Student walkout

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Anonymous wrote:Schools support kids - 100%.

They don’t exist to help parents talk to their kids.

They are deterring kids from having hard talks with their parents though. That’s a problem.

There is not a single teacher or school official that tells a kid not to talk to their parents about ANYTHING.

You are in no position to make such a blanket assertion.

It's very obvious that there are teachers in FCPS and other school systems who want students to believe that their views may be more enlightened than those held by their parents (and therefore that schools are a "safe space" where students should be "their real selves,." regardless of how they conduct themselves at home).

It's also very clear that the local Democrats in Virginia have adopted a calculated strategy of turning adolescents into spokespersons on a host of political issues, often feeding them material to disseminate, and then claiming that anyone who disagrees with those positions is "attacking kids."

I won't call this behavior "gro*ming," since that may connote predatory sexual behavior, but it is opportunistic and disrespectful to parents.

Many teens are currently *very* tuned into politics.

First, they had to endure that dumpster fire Trump. Then, the insanity around COVID, deniers, anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers, police violence, mass shootings, conspiracy theorists, 1/6, etc. So much unrest.

That is all serious motivation for kids to get involved. They don’t have or need adults pushing them.

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Anonymous wrote:Amazing the amount of ignorance from so many parents in our school community. It makes me wonder why they feel so offended by trans kids, so much so to support these grotesque policies. I wonder how much their children trust them, how welcomed and loved they feel at home… a child who feels loved, validated, and safe will tell you all you need to know. This grotesque policy will not (at all, ever!) make your kid closer to you. You will continue to not have control or closeness to your child, don’t kid yourself.

I’m not convinced these are actual parents in our community.

Probably GOP interns trying to spin up the base.

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Anonymous wrote:Why does FCPS want this? Does FCPS really care about girls, who will be the ones most inconvenienced (putting it mildly) with boys in their bathrooms or locker rooms? Is there nobody who sees dangers of such kind of policies?

stop watching FOX NEWs that isn't happening

I agree it doesn’t seem prevalent but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t or won’t happen. Recall the situation with the kid in LCPS last(?) year. That was real, and very confusing.

The situation in LCPS was two kids who had an ongoing consensual sexual relationship which then turned non-consensual at one point. One of the kids was gender non-conforming (not sure if the other was). But it was partner-rape, not like the kid was a predator in the bathroom--this couple regularly met up with each other for sex in multiple places including in the school bathroom, like heterosexual, gender-conforming kids sometimes do too regardless of school policy. It's a partner-rape situation that was handled poorly by the school like many partner-rape situations are regardless if the kids are gay, straight, transgender or cis gender and the school policies should be investigated for how they handle partner/date rape, not how they handle bathrooms.

But that isn’t the whole story — the one student was transferred to another school after the incident was attempted or completed at the previous school. Again probably a one off story, but it did stoke concerns about parents being kept in the dark.

The situation is not as black and white as people want to believe. Imagine going into a parent-teacher type meeting. Maybe teachers only know a student by the student’s new identity and the parents are unaware of this new identity.

The new sex in the city provides a imperfectly perfect example of this type of situation involving Charlotte’s younger child.

Parents are blanketedly being cast in role if the can’t be trusted category, when at the end of the day they are responsible for them. In some ways you can draw parallels between what’s happening with the overturning of abortion and women’s rights. In this case parents can’t be trusted to do what’s best for their kids.

This is just not true. Teachers just don't want to be in the role of monitoring and reporting. Putting teachers in this role damages the relationships they have with students around so many issues. Kids talk and write about their friendships in class, about things they are worried about etc. If the teacher is perceived as someone who can constantly be tapped for info about their lives, they will just shut up about it. Teachers currently monitor and report abuse/danger/rule-breaking. Adding more to that is a burden and unfair--especially since there is no evidence that using another name is harmful. You might not want your kid to play around with names and pronouns, but in my view you have no right to force others to monitor and report that to you.

Parents need to step up and be involved in their kids' lives, not force others to inform on them.

