Tag: parental rights

California Teacher Fired for Saying She Would Tell Parents About Gender Transition of Their Child

California gym teacher Jessica Taipas said she would tell parents if their children started secret gender transitions. Taipas said she never notified a parent of a child’s transgenderism or prevented a boy from entering the girls’ locker room because these situations never came up. But saying she would not obey school rules in these hypothetical…


Parents Rein in ‘Rogue’ Sex Education in Michigan Schools

Long-standing Michigan laws have become a new weapon for a group of aspiring education reformers seeking to guard school children in the state against what they call “illegal hyper-sexualization” and other “woke” teachings. Activists concerned about what they were seeing in the state’s public schools recently formed a non-profit, non-partisan organization they call the Great…


Missouri Debate Bill to Ban School Encouragement of Child Gender Transition

Teachers shouldn’t encourage young children to get sex changes, a new Missouri bill states. The Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act prohibits school personnel from affirming or encouraging sex orientation changes in children in middle school and under without parental permission. Missouri state Sen. Mike Moon (R) introduced the bill. It addresses a common situation…


Missouri Considers Bill to Ban School Encouragement of Child Gender Transition

Teachers shouldn’t encourage young children to get sex changes, a new Missouri bill states. The Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act prohibits school personnel from affirming or encouraging sex orientation changes in children in middle school and under without parental permission. Missouri state Sen. Mike Moon (R) introduced the bill. It addresses a common situation…


Military Investigates Mother for Facebook Post Objecting to LGBT Banners

New Jersey mom Angela Reading didn’t expect a single Facebook post would deem her a “security threat” in the opinion of U.S. military officials. But it has, military documents confirm. “They’ve created this image of me—that I’m some sort of domestic terrorist—because I don’t want sexual posters hanging on the wall in an elementary school,”…


Pornographic and Racially-Divisive Books Removed From Florida Schools Despite Pushback

Public school districts across Florida are working to comply with several new state laws designed to stop the sexualizing of young school children and the indoctrination of students with racially prejudicial theories. As a result of the legislation, all books and other materials in school libraries and classroom book collections must be inventoried and reviewed…


New Jersey Schools Use State Guidelines to Justify Biological Boys in Girls’ Locker Rooms

New Jersey’s Department of Education (NJDOE) issued guidelines instructing schools to let transgender-identifying students use opposite-sex locker rooms, to wear opposite-sex clothing at school, and be “supportive” of gender transition. Moreover, a child’s choice to change gender should remain secret from parents if the child wants, the school guidelines said. “There is no affirmative duty…


How ‘Gender Queer,’ America’s Most ‘Banned’ Book, Took Center Stage in the Battle Over Public Education

On a brisk mid-October evening, the public school board of Spring Lake, Michigan, convened in the intermediate school library. The meeting was called to order, the Pledge of Allegiance recited, the auditor’s report presented. None of this accounted for the standing-room-only crowd of parents, educators, and citizens drawn from this town of 2,500 people, or…


Trustee Criticizes School Board for Handling of Parent With Concerns Over Sexual Material

A Waterloo District School Board (WRDSB) trustee released an open letter on Twitter to parents, students, school staff, and the greater community Monday, criticizing the school board for responding to a parent’s concern with an “insulting tone” in an open letter to the public. Mike Ramsay, a former police officer, raised concerns with the way…


Parents Use Inclusion Rules to Remove LGBT Symbols From School

Putting up signage that represents only sexual minority groups is not “inclusive,” parents told New Jersey’s Long Valley Middle School. For about five years, the middle school posted square signs showing a rainbow triangle outside many of its classrooms, parents said. This designated the classrooms as a “safe space” for LGBT students. But the school…