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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the PP who had kids at EMS, TPMS, AEHS, and MBHS, and just wanted to note that my nonbinary kid only ever encountered bullying from US-born kids, so I'm a little leery of this narrative about immigrants.

While it might be true that some of the families in MCPS (particularly in the eastern part of the county) come from religious backgrounds, the kids are usually pretty good at code-shifting. At home, they are diligent and Orthodox or Catholic or whatever, but at school they are just the same mix of theater kids, math kids, jocks, and science nerds as anyone else. [/quote]

MoCo has been sooooo diverse for so many years that it’s accurate to say we have students who were born here but their parents or grandparents weren’t.

There is a big community of Latinos from conservative Christian sects (not catholic or other mainstream Christian denominations).

There is a big community of conservative Muslims.

And the black community has long-standing, well-documented issues with accepting the lgbtq community. (I mean, being on the down low is a phrase coined by that community).

Bullying happens everywhere, but I find the current generation of students far more open and accepting. Having said that, there are limits…and anyone who goes out of their way to be wildly different and is unnecessarily aggressive aboit it will likely prompt attention.

If it’s just pronouns, nbd. If it’s wearing cat ears and meowing during class (which we’ve observed in two mcps schools by non-binary students), that’s different. [/quote]

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