Sorry, I disagree. I see teachers also being in a difficult position, but when parents are deliberately kept out of the conversations about their own child then they are cast as the bad guys. Even if kids have good relationships with their parents, coming out can be hard. But letting parents be the last to know is not good. There may be other problems at home that could be alleviated if the parents are informed. I’m not saying schools need to do a check every day on every students identity. However, if a student is receiving for example counseling services through school about this or other mental/physical/social issues, the parents need to be informed.

I'm the PP--I agree students that students who receive school counseling on an issue should have their parents informed (though I do understand that this then can be a deterrent to seeking counseling) because they are experiencing the need for support. I'm disagreeing with asking teachers to report things like name changes/social behaviors etc. to parents for kids who have not sought counseling for the issue.

I’m the PP — I think we agree far more than we may disagree.

You do know that when a child sees a therapist, their parents are not informed of the content of those conversations. parents are only informed if there is something they need to be aware of, such as suicidal thoughts. But otherwise, those conversations are confidential.

I am aware, and I’m not 100% on board with that. If my child is having issues, I need to know in order to find support for them and our family. My minor children cannot get piercings or tattoos without parental consent, but they can have medical consultations and procedures done behind my back. It doesn’t make sense.

Moreover, schools are not therapists. No need for hiding info.

Medical procedures are not done without parental consent for minors. What are you talking about? You are literally making up demons and then fighting them.

I don’t understand your response at all. My point is that schools should not act as therapists and keep information from parents. Therefore I am in favor of this new policy.

But receiving school counseling is like seeing a therapist. The reason therapists don’t share information with parents is to encourage children to be honest and forthcoming about their issues. If a school therapist is going to breach that agreement, then there is no point for a child to see a school therapist if s/he can’t trust their conversation will be done in confidence.

School therapist’s job is to provide resources to children and families, not act as a regular therapist without parental knowledge.

[Anonymous]

I am pro parenting DC.


During COVID everyone was up in arms about parents needing to parent their DC, but only when it helps their political agenda.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Schools support kids - 100%.

They don’t exist to help parents talk to their kids.

They are deterring kids from having hard talks with their parents though. That’s a problem.

There is not a single teacher or school official that tells a kid not to talk to their parents about ANYTHING.

You are in no position to make such a blanket assertion.

It's very obvious that there are teachers in FCPS and other school systems who want students to believe that their views may be more enlightened than those held by their parents (and therefore that schools are a "safe space" where students should be "their real selves,." regardless of how they conduct themselves at home).

It's also very clear that the local Democrats in Virginia have adopted a calculated strategy of turning adolescents into spokespersons on a host of political issues, often feeding them material to disseminate, and then claiming that anyone who disagrees with those positions is "attacking kids."

I won't call this behavior "gro*ming," since that may connote predatory sexual behavior, but it is opportunistic and disrespectful to parents.

Many teens are currently *very* tuned into politics.

First, they had to endure that dumpster fire Trump. Then, the insanity around COVID, deniers, anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers, police violence, mass shootings, conspiracy theorists, 1/6, etc. So much unrest.

That is all serious motivation for kids to get involved. They don’t have or need adults pushing them.

Tweens and teens were isolated and getting no peer attention for years when the teachers’ groups and Democratic politicians joined forces to make sure schools were closed, and then they came back and learned the best way to get attention and gain an instant community with the support of many teachers was to declare themselves non-binary or trans and claim they have to protected from their own parents. It’s kind of weird yet strangely predictable at the same time.

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Anonymous wrote:Why does FCPS want this? Does FCPS really care about girls, who will be the ones most inconvenienced (putting it mildly) with boys in their bathrooms or locker rooms? Is there nobody who sees dangers of such kind of policies?

stop watching FOX NEWs that isn't happening

I agree it doesn’t seem prevalent but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t or won’t happen. Recall the situation with the kid in LCPS last(?) year. That was real, and very confusing.

