We have been discussing the efforts of school officials around the country to block information for parents on their children changing their gender in public schools, including a recent victory for parents in Michigan. I have long been a critic of such attacks on parental rights in our schools. Now, parents have another major victory in California from District Court Judge Roger Benitez, who offered a resounding ruling in support of the inherent rights of all parents. However, public school boards, administrators, and teachers’ unions are continuing the fight to bar parents from knowing about gender changes in their children. Nevertheless, it is a great way to end this year for everyone who values family and parental rights.
The court cuts straight to the point in the opinion:
“With these longstanding principles in mind, this case presents the following four questions about a parent’s rights to information as against a public school’s policy of secrecy when it comes to a student’s gender identification. First, do parents have a right to gender information based on the Fourteenth Amendment’s substantive due process clause? Second, do parents have a right to gender information protected by the First Amendment’s free exercise of religion clause? Third, do religious public school teachers have a right to provide gender information to parents based on the First Amendment’s free exercise clause? Fourth, do public school teachers have a right to communicate accurate gender information to parents based on the First Amendment free speech clause? In each case, this Court concludes that, as a matter of law, the answer is “yes.” Parents have a right to receive gender information and teachers have a right to provide to parents accurate information about a child’s gender identity.”
Judge Benitez relies on a quote that we have previously discussed from Troxel v. Granville (2000): “It is cardinal with us that the custody, care and nurture of the child reside first in the parents, whose primary function and freedom include preparation for obligations the state can neither supply nor hinder.” The Supreme Court has repeatedly cited such parental rights, but school officials and teachers’ unions have been unrelenting in curtailing or denying such rights.
That view was captured in the comment of Iowa school board member Rachel Wall, who said: “The purpose of a public ed is to not teach kids what the parents want. It is to teach them what society needs them to know. The client is not the parent, but the community.”
State Rep. Lee Snodgrass (D-Wis.) tweeted: “If parents want to ‘have a say’ in their child’s education, they should home school or pay for private school tuition out of their family budget.”
Parents who question unpopular policies are often treated as extremists.
Michelle Leete, vice president of training at the Virginia PTA and vice president of communications for the Fairfax County PTA, said parents would not force them to reverse their agenda: “Let them die. Don’t let these uncomfortable people deter us from our bold march forward.”
I particularly like this paragraph from Judge Benitez’s decision:
“The State Defendants mix up legal constructs. The Attorney General on behalf of the State of California says Plaintiffs’ lawsuit is “properly understood as seeking a federal constitutional exemption from the California constitutional right to privacy, as applied to gender identity in the school context.” State Defs’ Oppo to Plaintiffs’ MSJ, Dkt 256, at 9. But the Attorney General gets it upside down. Plaintiffs do not ask the State to magnanimously permit a sort of federal constitutional exemption. What Plaintiffs seek is to force the State to respect their enduring federal constitutional rights as citizens of the United States.”
Bravo, Judge Benitez, Bravo.
Here is the decision: Mirabelli v. Olson
Michelle Leete, vice president of training at the Virginia PTA and vice president of communications for the Fairfax County PTA, said parents would not force them to reverse their agenda: “Let them die. Don’t let these uncomfortable people deter us from our bold march forward.”
“Forward” is a Marxist buzz word. It is based on the premise that human nature can be improved, which leads to the concept that the government should improve it through coercive social engineering (e.g., “let them die” is a reflection of desired coercion). This is a distinct conception of the role of government from the classical liberal – now called “conservative” – idea that recognizes human nature as basically selfish but susceptible to productive conduct through self-interested incentivization (Adam Smith’s “invisible hand”), and its conception of the state as existing to protect people’s individual rights and enforce the law, but leave economic and social progress to individuals themselves and institutions that form a buffer between state and individual, such as the church.
