Montgomery County MD Schools- A Horrific Nightmare

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Under the Guidelines, a student wishing to develop and implement a transition plan fills out an intake form on which the student is asked to rate the level of parental support the student expects, on a scale from 1 to 10. If the support level is deemed inadequate and the student so desires, the student is assured that the student’s parents will not be told about the development and implementation of the plan. The Guidelines do not indicate that any particular score suffices for a student’s parents to be deemed “unsupportive” but instead direct staff members to make that determination by considering both the information in the form and any other information gathered from consultation with the student. The Guidelines explain the reason for excluding parents as follows:

In some cases, transgender and gender nonconforming students may not openly express their gender identity at home because of safety concerns or lack of acceptance. Matters of gender identity can be complex and may involve familial conflict. Accordingly, the Guidelines explicitly prohibit disclosure of the student’s status “to other students, their parents/guardians, or third persons.”

Moreover, when parents are being excluded from the development and implementation of a transition plan, the Guidelines direct staff to engage in a form of coverup by providing that “[s]chools should seek to minimize the use of permission slips and other school-specific forms that require disclosure of a student’s gender or use gendered terminology” and that “[u]nless the student or parent/guardian has specified otherwise, when contacting the parent/guardian of a transgender student, [Montgomery County] school staff members should use the student’s legal name and pronoun that correspond to the student’s sex assigned at birth.” The transition plans that are developed and implemented under the Guidelines include changing names and pronouns; requiring staff to comply with the use of such names and pronouns; changing school records; giving students the “right to dress in a manner consistent with their gender identity”; providing access to “gender-separated areas,” e.g., “bathrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms”; providing access to classes and sports, in-school athletics, and clubs in accordance with the student’s new gender identity; promising special arrangements for “outdoor education/overnight field trips,” ncluding sleeping arrangements; and providing safe places and other similar accommodations.

Finally, the Guidelines direct staff to “understand implicit bias, promote diversity awareness, and consider the risk of self-harm or the presence of suicidal ideation.” And they encourage schools “to have age-appropriate student organizations develop and lead programs to address issues of bullying prevention for all students, with emphasis on LGBTQ+ students.”

The Guidelines are not voluntary and instead apply mandatorily to all students in the school system, regardless of age, and all students are thus engaged with staff to help, as the Guidelines state, eliminate bullying, harassment, and discrimination based on gender, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation.

The culture of accountability to parents and not activist groups has to start here, with the basic question of whether the school may facilitate the student's gender transition. The schools must be accountable to the parents.

The OP did not bother to provide a source for this. But, for those interested, it is an excerpt from a lawsuit filed against MCPS that was dismissed due to lack of standing. The poster may well have had some assistance from ChatGPT or the like.

At any rate, OP, you started this thread with a long list of links to various crimes but now appear to be singularly fixated on transgender issues. What is your real concern here?

It's from the court opinion: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca4/22-2034/22-2034-2023-08-14.html

My real concern is the schools and the people running them, who are completely fixated on ideological agendas around drug decriminalization and gender transitions and purposefully hostile to parents' rights.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Focus on being the kind of parent whose kids feels safe disclosing that they’re questioning their gender or sexual identity and you’ll never have to worry that MCPS is hiding information from you.

NP here. I agree with what you said, but are you holding the same ooinion about not telling parents if a child is failing? Cheated on a major test? Is bullying other students? Hit a teacher? There are many parents who would react in an extremely negative manner if they knew about the kinds of behaviors I mentioned. Where do you draw the line?

You're comparing gender identity to failing in class, cheating on a major test, bullying students, and hitting a teacher. Stop doing that.

PP here. I'm really not trying to make them comparable. I'm just referring to the rationale that parents might harm their children if they were told. Is that the only reason parents aren't being told?

Except it's objectively bad to fail, to cheat, to bully, to hit. Those are things your kids would get in trouble for or at least get a bad report card about. It's not objectively bad to transition or to be gay.

What about being sexually assaulted by a teacher or another student? It's not something your kid would get in trouble for or get a bad report card for, but the school should tell you about it.

What about collapsing in the bathroom while drunk or high? Totally legal under Maryland law, but you would still want to know as a parent.