The situation in LCPS was two kids who had an ongoing consensual sexual relationship which then turned non-consensual at one point. One of the kids was gender non-conforming (not sure if the other was). But it was partner-rape, not like the kid was a predator in the bathroom--this couple regularly met up with each other for sex in multiple places including in the school bathroom, like heterosexual, gender-conforming kids sometimes do too regardless of school policy. It's a partner-rape situation that was handled poorly by the school like many partner-rape situations are regardless if the kids are gay, straight, transgender or cis gender and the school policies should be investigated for how they handle partner/date rape, not how they handle bathrooms.

But that isn’t the whole story — the one student was transferred to another school after the incident was attempted or completed at the previous school. Again probably a one off story, but it did stoke concerns about parents being kept in the dark.

The situation is not as black and white as people want to believe. Imagine going into a parent-teacher type meeting. Maybe teachers only know a student by the student’s new identity and the parents are unaware of this new identity.

The new sex in the city provides a imperfectly perfect example of this type of situation involving Charlotte’s younger child.

Parents are blanketedly being cast in role if the can’t be trusted category, when at the end of the day they are responsible for them. In some ways you can draw parallels between what’s happening with the overturning of abortion and women’s rights. In this case parents can’t be trusted to do what’s best for their kids.

This is just not true. Teachers just don't want to be in the role of monitoring and reporting. Putting teachers in this role damages the relationships they have with students around so many issues. Kids talk and write about their friendships in class, about things they are worried about etc. If the teacher is perceived as someone who can constantly be tapped for info about their lives, they will just shut up about it. Teachers currently monitor and report abuse/danger/rule-breaking. Adding more to that is a burden and unfair--especially since there is no evidence that using another name is harmful. You might not want your kid to play around with names and pronouns, but in my view you have no right to force others to monitor and report that to you.

Parents need to step up and be involved in their kids' lives, not force others to inform on them.

Sorry, I disagree. I see teachers also being in a difficult position, but when parents are deliberately kept out of the conversations about their own child then they are cast as the bad guys. Even if kids have good relationships with their parents, coming out can be hard. But letting parents be the last to know is not good. There may be other problems at home that could be alleviated if the parents are informed. I’m not saying schools need to do a check every day on every students identity. However, if a student is receiving for example counseling services through school about this or other mental/physical/social issues, the parents need to be informed.

I'm the PP--I agree students that students who receive school counseling on an issue should have their parents informed (though I do understand that this then can be a deterrent to seeking counseling) because they are experiencing the need for support. I'm disagreeing with asking teachers to report things like name changes/social behaviors etc. to parents for kids who have not sought counseling for the issue.

I’m the PP — I think we agree far more than we may disagree.

You do know that when a child sees a therapist, their parents are not informed of the content of those conversations. parents are only informed if there is something they need to be aware of, such as suicidal thoughts. But otherwise, those conversations are confidential.

I am aware, and I’m not 100% on board with that. If my child is having issues, I need to know in order to find support for them and our family. My minor children cannot get piercings or tattoos without parental consent, but they can have medical consultations and procedures done behind my back. It doesn’t make sense.

Moreover, schools are not therapists. No need for hiding info.

Medical procedures are not done without parental consent for minors. What are you talking about? You are literally making up demons and then fighting them.

https://www.city-journal.org/transgender-identifying-adolescents-threats-to-parental-rights

Abigail Shrier is a bigoted anti-trans activist who notoriously lacks data/facts to support her views. Her work is basically anti-trans propaganda.

What was the kid’s story? The school’s? This extremely biased account isn’t worth squat.

What exactly are you asserting here? That those events didn’t happen? Or that they did, and you are perfectly ok with it?

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Anonymous wrote:Why does FCPS want this? Does FCPS really care about girls, who will be the ones most inconvenienced (putting it mildly) with boys in their bathrooms or locker rooms? Is there nobody who sees dangers of such kind of policies?

stop watching FOX NEWs that isn't happening

I agree it doesn’t seem prevalent but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t or won’t happen. Recall the situation with the kid in LCPS last(?) year. That was real, and very confusing.

