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[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]

Can you clarify? When I say, “I sent your grownups the flier about today’s spirit night,” I know my student who is being raised by their aunt or uncle is included equally as the kid being raised by just dad because mom died, or being raised by mom and dad. I’ll also say “I’m sending home a form for your families” or “your adults need to sign this form.” I did the switch after a student whose mother died was repeatedly bothered by “moms and dads,” but I’m very open to hearing how my language could be refined. Thank you![/quote]

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