Parents Defending Education has a summary of the 1,040 School Districts in which School Boards have abused their Powers (Government has Powers, Individuals have Rights) in forcing their staff members, including teachers, to lie to Parents concerning the transgender/gender dysphoria of their children when asked (either tangentially or directly).
Here is the New Hampshire part of their list:
- Alton School District
- Barnstead School District
- Barrington School District
- Brentwood School District
- Claremont School District
- Dresden School District
- East Kingston School District
- Epping School District
- Errol Consolidated School District
- Exeter Region Cooperative
- Hanover School District
- Kensington School District
- Manchester School District
- Milford School District
- Monroe Consolidated Schools
- Newfields School District
- Pittsfield Schools
- Sanborn Regional School District
- Stratham School District
- School Administrative Unit 23
- Wakefield School District
- Windham School District
(Links to each school District are on the Parents Defending Education page)
I happily see that, after a two-and-a-half-year struggle, SAU73-Gilford School District is no longer listed in this, which shows that one person (with help!) can make a difference if courage and persistence are brought to the fore.
I also have a Right To Know outstanding to a school district in the Exeter Region Cooperative concerning this nasty issue.
Note that the Newfields School District is on this list – NH Governor Chris Sununu’s hometown. I suppose that he is just FINE with this, given that he gave the Left the Green Light when he signed the bill making gender identity a “protected class,” forcing normal Parents with normal children to start a years-long fight to protect them against the Trans-Authoritarians.
And even though NH State Rep Mike Bordes (R- Laconia) isn’t Transgender (that I know of), he certainly is a card-carrying member of the Trans-Authoritarian Club as he has avidly voted, with his RINO posse, against the Parent’s Bill of Rights this year and last (HB272) along with introducing (I think at the Democrat and teachers unions behest), amendments that gutted the bill. I summarized his stance thusly:
Effectively, NH State Rep Mike Bordes is SCREAMING:
PARENTS – Your children belong to Government!! SCREW YOU, PARENTS!
The above School Districts (the School Boards and their Superintendents) are fine and dandy in giving you all the Middle Finger. THEY have your children – and you don’t.
So what ARE you going to do about them deliberately keeping secrets from you?
Let me finish this post with this from the Fordham Institute (reformatted):
…It is not possible to overstate the level of distrust, even contempt, reflected in the practice of excluding parents from discussions about their child’s gender preference, even deceiving them if students claim their parents are unsupportive.
Moreover, such policies, typically justified as protecting students from harm, are wholly unnecessary. Teachers are “mandated reporters” in every U.S. state. If they have reason to believe children are unsafe at home, they are required by law to alert local child protective services.
In no other conceivable instances is there any justification for excluding parents from profoundly life-altering decisions about their own children. If schools insist on inserting themselves between parents and their children, they do so not because they are compelled to, but because they choose to.
The Supreme Court has recognized for over a century, going back to Pierce v. Society of Sisters, that “the child is not the mere creature of the state.” Keeping a child’s gender switch a secret from parents as a “best practice” is the state saying, in effect, “Oh, yes he (or she) is.”
And now School Districts ARE ignoring what SCOTUS has made plain: these Districts DO believe that children should, first and foremost, always be considered to be the legal wards of the State. Parents are not. This is “Childism” – the bastard offshoot of Critical Race Theory (“ALL Whites are Oppressors, ALL Minorities are Oppressed by them) that has inverted the loving relationship between Parents and their children:
ALL Parents Oppress their children, and School Districts must save them because, being unloved, they are now OUR Children
School Districts have decided that ALL Parents are the enemies of their children. And in how much contempt do teachers view Parents:
…It is not news that Americans’ trust in major institutions has been in freefall for some time. In the case of public education, it’s a two-way street. A December 2021 poll conducted for EdChoice showed that only about a third of teachers (36 percent) say they trust parents, a level below their confidence in their principals, union leaders, and the U.S. Department of Education. This level of institutional disregard creates ripe conditions for public school personnel to assume that their judgment is superior to a child’s parents. And that’s exactly what appears to be happening.
So, anytime a Parent steps into a school, 2/3rds of the teachers looking back at those Parents find them contemptible.
And you’re going to put up with this?