You're comparing gender identity to being the victim of sexual assault (a crime) and collapsing from an OD (a medical emergency). Stop doing that.

What if the school has a priest visit, and the priest baptizes children in school without asking the parents' permission first. Would you expect to be told?

If a public school had a priest visit to baptize children in school, parental permission would not be my first concern, or my second, or even my tenth.

But it would be a concern. Thank you for proving my point. There is no law barring a priest from visiting a public school, by the way, so not sure what the other concerns might be.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Focus on being the kind of parent whose kids feels safe disclosing that they’re questioning their gender or sexual identity and you’ll never have to worry that MCPS is hiding information from you.

NP here. I agree with what you said, but are you holding the same ooinion about not telling parents if a child is failing? Cheated on a major test? Is bullying other students? Hit a teacher? There are many parents who would react in an extremely negative manner if they knew about the kinds of behaviors I mentioned. Where do you draw the line?

You're comparing gender identity to failing in class, cheating on a major test, bullying students, and hitting a teacher. Stop doing that.

PP here. I'm really not trying to make them comparable. I'm just referring to the rationale that parents might harm their children if they were told. Is that the only reason parents aren't being told?

Except it's objectively bad to fail, to cheat, to bully, to hit. Those are things your kids would get in trouble for or at least get a bad report card about. It's not objectively bad to transition or to be gay.

What about being sexually assaulted by a teacher or another student? It's not something your kid would get in trouble for or get a bad report card for, but the school should tell you about it.

What about collapsing in the bathroom while drunk or high? Totally legal under Maryland law, but you would still want to know as a parent.

You're comparing gender identity to being the victim of sexual assault (a crime) and collapsing from an OD (a medical emergency). Stop doing that.

What if the school has a priest visit, and the priest baptizes children in school without asking the parents' permission first. Would you expect to be told?

If a public school had a priest visit to baptize children in school, parental permission would not be my first concern, or my second, or even my tenth.

But it would be a concern. Thank you for proving my point. There is no law barring a priest from visiting a public school, by the way, so not sure what the other concerns might be.

Thank you for proving your point that it would be unconstitutional for a public school to hold a baptism? Okey dokey.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Under the Guidelines, a student wishing to develop and implement a transition plan fills out an intake form on which the student is asked to rate the level of parental support the student expects, on a scale from 1 to 10. If the support level is deemed inadequate and the student so desires, the student is assured that the student’s parents will not be told about the development and implementation of the plan. The Guidelines do not indicate that any particular score suffices for a student’s parents to be deemed “unsupportive” but instead direct staff members to make that determination by considering both the information in the form and any other information gathered from consultation with the student. The Guidelines explain the reason for excluding parents as follows:

In some cases, transgender and gender nonconforming students may not openly express their gender identity at home because of safety concerns or lack of acceptance. Matters of gender identity can be complex and may involve familial conflict. Accordingly, the Guidelines explicitly prohibit disclosure of the student’s status “to other students, their parents/guardians, or third persons.”

Moreover, when parents are being excluded from the development and implementation of a transition plan, the Guidelines direct staff to engage in a form of coverup by providing that “[s]chools should seek to minimize the use of permission slips and other school-specific forms that require disclosure of a student’s gender or use gendered terminology” and that “[u]nless the student or parent/guardian has specified otherwise, when contacting the parent/guardian of a transgender student, [Montgomery County] school staff members should use the student’s legal name and pronoun that correspond to the student’s sex assigned at birth.” The transition plans that are developed and implemented under the Guidelines include changing names and pronouns; requiring staff to comply with the use of such names and pronouns; changing school records; giving students the “right to dress in a manner consistent with their gender identity”; providing access to “gender-separated areas,” e.g., “bathrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms”; providing access to classes and sports, in-school athletics, and clubs in accordance with the student’s new gender identity; promising special arrangements for “outdoor education/overnight field trips,” ncluding sleeping arrangements; and providing safe places and other similar accommodations.