The situation in LCPS was two kids who had an ongoing consensual sexual relationship which then turned non-consensual at one point. One of the kids was gender non-conforming (not sure if the other was). But it was partner-rape, not like the kid was a predator in the bathroom--this couple regularly met up with each other for sex in multiple places including in the school bathroom, like heterosexual, gender-conforming kids sometimes do too regardless of school policy. It's a partner-rape situation that was handled poorly by the school like many partner-rape situations are regardless if the kids are gay, straight, transgender or cis gender and the school policies should be investigated for how they handle partner/date rape, not how they handle bathrooms.

But that isn’t the whole story — the one student was transferred to another school after the incident was attempted or completed at the previous school. Again probably a one off story, but it did stoke concerns about parents being kept in the dark.

The situation is not as black and white as people want to believe. Imagine going into a parent-teacher type meeting. Maybe teachers only know a student by the student’s new identity and the parents are unaware of this new identity.

The new sex in the city provides a imperfectly perfect example of this type of situation involving Charlotte’s younger child.

Parents are blanketedly being cast in role if the can’t be trusted category, when at the end of the day they are responsible for them. In some ways you can draw parallels between what’s happening with the overturning of abortion and women’s rights. In this case parents can’t be trusted to do what’s best for their kids.

This is just not true. Teachers just don't want to be in the role of monitoring and reporting. Putting teachers in this role damages the relationships they have with students around so many issues. Kids talk and write about their friendships in class, about things they are worried about etc. If the teacher is perceived as someone who can constantly be tapped for info about their lives, they will just shut up about it. Teachers currently monitor and report abuse/danger/rule-breaking. Adding more to that is a burden and unfair--especially since there is no evidence that using another name is harmful. You might not want your kid to play around with names and pronouns, but in my view you have no right to force others to monitor and report that to you.

Parents need to step up and be involved in their kids' lives, not force others to inform on them.

Sorry, I disagree. I see teachers also being in a difficult position, but when parents are deliberately kept out of the conversations about their own child then they are cast as the bad guys. Even if kids have good relationships with their parents, coming out can be hard. But letting parents be the last to know is not good. There may be other problems at home that could be alleviated if the parents are informed. I’m not saying schools need to do a check every day on every students identity. However, if a student is receiving for example counseling services through school about this or other mental/physical/social issues, the parents need to be informed.

I'm the PP--I agree students that students who receive school counseling on an issue should have their parents informed (though I do understand that this then can be a deterrent to seeking counseling) because they are experiencing the need for support. I'm disagreeing with asking teachers to report things like name changes/social behaviors etc. to parents for kids who have not sought counseling for the issue.

I’m the PP — I think we agree far more than we may disagree.

You do know that when a child sees a therapist, their parents are not informed of the content of those conversations. parents are only informed if there is something they need to be aware of, such as suicidal thoughts. But otherwise, those conversations are confidential.

I am aware, and I’m not 100% on board with that. If my child is having issues, I need to know in order to find support for them and our family. My minor children cannot get piercings or tattoos without parental consent, but they can have medical consultations and procedures done behind my back. It doesn’t make sense.

Moreover, schools are not therapists. No need for hiding info.

Medical procedures are not done without parental consent for minors. What are you talking about? You are literally making up demons and then fighting them.

I don’t understand your response at all. My point is that schools should not act as therapists and keep information from parents. Therefore I am in favor of this new policy.

But receiving school counseling is like seeing a therapist. The reason therapists don’t share information with parents is to encourage children to be honest and forthcoming about their issues. If a school therapist is going to breach that agreement, then there is no point for a child to see a school therapist if s/he can’t trust their conversation will be done in confidence.

Seeing a school counselor is not at all like seeing a trained psychiatrist, psychologist or therapist. Not even close.

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Anonymous wrote:I really do not understand the bathroom thing. I have used mens rooms in the past because the ladies line was to long. My father said He would never want his daughters (me) forced to use a bathroom with a person assigned male at birth. i told him I did not care. If someone is going to rape, they are going to rape regardless of if they are "allowed" in the womens room. I mean I think the bigger issue is rapists and not the point of allowing people to pee in private where they are comfortable

Perhaps your dad does read the news?