Long before Horace Mann advocated in the 1840’s for a system of common schools and compulsory education, parents have carried out their rights and responsibility to direct the general and medical care and religious upbringing of their child. “The history and culture of Western civilization reflect a strong tradition of parental concern for the nurture and upbringing of their children. This primary role of the parents in the upbringing of their children is now established beyond debate as an enduring American tradition.” Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205, 232 (1972). It is a right and a responsibility that parents still hold. Mahmoud v. Taylor, 145 S. Ct. 2332, 2357 (2025) (applying Yoder as “embod[ying] a principle of general applicability”). The role of a parent includes a duty to recognize symptoms of illness and to seek medical advice. Parham v. J.R., 442 U.S. 584, 604 (1979). These rights are protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution. Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57, 65-66 (2000) (“It is cardinal with us that the custody, care and nurture of the child reside first in the parents, whose primary function and freedom include preparation for obligations the state can neither supply nor hinder.”). Fortunately, the natural bonds of affection normally lead parents to act in the best interests of their child. Parham, 442 U.S. at 602.
-First paragraph of the opinion.
This nonsense will not end until public school teachers, administrators, and school boards are successfully sued into oblivion for negligence over this gender ideology issue. It will just take one jury’s award that is in excess of the amount covered by personal liability insurance, and owed personally by the defendant, to result in big changes. If teachers want to be considered “professionals” on par with physicians, attorneys, dentists, nurses and engineers, then they should be held to similar personal liability risk.
These teachers and school boards are attempting to claim a right to groom and rape children in the face of the worst and continually ongoing sexual abuse scandal in American history. Studies have found one in ten children in K-10 unionized public schools have been victims of this at least once during their school years. It is not a coincidence that teachers started claiming this “right” as this epidemic of teacher’s raping and abusing students became increasingly exposed.
And X is doing his best to defend this as unionized public school teachers merely playing psychiatrist, rather than their adult version of when children play doctor – he argues parents should allow teachers to continue to do this to their children.
Forbidden Fruit and the Classroom: The Huge American Sex-Abuse Scandal That Educators Scandalously Suppress
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/07/10/forbidden_fruit_and_the_classroom_the_huge_american_sex-abuse_scandal_that_educators_scandalously_hush_up_1042969.html?mc_cid=0d79030f05&mc_eid=febb5a4d8f
Research has found roughly 1 in 10 students in K-12 schools have suffered some form of sexual misconduct by an educator. Terri Miller, head of the advocacy group SESAME (Stop Educator Sexual Abuse, Misconduct and Exploitation), said the number of victims is staggering. “Another striking contrast is we are not mandated to send our children to church; we are mandated to send them to school. The rate of educator sexual misconduct is 10 times higher in one year’s time than in five decades of abuse by clergy,”
The Sad Lesson of School Sex Abuse: It’s Pass the Trash, Not Catch the Trash
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/08/28/the_sad_lesson_of_school_sex-abuse_101_its_pass_the_trash_not_catch_the_trash_1053859.html?mc_cid=08b6b4d1e0&mc_eid=febb5a4d8f
Victims of sexual misconduct by school predators may number in the millions, which would eclipse the size of similar scandals in the Roman Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts together, according to reports from academics and think tanks. Experts say the hundreds arrested each year and the more than $1.2 billion in related settlements paid out by school districts in just the last decade represent a mere fraction of the problem in a system that works to deny and hide the sexual abuse of minors.
There is no national data for sexual misconduct involving K-12 school employees, according to the Department of Education. The most recent outside research estimates only 5% percent of K-12 sexual misconduct cases are turned over to law enforcement, and only a fraction of those result in prosecutions.
X of course, will either plead this is just his normal ignorance. Or perhaps… “Nothing To See Here, Please Believe Me, Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes™”
I guess you’re ok with the Catholic Church’s hiding pedophiles in their midst. That was much worse than anything going on in public schools, and the right tried hard to pay no heed to the horror happening right in front of Jesus.
I guess you’re ok with the Catholic Church’s hiding pedophiles in their midst. That was much worse than anything going on in public schools
I know, I don’t guess, you believe that straw man question will help you can succeed at Lyin’ Like Bribery Biden with a two part lie. One: insinuate you actually read the linked articles before replying, As your friend X would say, your lack of reading comprehension and ten second attention span leaves you unable to do that even if you actually wanted to.
