Posted on 03/30/2025 7:07:26 AM PDT by Ahithophel
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) defended California law allowing teachers to not tell parents about students changing their gender identity by stating that under the prior law, “a teacher would be fired if a teacher did not report or snitch on a kid talking about their gender identity. I just think that was wrong. I think teachers should teach. I don’t think they should be required to turn in kids.”
After Newsom criticized Democrats, host Bill Maher asked, “So, what do you say to people who say, well, this sounds all very good, but, Governor, you were the poster boy for a lot of this stuff? I see, today, the Trump administration is — they talked about, I don’t know if this is true — but they talked about the fact that California had a rule that schools cannot be required to notify parents if their kids in school have changed their gender, their pronouns. That’s the kind of thing — even though it doesn’t affect a lot of people — that makes a lot of people go, well, you know what? That’s the party without common sense. Now, if that’s your state, how are you, are you –?”
Newsom cut in to respond, “I just disagree with that. The law was you would be fired, a teacher would be fired if a teacher did not report or snitch on a kid talking about their gender identity. I just think that was wrong. I think teachers should teach. I don’t think they should be required to turn in kids. And by the way –.”
Maher cut in to say, “Turn in? We’re talking about their parents. How can you snitch — the idea of a snitch and a parent, to me, doesn’t compute.”
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Exactly!
How did they acquire the power to be so destructive? We let them?
Informing a parent of something that would impact the a kid for his while life is snitching?
These people are dangerous.
“Schools are propagandizing and secretly pushing them to cut the genitals off. He’s acting like schools are mere bystanders.
It’s repugnant that a teacher has a right to decide and deceive a parent.”
Exactly. Is Newsom so naive, or so deceitful, that he would present it this way? There is far more than “by standing” going on; being “trans” is both encouraged and glorified.
Once upon a time teachers were interested in their students' welfare. Alerting someone (parents) that their child was in a state of mental illness would be advocating for the child's welfare.
Encouraging the behavior only makes the teacher an enabler.
Snitching? You won’t fool me. This about “kill, steal, and destroy.”
I forget, because I don’t care, who the prominent conservative guest on his first show was. But he used the word “snitch” in the same context in that show. So it’s intentional. That surely is a freighted word; it carries profoundly negative connotation. Using it in this context is a real turn off to parents, but it’s obviously intentional. He’s not a genius, but he’s not stupid either. I wonder why the intentional choice to use this word
Teachers are supposed to contact a parent or guardian if there is something major going on in a child's life of which the parent should be aware. It is not snitching but instead notifying a parent of something affecting the child's life which could have long-term consequences. Teachers are not supposed to be a child's best friend or bosom buddy.
Hey Newsom...kids should not be force fed sexual information...ya pervert!
There is no reason to argue with Newsom on that false premise. If that were all that was going on, the issue would be a minor one. The real issue is that teachers and other school employees were and are influencing students to change their sexual “identity” and siding with the children against parents if they seem susceptible.
Had they stayed completely neutral, kids would have rejected a passing fad or it would have been between them and their parents. But these DemocRats have to prove how smart and correct they are.
Newsom is deliberately trying to change the issue, in my view.
Couple of Demwits... It's rare to see one Concern Troll having a discussion with another Concern Troll.
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If I were a teacher, I’d be obsessed about the academic results of the little darlings and would purposely avoid getting involved in whatever “phase” the lizards are going through - or “think” they are going through, short of physical abuse. If they challenge me on pronouns, that will be brought to the parents at the private meeting. The parents can infer from that info...or not. I don’t have kids but I can’t imagine being so detached that I need a damn teacher telling me that “Billy Jr” wants to be “Billie Jean”.
Here it is 2025, I’m 70, and with all of the shit I have done in my life and all of the shit I’ve been accused of doing it still boils down to the simple fact that I have no kids in school as the deciding factor of me not being in prison.
Anything that comes between parents and their children is wrong, unless it is to protect the children from something harmful caused by the parents. Gender dysphoria is up to the parents to deal with, not a bunch of lefty “educators”.
Instead of reading “in loco parentis” by its Latin meaning of “in the place of parents when the parents aren’t there” they’ve gone with the Spanish meaning of “loco” and acting as crazy parents.
The man who would be president carelessly throws around the word “snitch.”
“Snitch” is an insulting name for a person who informs the police
or other authorities when others break the law or the rules.
Snitch can also refer to an informant who reports a crime.
Or a “tattletale” who tells on someone’s bad behavior, to their parents or to a teacher.
Newsom can die on the hill of Transgender Lies to students and parents.
What a disgusting creep he is, complete slimeball.
Newsom thinks like a toddler.
It’s not snitching if a person reports another doing something perfectly legal and ethical.
These teachers consider it ‘snitching’ because they are helping kids get away with doing something damaging, age inappropriate, and wrong.
I mean, parents should know what’s going on at school anyway, right? Commie SOB’s.
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