Posted on 02/04/2018 2:44:26 PM PST by markomalley
Delaware is considering adopting a policy that will let young students in school choose whatever name, gender, or race they want under a veil of school protection mandating that the parents not be informed of these decisions unless the student explicitly wishes the parent be included.
Drafted by Delaware Gov. John Carney, the anti-discrimination policy states that children from K-12 can choose their own name, identify with whatever race or gender they feel most comfortable with, and even access hormone blockers necessary to transition without the consent of their parents. Regulation 225 “Prohibition Of Discrimination” also indicates that students will be able to join any sports team they choose and can use bathrooms and showers according their chosen identity.
Many parents have become outraged over this proposed policy, charging that it violates their right as parents to care for their children without government intrusion. “As a parent, I have fundamental rights to the care, custody, control, upbringing and information regarding my child,” said concerned parent Kay Fox, according to WBOC.
Critics of the policy also worry that it puts the privacy and safety of all students at risk, given that it will allow students to claim a certain gender so that they can access the locker rooms, showers, restrooms, and overnight quarters of the opposite sex.
“It opens Pandora’s Box,” Rep. Rich Collins said, according to Delaware State News. “It has the potential to twist schools up in knots,” he added.
Proponents of the policy however, see it as a necessarily thorough measure that will protect transgender students and minorities from discrimination.
“The comprehensive nature of the protective characteristics makes it a really good regulation. It’s very broad in terms of the groups of students it protects,” Mark Purpura, a member of the policy development team, told WBOC. Purpura did admit however, that the over 11,000 public comments submitted to Delaware’s Department of Education (DOE) regarding the policy have almost all been negative.
The state’s DOE is expected to make a decision on whether to revise the draft of the policy or to implement it as is in the coming months, and it will develop a school curriculum to introduce the policy given the latter.
The District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) also issued guidance in 2016 indicating that students who feel they are transgender can elect to have their parents participate in the transition process, but that they don’t have to tell their parents about their transition if they don’t wish to.
A similar set of guidelines from Chicago Public Schools instructs staff not to tell parents about their child’s gender transition without the child’s permission. Policy guidance from the Massachusetts Department of Education also instruct school personnel to speak with the student first before discussing a student’s gender nonconformity or transgender status with the student’s parent or guardian. The Oregon Department of Education also issued similar policy guidelines. (RELATED: Public School Districts Are Cutting Parents Out Of Their Child’s Gender Transition).
VOTERS and NONvoters alike
PLEASE
WAKEtheFUp
Cool! They can all be black and get affirmative action preferences!
Sieg Heil mein demoncrat fuhrer!
My GOD!! Why would they want to do this?
even access hormone blockers necessary to transition without the consent of their parents.
Black and questioning - double chances for a full ride
Time to end government schools, institute a voucher system and let parents decide which school their kids will attend.
What Hitlery would have done if she were president right now is she would have hyper-activated all this stuff throughout the nation by Executive Order.
No no no - vouchers are still controlled by gubmint! Get gibmint completely out of education.
Delaware, land of the deep blue state nut cases and we even send similar thinkers down to DC to further pollute Congress.
They will allow boys to use the girls bathroom until a Muslim objects.
Cursory review of the internet, reveals that this Mark Purpura dude is apparently very heavily into the whole homosexual, gender non conforming business.
Why do we have such people in positions to make public policy?
I may get flamed for such a suggestion that such people not be making public policy.
I’m not saying that there should be a blanket ban on homosexuals in public life or public office. But I am suggesting that someone who is clearly on a crusade(sorry Moslems if that offends you), a crusade to upend public policy in fulfillment of some extremist agenda, should not be making public policy for our schools.
This will work great until they discover that white males start winning every conceivable award and scholarship intended for women and minorities
The race pimps aren’t going to like this but we’re rapidly becoming a country that is so racially blended, the whole notion of “what race are you?” will soon be a pointless question. Celebrities like Slash, Meghan Markle, Rashida Jones, for example represent this growing racial ambiguity that’s becoming the new normal for America.
Delaware is engaging in child abuse, child endangerment. As I understand, the APA - American Psychiatric Association, or maybe it was one of the other professional organization,have declared people thinking they are of the opposite sex from that which they were born into, to have a psychiatric disorder.
This is child abuse.
This affirms that government schools want to drug students.
Government schools are a failed experiment.
All students should go to private schools.
This would stop if parents would yank their kids out of Delaware schools and get rid of that Governor.
But they won’t.
Then how do you locate a missing child?
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