Two: insinuate you have access to different studies than those quoted in the articles that found abuse in the Catholic church isn’t even close to what is going on every year with you Democrats’ unionized K-10 public school teachers.
And you you commies following the Atheist religious theocracy of Marx’s communism want some court to give you the right to allow your grooming and raping of children in public schools to continue.
OOPS
Federal Judge Strikes Down California’s Policies Hiding Gender Switches From Parents
Instead of “our bold march forward,” Ms. Leete should have said “our great leap forward.” That would have been more historically accurate, but might have made people curious enough to open a book.
https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/chinas-great-leap-forward/
The right’s “parental rights” are always conditional upon THEIR ideology. It does they do not want the ‘parental rights’ of “leftist” parents to apply.
gobbledygook …
X says: The right’s “parental rights” are always conditional upon THEIR ideology.
X always says parents must submit to his depraved communist theology: children do not belong to parents – they belong to the state, who must be allowed to indoctrinate them to live their lives as obedient and unquestioning serfs of the state.
And if that means that one in ten children become victims of the pedophiles and groomers that are the Democrats most valuable assets – unionized public school teachers, well then… as Stalin pointed out, you can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs.
If leftest parents wish to cut up their kids. Have at it, but leave the rest alone george.
You keep forgetting that part.
Typical of most libs. You wish to force your demands on everyone else.
Typical Dustoff, doesn’t recognize the irony of his own statements. Cognitive dissonance is strong with this one.
Hey meat-head. I can’t do zip about you nutty libs wanting to harm kids.
Just leave ours alone.
Name us a time when DustOff has ever tried to force his beliefs on you.
Typical Dustoff, doesn’t recognize the irony of his own statements. Cognitive dissonance is strong with this one.
Projection:
Channeling one’s actions onto others typically refers to the psychological concept of projection, where an emotionally disturbed individual unconsciously or deliberately attributes their own thoughts, feelings, and anti-social or criminal behaviors onto someone else.
This is an internal defense mechanism which allows that mentally ill person to avoid confronting their own behavior and guilt by seeing it instead as as the thoughts and actions of another person who they despise and hate.
DustOff,
Well said.
We all saw how the woke leftists attempted to force us to accept their delusions and when those of us refused, they attempted to get us “canceled,” in their cancel campaign. Thankfully, that failed.
We all saw how they tried to force us to use their preferred pronouns and that is now failing. Thankfully.
We all saw how they tired to force us into believing biological males could be in women’s sports, in women’s locker rooms and even bath rooms. That is failing, thankfully.
They want to force their beliefs on us and we want no part of their cult. They want to be in their little woke leftists cult, have at it. I and the rest of us want no part of it. Stay away from me and my kids.
Perhaps parents of alleged ‘trans’ children should take the drugs and have their own surgeries first. You know, lead by example.
Actually, X should lead by example by taken the drugs and having the surgery so her/she/he/him/ it/, etc., could give us her/she/he/him/it/ etc., first hand about the experience.
Wow X, that is bad, even for you.
exactly. X, i am surprised you get it. Keep your weird commie propaganda away from my kid.
And I get it; no commie wants their kid exposed to capitalism, law and order, responsibility, repercussions for actions, productivity, self-worth…
they might start thinking as an individual and you can’t have that.
It is astounding to me that we need “celebrate” the application of common sense in a trial. We are on the very precipice people…
We are on the very precipice people… of what, pray tell?
whimsicalmama,
Common sense is not a trait associated with leftists. They celebrated some dude in a dress who pretended he was a woman. They celebrated a dude with boobs going topless on the WH lawn.
*. This is insanity. It’s a case, a circumstance that is so insane it defies logic, the place and boundaries of government, that sane people cannot understand it. Only a nut like KBJ could respond to it with inappropriate garbled babble.
Judge Benitez must be a sane man but condolences to him that he had to consider it and understand mass abnormal psychology.
Personally I fear for these children that their parents may be using Munchausen by proxi (sp) and in reality abusing their children. This is hell, folks, and no apologies needed, where are the muskets! Predatory schools!
The people responsible are elected officers and the State superintendent of public instruction is sane or insane. Teachers and unions are subject to what a State allows and disallows. If they step outside those boundaries there is cause.
