It never ends, does it? The Left never stops, never gives up. We who simply just want to be left alone and want Government to do what we pay it to do and nothing more and nothing less have to learn that lesson. “You WILL be made to care” (Erick Erickson) you can add “If you try to be a speedbump to their agenda, ya’d better bring yer mob of other speedbumps”. The lesson is that we can’t stop either. I just wish I could enthuse more Normals that while we do have to pick up and wage war in the Culture War the Left has brought (WE certainly didn’t bring Transgenderism, Childism, and Porno books into school), we should look at it as a way to amuse ourselves while doing it. They certainly don’t like Happy Warriors looking back at them (they have little sense of humor and a dour outlook).
And today, a new couple asked for some help writing RSA 91-A Right To Know demands as their School District has been blowing them off – Welcome to our Party! And there is a larger and larger Party growing (as always, pretty much all is reformatted and emphasis is mine):
- Parents Are Suing Schools Over Pronoun Policies. Here’s What You Need to Know
While the battle over transgender students’ rights at school is waged nationwide, a handful of parents continue to argue that by aiding in students’ social transitions, districts are violating parental rights. Over the last three years, parents in at least six states have sued school districts over policies the districts say support transgender, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary students. The parents who have filed the lawsuits claim that their 14th Amendment rights to direct the upbringing of their children are violated when schools do not inform them of their children’s pronouns or names, or aid in their social transition at school in any other way.
Now, if you go there, remember one thing: Ed Week is a bit of an “Edu-Industrial Complex” trade rag – they are not friendly “outsiders”. WE are the interlopers that are to be dismissed. Note that their stand is that Districts MUST “support” transgenders. In effect, Normal kids are discriminated against and that Free Speech, Freedom of Expression (of religious values), and Constitutional Rights of Parents are the Primary entities in raising their children. And Chris Erchull, a lawyer for GLAD (who is following GraniteGrok) makes it clear that E Pluribus Unum no longer is in effect such that transgender kids have a higher status than Normal kids:
Chris Erchull, an attorney for GLAD, a legal organization that defends LGBTQ+ rights: “To meet that obligation, schools must support students by, at the bare minimum, dignifying them when they say, ‘this is my name, and [these are] the pronouns that I want to use.’”
Frankly, I don’t care, and I think most parents would agree, with what you call yourself. We DO care that Districts are destroying the First Amendment to “dignify them” while denigrating others. It’s really STUPID that America is being changed in that everyone is being known NOT for their character (honor, courage, decency, manners, knowledge, work ethic) but for what is (or isn’t) between your legs. We don’t CARE what your sexuality is – drop it and leave it in your bedroom.
Want safer schools? While this goes back to April, it IS a way to harden schools against mass shootings. After all, the nutcase transgender (you have to be really mentally ill to take revenge by killing innocent children) who shot up the Christian Covenant School chose that over a different target that she (using the pronoun that fit her biological sex) had evaluated because the other had a more heightened security environment.
- Gov. Bill Lee To Propose Plan To Put Armed Guard In Every Tennessee School
Every Tennessee private and public school will have the resources necessary to hire an armed guard if Governor Bill Lee (R-TN) gets his plan through a Republican-led legislature.
Next week, Lee will propose a plan to funnel millions of dollars to public and private schools to beef up security following the mass shooting at a Nashville Christian elementary school on Monday. Lee’s plan would place an armed school resource officer (SRO) in every public school and provide funding for private schools to hire armed guards with the same level of training as those in public schools. Private schools would not be forced to join in on the program, The Tennessean reported.
That bill passed and now is in force. The Leftist politicians are always yammering “It’s for the kids!” but have refused to do the same things for those same kids that they themselves have – armed bodyguards and other security measures. Republican Bill Lee has done the right thing!
And then we come to another kind of nutcase embedded in a school environment. Read this next headline and try to think of all the bad ramifications this could have:
- School superintendent: male coaches don’t want naked girls in the locker room, but they should
Assistant Superintendant sic] of the Glendale California Unified School District Kelly King explained in a video call that male coaches feel uncomfortable being in a locker room with trans-identified males walking around naked. This is unsurprising since adult men and naked young girls don’t shouldn’t be mixing. King, though, lectures them that since these are not girls, but boys, they should be fine with it.