Finally, the Guidelines direct staff to “understand implicit bias, promote diversity awareness, and consider the risk of self-harm or the presence of suicidal ideation.” And they encourage schools “to have age-appropriate student organizations develop and lead programs to address issues of bullying prevention for all students, with emphasis on LGBTQ+ students.”

The Guidelines are not voluntary and instead apply mandatorily to all students in the school system, regardless of age, and all students are thus engaged with staff to help, as the Guidelines state, eliminate bullying, harassment, and discrimination based on gender, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation.

The culture of accountability to parents and not activist groups has to start here, with the basic question of whether the school may facilitate the student's gender transition. The schools must be accountable to the parents.

The OP did not bother to provide a source for this. But, for those interested, it is an excerpt from a lawsuit filed against MCPS that was dismissed due to lack of standing. The poster may well have had some assistance from ChatGPT or the like.

At any rate, OP, you started this thread with a long list of links to various crimes but now appear to be singularly fixated on transgender issues. What is your real concern here?

It's from the court opinion: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca4/22-2034/22-2034-2023-08-14.html

My real concern is the schools and the people running them, who are completely fixated on ideological agendas around drug decriminalization and gender transitions and purposefully hostile to parents' rights.

tbf... MoCo is also decriminalizing drugs.

Again, you should move to FL.

[Anonymous]

Op, you seem to have an anxiety disorder and are using your child's school as a way to feel in control while also feeling angry and outraged at people who haven't followed you out of the system..my guess is you're dissatisfied with your choice because deep down you know it wasn't the right one so come here to take your secret fear out on others while reinforcing your decision to yourself.
You need help.

[Anonymous]

God this is all so theoretical. I work at an elementary school with 500 students who learn and grow and are challenged and have good days and bad days… and we literally spend zero time creating anyone’s gender identity for them in defiance of their parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:God this is all so theoretical. I work at an elementary school with 500 students who learn and grow and are challenged and have good days and bad days… and we literally spend zero time creating anyone’s gender identity for them in defiance of their parents.

Why scare parents then by passing a resolution that specifically allows children to be transitioned without their parent's knowledge or consent?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Under the Guidelines, a student wishing to develop and implement a transition plan fills out an intake form on which the student is asked to rate the level of parental support the student expects, on a scale from 1 to 10. If the support level is deemed inadequate and the student so desires, the student is assured that the student’s parents will not be told about the development and implementation of the plan. The Guidelines do not indicate that any particular score suffices for a student’s parents to be deemed “unsupportive” but instead direct staff members to make that determination by considering both the information in the form and any other information gathered from consultation with the student. The Guidelines explain the reason for excluding parents as follows:

In some cases, transgender and gender nonconforming students may not openly express their gender identity at home because of safety concerns or lack of acceptance. Matters of gender identity can be complex and may involve familial conflict. Accordingly, the Guidelines explicitly prohibit disclosure of the student’s status “to other students, their parents/guardians, or third persons.”

Moreover, when parents are being excluded from the development and implementation of a transition plan, the Guidelines direct staff to engage in a form of coverup by providing that “[s]chools should seek to minimize the use of permission slips and other school-specific forms that require disclosure of a student’s gender or use gendered terminology” and that “[u]nless the student or parent/guardian has specified otherwise, when contacting the parent/guardian of a transgender student, [Montgomery County] school staff members should use the student’s legal name and pronoun that correspond to the student’s sex assigned at birth.” The transition plans that are developed and implemented under the Guidelines include changing names and pronouns; requiring staff to comply with the use of such names and pronouns; changing school records; giving students the “right to dress in a manner consistent with their gender identity”; providing access to “gender-separated areas,” e.g., “bathrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms”; providing access to classes and sports, in-school athletics, and clubs in accordance with the student’s new gender identity; promising special arrangements for “outdoor education/overnight field trips,” ncluding sleeping arrangements; and providing safe places and other similar accommodations.

Finally, the Guidelines direct staff to “understand implicit bias, promote diversity awareness, and consider the risk of self-harm or the presence of suicidal ideation.” And they encourage schools “to have age-appropriate student organizations develop and lead programs to address issues of bullying prevention for all students, with emphasis on LGBTQ+ students.”