1. https://www.standingforfreedom.com/2021/10/skirt-wearing-male-student-is-found-guilty-of-raping-a-15-year-old-girl-in-a-school-bathroom-in-loudoun-county-virginia/
2. https://www.binary.org.au/female_inmate_pregnant_to_trans_criminal

3. https://mynorthwest.com/3445157/dori-corrections-guard-details-rape-biologically-male-prisoners-transgender-inmate/

4. https://nypost.com/2022/08/05/trans-prisoner-who-impregnated-two-women-is-psychopath/

5. https://www.corrections1.com/transgender-inmates/articles/doc-2-women-at-nj-prison-pregnant-after-consensual-sex-between-inmates-MayIqHycHqdm9KXr/

6. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/oct/11/transgender-prisoner-who-sexually-assaulted-inmates-jailed-for-life

LOL. Now you’re “concerned” about inmates too?

Let me be clear -RAPIST GONNA RAPE- bathrooms are not the problem.

[Anonymous]

My middle schooler walked out, and she told me the teacher supported her and her class doing so.
Then last night I got a call about her absence in school.
I support peaceful protest, but my rule following kiddo doesn’t seem to know if this will be an excused absence or not. Quite the lesson!

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Anonymous wrote:My middle schooler walked out, and she told me the teacher supported her and her class doing so.
Then last night I got a call about her absence in school.
I support peaceful protest, but my rule following kiddo doesn’t seem to know if this will be an excused absence or not. Quite the lesson!

Omg! An unexcused absence?! The horror!

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Anonymous wrote:Why does FCPS want this? Does FCPS really care about girls, who will be the ones most inconvenienced (putting it mildly) with boys in their bathrooms or locker rooms? Is there nobody who sees dangers of such kind of policies?

stop watching FOX NEWs that isn't happening

I agree it doesn’t seem prevalent but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t or won’t happen. Recall the situation with the kid in LCPS last(?) year. That was real, and very confusing.

The situation in LCPS was two kids who had an ongoing consensual sexual relationship which then turned non-consensual at one point. One of the kids was gender non-conforming (not sure if the other was). But it was partner-rape, not like the kid was a predator in the bathroom--this couple regularly met up with each other for sex in multiple places including in the school bathroom, like heterosexual, gender-conforming kids sometimes do too regardless of school policy. It's a partner-rape situation that was handled poorly by the school like many partner-rape situations are regardless if the kids are gay, straight, transgender or cis gender and the school policies should be investigated for how they handle partner/date rape, not how they handle bathrooms.

But that isn’t the whole story — the one student was transferred to another school after the incident was attempted or completed at the previous school. Again probably a one off story, but it did stoke concerns about parents being kept in the dark.

The situation is not as black and white as people want to believe. Imagine going into a parent-teacher type meeting. Maybe teachers only know a student by the student’s new identity and the parents are unaware of this new identity.

The new sex in the city provides a imperfectly perfect example of this type of situation involving Charlotte’s younger child.

Parents are blanketedly being cast in role if the can’t be trusted category, when at the end of the day they are responsible for them. In some ways you can draw parallels between what’s happening with the overturning of abortion and women’s rights. In this case parents can’t be trusted to do what’s best for their kids.

This is just not true. Teachers just don't want to be in the role of monitoring and reporting. Putting teachers in this role damages the relationships they have with students around so many issues. Kids talk and write about their friendships in class, about things they are worried about etc. If the teacher is perceived as someone who can constantly be tapped for info about their lives, they will just shut up about it. Teachers currently monitor and report abuse/danger/rule-breaking. Adding more to that is a burden and unfair--especially since there is no evidence that using another name is harmful. You might not want your kid to play around with names and pronouns, but in my view you have no right to force others to monitor and report that to you.

Parents need to step up and be involved in their kids' lives, not force others to inform on them.

