FCPS not following the new state models

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there guidelines for who is allowed to use the restrooms? In other words, are there guidelines to determine who is trans and who is not? What about non-binary? Which restrooms do they use?

Inquiring minds would like to know if middle school boys can just decide one day to use the girls' bathrooms?

Are there specific rules/policies on this?

I have not seen them.

There are no guidelines.

Any boy, or male staff member, at any time or reason can walk into a girls bathroom or locker room in fcps, as long as they claim to feel trans or non binary at that moment.

There is zero gatekeeping and no parent permission or notification required.

If you opt your kid out of FLE or any lesson involving trans information of any kind, FCPS allows your kid to opt themselves back into the lesson without parent notification and in defiance of parent written opt out, according to Dr. Reid at her parent meet and greet last fall at our region 4 high school. Dr. Reid confirmed this is FCPS policy, verbally, not once, but twice in front of an auditorium full of parents.

Putting parent notification in place provides gatekeeping and protection that is beneficial to all students.

FCPS overriding parental opt out and written wishes, and deliberately hiding information from parents, especially given safety risks for female students AND trans students, and given the increased suicide and self harm risks by trans students, is ethically and morally wrong and should be illegal.

In what other situation would a school deliberately hide from parents student information that carried a significant risk of suicide and self harm?

Parents are the ones who will pick up the pieces if something goes wrong, not schools. Parents are part of a childs life for a lifetime, not Dr. Reid or the school board members. Parents are the ones who love, cherish and provide for their children, not Dr. Reid.

Not all families. Look at the ones who want to keep their kids ignorant. They care more about politics than caring for their own kids.

Completely agree. Some families keep their kids ignorant by allowing political activists teach them their version of Sex/Ed, regardless of any boundaries. They outsource that part of their children’s education to complete strangers, and trust that they know better than anyone, themselves included.

In the name of virtue signaling, they allow these gender activists to teach their version of transgenderism, which is NOT inclusive of stories of people who have regretted having transitioned when young and that they feel as if the adults in their lives failed to protect them. They are also not inclusive of experts opinions in the matter because they claim to know better than psychologists, endocrinologists, sociologists, and psychiatrists in the US and around the world who reject gender-affirming care because of the harm they have seen it causes to children.

What kind of parent keeps their kids ignorant and complicit of a crime committed towards kids with gender dysphoria who come to regret their gender-affirming care because of the irreversible damage done to them? My guess is parents who refuse to educate themselves outside of their political bubble.

This. A thousand times this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP- I don’t care that they aren’t following the state models.

I am posting this so you know that I, a fellow FCPS parent, don’t care.

I disagree with trying to call FCPS out on this and expect outrage.

If you don’t like the screener, opt out. If you can get on DCUM, you can opt them out. Do it and leave the fake outrage behind.

You don't care that your kid's responses are linked to him and that this info is being used by a company with the sole purpose of making money funded by VC. Or that your kid's time is being wasted answering stupid questions? Even though I opted my kids out of the SEL, they still told me about surveys they had to take all year long during study hall. My kids have told me the surveys are viewed as a joke, at least at the middle and high school level. Where is the contract for all those surveys? How much do those cost? Also, our school is spending tons of money on training teachers in SBG and more to other consultants to align tests and grading. Lowering class size and increasing teacher pay are 2 things that would actually have an impact on learning. Every initiative, the strategic plan, equity/equal outcomes for all, ect...all result in a contract for outside consultants. Here is one for 455k for the strategic plan: https://defendinged.org/incidents/fairfax-county-public-school-superintendent-awards-sole-source-contract-for-465000-with-company-she-worked-with-previously-to-achieve-equal-outcomes-without-exception/

I doubt only 455k was spent on the strategic plan. Is there a point, an amount of money spent on all of this nonsense, that would bother you?

You can opt out of data sharing with other companies. I don’t care. I opted my kid out. I don’t care if they waste a little bit of money. I just don’t. Do you think Verizon honestly uses every penny wisely that I give to them. They don’t. Why have a different standard for a large school system vs large corporation? Cause taxes? Please. Capitalism doesn’t always work and waste just happens when things get big. This is one thing I’m not wasting my time on. I don’t care.