The Guidelines are not voluntary and instead apply mandatorily to all students in the school system, regardless of age, and all students are thus engaged with staff to help, as the Guidelines state, eliminate bullying, harassment, and discrimination based on gender, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation.

The culture of accountability to parents and not activist groups has to start here, with the basic question of whether the school may facilitate the student's gender transition. The schools must be accountable to the parents.

The OP did not bother to provide a source for this. But, for those interested, it is an excerpt from a lawsuit filed against MCPS that was dismissed due to lack of standing. The poster may well have had some assistance from ChatGPT or the like.

At any rate, OP, you started this thread with a long list of links to various crimes but now appear to be singularly fixated on transgender issues. What is your real concern here?

It's from the court opinion: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca4/22-2034/22-2034-2023-08-14.html

My real concern is the schools and the people running them, who are completely fixated on ideological agendas around drug decriminalization and gender transitions and purposefully hostile to parents' rights.

tbf... MoCo is also decriminalizing drugs.

Again, you should move to FL.

I think every child in every state has a right to schools where they aren't exposed to sexually explicit materials, abuse, drugs, and the possibility of violence. MoCo is playing a dangerous game with kids under the cover of spreading woke ideology, and the results are out there for all to see. The same forces that are doing this to kids in Maryland are present all over the U.S. and all over the Western World.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Under the Guidelines, a student wishing to develop and implement a transition plan fills out an intake form on which the student is asked to rate the level of parental support the student expects, on a scale from 1 to 10. If the support level is deemed inadequate and the student so desires, the student is assured that the student’s parents will not be told about the development and implementation of the plan. The Guidelines do not indicate that any particular score suffices for a student’s parents to be deemed “unsupportive” but instead direct staff members to make that determination by considering both the information in the form and any other information gathered from consultation with the student. The Guidelines explain the reason for excluding parents as follows:

In some cases, transgender and gender nonconforming students may not openly express their gender identity at home because of safety concerns or lack of acceptance. Matters of gender identity can be complex and may involve familial conflict. Accordingly, the Guidelines explicitly prohibit disclosure of the student’s status “to other students, their parents/guardians, or third persons.”

Moreover, when parents are being excluded from the development and implementation of a transition plan, the Guidelines direct staff to engage in a form of coverup by providing that “[s]chools should seek to minimize the use of permission slips and other school-specific forms that require disclosure of a student’s gender or use gendered terminology” and that “[u]nless the student or parent/guardian has specified otherwise, when contacting the parent/guardian of a transgender student, [Montgomery County] school staff members should use the student’s legal name and pronoun that correspond to the student’s sex assigned at birth.” The transition plans that are developed and implemented under the Guidelines include changing names and pronouns; requiring staff to comply with the use of such names and pronouns; changing school records; giving students the “right to dress in a manner consistent with their gender identity”; providing access to “gender-separated areas,” e.g., “bathrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms”; providing access to classes and sports, in-school athletics, and clubs in accordance with the student’s new gender identity; promising special arrangements for “outdoor education/overnight field trips,” ncluding sleeping arrangements; and providing safe places and other similar accommodations.

Finally, the Guidelines direct staff to “understand implicit bias, promote diversity awareness, and consider the risk of self-harm or the presence of suicidal ideation.” And they encourage schools “to have age-appropriate student organizations develop and lead programs to address issues of bullying prevention for all students, with emphasis on LGBTQ+ students.”

The Guidelines are not voluntary and instead apply mandatorily to all students in the school system, regardless of age, and all students are thus engaged with staff to help, as the Guidelines state, eliminate bullying, harassment, and discrimination based on gender, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation.

The culture of accountability to parents and not activist groups has to start here, with the basic question of whether the school may facilitate the student's gender transition. The schools must be accountable to the parents.

The OP did not bother to provide a source for this. But, for those interested, it is an excerpt from a lawsuit filed against MCPS that was dismissed due to lack of standing. The poster may well have had some assistance from ChatGPT or the like.

At any rate, OP, you started this thread with a long list of links to various crimes but now appear to be singularly fixated on transgender issues. What is your real concern here?

