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Withholding such information would make sense if there was good reason to believe that a parent might turn violent upon hearing the news that his or her child came out as transgender, but to make withholding information the default policy is a fundamental abrogation of parental rights.
Which parental right is being trampled? I understand the extremist language of the article is designed to cause fear & anger - but you gotta support the main thesis. You haven’t!
This is what our taxes are paying for
Wow this is a fresh new take
Only because the government and College of Teachers is letting them. Both have the authority to stop it.
The part that puzzles me the most... there are so many issues facing our children, society and the world, yet it is trans identity that so many parents and teachers are spending all their time and energy. Why? At best it might help 2 - 5 kids in a 1000 person school.
Start digging into the rich players behind the scenes. Just like opioids just like cigarettes followthemoney
I really hope the tide turns, soon. This is a major safe guarding issues.
Translation : Schools trampling parental rights in the name of insane abusive ideology.
Too bad none of them have looked at the background of gender identity studies and the role John Money played. Apparently a man who tortured and sexually abused children is a credible researcher.
Yes!! Parents are NOT the enemy. Thank you for shedding light on this issue. Now keep going. Did deeper.
Rather than 'affirming' maybe 'pretending'?
It is abuse to tell a child his/her perfectly healthy body might need surgery and medication to be “fixed”. Anyone who starts a school that teaches basics and is ideology-free would make a mint. Parents have had it with this insanity.
Yes, schools are exactly doing this under the guise of the human rights code. Teachers assume every parent is an abuser, even when there are no actual signs of abuse. Schools are not psychologists or doctors and parents MUST be involved with all decisions affecting their children
serial killers tend to have personality, sexuality, control and identity issues stemming from negative childhood influences...just sayin' NormanBates really loved his Mommy ;) 😲what the what? nextgen should be very interesting to say the least
Makes me sick 🤢
Nice way of saying grooming kids?
ABDanielleSmith hope you change this. Sounds like it might have been an old NDP policy.
If someone created a Netflix but for non-woke, non-political homeschooling by video they’d be millionaires.
Literally why my kid is being homeschooled.
Education is stupid , bigoted binary thinking is smart = 🫵🏼
Stats WAYYY out of date. I would bet 10 times number from 2016. This is a social contagion and result of radical leftism. Just look at incredulity of HDSB chair Ennis in contorting to defend charlatan with prosthetic breasts. Canada a laughing stock. Article far too wishy washy.
Gender affirming cannot take place at the same age when children believe they can fly or are a lion/cat/horse etc. what these psychos are doing is criminal! They’re cowards who tow the lib line, would never put my kids under their “watch”
jonkay That this needs to be said is frighteningly sad: “ensure that parents are actively involved in matters affecting their children’s education and well-being.”
jonkay “young people being referred for puberty blockers or hormones to nine clinics across the country increased from virtually none in 2004, to over 1,000 in 2016.” I would like to see the change in the number of referrals from 2016 to the present. I bet it’s exponentially more.
Privatize the whole school system.. If they won't listen to parents then I would like MY money to do the talking for me. Privatize it all and get rid of these government union workers.
jonkay Teachers no longer care about preparing students fir the real world.. They are only interested in their ever inflated wages, holidays and pensions. They subject kids to anything they are told to push.
Future generations will look back at this time in shocked disbelief.
It is ridiculous that teachers are discussing this in grade 1 and 2 then asking kid how they identify. A friends daughter was asked she stated a girl teacher followed up with “you don’t have to be you can chose to be a boy or a girl” yup confusing about that to these kids 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
Schools doing anything behind the backs of parents is absolutely a non-starter.