Merry Christmas
^^^ WHAT DOES EVERY PEDO SAY TO A CHILD? Don’t tell your parents. It’s a secret.
Let us call it what it is, enabling teachers to keep a child’s parents uninformed about the child’s welfare is child abuse. Call it that. Child abuse. These leftists teachers should be arrested, charged, tried and convicted of child abuse.
Recall the school board who tried to cover up that trans sicko who raped not one but two girls? And then when the father tried to bring attention to it, they had him arrested. That entire school board should be arrested, charged, tried and convicted of child abuse.
Only sickos defend this kind of action.
Let us call it what it is, enabling teachers to keep a child’s parents uninformed about the child’s welfare is child abuse. Really? How do you figure its child abuse?
You’re insane and evil rolled up into a mass of hatred for concepts, things you can’t understand.
Besides raising pigs, have you ever had a job where you actually came into contact with humans?
Whoa! Good one.
It’s interesting how the rights of parents stops when parents choose to support their transgender child when it comes to medical decisions. Because parents apparently are not trusted to make such decisions but only with education. Strange. If we are to rationalize “parental rights” as some tantamount right until they do something the right does not agree with then it’s not about parental rights. It’s about what those on the right believe parental rights are according to those on the right. Talk about double standards. Wow.
The state, at least red states, believe they can dictate what is medically necessary for parents children, because they don’t like the idea that some parents choose to make medical decisions the right opposes. “Parental rights” is only for those on the right to determine it seems.
those on the right believe parental rights are … No dbl . standard, just you twisting words. But, as usual you’re off on a tangent. The thread is about parental rights at the grade school level. Not an operating table.
You don’t seem to understand what “tangent” means. The issue is parental rights; whether it’s education or medical, it’s about the right dictating to everyone else what parental rights are.
Teachers snitching on students who confide in them with something as serious as gender identity and trusting them to keep that in confidence, and then getting betrayed by a teacher is not a good thing. The issue is much more complicated, but those on the right don’t care because, as long as their idea of “parental rights” is the only standard, everyone else is allowed to follow; everything else is irrelevant.
Once students start losing trust in teachers, it becomes a problem. Suicide, bullying, and demonizing by those on the right are amplified. Especially by those on the right. Because the latest culture war fad is to attack transgender students and adults, now that homosexuality is no longer the culture war fad of the right.
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SNITCHING?
Apologies to the sane commenters and owner of the blog. I fed the animals by error. 😏
Merry Xmas X
Yes, snitching. Parents often expect teachers to snitch on their kids, but maybe they should focus more on their own children rather than rely on educators to do the parenting for them. There’s really no excuse for shirking parental responsibility. If their kids are failing class, that is one thing, but if kids confide in them about something personal and risk exposing them to abuse at home and at school, then it’s an entirely different thing. Teachers are not paid enough to be put in the middle of what should be a parent’s responsibility: figuring out whether their child is behaving differently or being addressed differently. The best thing to do is ask their own kid.
So, state cannot lie to me when I ask about my child is equal to stopping parent from mutilating a child prior to age of consent – 16 to drive, 21 to drink, etc. Left logic is no logic.
Left logic is no logic … and neither is yours.
CREATOR , nature’s creator.
Certainly there’s genetic damage everywhere but the article isn’t about that.
The state is not lying to you when it doesn’t say anything about a student’s gender preferences. Teachers are not in the business of snitching or making assumptions about a student’s gender preferences. If parents want to know whether their child wants to be addressed as a different gender, they can always ask their child. Parents are in the best position to notice changes and behaviors. That would make more sense than to ask a teacher to tattle on their own students. Once it is discovered that a teacher is a snitch, students will label them as such, and they can be brutally mean, spreading gossip and rumors that effectively destroy any trust in that teacher. That is not a good thing for anyone.
A better solution would be to have teachers tell their students if they want to be addressed as different gender or use a different pronoung to talk to their parents first. Don’t force teachers to snitch on students because a parent is too “busy” to figure if things are not going right with their kids. This should be about parental responsibility rather than parental rights. I though the right was all about personal responsiblity or in this case parental responsibility.
