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This is part of an ongoing conflict between schools and parents. E.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/22/us/gender-identity-students-parents.html https://www.n

• crooked-v 4y ago
  The schools have "exceeded their warrant"... how, exactly? You linked an article about schools with a standard policy of allowing kids to use preferred names and gender expressions. So what? It's a complete nothingburger that's only notable because kids these days tend to be accepting enough for their peers to be comfortable doing that when in the past they weren't.
  • slibhb 4y ago
    A teacher from the article is quoted: "My job, which is a public service, is to protect kids," said Olivia Garrison, a history teacher in Bakersfield, Calif., who is nonbinary, who has helped students socially transition at school without their parents' knowledge. "Sometimes, they need protection from their own parents." The idea that teachers should be "protecting kids from their own parents" by affirming their chosen identity without their parents' knowledge illustrates what I'm talking about. Even if you agree with the sentiment (which I would say is "exceeding their warrant"), parents aren't going to take that sitting down.
    • Jsebast23 4y ago
      This is the same people that ban the Bible or Dr Seuss. When the State Government bans gay-sex books meant to sexualize elementary school students, they act like it's Plato or Hemingway who are banned. Most people in this forum really need to take a good, sober look at what's really going on here.