Somehow I was unaware until school started this week that the state I live in, Indiana, passed a law this year requiring the school to REPORT to the parents if a child requests to be called by a different name or gender pronoun than they registered under…and the parent has to give written permission for the school to use said name or gender pronouns. This has put a ridiculous burden on the teachers, of course. Today I got an email notifying me that my son, Ben, would like to be called Ben and not Benjamin. I signed a form. Thousands of other parents will do so as well.
This is absolutely fucking ridiculous in so many ways. The pursuit of eliminating trans people at all costs has gotten so out of hand. This is some Taliban shit.
Please…for fuck’s sake call my kids whatever they want to be called, have drag queens read to them…teach them that slavery was bad and gay people exist. Let the teachers teach. Help my kids to be smart and kind and call it a day…I trust our public school system. This is so infuriating.
To the people passing these laws, I hope your children and grandchildren are ashamed of you and put you in a shitty nursing home and never visit you…and then you die (of old age) and the next generation is better. This is disgusting.
Explain to me the problem the law solves. Things were fine, this is a manufactured trans panic.
The government should not keep secrets from the parent without a court order involved. Thats common sense, falls under “Don’t trust the government” And yall wonder why so many are home schooling these days
Since when are teachers part of “the government” lmao
And no one is wondering why so many are home schooling. We are well aware it’s because ignorant parents are afraid that their children will be exposed to ideas, concepts, and facts that they disagree with. The parents are pretty vocal about it we do not have to speculate.
Okay, public school teachers. Fine, I wasn’t pedantic enough.
And yall are misinformed about homeschooling, like you are most things.
Nah that isn’t being pedantic, you just made a really poor argument. Teachers aren’t part of “THE government” they are just teachers. That’s like saying you also don’t trust the health inspectors, social workers, firemen, USPS, doctors and nurses at county hospitals, and libraries— oh wait no that one is also under suspicion and attack because schools and libraries are a place for education and provide access to things a certain group of people disagree with.
So Okay. Enlighten me the reasons that so many people are switching to home school. I’m eager to learn.
My dad was a firefighter and had to give warnings and citations to hill folks who didn’t trim their grass during fire season. As crazy as it seems…in that situation to some of these people firefighters are actually the big bad government.
Yup, it seems crazy. I believe it though I just think it’s unfortunate and depressing that people can be that narrow minded.
If they work for the government directly, then they are part of the government.
And for the record, public schools are shit, kids are bullied, and they fail to teach. And any time an adult wants a kid to keep secrets, its not a good thing. Im trying very hard to not call you guys pedos, but thats what pedos do, ask kids to keep secrets from parents.
No one is asking kids to keep secrets. The kid is free to tell anyone they want, including their parents, what name they prefer to go by for school. It’s hands down a sloppy attempt to ostracize and alienate trans children by making it the overworked teachers responsibility to police nickname use by checking with parents.
Lmao at your reach though, I hope you get deprogrammed soon.
Who said keep secrets?
Do you expect every teacher to call parents if they hear Steven getting called Steve?
Apparently but it’s only the first day of school. I can’t even believe it. I would not believe this if I heard about it…I have the email from the school though.
Oh I believe you, i was responding to @blamemeta