Trump Administration To Rewrite Obama's Transgender Rule (REVERSED!)

Justice Department officials plan to issue new guidance on protections for transgender students that will effectively reverse Obama-era recommendations and ensure those issues are decided at the state level going forward.

"That's an issue that the Department of Justice the Department of Education are addressing, and I think there will be further guidance coming from [Justice Department] in particular, with respect to not just the executive order but the case that's in front of the Supreme Court," White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday.

The Supreme Court is slated to hear oral arguments late next month on a case involving a transgender teen from Virginia who sued the local school board for the right to use the men's bathroom on campus despite being born a female. The debate over transgender "bathroom bills" gained increasing attention late last year after the Obama administration sent guidance to public schools saying they should allow transgender students to use whichever bathroom matches their gender identity.

"The president has maintained for a long time that this is a state's right issue and not one for the federal government," Spicer said when asked for Trump's position on the hot-button issue. "So while there will be further guidance coming out this, I think that all you need to do is look at what the president's view has been for a long time."

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The Trump administration decided last week not to mount a legal challenge against a nationwide injunction that has blocked schools from letting transgender students use bathrooms that do not correspond with their biological sex.

During the campaign, Trump himself called the controversial North Carolina bathroom bill "very strong" and suggested he would allow transgender individuals to use either restroom while visiting his skyscraper on Fifth Avenue.

You are wrong. “The state-led effort to develop the Common Core State Standards was launched in 2009 by state leaders, including governors and state commissioners of education from 48 states, two territories and the District of Columbia, through their membership in the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). State school chiefs and governors recognized the value of consistent, real-world learning goals and launched this effort to ensure all students, regardless of where they live, are graduating high school prepared for college, career, and life.

Quote from: http://www.corestandards.org/about-the-standards/development-process/

Part of where they went wrong is that they oriented their standards to college, career, and life (presumably middle class). What our schools in many places are failing to do is prepare people for work that is NOT college and career oriented, and thus not preparing them for work as carpenters, plumbers, electricians, sheet metal workers, high rise construction workers, heavy equipment drivers, etc. With so much of physical education being dropped from schools, many are not even physically capable of such work. Many Trump voters are drawn from the group who have been utterly neglected with regard to education to do those kinds of work. Instead, businesses have relied on cheap foreign laborers. I seriously question whether a very rich woman who has NO public school experience or exposure will even be aware of this core problem facing the common man.

The doors on stalls in girls and women’s school and public bathrooms have locks on the inside. I can remember closing and locking stalls when I was six. Obviously your experience with female rest rooms is rather limited. From the little I’ve seen of male rest rooms, there is usually a long trough to pee in and a few stalls to do do in.

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