Once again, I can call my now elderly dog a racing horse but they aren’t going to let Mieka run in Churchill Downs anytime soon. Or let me identify as a 6’8″ Black power forward in the NBA at almost 70 years old (you racist ageists who ignore what my “authentic self” is!!!! heh!). While this Kelly King gal is smirking about this, she must be a misandrist in nature. Sure, subject those male coaches to an environment that anywhere else would get them arrested for being a Peeping Tom (at best) to being, as the post says, a sexual predator. And being that these girls-masquerading-as-“boys” are underage, throw in pedophiles as well. I guess that smirk is for how many years those coaches will be subjected to a different kind of shower environment. But to these transgender-its supporters, it’s this next bit that is key:
But Ms. King is, of course, completely wedded to gender ideology. She appears to see a boy when a girl stands in front of her, and demands that everybody else does too. The comfort of every other person in the world is irrelevant, including both the coaches and the other students. Nobody matters but the alphabet people. Nobody.
Including the parents, whose wishes are also irrelevant. She is perfectly happy to hide what kids do from the parents, up to the point of skirting state law about record-keeping. Abiding by the wishes of the parents is just perfect, but only as long as the parents abide by the wishes of the school.
Boy, have *I* found that to be true! Chris Erchull (of GLAAD employment, above) is responding with a rousing “Huzzah”! Both of those paragraphs PERFECT summarize the situation we Normal people are in – even as Transgenders are crying that we are trying to “erase” them, the gaslighting fact is that the show is on the other foot. It is Erchull’s job to make that happen.
And now there are health professionals that are starting to buck the “peer struggle” that people like Erchull have been using to scapegoat the rest of us by “shading” the medical studies that now, for SOME obvious reason, are not being shown -so why is that and is it for “medical” reasons or others?
- Doctors Expose Just How Experimental ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Truly Is in Florida Medicaid Case
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Psychiatrists, endocrinologists, neurologists, and other doctors testified in support of a Florida health agency’s rule preventing Medicaid from funding various forms of “gender-affirming care,” such as “puberty-blockers,” cross-sex hormones, and transgender surgeries.
“Patients suffering from gender dysphoria or related issues have a right to be protected from experimental, potentially harmful treatments lacking reliable, valid, peer-reviewed, published, long-term scientific evidence of safety and effectiveness,” Dr. Paul Hruz, an endocrinology researcher and clinician at Washington University School of Medicine, wrote in a sworn affidavit provided exclusively to The Daily Signal. (Endocrinologists treat the endocrine system, which uses hormones to control metabolism, reproduction, growth, and more.)
Hruz joined with other doctors in testifying in support of Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration, which finalized a rule in August 2022, declaring that Medicaid would not cover “puberty blockers,” cross-sex hormones, “sex-reassignment” surgeries, or other procedures that alter primary or secondary sex characteristics.
So what does the Left always does when it can’t get its way? Sue. Were they successful?
…In denying that temporary injunction, the court ruled in October that the case centers on whether Florida’s determination that the transgender interventions are “experimental” is “reasonable.”
…Hruz and other doctors argue that the medical interventions often described as “gender-affirming care” are experimental and that the organizations that present standards of care supporting them—the World Professional Association for Transgender Health and the Endocrine Society—represent more a political and advocacy effort than an objective analysis supporting these alleged treatments.
AHCA asked WPATH and the Endocrine Society to hand over the documents they used to craft their treatment protocols, but the organizations at first declined, then handed over a limited selection of documents that AHCA found insufficient. AHCA calls “the continued reluctance” of these organizations “significant, especially when [the LGBT groups] and their experts rely extensively on the WPATH standards of care and the Endocrine Society’s guidelines.”
…While “WPATH claims to speak for the medical profession,” it “represents a self-selected subset of the profession along with its many non-professional members” and it “does not welcome skepticism and therefore deviates from the philosophical core of medical science,” Levine writes.