It's from the court opinion: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca4/22-2034/22-2034-2023-08-14.html

My real concern is the schools and the people running them, who are completely fixated on ideological agendas around drug decriminalization and gender transitions and purposefully hostile to parents' rights.

tbf... MoCo is also decriminalizing drugs.

Again, you should move to FL.

I think every child in every state has a right to schools where they aren't exposed to sexually explicit materials, abuse, drugs, and the possibility of violence. MoCo is playing a dangerous game with kids under the cover of spreading woke ideology, and the results are out there for all to see. The same forces that are doing this to kids in Maryland are present all over the U.S. and all over the Western World.

Yep, you'll fit right in with school policy in Florida - except for that whole "possibility of violence" thing, what with the mass shootings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Under the Guidelines, a student wishing to develop and implement a transition plan fills out an intake form on which the student is asked to rate the level of parental support the student expects, on a scale from 1 to 10. If the support level is deemed inadequate and the student so desires, the student is assured that the student’s parents will not be told about the development and implementation of the plan. The Guidelines do not indicate that any particular score suffices for a student’s parents to be deemed “unsupportive” but instead direct staff members to make that determination by considering both the information in the form and any other information gathered from consultation with the student. The Guidelines explain the reason for excluding parents as follows:

In some cases, transgender and gender nonconforming students may not openly express their gender identity at home because of safety concerns or lack of acceptance. Matters of gender identity can be complex and may involve familial conflict. Accordingly, the Guidelines explicitly prohibit disclosure of the student’s status “to other students, their parents/guardians, or third persons.”

Moreover, when parents are being excluded from the development and implementation of a transition plan, the Guidelines direct staff to engage in a form of coverup by providing that “[s]chools should seek to minimize the use of permission slips and other school-specific forms that require disclosure of a student’s gender or use gendered terminology” and that “[u]nless the student or parent/guardian has specified otherwise, when contacting the parent/guardian of a transgender student, [Montgomery County] school staff members should use the student’s legal name and pronoun that correspond to the student’s sex assigned at birth.” The transition plans that are developed and implemented under the Guidelines include changing names and pronouns; requiring staff to comply with the use of such names and pronouns; changing school records; giving students the “right to dress in a manner consistent with their gender identity”; providing access to “gender-separated areas,” e.g., “bathrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms”; providing access to classes and sports, in-school athletics, and clubs in accordance with the student’s new gender identity; promising special arrangements for “outdoor education/overnight field trips,” ncluding sleeping arrangements; and providing safe places and other similar accommodations.

Finally, the Guidelines direct staff to “understand implicit bias, promote diversity awareness, and consider the risk of self-harm or the presence of suicidal ideation.” And they encourage schools “to have age-appropriate student organizations develop and lead programs to address issues of bullying prevention for all students, with emphasis on LGBTQ+ students.”

The Guidelines are not voluntary and instead apply mandatorily to all students in the school system, regardless of age, and all students are thus engaged with staff to help, as the Guidelines state, eliminate bullying, harassment, and discrimination based on gender, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation.

The culture of accountability to parents and not activist groups has to start here, with the basic question of whether the school may facilitate the student's gender transition. The schools must be accountable to the parents.

The OP did not bother to provide a source for this. But, for those interested, it is an excerpt from a lawsuit filed against MCPS that was dismissed due to lack of standing. The poster may well have had some assistance from ChatGPT or the like.

At any rate, OP, you started this thread with a long list of links to various crimes but now appear to be singularly fixated on transgender issues. What is your real concern here?

It's from the court opinion: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca4/22-2034/22-2034-2023-08-14.html

My real concern is the schools and the people running them, who are completely fixated on ideological agendas around drug decriminalization and gender transitions and purposefully hostile to parents' rights.

tbf... MoCo is also decriminalizing drugs.

Again, you should move to FL.

I think every child in every state has a right to schools where they aren't exposed to sexually explicit materials, abuse, drugs, and the possibility of violence. MoCo is playing a dangerous game with kids under the cover of spreading woke ideology, and the results are out there for all to see. The same forces that are doing this to kids in Maryland are present all over the U.S. and all over the Western World.