A public school system is funded by my tax dollars, the single person living in an apartment's tax dollars, the high schooler working at McDonald's tax dollars, the empty nesters' tax dollars....

Schools are publicly funded 100% by tax dollars. They are not even remotely close to a private or public for profit company like Verizon, that you can choose whether or not to puchase from.

How one could ever make this comparison between a cell phone company and a public school systems waste of taxpayer dollars is beyond logic.

Because they are both BIG and require bureaucracy to maintain operations to deal with the amount of people and things they use.

Yes, they are REMOTE (HA! Like the one for FIOS)ly close because they are both BIG.

I mean if individuals could oversee tax dollars, I might say that the street lamp near your house needs to go out or the roads near your house should never be paved. You know, just because we have a difference of opinion. To me, it seems wasteful that someone who doesn’t like taxes should have light at night. But I don’t know you and I wouldn’t say that because I get that it would be crazy and mean to pick on you just because I don’t like your response. I also know that we elect people who know a whole lot more about the situations of ALL the students in FCPS and I can do what I want for my kid. This isn’t about YOU and YOUR thoughts. Complain if you want to, but know that many other parents just don’t care and are following what is best for MY kid without attempting to whine about the entire system.


More than that, I just don’t care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there guidelines for who is allowed to use the restrooms? In other words, are there guidelines to determine who is trans and who is not? What about non-binary? Which restrooms do they use?

Inquiring minds would like to know if middle school boys can just decide one day to use the girls' bathrooms?

Are there specific rules/policies on this?

I have not seen them.

There are no guidelines.

Any boy, or male staff member, at any time or reason can walk into a girls bathroom or locker room in fcps, as long as they claim to feel trans or non binary at that moment.

There is zero gatekeeping and no parent permission or notification required.

If you opt your kid out of FLE or any lesson involving trans information of any kind, FCPS allows your kid to opt themselves back into the lesson without parent notification and in defiance of parent written opt out, according to Dr. Reid at her parent meet and greet last fall at our region 4 high school. Dr. Reid confirmed this is FCPS policy, verbally, not once, but twice in front of an auditorium full of parents.

Putting parent notification in place provides gatekeeping and protection that is beneficial to all students.

FCPS overriding parental opt out and written wishes, and deliberately hiding information from parents, especially given safety risks for female students AND trans students, and given the increased suicide and self harm risks by trans students, is ethically and morally wrong and should be illegal.

In what other situation would a school deliberately hide from parents student information that carried a significant risk of suicide and self harm?

Parents are the ones who will pick up the pieces if something goes wrong, not schools. Parents are part of a childs life for a lifetime, not Dr. Reid or the school board members. Parents are the ones who love, cherish and provide for their children, not Dr. Reid.

Not all families. Look at the ones who want to keep their kids ignorant. They care more about politics than caring for their own kids.

Completely agree. Some families keep their kids ignorant by allowing political activists teach them their version of Sex/Ed, regardless of any boundaries. They outsource that part of their children’s education to complete strangers, and trust that they know better than anyone, themselves included.

In the name of virtue signaling, they allow these gender activists to teach their version of transgenderism, which is NOT inclusive of stories of people who have regretted having transitioned when young and that they feel as if the adults in their lives failed to protect them. They are also not inclusive of experts opinions in the matter because they claim to know better than psychologists, endocrinologists, sociologists, and psychiatrists in the US and around the world who reject gender-affirming care because of the harm they have seen it causes to children.

What kind of parent keeps their kids ignorant and complicit of a crime committed towards kids with gender dysphoria who come to regret their gender-affirming care because of the irreversible damage done to them? My guess is parents who refuse to educate themselves outside of their political bubble.

This. A thousand times this.

Are you saying you that you DON’T talk to your kid about gay and trans people? Why not? Why are you, at home, synagogues, church, mosque wherever not having that conversation with your kid? Why are you allowing someone else to have this conversation with your kid?

This is like sex ed and drinking. YOU the parent, have the conversation, teach your kid about birth control, about drinking and what you believe.

