Okay, aside from the belief that parents need to know every single thing a kid does... what is so bad/wrong/whatever about parents not knowing that a kid wants to change their name/pronoun without them knowing?
I have my point of view based upon my own personal experience with a school deciding what I did, or didn’t, need to know about my own child, & it had nothing to do with a pronoun debate.
If the school has actually been interested in the welfare of the children instead of its own legal standing, I might not have had to beat some dude with a motorcycle helmet and threaten him that I’d be back repeatedly if his child laid a hand on another child at the school ever again.
Sometimes violence is the only answer to violence, but I wish the school would’ve provided an option to me having to solve the issue outside of the system
What is so wrong with wanting the kid to make the decision about when and where a parent finds out that their kid is trans, or gender fluid, or ace or gender non-conforming or gay, or bi, or lesbian?
I’m on the outside of this one, & our kids are all in their 30’s with kids of their own.
I’m outside of being directly impacted by the “pronouns debate” but lived through the “school deciding what I did or didn’t need to know about the health & welfare of my own child” end of the debate, and thus my stance from being to end here.
Is the "harm" being done just that the parents aren't included and thus feel left out? Asking honestly here.
Well, parents being excluded by the school in knowledge of what’s happening with their children by policy I’d assume would be the answer.
You refer to children as being Chattel or possessions of parents, or something like that (I was up in the middle of the night, and I vaguely remember something like that I think).
Children are young mailable human beings, and the responsibility of the parents until the age of majority, but they’re still a parents children Forever. Even though our children are all in their ‘30’s…they’re still our kids.
Children are not the property or chattel of the school system either, and once they graduate…they don’t remain the schools students forever…as it’s a different relationship than the bond between children and their parents, both in regards to rights and responsibilities and obligations.
But that is what is being said - that the rights of kids matter less than the parent. Instead of trying to work something out that might work for everyone, this idea of "screw the kids, they're stupid and don't know what they're talking about" is winning. To the detriment of those same kids.
I keep getting calls from drivers on my day off here, so I’ll come back to this later.
