I just keep tabbing interesting stories all the time but never seem to catch up on writing about them. NH Journal had this about the MSD and why it feels that it can brazenly lie to parents about their child’s transgender status (for which they are being sued). Reformatted, emphasis mine:
Citizens may have a lot of questions about Manchester School District’s policy of keeping students’ transgender activity secret from their parents. But thus far, officials in the state’s largest school district are not talking. Asked about the policy, school board officials, including Mayor Joyce Craig, all declined to defend it.
…“(T)his motion can be easily resolved by answering one discrete question:
Do school districts have a legally enforceable duty to inform parents when a student uses a name or gender pronoun different than that assigned at birth? Because the answer to this question is no, the Complaint should be dismissed,”
MSD’s filing states.
The answer is no, there is no current NH Law that says that the District SHALL (meaning it is mandatory to do so) inform parents. While morally they should, as the Parents are the taxpaying customers of the product public schools produce, the fact that they refuse makes it clear that the “morality” (such as it is) that public schools have adopted from the Transgender Politics/Theology combined with Mob Social Justice that has turned them from being educators to Social Justice Warriors. With this, they also incorporate the Black Live Matter Oppressor/Oppressed model in which Parents are Oppressors and they Oppress their children. But I digress.
Let’s state the converse:
Can school districts point to an RSA (NH Law) that has been passed by the State Legislature that enables them to lie to parents when a student uses a name or gender pronoun different than that assigned at birth? Because the answer to this question is no, the Complaint should be dismissed proceed,”
They say there is no law compelling them – the more important issue is that in our State, subdivisions of the State (and MSD is one) can ONLY do those things that are enabled in some State statute. There isn’t one and that is why I am suing my board, the Gilford School Board, for the same thing – they have no Power to lie to parents. In both cases, MSD and GSD, their scummy lawyers are working hard to not let the cases into the courtroom because they know they’ll lose in a heartbeat.
There are two kinds of States in the nation: Home Rule and Dillon’s Rule. The formers says that subdivisions of the State can do whatever they want as long as they done VIOLATE State and Federal law. IF NH was a Home Rule state, there’d be no case.
But NH is the latter kind. Thus, it means they can’t do what they are – acting is if there WAS a law allowing them to lie to parents.
Summary: cute try at a slight of hand on confirming the negative, MSD, what what is the issue is the positive.
Craig, who chairs the school board, declined requests for comment on the policy. She also would not answer questions about whether she supports the policy. None of the members of the board’s policy committee, Leslie Want, Nicole Leapley, Peter Perich, Sean Parr, or Jason Bonilla, would discuss the matter, either.
Of course they won’t. They’d rather win than admit they were trying to pass one over wrong. Seems to be going on all over the State.
Truth? Honesty? No, these Districts are using the courts as a legal cudgel to bankrupt parents. After all, in their eyes, the children belong to the schools and Parents just get in the way when it comes to Policy JBAB (lying to Parents).
It’s the “Woke” way.