That’s absolutely correct, Rambo. Zero logic…the moon is made of cheese.
X says: It’s interesting how the rights of parents stops when parents choose to support their transgender child when it comes to medical decisions.
Interesting that X claims we must recognize that unionized public school teachers are also psychiatrists and physicians. They are able to make a medical diagnosis – and medical decisions – for a child all on their own. No need to actually take that child to somebody who is actually a physician or psychiatrist.
X’s magnificent teachers/psychiatrists are are so confident in that ability that they feel no need to speak to the parents to ask them of any signs and symptoms they might be seeing in the time the child is not at school with them.
It’s predictable that, as always, X twists and writhes like a snake, attempting to reword and make the Marxist school board’s case: there are no “parental rights” – there are parental obligations for parents to hand their children over to be properly conditioned to serve X’s Orwellian state.
X and his fellow cultural and political Marxists are a cancer attempting to spread their evil to the most vulnerable in the population, our children.
^^. See a doctor. Schools don’t employ doctors. If a child has cigarette burns, starvation, bruises, and other teachers, school personnel are mandated reporters. If Tom comes to school in a dress report that also.
“ If Tom comes to school in a dress report that also.”
Then that means the parents already know about the Tom’s preferences. The obvious clue would be the parent dropping Tom off at school in a dress. Right?
“ If Tom comes to school in a dress report that also.”
“Then that means the parents already know about the Tom’s preferences. The obvious clue would be the parent dropping Tom off at school in a dress. Right?”
Reading comprehension and context problem here.
Addition of “facts” not contained in the original.
Adductive and deductive reasoning draw conclusions not supported with the facts presented.
Suggestion of compensatory ego malfunctioning.
Professional help warranted.
Anonymous, you are in serious need of help. You’re not making any sense at all.
oh, george, we think he is making a LOT of sense.
You, George, aka X In addition, you also have a strong need to pretend your views are superior to Turley’s; to paraphrase and copycat left-wing sources; to try condescension when you are intellectually incapable of addressing on the merits; and to not respond at all when someone calls you out for it.
Now which ones of both of these clusters do you disagree with, and why?
Try not to copycat logic or reason from Hullbobby, Upstate, Lin, S. Meyer, John Say, Garyesq., oldman, and several others. Do try to be original despite your lack of self-confidence masked as condescension.
X says: Anonymous, you are in serious need of help. You’re not making any sense at all.
X’s complete lack of reading comprehension is only equaled by his total lack of credibility and trust from others here. Mirrors where X would see himself are X’s form of kryptonite.
Projection:
Channeling one’s actions onto others typically refers to the psychological concept of projection, where an emotionally disturbed individual unconsciously or deliberately attributes their own thoughts, feelings, and anti-social or criminal behaviors onto someone else.
This is an internal defense mechanism which allows that mentally ill person to avoid confronting their own behavior and guilt by seeing it instead as as the thoughts and actions of another person who they despise and hate.
This is about some overzealous religious teachers snitching on students who wish to keep their gender identity secret from potentially abusive parents or avoid bullying. It’s unfortunate. What could end up happening is students will stop trusting teachers with issues that may expose them to bullying, harassment, and abuse at home. Those in high school will likely avoid talking to teachers altogether for fear of being ratted out by a teacher.
Typical… using hypotheticals. It about parents right not kids being bullied. Nothing more.
my Dad was a teacher, teachers are the same population as parents and are no more trustworthy than the parents, that’s the problem
Right george. Would love to see the real numbers on this.
Most of all when lib teachers are pushing this dangerous non-sense to kids.
Don’t fall for X’s bs, he deflects from the issue all the time with gobbledygook and psychobabble.
Its nonsense … not non-sense.
Queue hullbooby and farmer…
Hullbobby here, X is a contrarian weirdo, a partisan hack and a guy with an odd need to be different.
Meanwhile Mr. Anonymous, one of them anyway, is a nasty crank with no spouse, no kids, no job, no house, no car and no friends.