…Levine explicitly calls transition and affirmation “experimental therapies that have not been shown to improve mental or physical health outcomes by young adulthood,” and warns that these therapies “do not decrease, and may increase, the risk of suicide.”
He further warns that hormonal interventions “are experimental procedures that have not been proven safe.” So-called puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones can have negative effects on fertility, bone density, brain development, and psychosocial well-being.
Enough of that for a bit – what about what schools are supposed to teach? And the methodologies used? Or in this case, a time honored practice that most of us hated but, in retrospect, knew it worked? Yeah, drop-kicked for being racist (what ISN’T racist nowadays? Shouldn’t the question be a different one?
- Maryland School District Reviewing Policies to See If Homework Is Racist, Negatively Impacts ‘Marginalized Communities’
…Montgomery County Public Schools will reevaluate its homework policies, last updated in 1986, “with an antiracism lens” to determine how homework affects “social-emotional learning” and whether it negatively impacts “marginalized communities,” according to a Daily Signal review of a March 16 Board of Education meeting. Proponents of anti-racism say that America is systemically racist and that racism is built into nearly every institution. They say that just being against racism is not enough—one must be anti-racist and actively work to tear down these institutions.
The homework policy review follows the release of Montgomery County’s “anti-racist” audit results in October 2022. The audit raised concerns about “inequitable expectations, practices, and transparency” in terms of homework policy, according to a slideshow on the policy revision framework.
Ho-hum. You know, EVERYTHING that is wrong, according to the Left, is the result of some “-ism”. Racism is just one of them and an easy one to hide behind. And IMHO, that’s what its being done. How about install real school discipline? Putting in a great dose academic rigor and setting the expectation by everyone that students should excel – and getting that into these young, skulls full of mush kids that have been molly-coddled too much by school administrators that “fear the woke mobs” instead of Parents turning on them for churning out inferior results:
…The homework policy review comes as new mid-year Evidence of Learning standards in the district show that less than half of sixth grade students met math standards and only 52.6% of third graders met literacy standards.
But that would take Parents turning on them for churning out inferior results – which doesn’t seem to be in evidence. But one thing is very sure, given that schools are turning themselves in taxpayer sponsored emotional sanitariums – and creating permanent life-long victims:
While claiming to equip children with the ability to manage emotions, feel empathy for others, and maintain positive relationships, social-emotional learning integrates critical race theory throughout the education system.
The school district outside Washington, D.C., says it will adjust its homework policies in accord with those of comparable Maryland districts, including Howard County Public Schools, which has “flexible deadlines” for homework assignments, and Frederick County Public Schools, which instructs teachers not to grade all homework assignments to avoid “reveal[ing] biases.”
So do the homework while the kids will never know if it made a difference. Are the headhonchos that stupid to not realize that the kids aren’t that stupid to waste their time doing something that will never matter? At least one Mom gets it:
“Our scores are going down—reading, mathematics, science,” she said. “But they’re spending money and wasting money on something absurd like this.”
Add this as well: Schools axe homework, deadlines in the name of equity: Report
And Government, either in the schools, cities, or the States, keep pushing Childism by actively pushing for any excuse to remove children from their parents. A couple of “quicker takes”:
- In California, parents may soon effectively lose custody of kids 12 and older
In California, “stranger danger” may be about to acquire a whole new meaning. Forget warning kids. It’s the parents in California who will need to be terrified of strangers if a new bill passes. Snuck into AB 665, legislation ostensibly about extending mental health care to lower-income California youths, is a provision that effectively would terminate parents’ rights over their kids as soon as they turn 12.
The California Family Council warns that this bill “would allow children as young as 12 years old to consent to being placed into state funded group homes without parental permission or knowledge.” As long as a mental health professional signs off on it, the kids can go to such a group home—and it doesn’t matter what their parents think.
“This bill is essentially stating that parents are criminals that have to prove their innocence to get their child back,” adds Friday, who is a leader of the parent advocacy group Our Duty.