What are the sexually explicit materials?? lol come on. Sex education is nothing new. I know this is a troll but at least try to sound like a real person.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are you really conflating rape with sex ed and students being allowed to decide when/if to disclose being trans to their parents?

That makes it hard to take you seriously.

I'm just saying that it's pretty sketchy that a school system that has massive problems with sexual assault by teachers and students and administrators would seek to impose explicit sex ed on elementary school students with no parental opt-out allowed, and also seek to cut parents out of being informed of their own young children transitioning genders.

Really? What explicit sex ed? Please source it as you're so capable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Under the Guidelines, a student wishing to develop and implement a transition plan fills out an intake form on which the student is asked to rate the level of parental support the student expects, on a scale from 1 to 10. If the support level is deemed inadequate and the student so desires, the student is assured that the student’s parents will not be told about the development and implementation of the plan. The Guidelines do not indicate that any particular score suffices for a student’s parents to be deemed “unsupportive” but instead direct staff members to make that determination by considering both the information in the form and any other information gathered from consultation with the student. The Guidelines explain the reason for excluding parents as follows:

In some cases, transgender and gender nonconforming students may not openly express their gender identity at home because of safety concerns or lack of acceptance. Matters of gender identity can be complex and may involve familial conflict. Accordingly, the Guidelines explicitly prohibit disclosure of the student’s status “to other students, their parents/guardians, or third persons.”

Moreover, when parents are being excluded from the development and implementation of a transition plan, the Guidelines direct staff to engage in a form of coverup by providing that “[s]chools should seek to minimize the use of permission slips and other school-specific forms that require disclosure of a student’s gender or use gendered terminology” and that “[u]nless the student or parent/guardian has specified otherwise, when contacting the parent/guardian of a transgender student, [Montgomery County] school staff members should use the student’s legal name and pronoun that correspond to the student’s sex assigned at birth.” The transition plans that are developed and implemented under the Guidelines include changing names and pronouns; requiring staff to comply with the use of such names and pronouns; changing school records; giving students the “right to dress in a manner consistent with their gender identity”; providing access to “gender-separated areas,” e.g., “bathrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms”; providing access to classes and sports, in-school athletics, and clubs in accordance with the student’s new gender identity; promising special arrangements for “outdoor education/overnight field trips,” ncluding sleeping arrangements; and providing safe places and other similar accommodations.

Finally, the Guidelines direct staff to “understand implicit bias, promote diversity awareness, and consider the risk of self-harm or the presence of suicidal ideation.” And they encourage schools “to have age-appropriate student organizations develop and lead programs to address issues of bullying prevention for all students, with emphasis on LGBTQ+ students.”

The Guidelines are not voluntary and instead apply mandatorily to all students in the school system, regardless of age, and all students are thus engaged with staff to help, as the Guidelines state, eliminate bullying, harassment, and discrimination based on gender, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation.

The culture of accountability to parents and not activist groups has to start here, with the basic question of whether the school may facilitate the student's gender transition. The schools must be accountable to the parents.

The OP did not bother to provide a source for this. But, for those interested, it is an excerpt from a lawsuit filed against MCPS that was dismissed due to lack of standing. The poster may well have had some assistance from ChatGPT or the like.

At any rate, OP, you started this thread with a long list of links to various crimes but now appear to be singularly fixated on transgender issues. What is your real concern here?

It's from the court opinion: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca4/22-2034/22-2034-2023-08-14.html

My real concern is the schools and the people running them, who are completely fixated on ideological agendas around drug decriminalization and gender transitions and purposefully hostile to parents' rights.

tbf... MoCo is also decriminalizing drugs.

Again, you should move to FL.

I think every child in every state has a right to schools where they aren't exposed to sexually explicit materials, abuse, drugs, and the possibility of violence. MoCo is playing a dangerous game with kids under the cover of spreading woke ideology, and the results are out there for all to see. The same forces that are doing this to kids in Maryland are present all over the U.S. and all over the Western World.

What are the sexually explicit materials?? lol come on. Sex education is nothing new. I know this is a troll but at least try to sound like a real person.

