We got an email from the Grandson’s kindergarten about this coming week. In it were some instructions for the rest of the school days:
We will be enjoying lots of outdoor learning this week so please have your child wear sneakers every day and put on bug spray at home. We cannot apply lotions or sprays to our learners. We will be on the nature trail every day, as long as the good weather allows. Sneakers are best to keep toes safe on the trail.
TMEW and I were talking about this – his last day of school is in a couple of weeks. First, what this told us is that the formal classroom teaching is most likely over for the year. We kind of figured that out as the Grandson said that they were doing “camping out in school”. That’s not to say there’s no learning going on – homeschoolers take advantage of any and all chances for education and there is a lot to learn being outside.
But look at the admonition – WE have to apply bug spray to him before he gets on the bus – they cannot do any of that (bug spray, I guess, being the new aspirin). They don’t have permission from us to give him anything without prior notification or assent. That’s the way it should be.
Even for something like bug spray. Yet:
A. Privacy
The Gilford School Board recognizes a student’s right to keep private one’s transgender status or gender non-conforming presentation at school. Information about a student’s transgender status, legal name, or gender assigned at birth also may constitute confidential information. School personnel should not disclose information that may reveal a student’s transgender status or gender non-conforming presentation to others, including parents and other school personnel, unless legally required to do so or unless the student or parent has authorized such disclosure. Transgender and gender non-conforming students have the right to discuss and express their gender identity and expression openly and to decide when, with whom, and how much to share private information.
When contacting the parent or guardian of a transgender or gender non-conforming student, school personnel should use the student’s legal name and the pronoun corresponding to the student’s gender assigned at birth unless the student, parent, or guardian has specified otherwise.
As I have related before – they can certainly lie to me about the sexual identity of my Grandson.
Again, look what a school in Clay County, Florida did to a 12 year old girl. Send to the guidance counselor for bullying, Ms. Washington “counseled” that child into going transgender which led the child to trying to commit suicide twice in the school’s girls’ bathroom before ever notifying her Parents.
I know I keep repeating this, but this child is not the only one. The school did something that they didn’t have permission to do.
So which is worse – can’t do bug spray but put into motion the process of turning a child transgender and not telling that minor child’s Parents what they are doing to that child?
