Children do not belong to government. Things children do at school should not be hidden from parents, especially when they’re learning bad things at school
Just days after three New Jersey public school systems simultaneously enacted policies requiring educators to notify parents of changes in their children’s gender identity, the state is pursuing legal action.
New Jersey State Attorney General Matthew Platkin announced the complaints against the Middletown Township, Marlboro Township and Manalapan-Englishtown Regional boards of education, all in Monmouth County.
In a series of complaints filed in a New Jersey Superior Court, the state alleges policies requiring staff to notify parents when students express desire to change names, pronouns or bathroom and/or locker accommodations “target transgender, gender non-conforming, and gender non-binary students by singling them out for differential treatment, requiring parental notification for those students but not their peers.”
In separate companion legal briefs, Platkin also petitions the court to temporarily halt the policy changes from taking effect while legal challenges play out.
These areas tend to be the more Republican voting areas of NJ, along with most of Monmouth County. Even the Democrats in the county will tend to be much less moonbat than most Democrats in the state in areas like Newark and Trenton. The parents in those areas won’t abide with their schools playing the same games schools in heavily Democratic Party run areas do, particularly with their children.
Marc H. Zitomer, who represents the Marlboro Townhip Board of Education, told CNN that disagree with the attorney general’s argument that schools are discriminating against LQBTQ+ students.
“We also have an exception in our policy if such notification would endanger the health or safety of the child,” Zitomer says.
“However, it is our position that keeping parents in the dark about important issues involving their children is counterintuitive and contrary to well established Supreme Court case law that says that parents have a constitutional right to direct and control the upbringing of their children,” adds Zitomer.
Sounds like the districts will fight.
During public remarks, a member who identifies as part of Marlboro’s LGBTQ+ community expressed concern that children will feel forced to out themselves before they are ready and erode the confidence they have in their teachers.
“Students have very delicate relationships with their teachers now more than ever before,” said the community member. “My teachers are in this room. I trusted them with my life. We’re going to break that trust. We’re going to shatter that trust.”
Does this person have children? Why are teachers being confidants and parental stand-ins, especially since the schools are K-8, not high schools? Teachers teach. That’s it. Kids shouldn’t be looking at deep relationships with their teachers. If a child is acting out, getting violent, smoking, doing drugs, and more, parents are notified. Teachers are not parents to these kids, kids who are not 18 yet. Maybe the teachers, activists, and Platkin should worry more about test scores and teaching the kids.
And what happens when a school is sued for millions when it keeps this kind of information from parents?
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