The question is why are you having other people have that conversation first.

[Anonymous]

Completely agree. Some families keep their kids ignorant by allowing political activists teach them their version of Sex/Ed, regardless of any boundaries. They outsource that part of their children’s education to complete strangers, and trust that they know better than anyone, themselves included.

In the name of virtue signaling, they allow these gender activists to teach their version of transgenderism, which is NOT inclusive of stories of people who have regretted having transitioned when young and that they feel as if the adults in their lives failed to protect them. They are also not inclusive of experts opinions in the matter because they claim to know better than psychologists, endocrinologists, sociologists, and psychiatrists in the US and around the world who reject gender-affirming care because of the harm they have seen it causes to children.

What kind of parent keeps their kids ignorant and complicit of a crime committed towards kids with gender dysphoria who come to regret their gender-affirming care because of the irreversible damage done to them? My guess is parents who refuse to educate themselves outside of their political bubble.


This. A thousand times this.


Are you saying you that you DON’T talk to your kid about gay and trans people? Why not? Why are you, at home, synagogues, church, mosque wherever not having that conversation with your kid? Why are you allowing someone else to have this conversation with your kid?

This is like sex ed and drinking. YOU the parent, have the conversation, teach your kid about birth control, about drinking and what you believe.

The question is why are you having other people have that conversation first.

Did you even read the comment I (This. A thousand times this.) was replying to. PP was clearly mocking the prior poster. Did you read the part where PP asked if their "education" included teaching about those who decided to "detransition?"
PP was clearly mocking people letting the schools take over their parenting.
The PP prior to the one mocking thinks that the schools should be in charge and decide what your kids learn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the fine print, the new models said schools should obtain permission from parents before administering surveys. I checked SIS and my child was automatically opted in for the SEL screener even though last year we opted out. I had to opt out again for this year.

Automatically opting in kids to the ridiculous SEL screener goes against the new rules.

So here is another example, except it is not a survey, but my thread got locked, and redirected here. So here it is:

This email signed by Superintendent Reid was just sent to FCPS parents:



“August 15, 2023

Hello FCPS Students, Staff, Families, and Community,

I’d like to thank the many of you who have expressed your concern to me about the Virginia Department of Education's new model policies regarding the treatment of transgender and gender expansive students in public schools, and how they would impact our current guidelines for establishing a safe, supportive, welcoming, and inclusive school environment for all students, including our gender-expansive and transgender students. We have concluded our detailed legal review and determined that our current Fairfax County Public School (FCPS) policies are consistent with federal and state anti-discrimination laws as required by the new model policies.

Let me be clear that FCPS remains committed to fostering a safe, supportive, welcoming, and inclusive school environment for all students and staff, including our transgender and gender expansive students and staff.

We believe that supporting our students and working with parents and caregivers are not mutually exclusive; we already do both and will continue to do so. We know that students can only learn effectively when they feel safe and supported.

All students have a right to privacy in FCPS facilities or while participating in FCPS sponsored events. Any student who has a need or desire for increased privacy, regardless of the underlying reason, shall be provided with reasonable, non-stigmatizing accommodations.

Our existing policies still stand. This means that at FCPS schools, in accordance with our existing policies, our gender expansive and transgender students:

Will continue to be addressed by their chosen names and pronouns, as provided by FCPS Regulation 2603 (V) and federal law.

Will continue to be provided with access to facilities, activities, and/or trips consistent with their gender identity, as provided by Regulation 2603 (IX) and federal law.

Will continue to have their privacy respected regarding gender expansive or transgender status, legal name, or sex assigned at birth, as provided by FCPS Regulation 2603 and federal law.

As a school division our policies, procedures, and values should reflect our community. We will continue to consider feedback from everyone on Team FCPS – our students, staff, families, and community, in order to best support our students and staff while working with parents and caregivers. We will continue to make every effort to encourage and support communication between students and parents/caregivers.

Please feel free to reach out to me at [e-mail] with any questions or concerns and visit our LGBTQIA+ Student Resources and Supports webpage for more information.

Thank you again to the many of you who shared your perspectives on this matter over the last several weeks. Our diversity of voices and experiences is one of our community’s greatest strengths.