This school year, Maryland’s Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), one of the largest school districts in the country, instituted a curriculum whose selection for pre-K, “Pride Puppy,” encourages 3-year-olds to search for images of the “‘intersex [flag],’ a ‘[drag] king,’ ‘leather,’ ‘underwear,’ and a celebrated sex worker.”

Pre-K teachers are also provided a resource guide about “defining LGBTQ+ words for elementary students” by the Human Rights Campaign, which includes vocabulary like “cisgender,” “gender binary,” “transgender,” “pansexual” and “queer.”

Three-year-olds are being taught vocabulary such as “cis-gender” and “pansexual.” The fourth grade curriculum instructs the teacher to explore their students’ romantic attractions, including same-sex attractions. With a book about two girls finding love on a playground, the teacher is to invite students to “acknowledg[e] how uncomfortable we might [be]… when we feel our heart beating ‘thumpity thump’ & how hard it can be [to] talk about our feelings with someone that we don’t just ‘like’ but we ‘like like.’”

Kristin Mink attacked those complaining as "white supremacists" and said “to allow Muslim families to opt their children out of those books … harm[s] the LGBTQIA+ community.”

https://thehill.com/opinion/education/4065444-maryland-sex-curriculum-conflict-is-a-battle-of-vulnerabilities/

https://nypost.com/2022/11/15/maryland-school-district-unveils-lgbtq-library-for-pre-k-5th-grade/

Fourth-graders are recommended to read the 2022 book “Love, Violet,” which tells the story of a queer child who develops a crush on her friend, Mira.

A “think aloud” moment for that book is “acknowledging how uncomfortable we might [be] in situations when we feel our heart beating ‘thumpity thump’ & how hard it can be [to] talk about our feelings with someone that we don’t just ‘like’ but we ‘like like,’” according to MCPS.

“Students will develop language and knowledge to accurately and respectfully describe how people (including themselves) are both similar to and different from each other and others in their identity groups,” the guide states.

Students in fifth-grade, ages 10 and 11, are advised to read “Born Ready,” which tells the story of a Black transgender child.

“Some think aloud moments,” for that book, according to MCPS, include, “noticing how happy Penelope is when his mom hears him and commits to sharing with their loved ones that he is a boy–say again that we know ourselves best” and “noticing that in Ghana they think about gender differently than we do in the US–wondering why is it such a big deal here?”

The presentation provides several examples of potential complaints from students, parents and community members and how MCPS staff should respond.

“That’s weird,” reads a sample comment from a student. “He can’t be a boy if he was born a girl. What body parts do they have?”

The answer suggested by MCPS states: “That comment is hurtful; we shouldn’t use negative words to talk about peoples’ identities. Sometimes when we learn information that is different from what we always thought, it can be confusing and hard to process. When we are born, people make a guess about our gender and label us ‘boy’ or ‘girl’ based on our body parts. Sometimes they’re right, and sometimes they’re wrong. Our body parts do not decide our gender. Our gender comes from inside – we might feel different than what people tell us we are. We know ourselves best.”

Note that back in 2022, MCPS said that the readings were "not mandatory" and there would be parental opt-out. Now those have been eliminated and from pre-K on, students are being groomed and sexualized for LGBTQ relationships.

[Anonymous]

Good. I'm tired of my children being groomed and sexualized for heterosexual relationships with all these prince and princess stories.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:God this is all so theoretical. I work at an elementary school with 500 students who learn and grow and are challenged and have good days and bad days… and we literally spend zero time creating anyone’s gender identity for them in defiance of their parents.

Why scare parents then by passing a resolution that specifically allows children to be transitioned without their parent's knowledge or consent?

Poe’s law strikes again!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good. I'm tired of my children being groomed and sexualized for heterosexual relationships with all these prince and princess stories.

If you want to groom your child to be homosexual that is your choice, but forcing it on religious and non-woke people is like a priest coming and baptizing all the children at the school without the parent's knowledge or consent. Or like reciting the Lord's Prayer each day with no opt-out. You would presumably be very angry at these things happening. Part of living in a society is respecting the rights of other people.

I would note that it is creepy and obnoxious that a public school system rife with rape and sexual abuse of minors is presuming to teach pre-K children- four year olds about sex.