And by “mental health”, they mean for LGBT children. This, too, is another example of Government taking your children’s future from you – another District forcing their staff to lie to parents (by omission or commision) – just like in my school district, Gilford NH, and in Manchester’s (also NH) school district:
- Teacher says she was told to deceive ‘suspicious’ parents about children’s stated gender identities at school — now she’s suing
…The cable network said attorneys for Mirabelli and fellow teacher Lori Ann West — both of whom taught for decades at Rincon Middle School in Escondido — filed a federal lawsuit last week against the school’s leadership, claiming they were effectively required to lie to parents whose children assumed different gender identities at school.
The lawsuit, which was also filed against administrators with the Escondido Union School District (EUSD) and the California State Board of Education, alleged that the K-8 school district’s harassment and discrimination policies mandated teachers to accept a child’s transgender or gender diverse identity without hesitation and to hide it from families.
The suit also claims they were instructed to use students’ preferred names and pronouns in school, but to revert to their biological pronouns and given names when speaking with their parents. Teachers were told to tell “a suspicious parent” that they were allowed only to discuss “information regarding the student’s behavior as it relates to school, class rules, assignments, etc.,” according to the suit.
…While she was figuring out how to approach the situation, Mirabelli told Fox News she learned from the school counselor that students’ names were being changed in official school records without parental knowledge or consent.
So it’s Canada so I’m a bit shakier ground than talking about the US Constitution but there’s this that mirrors our First Amendment:
The “Fundamental Freedoms” section of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms states:
2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:(a) freedom of conscience and religion;
(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
(c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
(d) freedom of association.
Yet, just like our Constitutional Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, it seems that the new State sanctioned secular religion of Sexuality trumps deeply held doctrines of faith:
- Catholic Student Arrested After School Suspension for Saying God Created Only Two Genders
A Roman Catholic student in Canada who was suspended for saying that God created only two genders has now been arrested. On Monday, The Western Journal reported on the story of 16-year-old Josh Alexander, who was suspended from St. Joseph’s Catholic High School in Renfrew, Ontario, after saying in class that there are only two genders and leading a protest against trans athletes using the girls’ locker room. The suspension was justified on the grounds that his presence would be “detrimental to the physical and mental well-being” of the transgender students at the school.
“I expressed my religious beliefs in class and it spiraled out of control,” Alexander told The Epoch Times in an interview. His attorney is bringing the matter to an Ontario human rights tribunal, alleging religious discrimination.
…This is a really disturbing case, and it is especially disturbing that it happened at a Catholic school, which one would think would acknowledge the biblical truth that there are only two genders.
Indeed – yet another religious institution that got the Woke and has lost its connection and fealty to its First Principles.
- How about we stop putting books with pornography in school libraries?
Moms for Liberty was launched in 2021 and now claims 275 chapters in 45 states with 115,000 members and counting. The group has grown exponentially after bringing attention to books like “Genderqueer” in school libraries, which the moms have deemed inappropriate. “Never bet against a mom,” Justice said in the CBS interview, “I mean, nobody’s going to defend anything like a mom is going to defend their child.”
…She continued, “We want people who are serving an elected office [to] respect the role of the parent in a child’s life.”
When the “CBS News Sunday Morning” host asked what kind of books they want in libraries, Descovich said they want books that “educate children.”
The host called her answer a “generalization,” and Justice interrupted.
“Books that don’t have pornography in them. Let’s start there. Let’s just put the bar really, really low. Books that don’t have incest, pedophilia,” she retorted.
The host then went quiet.
There is no reason, NONE AT ALL, as to why porn has to be in our school libraries. The Woke / Trans folks (but I repeat myself) say it is for the “marginalized communities”. Frankly, that’s a stupid dodge and they expect us to swallow that codswallop in one big gulp and like it.
Horsepuckey. There is a reason for it and it isn’t for the marginalized – its meant for conversion of young minds that don’t understand it’s wrong. It’s also evilness being brought against our kids by evil adults that are in on the Woke con.
Remember: “We don’t care about you – we have your kids”.
Don’t let them.
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