Sorry, I disagree. I see teachers also being in a difficult position, but when parents are deliberately kept out of the conversations about their own child then they are cast as the bad guys. Even if kids have good relationships with their parents, coming out can be hard. But letting parents be the last to know is not good. There may be other problems at home that could be alleviated if the parents are informed. I’m not saying schools need to do a check every day on every students identity. However, if a student is receiving for example counseling services through school about this or other mental/physical/social issues, the parents need to be informed.

I'm the PP--I agree students that students who receive school counseling on an issue should have their parents informed (though I do understand that this then can be a deterrent to seeking counseling) because they are experiencing the need for support. I'm disagreeing with asking teachers to report things like name changes/social behaviors etc. to parents for kids who have not sought counseling for the issue.

I’m the PP — I think we agree far more than we may disagree.

You do know that when a child sees a therapist, their parents are not informed of the content of those conversations. parents are only informed if there is something they need to be aware of, such as suicidal thoughts. But otherwise, those conversations are confidential.

I am aware, and I’m not 100% on board with that. If my child is having issues, I need to know in order to find support for them and our family. My minor children cannot get piercings or tattoos without parental consent, but they can have medical consultations and procedures done behind my back. It doesn’t make sense.

Moreover, schools are not therapists. No need for hiding info.

Medical procedures are not done without parental consent for minors. What are you talking about? You are literally making up demons and then fighting them.

https://www.city-journal.org/transgender-identifying-adolescents-threats-to-parental-rights

Abigail Shrier is a bigoted anti-trans activist who notoriously lacks data/facts to support her views. Her work is basically anti-trans propaganda.

What was the kid’s story? The school’s? This extremely biased account isn’t worth squat.

What exactly are you asserting here? That those events didn’t happen? Or that they did, and you are perfectly ok with it?

I’m saying AS is an unreliable source and I don’t trust her account of what happened.

Do you have another unbiased source for your claim?

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Anonymous wrote:Schools support kids - 100%.

They don’t exist to help parents talk to their kids.

They are deterring kids from having hard talks with their parents though. That’s a problem.

There is not a single teacher or school official that tells a kid not to talk to their parents about ANYTHING.

You are in no position to make such a blanket assertion.

It's very obvious that there are teachers in FCPS and other school systems who want students to believe that their views may be more enlightened than those held by their parents (and therefore that schools are a "safe space" where students should be "their real selves,." regardless of how they conduct themselves at home).

It's also very clear that the local Democrats in Virginia have adopted a calculated strategy of turning adolescents into spokespersons on a host of political issues, often feeding them material to disseminate, and then claiming that anyone who disagrees with those positions is "attacking kids."

I won't call this behavior "gro*ming," since that may connote predatory sexual behavior, but it is opportunistic and disrespectful to parents.

Many teens are currently *very* tuned into politics.

First, they had to endure that dumpster fire Trump. Then, the insanity around COVID, deniers, anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers, police violence, mass shootings, conspiracy theorists, 1/6, etc. So much unrest.

That is all serious motivation for kids to get involved. They don’t have or need adults pushing them.

Tweens and teens were isolated and getting no peer attention for years when the teachers’ groups and Democratic politicians joined forces to make sure schools were closed, and then they came back and learned the best way to get attention and gain an instant community with the support of many teachers was to declare themselves non-binary or trans and claim they have to protected from their own parents. It’s kind of weird yet strangely predictable at the same time.

Schools were virtual because we had a deadly pandemic.

Kids weren’t isolated for “years”.

Kids aren’t transgender “to get attention”.

Guess you can’t make a point without lying.

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Anonymous wrote:Schools support kids - 100%.

They don’t exist to help parents talk to their kids.

They are deterring kids from having hard talks with their parents though. That’s a problem.

There is not a single teacher or school official that tells a kid not to talk to their parents about ANYTHING.

You are in no position to make such a blanket assertion.