Hullbobby, that’s an odd way of recognizing an opposing view. Are you still having issues with that concept?
X says: Hullbobby, that’s an odd way of recognizing an opposing view. Are you still having issues with that concept?
X’s complete lack of reading comprehension is only equaled by his total lack of credibility and trust from others here. Mirrors where X would see himself are X’s form of kryptonite.
Projection:
Channeling one’s actions onto others typically refers to the psychological concept of projection, where an emotionally disturbed individual unconsciously or deliberately attributes their own thoughts, feelings, and anti-social or criminal behaviors onto someone else.
This is an internal defense mechanism which allows that mentally ill person to avoid confronting their own behavior and guilt by seeing it instead as as the thoughts and actions of another person who they despise and hate.
X says: This is about some overzealous religious teachers snitching on students who wish to keep their gender identity secret from potentially abusive parents or avoid bullying.
Forbidden Fruit and the Classroom: The Huge American Sex-Abuse Scandal That Educators Scandalously Suppress
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/07/10/forbidden_fruit_and_the_classroom_the_huge_american_sex-abuse_scandal_that_educators_scandalously_hush_up_1042969.html?mc_cid=0d79030f05&mc_eid=febb5a4d8f
It’s more likely that this is about X covering for and making excuses for the unionized public school teachers who are the groomers and pedophiles behind the horrendous ongoing crime wave of child sexual abuse in our public schools.
Pedophilia and grooming so rampant that it makes the instances of abuse in schools run by churches look like novices who don’t know how to commit that abuse on the scale and regularity of the professional abusers that are the union teachers X is trying to cover for.
Research has found roughly 1 in 10 students in K-12 schools have suffered “some form of sexual misconduct by an educator. Terri Miller, head of the advocacy group SESAME (Stop Educator Sexual Abuse, Misconduct and Exploitation), said the number of victims is staggering. Another striking contrast is we are not mandated to send our children to church; we are mandated to send them to school.“The rate of educator sexual misconduct is 10 times higher in one year’s time than in five decades of abuse by clergy,”
“Snitching on students”? You mean letting parents know that their child is having a mental event that threatens their well being? This guy, X, Mr. Opposite, will allow the school to inform the parents before giving Suzie an aspirin, but doesn’t tell them when Suzie is now Sammy and the teacher keeps a change of clothes for the child in a secret closet. This is what happens, this is what X and the teachers support.
Hullbobby, mental event? LOL! What?
Obviously, you can’t make a distinction between a school nurse’s job and a teacher’s. Interestingly, there’s zero talk about gay students at all—just those who wish to be addressed by a different pronoun.
It wasn’t long ago when conservaties of those on the right were all about the “gay agenda” and indoctrinating kids into believing they could be gay. Now it’s barely an issue.
“Now it’s barely an issue.”
Exactly. Your wet dream. Tell lies and distortions long enough and others will latch on and believe them.
We’re not going to let you to the finish line, though.
Notice the demonic PTA/union chief who states that parents should die and they say parents should home school or put their kids in private school…at their own expense. NO, GET A VOUCHER AND USE YOUR TAX MONEY TO SEND YOUR KID TO THE SCHOOL OF THEIR CHOICE.
Teachers unions are pure evil wrapped in greed.
I remember going to a city council meeting discussing the budget and a teacher got up and promulgated a requirement that 50% of all increases in the budget should go to the schools. No debate of what is needed, how much is wasted, where else money is needed or why the 50% amount. They are pigs, they are narcissists, they are radical, they are not very well educated, they live in a bubble, they are AWFLS and other far left loons and they need to be stopped.
If only teachers were as intelligent as they think they are.
Remember the bumper stickers reminding you to “thank a teacher”. yeah, forget the cancer doctor, the nurse working on the burn ward, the cop that runs into dark alleys, the fireperson that runs into a burning building or even in a much more benign sense the accountant that saves you money, the lawyer that keeps you out of trouble, the electrician and plumber that keeps your house running, the mechanic that keeps your car running. EVERYONE IS IMPORTANT, EVERYONE DOES THEIR JOB AND EVERYONE GETS PAID TO DO SO. It’s just teachers that think they are doing the Lord’s work. They “ain’t”, they spend all day indoctrinating children and plotting ways to steal more tax money.
demonic PTA/union chief … sounds like you have a mental affliction if you see people as demons. Seek an exorcist soon.
