Posted on 05/17/2022 3:35:12 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
A federal judge is blocking a Kansas public school's policy preventing teachers from outing transgender students to their parents after the teacher raised religious objections.
Fort Riley Middle School math teacher Pamela Ricard sued USD 475 Geary County Schools over LGBTQ anti-discrimination policies that conflicted with her Christian beliefs.
District Judge Holly Teeter issued a preliminary injunction on Monday blocking the school from disciplining Ricard if she reveals preferred names and pronouns of her transgender students when communicating with their parents.
"The Court relies on Plaintiff’s statements that she does not intend to communicate with a parent for the sole purpose of disclosing a student’s preferred name and pronouns," Teeter wrote.....
District administrators contended that it is not the school's place to "out" a student to their parents, arguing that "if the home life is such that the student doesn’t want to be out to their parents, it’s not our job to do it." Teeter said that is not a "compelling interest."
However, federal law grants parents the right to access educational records on their children, including any records on preferred names and pronouns — regardless of whether the child wants their parents to have the records.
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I hadn't heard of that before. What's the statute? Would be handy.
I thought they wanted everybody to know who they are??
“All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed. But those who do what is right come to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants.”
John 3:20-21 NLT
>I hadn’t heard of that before. What’s the statute? Would be handy.
Probably FERPA. All parents have access to their children’s records.
Good for her!
Fight back, folks!
Schools hiding info from parents is part of the grooming agenda.
This teacher bravely refuses to participate in systemic grooming.
If the parents don’t know or at least suspect, we have a larger problem.
The people in that school district should raise holy h*** until those administrators are fired. We have put up with this kind of crap for way too long.
It’s good to see the parents using the it’s time to take back.
They do it, and the counselors are some of the ones who
do it the most.
If a kid is doing something wrong, they run to a counselor
and confess.
From that moment on, the school is barred from telling
parents anything.
Take it from me, I mean ANYTHING.
In middle-school, from smoking to sex with adults, schools
don’t think you have a need to know. And if the kid claims
the parent is abusive, well, you’ll never know anything.
These are the people who now claim to own our kids.
Maybe I would have wanted to potentially started puberty blockers...
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