I’m looking forward to welcoming all of you back to a safe, welcoming, and respectful learning environment as the school year begins in just a few short days.

Warmest regards,

Michelle Reid, Ed.D.
Superintendent
Fairfax County Public Schools”


Looks like the ball is now in the Commonwealth’s side of the court.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there guidelines for who is allowed to use the restrooms? In other words, are there guidelines to determine who is trans and who is not? What about non-binary? Which restrooms do they use?

Inquiring minds would like to know if middle school boys can just decide one day to use the girls' bathrooms?

Are there specific rules/policies on this?

I have not seen them.

There are no guidelines.

Any boy, or male staff member, at any time or reason can walk into a girls bathroom or locker room in fcps, as long as they claim to feel trans or non binary at that moment.

There is zero gatekeeping and no parent permission or notification required.

If you opt your kid out of FLE or any lesson involving trans information of any kind, FCPS allows your kid to opt themselves back into the lesson without parent notification and in defiance of parent written opt out, according to Dr. Reid at her parent meet and greet last fall at our region 4 high school. Dr. Reid confirmed this is FCPS policy, verbally, not once, but twice in front of an auditorium full of parents.

Putting parent notification in place provides gatekeeping and protection that is beneficial to all students.

FCPS overriding parental opt out and written wishes, and deliberately hiding information from parents, especially given safety risks for female students AND trans students, and given the increased suicide and self harm risks by trans students, is ethically and morally wrong and should be illegal.

In what other situation would a school deliberately hide from parents student information that carried a significant risk of suicide and self harm?

Parents are the ones who will pick up the pieces if something goes wrong, not schools. Parents are part of a childs life for a lifetime, not Dr. Reid or the school board members. Parents are the ones who love, cherish and provide for their children, not Dr. Reid.

Not all families. Look at the ones who want to keep their kids ignorant. They care more about politics than caring for their own kids.

Oh, please.

Parents are the ones who love their children over their lifetimes. And sometimes love means saying no, as well as teaching kids what is popular and trendy is often very wrong with lifetime negative consequences.

Fortunately, our schools try to protect kids from bigots. Unfortunately, they probably are stuck with the bigots until they are 18.

I suspect PP is someone from the FLE committee. Several of them think anyone who disagrees with them is a bigot.

I think bigots are bigots. -not on FLE committee

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the fine print, the new models said schools should obtain permission from parents before administering surveys. I checked SIS and my child was automatically opted in for the SEL screener even though last year we opted out. I had to opt out again for this year.

Automatically opting in kids to the ridiculous SEL screener goes against the new rules.

So here is another example, except it is not a survey, but my thread got locked, and redirected here. So here it is:

This email signed by Superintendent Reid was just sent to FCPS parents:



“August 15, 2023

Hello FCPS Students, Staff, Families, and Community,

I’d like to thank the many of you who have expressed your concern to me about the Virginia Department of Education's new model policies regarding the treatment of transgender and gender expansive students in public schools, and how they would impact our current guidelines for establishing a safe, supportive, welcoming, and inclusive school environment for all students, including our gender-expansive and transgender students. We have concluded our detailed legal review and determined that our current Fairfax County Public School (FCPS) policies are consistent with federal and state anti-discrimination laws as required by the new model policies.

Let me be clear that FCPS remains committed to fostering a safe, supportive, welcoming, and inclusive school environment for all students and staff, including our transgender and gender expansive students and staff.

We believe that supporting our students and working with parents and caregivers are not mutually exclusive; we already do both and will continue to do so. We know that students can only learn effectively when they feel safe and supported.

All students have a right to privacy in FCPS facilities or while participating in FCPS sponsored events. Any student who has a need or desire for increased privacy, regardless of the underlying reason, shall be provided with reasonable, non-stigmatizing accommodations.

Our existing policies still stand. This means that at FCPS schools, in accordance with our existing policies, our gender expansive and transgender students:

Will continue to be addressed by their chosen names and pronouns, as provided by FCPS Regulation 2603 (V) and federal law.

Will continue to be provided with access to facilities, activities, and/or trips consistent with their gender identity, as provided by Regulation 2603 (IX) and federal law.

Will continue to have their privacy respected regarding gender expansive or transgender status, legal name, or sex assigned at birth, as provided by FCPS Regulation 2603 and federal law.

As a school division our policies, procedures, and values should reflect our community. We will continue to consider feedback from everyone on Team FCPS – our students, staff, families, and community, in order to best support our students and staff while working with parents and caregivers. We will continue to make every effort to encourage and support communication between students and parents/caregivers.

Please feel free to reach out to me at [e-mail] with any questions or concerns and visit our LGBTQIA+ Student Resources and Supports webpage for more information.

Thank you again to the many of you who shared your perspectives on this matter over the last several weeks. Our diversity of voices and experiences is one of our community’s greatest strengths.

I’m looking forward to welcoming all of you back to a safe, welcoming, and respectful learning environment as the school year begins in just a few short days.

Warmest regards,

Michelle Reid, Ed.D.
Superintendent
Fairfax County Public Schools”


Looks like the ball is now in the Commonwealth’s side of the court.

FCPS Regulation 2603 states that the school can circumvent the parent and influence the child directly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there guidelines for who is allowed to use the restrooms? In other words, are there guidelines to determine who is trans and who is not? What about non-binary? Which restrooms do they use?

Inquiring minds would like to know if middle school boys can just decide one day to use the girls' bathrooms?

Are there specific rules/policies on this?

I have not seen them.

There are no guidelines.

Any boy, or male staff member, at any time or reason can walk into a girls bathroom or locker room in fcps, as long as they claim to feel trans or non binary at that moment.

There is zero gatekeeping and no parent permission or notification required.

If you opt your kid out of FLE or any lesson involving trans information of any kind, FCPS allows your kid to opt themselves back into the lesson without parent notification and in defiance of parent written opt out, according to Dr. Reid at her parent meet and greet last fall at our region 4 high school. Dr. Reid confirmed this is FCPS policy, verbally, not once, but twice in front of an auditorium full of parents.

Putting parent notification in place provides gatekeeping and protection that is beneficial to all students.

FCPS overriding parental opt out and written wishes, and deliberately hiding information from parents, especially given safety risks for female students AND trans students, and given the increased suicide and self harm risks by trans students, is ethically and morally wrong and should be illegal.

In what other situation would a school deliberately hide from parents student information that carried a significant risk of suicide and self harm?

Parents are the ones who will pick up the pieces if something goes wrong, not schools. Parents are part of a childs life for a lifetime, not Dr. Reid or the school board members. Parents are the ones who love, cherish and provide for their children, not Dr. Reid.

Not all families. Look at the ones who want to keep their kids ignorant. They care more about politics than caring for their own kids.

Completely agree. Some families keep their kids ignorant by allowing political activists teach them their version of Sex/Ed, regardless of any boundaries. They outsource that part of their children’s education to complete strangers, and trust that they know better than anyone, themselves included.

In the name of virtue signaling, they allow these gender activists to teach their version of transgenderism, which is NOT inclusive of stories of people who have regretted having transitioned when young and that they feel as if the adults in their lives failed to protect them. They are also not inclusive of experts opinions in the matter because they claim to know better than psychologists, endocrinologists, sociologists, and psychiatrists in the US and around the world who reject gender-affirming care because of the harm they have seen it causes to children.

What kind of parent keeps their kids ignorant and complicit of a crime committed towards kids with gender dysphoria who come to regret their gender-affirming care because of the irreversible damage done to them? My guess is parents who refuse to educate themselves outside of their political bubble.

^ another example of a bigot who shouldn’t be a parent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:thinks that the schools should be in charge and decide what your kids learn.

Schools should teach kids how to be kind, functioning members of society.

Clearly, that’s not happening in some homes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the fine print, the new models said schools should obtain permission from parents before administering surveys. I checked SIS and my child was automatically opted in for the SEL screener even though last year we opted out. I had to opt out again for this year.

Automatically opting in kids to the ridiculous SEL screener goes against the new rules.

So here is another example, except it is not a survey, but my thread got locked, and redirected here. So here it is:

This email signed by Superintendent Reid was just sent to FCPS parents:



“August 15, 2023

Hello FCPS Students, Staff, Families, and Community,

I’d like to thank the many of you who have expressed your concern to me about the Virginia Department of Education's new model policies regarding the treatment of transgender and gender expansive students in public schools, and how they would impact our current guidelines for establishing a safe, supportive, welcoming, and inclusive school environment for all students, including our gender-expansive and transgender students. We have concluded our detailed legal review and determined that our current Fairfax County Public School (FCPS) policies are consistent with federal and state anti-discrimination laws as required by the new model policies.

Let me be clear that FCPS remains committed to fostering a safe, supportive, welcoming, and inclusive school environment for all students and staff, including our transgender and gender expansive students and staff.

We believe that supporting our students and working with parents and caregivers are not mutually exclusive; we already do both and will continue to do so. We know that students can only learn effectively when they feel safe and supported.

All students have a right to privacy in FCPS facilities or while participating in FCPS sponsored events. Any student who has a need or desire for increased privacy, regardless of the underlying reason, shall be provided with reasonable, non-stigmatizing accommodations.

Our existing policies still stand. This means that at FCPS schools, in accordance with our existing policies, our gender expansive and transgender students:

Will continue to be addressed by their chosen names and pronouns, as provided by FCPS Regulation 2603 (V) and federal law.

Will continue to be provided with access to facilities, activities, and/or trips consistent with their gender identity, as provided by Regulation 2603 (IX) and federal law.

Will continue to have their privacy respected regarding gender expansive or transgender status, legal name, or sex assigned at birth, as provided by FCPS Regulation 2603 and federal law.

As a school division our policies, procedures, and values should reflect our community. We will continue to consider feedback from everyone on Team FCPS – our students, staff, families, and community, in order to best support our students and staff while working with parents and caregivers. We will continue to make every effort to encourage and support communication between students and parents/caregivers.

Please feel free to reach out to me at [e-mail] with any questions or concerns and visit our LGBTQIA+ Student Resources and Supports webpage for more information.

Thank you again to the many of you who shared your perspectives on this matter over the last several weeks. Our diversity of voices and experiences is one of our community’s greatest strengths.

I’m looking forward to welcoming all of you back to a safe, welcoming, and respectful learning environment as the school year begins in just a few short days.

Warmest regards,

Michelle Reid, Ed.D.
Superintendent
Fairfax County Public Schools”


Looks like the ball is now in the Commonwealth’s side of the court.

FCPS Regulation 2603 states that the school can circumvent the parent and influence the child directly.

Please post the language that says this.

[Anonymous]

FCPS is biggity time assshholes and don’t gives a shit about people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the fine print, the new models said schools should obtain permission from parents before administering surveys. I checked SIS and my child was automatically opted in for the SEL screener even though last year we opted out. I had to opt out again for this year.

Automatically opting in kids to the ridiculous SEL screener goes against the new rules.

So here is another example, except it is not a survey, but my thread got locked, and redirected here. So here it is:

This email signed by Superintendent Reid was just sent to FCPS parents:



“August 15, 2023

Hello FCPS Students, Staff, Families, and Community,

I’d like to thank the many of you who have expressed your concern to me about the Virginia Department of Education's new model policies regarding the treatment of transgender and gender expansive students in public schools, and how they would impact our current guidelines for establishing a safe, supportive, welcoming, and inclusive school environment for all students, including our gender-expansive and transgender students. We have concluded our detailed legal review and determined that our current Fairfax County Public School (FCPS) policies are consistent with federal and state anti-discrimination laws as required by the new model policies.

Let me be clear that FCPS remains committed to fostering a safe, supportive, welcoming, and inclusive school environment for all students and staff, including our transgender and gender expansive students and staff.

We believe that supporting our students and working with parents and caregivers are not mutually exclusive; we already do both and will continue to do so. We know that students can only learn effectively when they feel safe and supported.

All students have a right to privacy in FCPS facilities or while participating in FCPS sponsored events. Any student who has a need or desire for increased privacy, regardless of the underlying reason, shall be provided with reasonable, non-stigmatizing accommodations.