It's very obvious that there are teachers in FCPS and other school systems who want students to believe that their views may be more enlightened than those held by their parents (and therefore that schools are a "safe space" where students should be "their real selves,." regardless of how they conduct themselves at home).

It's also very clear that the local Democrats in Virginia have adopted a calculated strategy of turning adolescents into spokespersons on a host of political issues, often feeding them material to disseminate, and then claiming that anyone who disagrees with those positions is "attacking kids."

I won't call this behavior "gro*ming," since that may connote predatory sexual behavior, but it is opportunistic and disrespectful to parents.

Many teens are currently *very* tuned into politics.

First, they had to endure that dumpster fire Trump. Then, the insanity around COVID, deniers, anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers, police violence, mass shootings, conspiracy theorists, 1/6, etc. So much unrest.

That is all serious motivation for kids to get involved. They don’t have or need adults pushing them.

Tweens and teens were isolated and getting no peer attention for years when the teachers’ groups and Democratic politicians joined forces to make sure schools were closed, and then they came back and learned the best way to get attention and gain an instant community with the support of many teachers was to declare themselves non-binary or trans and claim they have to protected from their own parents. It’s kind of weird yet strangely predictable at the same time.

Schools were virtual because we had a deadly pandemic.

Kids weren’t isolated for “years”.

Kids aren’t transgender “to get attention”.

Guess you can’t make a point without lying.

Yes they were. I’ll let you try and do the math. Covid shut down schools in March 2020. By March 2021 schools were still not open full time (we started with 2 days a week only) and many kids stayed virtual to finish out the year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My middle schooler walked out, and she told me the teacher supported her and her class doing so.
Then last night I got a call about her absence in school.
I support peaceful protest, but my rule following kiddo doesn’t seem to know if this will be an excused absence or not. Quite the lesson!

The teacher should never, ever have communicated to the students his/her support or opposition to this walk ojt.

It pressures and coerces minor children to take a political stand and participate in political speech which may or may not be there own.

A teacher who violates their role of trust like this should be fired.

Students should never, ever be made aware of a teacher's political leanings.

If a teacher cannot keep it to themselves, then they do not belong in education.

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Anonymous wrote:Schools support kids - 100%.

They don’t exist to help parents talk to their kids.

They are deterring kids from having hard talks with their parents though. That’s a problem.

There is not a single teacher or school official that tells a kid not to talk to their parents about ANYTHING.

You are in no position to make such a blanket assertion.

It's very obvious that there are teachers in FCPS and other school systems who want students to believe that their views may be more enlightened than those held by their parents (and therefore that schools are a "safe space" where students should be "their real selves,." regardless of how they conduct themselves at home).

It's also very clear that the local Democrats in Virginia have adopted a calculated strategy of turning adolescents into spokespersons on a host of political issues, often feeding them material to disseminate, and then claiming that anyone who disagrees with those positions is "attacking kids."

I won't call this behavior "gro*ming," since that may connote predatory sexual behavior, but it is opportunistic and disrespectful to parents.

Many teens are currently *very* tuned into politics.

First, they had to endure that dumpster fire Trump. Then, the insanity around COVID, deniers, anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers, police violence, mass shootings, conspiracy theorists, 1/6, etc. So much unrest.

That is all serious motivation for kids to get involved. They don’t have or need adults pushing them.

Tweens and teens were isolated and getting no peer attention for years when the teachers’ groups and Democratic politicians joined forces to make sure schools were closed, and then they came back and learned the best way to get attention and gain an instant community with the support of many teachers was to declare themselves non-binary or trans and claim they have to protected from their own parents. It’s kind of weird yet strangely predictable at the same time.

Schools were virtual because we had a deadly pandemic.

Kids weren’t isolated for “years”.

Kids aren’t transgender “to get attention”.

Guess you can’t make a point without lying.

The liars are those who tried to pass off yesterday's events as school-wide walkouts when actually a very small percentage of students participated at the overwhelming majority of the schools involved.

And it's very low cost and very common for kids to declare themselves non-binary now in particular, thanks to the constant proselytizing.