Hey genius, it is the demon possessed that needs the exorcism, not the sane people that spot the demon.
Spot On hullbobby!!
HullBobby,
Well said!
Well said? Oh oh the hullbooby’s fan club just showed up.
Interesting that you fall his convoluted rants.
Get an education.
Upstate, this particular Anonymous is a child, a crank and an oddball.
BULL HOBBY
The trans sickness is finally being put out to pasture. The bright light that has been focused on this movement has started to show good effects as polls show a waning of interest in these trans lifestyle choices. The judge’s decision shows reality is starting to come back. The fight needs to go on. There needs to be folllowup at the state and federal level to remove funding for these treatments. People can still get this treatment but they need to fund it themselves and not taxpayers. A treatment almost always seems reasonable when other people pay the bill yet when one must do it themselves then thought starts to re-assert itself and priorities start to shift.
Many very mentally ill people are mis-diagnosed and thrown in the hodgepodge of a trans illness. Maybe we will re-assert that mental health is a complex issue requiring extended observation and management with rational thought and non-invasive techniques.
We have seen the sad story of Rob Reiner and his son Nick who had, reportedly, schizophrenia, drug abuse and recent medication changes that may have precipitated the Reiner murders. This deterioration with drug changes is real and a risk in mental illness, yet many people in our society pushed body mutilation and potent drugs and hormones on to unstable personalities like it was a panacea and sadly it is not.
GEB,
Great comment!
What does this comment have to do with parental rights in schools?
Let’s hope and pray the 9th Circuit will uphold this decision.
“If parents want to ‘have a say’ in their child’s education, they should home school or pay for private school tuition out of their family budget.” — What unmitigated hubris! Too many of these teachers conflate their own misguided opinions with reality at the expense of the children they are being paid to teach.
Well, it’s true. If parents are adamant about how their child should be educated it is their responsibility to ensure they get it. there are already plenty of choices with school vouchers for private schools and home schooling resources. If they don’t like the public school policies they can always go to a private school or home school. Isn’t that the whole point of the school choice movement?
Not at all a viable solution. But you rocket off on tangents all the time.
don’t like the public school policies … or run for school committee.
Home school or private the point? Not at all. It about sanity in education.
Whether the parents are given a voucher or private schooling is paid in full, the judge’s decision rightfully stands. Teachers have engaged in unlawful conduct. Children are raised by parents, and when the state intervenes, the negatives pile up quickly.
GSX should learn how to stay out of other people’s lives and fix his own sordid existence.
Public schools should “put their money where their mouth is”. The money that supports public schools is meant for the student, not teachers and not administrators. Taxpayer money should follow the student, whether it be a student whose parent choose for her or his child to attend a public, private, or religious school. Let’s then see how many families choose to keep their children in public school to continue to be indoctrinated in gender ideology and to “graduate” high school unable to read at grade level or be competent to do no more than middle school math. If the education establishment morons that believe that society truly believes that the authority of public school teachers and administrators trumps the authority of parents for educating their children then parents would choose to keep their children, and their money, in public schools. I suspect that public school boards, public school administrators, and public school teachers do not have the courage “to put their money where their mouth is”.
X, you say there are choices such as vouchers but you ignore that the fascist little teacher/union person said that the parents should USE THEIR OWN MONEY to go to private schools. I guarantee you that the person is against vouchers.
Rachael Wall has it wrong. The client is BOTH the community and the parent.
About time for parents to put one on the scoreboard. Yet, the administrative State of California has been and continues to sacrifice the children upon the grinding wheel of political power by normalizing the abhorrent.
Since when are grinding wheels used as a tool to sacrifice children? Quite a bizarre analogy. But not unheard of on this site.
You and hullbooby need analogy training.
anyone helping to change the gender of the child should be jailed for life
Anyone? How do you intend to enforce that?
Lots of bizarre comments today, but typical for gutv.