[Travis McGee]

The Long, Horrifying History of Groomers

They are coming for your children. They will have an advocate on the Supreme Court.

By Antoinette Aubert / April 8, 2022
https://amgreatness.com/2022/04/08/the-long-horrifying-history-of-groomers/

In the 1980s and 90s, I worked in child advocacy. One of my jobs was to teach children how to protect themselves from abuse. First and foremost I taught children that adults should not be telling children to keep secrets. I taught children if an adult were to tell a child that something the adult does or says must be kept secret from mom or dad, the adult was doing wrong. The first way for a child to protect themselves was to immediately tell mom and dad about adults wanting to keep secrets.

Florida took that safety lecture I used to teach children and turned it into legislation, (HB 1557) Parental Rights In Education. Simply put, the law requires schools to keep no secrets from parents. Whatever the schools are teaching children, the schools must notify parents. This is basic safety for a child, codified into law.

It was once my job to give children this knowledge to protect themselves. Imagine my stark horror now. Now, if you tell children to protect themselves from secret-keepers you are labeled a bigot, homophobe, and transphobe. The entire media industrial complex is demanding teachers be allowed to keep secrets from parents.

Teachers have decided they are victims if they aren’t allowed to keep secrets with five year-olds. [rest at link]

[DeplorablePaul]

OK groomer.

[wintertime]

Excellent point!

[Lisbon1940]

Good grooming used to be taught to kids. Now they do it to them.

[nathanbedford]

As much as I deplore the left's exploitation of the civil rights acts for intimidation, it occurs that the tables might just be turned by the parents bringing actions against schools, school boards and teachers for violation of their civil rights.

It seems that the current state of the law does not quite cover abuse of parents, that is, it does not provide for the right to sue unless based on race, ethnicity or sexual identity etc. but the act does apparently call for notice to be given. You note in your comments that the state law now requires notice. If the abuse is gross enough, if there is a lack of notice, if that lack of notice somehow interferes with parents rights to vote on school board issues or on the school board itself, it is conceivable that the federal civil rights laws can be applied against the school.

Most likely, that sort of remedial legal action must abide the election of Republicans to control the House and Senate and, even then, somehow to control Mitch McConnell and his henchmen so the civil rights act can be amended to protect parents.

[logi_cal869]

I applaud the results here, but it will not dissuade them until a message is sent.

The message: