Posted on 02/15/2025 3:07:07 AM PST by Libloather
Score another win for parental rights and common sense.
Three school districts in New Jersey were given the green light to drop a controversial transgender student policy after years of legal wrangling.
On Monday, a state appellate court issued the ruling allowing Monmouth County districts Middletown, Manalapan-Englishtown and Marlboro to remove from their books the state’s guidelines on how parents are notified if their child decides to transition.
The decision was welcomed by members of the Middletown school board. On Thursday night, they voted 7 to 1 to toss controversial policy 5756 in the dustbin — and simply deal with trans students and parental notification on a case-by-case basis. (Manalapan and Marlboro will both vote on the issue next week).
“This is an overdue victory for parental rights and against government overreach,” Middletown Board of Education Vice President Jacqueline Tobacco told The Post. “It’s been a long drawn out waste of everyone’s time.”
Attorney Bruce Padula, who represents both Middletown and Manalapan-Englishtown told The Post he “considers it a victory that [districts] are now put in the same position as every other school district in the state, that they can make the same policy decisions that they feel are best for their community.”
To recap, this convoluted and colossal waste of time: In 2019, Middletown adopted policy 5756 because they were told by Strauss Esmay, a third party vendor tasked with interpreting policies for schools, that it was mandatory.
But as COVID-19 shutdowns ignited a powerful parental rights movement that upended school boards across the country, new administrations began to take stock of their priorities. That included approaches to trans students — a suddenly growing population.
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Amazing how we were all forced into accepting other peoples mental illness as normal and more amazing is they are a microscopic portion of the population that has taken over society as a whole with the help of the rats pf coarse
Surprising especially for one who lives there. You can expect whining, crying, pee in pants antics from the flamboyant community. They’ll scream until they go hoarse. Parade around in girly clothes, curse everyone who is sane. Sickos.
Given the green light to stop the stupidity.... Who in their right mind would have started it. Idiots.
The parents should sue the teachers and schools who preach transgenderism to the kids.
So, what is this “Strauss Esmay” anyway?
That ...uh..woman...needs a shave. The 5 o’clock shadow just shows through.
“Strauss Esmay Associates (SEA) has been working with New Jersey schools since 1972 providing school policy and regulation consulting services.”
"This 5756 policy was born from a lie, from a company called Strauss Esmay, that sent it over with about 20 different policies lumped together in May of 2019, listing it as a mandatory policy," said Holmdel BOE vice president Terence Wall. "I was on the Board then, this slipped through. Everyone voted for it. It was a mistake. Why? Because it's a fraud.""Strauss Esmay has rolled most boards of ed. in the state of New Jersey," Wall continued. "It's basically a three-person group down in Toms River, making millions of dollars on the backs of Holmdel taxpayers and every taxpayer across New Jersey. A monopoly. What I would call part of a legal education cartel."
"Do you think it's OK to have third-party vendors push policies into our schools and act like it's a law when it's not?" said Tobacco. "So now the state is suing us over a policy we never even needed to have. Strauss Esmay should be responsible for our legal bills. They're the ones who told school districts this was mandatory."
"The whole job of a school board is to make policy; that's why we are elected," Tobacco continued. "But we don't have to do what the state says unless it's a law. Strauss Esmay gave us false information that led us to a lawsuit."
“Any district that is comfortable being lied to should keep Strauss Esmay," fumed Holmdel school board vice president Wall. "My own individual view, not representative of my local board of education, is that gaslighting school boards with tortured redefinitions of the word ‘mandatory’ disqualifies you from working in this space.”
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