A Maine School Board had its toes on the ledge. They were going to vote on a policy to allow teachers and coaches to hide a student’s mental health issues from parents. But the board “transitioned away” and put the new policy on hold after parents made a stand.
The Oxford Hills School Board voted unanimously Tuesday night to indefinitely postpone the adoption of a controversial policy that would require school employees to keep details of students’ mental health secret from parents.
Under the proposed policy, a student experiencing gender dysphoria or gender confusion could ask a school employee to withhold that information from parents, and the school employee would be required to comply.
The proposed policy would also require school staff to coach students on how to avoid changing official records in a way that might allow parents to discover that the student is struggling with gender dysphoria or gender confusion.
One of the towns in this district has successfully petitioned for a recall election of the two board members believed to be behind the policy. #Wokeistan culture warriors tried to stop the recall election but failed. And now the board has tabled the policy pending forever and, at the very least, the outcome of the recall election.
This, of course, got me thinking. If a school can issue a gag order based on gender status under the umbrella of mental health, then are they admitting gender dysphoria is a mental health issue? And what, then, isn’t a mental health issue? There’s nothing to stop a school from locking down everything about a student’s education with the potential for psychological trauma.
Parents would lose the right to know anything about what happens in the government school, which should have everyone scratching their heads.
Schools already go out of their way – when possible – to hide sexual relationships between students and teachers, including actual sexual assaults. The teacher’s unions will fight wing and claw to keep a lid on any rumors or accusations. Administrators have been known to intimidate other students into keeping quiet, and school boards are not innocent either.
If anything, School Boards and Superintendents should be enlarging the magnifying glass and shining bigger flashlights. These aren’t just someone else’s kids. They are children (of all ages) being directed by an institution whose entire existence is at the expense of parents and other taxpayers.
It’s crazy town, and that crazy is probably in your town, so it is in your best interests to get involved and find out. You might arrive just in time to usher in a moment of sanity in your corner of America, or you may discover you have some things to undo. Either way, you’ll have work ahead of you, and someone has to do it.
HT | The Maine Wire
