Evil within our school system

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Coming back to teach another year of high school, today I was struck (once again–but more harshly than ever) how fundamentally anti-family the typical school system has become. The principal wasted little time in reminding all teachers:
  1. Students who choose to reveal to us that they consider themselves to be of the other gender will be addressed with those preferred pronouns
  2. This will be done even when parents are known to object
  3. It doesn’t matter what we personally believe–our non-discrimination policy requires this
and, here’s the kicker…
4) We won’t tell parents we’re doing it

These kids are minors. Item #4 in particular simply cannot be legal. Yet this is done all across the country. As I see it, the best remedy would be to force schools to simply state what their policy is. Informed parents could cause a sea change.

Are any of you public school parents aware of this already?
 
Item 4 is indeed legal. There is no law a school has to tell parents much of anything. But While legal it is absolutely unwise. Someday in our litigious country a parent will file a lawsuit or even allege a sexual crime against a school that encourages and discusses sexual deviances with children. As well they should. If I found out a teacher was encouraging, or discussing sexual behavior with children I would report them. If a man did that at a park he would be arrested.

Luckily we homeschool.
 
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As well they should. If I found out a teacher was encouraging, or discussing sexual behavior with children I would report them. If a man did that at a park he would be arrested.
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I don’t think they are doing that, unless it is part of a sex education class. In that case, that aren’t encouraging anything other than acceptance of those who may be different.
 
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I spoke with many other parents in our church who’s children attended public school and it was frightening to me the lack effort put into addressing moral issues. That was one of the many factors driving us to move from OH to SC. Society as a whole is far less tolerant of such liberal behavior vs. what we were seeing as the norm in OH just outside of a large city (hint: second poorest large city in the country).
 
You’re right that specific sexual behaviors aren’t being advocated. However, it isn’t just about accepting differences. Teachers who are ordered as I described, are forced to essentially say, “Since you consider yourself a boy, you actually are one.”
Fairness and kindness do not demand such a violation of teachers’ right of conscience, and usurpation of parents’ role.
Surely, schools have neither the wisdom nor authority to do this.
 
I agree. Worryingly, schools are not merely a reflection of the local community; they are shaped and driven by administrators and the Schools of Education (which turn out teachers who think very differently from parents).
My own principal is a father and a nice guy, but the dogma he cites from the school principals’ publications is jarring.
Again, sunlight is our only hope.
 
Just imagine the Church with kids having a policy of “dont tell the parents” what we are teaching about sexual identity!?

All this madness would stop if a teacher was socially at risk, financially at risk, and a career was at risk. You know, like any other job that has contact with children.
 
In the US, public schools are not monolithic. They are operated by each State, and then even more so by your local school board.

As a teacher, you likely know the names of your school board members. Sadly, most non-teaching professionals do not even know who their school board rep is, let alone attend meetings and become active.

Love these kids, if that means that Josephine wants to be called Joe, that is a small kindness that may keep you in place to be caring person to show Christ through your love.
 
A high school history classroom in my town has clipped anti-Trump articles, cartoons and pictures pasted all over the the entrance door and in the room itself.

The leaders of this and other like-minded schools say one thing about harassment but then do the opposite.

Poor kids…
 
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This is why we are sacrificing to send our grandson to Catholic school. And why we talked to both the pastor and the principal to make sure they are teaching orthodox catholic principles.
 
I am mulling whether or what to say to the board.

It isn’t just a matter of calling Josephine Joe; once a teacher calls her “him,” the school is making a statement that she is in fact a boy. (When teachers are ordered to do THAT, it is an offense against their right of conscience.) And when this is the policy irrespective of parents’ expressed wishes, it simply is not to be tolerated.

An article in USA today last week by Jay Keck title “(My Daughter’s) Public School Undermined my Efforts to Help Her” describes my school’s policy perfectly.
 
With regard to this issue, I’d really like to know if the folks on this forum who use public schools know their school’s policy. It is very likely THIS policy. But we sure aren’t going to tell the public upfront.
 
Hi @fj2020, you must be new here.

Public schools are torn down here all of the time. I used to work at a Catholic high school and my wife has worked in a public high school for over 15 years. It’s interesting how much I learn about public schools (normally from people who don’t send their kids to public school) here that I’ve never known or never experienced in my entire public school career or my wife’s teaching career.

There is a user here who’s entire shtick is to compare public schools to the US prison system…it’s interesting.
 
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There’s a difference between “evil in the school system” and “everyone who works at or attends a public school is evil.” I don’t see how you can deny that certain policies and curricula are directly opposed to Christian morality.

And for what it’s worth, my first grader attends a public school and is so far having a very good experience with veteran Christian teachers.
 
Just because something isn’t Christian-based does not mean it is evil. It can still be wonderful and fabulous.
 
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heidi_storage said:
True but irrelevant. No one has argued the contrary.
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The title of the thread is “Evil Within Our School System”.

It is often said outright, or implied, here at CAF that any education other than Christian education is, indeed, evil.
 
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