One of the cultural conflicts taking place in multiple school boards across Southern California \u2013 and likely in many other places across the country \u2013 is a debate about whether school personnel should disclose gender-related conversations initiated by students with parents. Many education leaders \u2013 including teachers\u2019 unions \u2013 are adamant school personnel must not be required to share those conversations with parents. When a student (of any age) raises gender-concerns, these educators believe they should advise students apart from parental input.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is \u2013 in a word \u2013 preposterous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In contrast to this debate, a mother recently told me about her experience \u2013 in a public school \u2013 of the disclosure requirements for her child to be given a once-daily dose of a prescription medication by school personnel. Getting this done required signing several legal documents, a face-to-face meeting with a school nurse, and agreeing to reporting protocols to keep everyone informed about these treatments \u2013 just swallowing two pills before lunch every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A quick check of some other requirements revealed parents are still required to be consulted (and to sign permission forms) for students traveling on off-campus field trips, participating on athletic teams, watching any movie (even G-rated), or enrolling in advanced courses with additional fees. In most school districts, a child needs parental permission to do all these things \u2013 including take physician-prescribed medication on school property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In contrast, school personnel are advocating for the right to discuss gender issues \u2013 up to and including gender-transformation \u2013 without involving parents. In the face of these contradictory standards, the true agenda is blatantly revealed. Educational leaders, as an expression of governmental control, are advancing the gender-choice movement \u2013 rooted in a worldview called \u201cexpressive individualism\u201d \u2013 which ultimately undermines nuclear families and replaces them with a state-centric approach to enculturation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are sowing the wind and we will reap the whirlwind. The family has been the foundation for healthy societies for millennia. Without a doubt, there are dysfunctional families and healthy families that do not fit a traditional model. But those exceptions do not invalidate the overwhelmingly positive impact of a nuclear family \u2013 a mother and father taking responsibility for nurturing their own children. These families enrich both adults and children, providing a healthy environment for emotional, psychological, physical \u2013 and yes, spiritual growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you are a parent, demand access to any and all information anyone \u2013 medical personnel, school administrator, classroom teacher \u2013 has about your child and talk it over with your children. No secrets from parents! And if you are disengaged as a parent, trusting others to educate your children, reengage and do your job. Children need parents who are fully committed to their well-being, including advocating for them and protecting them from gender-confusion advocates in any context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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