Our existing policies still stand. This means that at FCPS schools, in accordance with our existing policies, our gender expansive and transgender students:

Will continue to be addressed by their chosen names and pronouns, as provided by FCPS Regulation 2603 (V) and federal law.

Will continue to be provided with access to facilities, activities, and/or trips consistent with their gender identity, as provided by Regulation 2603 (IX) and federal law.

Will continue to have their privacy respected regarding gender expansive or transgender status, legal name, or sex assigned at birth, as provided by FCPS Regulation 2603 and federal law.

As a school division our policies, procedures, and values should reflect our community. We will continue to consider feedback from everyone on Team FCPS – our students, staff, families, and community, in order to best support our students and staff while working with parents and caregivers. We will continue to make every effort to encourage and support communication between students and parents/caregivers.

Please feel free to reach out to me at [e-mail] with any questions or concerns and visit our LGBTQIA+ Student Resources and Supports webpage for more information.

Thank you again to the many of you who shared your perspectives on this matter over the last several weeks. Our diversity of voices and experiences is one of our community’s greatest strengths.

I’m looking forward to welcoming all of you back to a safe, welcoming, and respectful learning environment as the school year begins in just a few short days.

Warmest regards,

Michelle Reid, Ed.D.
Superintendent
Fairfax County Public Schools”


Looks like the ball is now in the Commonwealth’s side of the court.

FCPS Regulation 2603 states that the school can circumvent the parent and influence the child directly.

Please post the language that says this.

A matter of urgency demands our collective attention within Fairfax County Public Schools. Regulation 2603 is stirring concerns due to provisions that challenge the role of parental approval in significant decisions.

Notably, Regulation 2603 asserts that schools shall accept a student or parent's assertion of a student's gender-expansive or transgender status—without requiring parental approval. This raises questions about the foundational principles of parental involvement in a child's education.

Adding to the concerns, Regulation 2603 introduces support teams that could potentially function solely between the school and the child, without the necessity of parental approval. These teams could make decisions encompassing gender-specific courses, restroom access, and more.

We cannot overlook the implications of such provisions, which have the potential to sideline parental input in shaping decisions crucial to our children's education and well-being.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there guidelines for who is allowed to use the restrooms? In other words, are there guidelines to determine who is trans and who is not? What about non-binary? Which restrooms do they use?

Inquiring minds would like to know if middle school boys can just decide one day to use the girls' bathrooms?

Are there specific rules/policies on this?

I have not seen them.

There are no guidelines.

Any boy, or male staff member, at any time or reason can walk into a girls bathroom or locker room in fcps, as long as they claim to feel trans or non binary at that moment.

There is zero gatekeeping and no parent permission or notification required.

If you opt your kid out of FLE or any lesson involving trans information of any kind, FCPS allows your kid to opt themselves back into the lesson without parent notification and in defiance of parent written opt out, according to Dr. Reid at her parent meet and greet last fall at our region 4 high school. Dr. Reid confirmed this is FCPS policy, verbally, not once, but twice in front of an auditorium full of parents.

Putting parent notification in place provides gatekeeping and protection that is beneficial to all students.

FCPS overriding parental opt out and written wishes, and deliberately hiding information from parents, especially given safety risks for female students AND trans students, and given the increased suicide and self harm risks by trans students, is ethically and morally wrong and should be illegal.

In what other situation would a school deliberately hide from parents student information that carried a significant risk of suicide and self harm?

Parents are the ones who will pick up the pieces if something goes wrong, not schools. Parents are part of a childs life for a lifetime, not Dr. Reid or the school board members. Parents are the ones who love, cherish and provide for their children, not Dr. Reid.

Not all families. Look at the ones who want to keep their kids ignorant. They care more about politics than caring for their own kids.

Oh, please.

Parents are the ones who love their children over their lifetimes. And sometimes love means saying no, as well as teaching kids what is popular and trendy is often very wrong with lifetime negative consequences.

Fortunately, our schools try to protect kids from bigots. Unfortunately, they probably are stuck with the bigots until they are 18.

