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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t ask in Virginia- here teachers can get reported on a tip line if there is a whiff of anything but two married parents from the 1960s in newsletters or anything else from schools. [/quote]

How strange.  I'd've said it was the other way around in Virginia.[/quote]

Not with Youngkin: https://wtop.com/virginia/2022/03/virginia-superintendents-call-for-end-to-teacher-tip-line-collaboration-on-divisive-concepts-report/

I think what you describe is changing, but probably slower outside of certain areas. In my NOVA school we address "families," as a general and inclusive term and we ask kids about their "[b]adults," not their mom and dad, to be sensitive to the many kinds of families our students have.[/b] I don't think it's that way everywhere yet, though.[/quote]

This may be sensitive but it's also depersonalizing.  Mom or dad or other adult, or parent or guardian, is less depersonalizing, fwiw.[/quote]

Every kid in the universe knows that mom and dad is standard family. Anything else is non-traditional. Kids in school with two moms or two dads will not be surprised to hear that. Nobody will ever be surprised to hear that. Just stop.[/quote]

I'm just saying that as a former teacher, I was taught to be inclusive and aware of everyone's differences. So when we moved to the South I've been shocked that instead of "families" or smoother catchall, the teacher literally is stating mom/dad parent. We know kids live with their grandparents and all other sorts of configurations. [/quote]

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