in Pennsylvania. There a 14 year old makes decisions for his mental health.
Sincere congratulations on framing the con (flim-flam) correctly. This is a fight between the centralized power of government and the individual rights rooted in parents.
Unsurprisingly, the authoritarians want to rule over the individual., as the individual wants to push back against ever greater "rule."
The blame is on parents who send their kids into this temple of mind control 8 hrs a day.
I do wonder if this continues and the suicide rates go over the now 46% if those survivor trans will be able to sue the state schools and individual teachers that acted as responsible parents and castrated/amputated their sex organs?
No, but they do have the constitutional right to vote for candidates who will defund said institutions of evil.
That's right with school choice morally confused institutions will wither and die.
Mass executions please.