I suspect PP is someone from the FLE committee. Several of them think anyone who disagrees with them is a bigot.

I think bigots are bigots. -not on FLE committee

Ugly troll. Go away!

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Anonymous wrote:In the fine print, the new models said schools should obtain permission from parents before administering surveys. I checked SIS and my child was automatically opted in for the SEL screener even though last year we opted out. I had to opt out again for this year.

Automatically opting in kids to the ridiculous SEL screener goes against the new rules.

So here is another example, except it is not a survey, but my thread got locked, and redirected here. So here it is:

This email signed by Superintendent Reid was just sent to FCPS parents:



“August 15, 2023

Hello FCPS Students, Staff, Families, and Community,

I’d like to thank the many of you who have expressed your concern to me about the Virginia Department of Education's new model policies regarding the treatment of transgender and gender expansive students in public schools, and how they would impact our current guidelines for establishing a safe, supportive, welcoming, and inclusive school environment for all students, including our gender-expansive and transgender students. We have concluded our detailed legal review and determined that our current Fairfax County Public School (FCPS) policies are consistent with federal and state anti-discrimination laws as required by the new model policies.

Let me be clear that FCPS remains committed to fostering a safe, supportive, welcoming, and inclusive school environment for all students and staff, including our transgender and gender expansive students and staff.

We believe that supporting our students and working with parents and caregivers are not mutually exclusive; we already do both and will continue to do so. We know that students can only learn effectively when they feel safe and supported.

All students have a right to privacy in FCPS facilities or while participating in FCPS sponsored events. Any student who has a need or desire for increased privacy, regardless of the underlying reason, shall be provided with reasonable, non-stigmatizing accommodations.

Our existing policies still stand. This means that at FCPS schools, in accordance with our existing policies, our gender expansive and transgender students:

Will continue to be addressed by their chosen names and pronouns, as provided by FCPS Regulation 2603 (V) and federal law.

Will continue to be provided with access to facilities, activities, and/or trips consistent with their gender identity, as provided by Regulation 2603 (IX) and federal law.

Will continue to have their privacy respected regarding gender expansive or transgender status, legal name, or sex assigned at birth, as provided by FCPS Regulation 2603 and federal law.

As a school division our policies, procedures, and values should reflect our community. We will continue to consider feedback from everyone on Team FCPS – our students, staff, families, and community, in order to best support our students and staff while working with parents and caregivers. We will continue to make every effort to encourage and support communication between students and parents/caregivers.

Please feel free to reach out to me at [e-mail] with any questions or concerns and visit our LGBTQIA+ Student Resources and Supports webpage for more information.

Thank you again to the many of you who shared your perspectives on this matter over the last several weeks. Our diversity of voices and experiences is one of our community’s greatest strengths.

I’m looking forward to welcoming all of you back to a safe, welcoming, and respectful learning environment as the school year begins in just a few short days.

Warmest regards,

Michelle Reid, Ed.D.
Superintendent
Fairfax County Public Schools”


Looks like the ball is now in the Commonwealth’s side of the court.

FCPS Regulation 2603 states that the school can circumvent the parent and influence the child directly.

Please post the language that says this.

A matter of urgency demands our collective attention within Fairfax County Public Schools. Regulation 2603 is stirring concerns due to provisions that challenge the role of parental approval in significant decisions.

Notably, Regulation 2603 asserts that schools shall accept a student or parent's assertion of a student's gender-expansive or transgender status—without requiring parental approval. This raises questions about the foundational principles of parental involvement in a child's education.

Adding to the concerns, Regulation 2603 introduces support teams that could potentially function solely between the school and the child, without the necessity of parental approval. These teams could make decisions encompassing gender-specific courses, restroom access, and more.

We cannot overlook the implications of such provisions, which have the potential to sideline parental input in shaping decisions crucial to our children's education and well-being.

This regulation should be disturbing to all parents. It is extremely Orwellian / 1984.

[Anonymous]

Nothing at all against trans kids and if DCs end up being trans fine but I agree about the really big issue with intentionally keeping this from parents. That is what kicked off the outrage on this issue and it is hard to see how that secrecy is required by any federal regulation.