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originally posted by: JinMI
Ideology over education.
State over parents.
these are great, 1984-sounding scary soundbites but i'm gonna need you to show me how an OPTIONAL quiz as an avenue to share things a student may feel strongly about is evidence of anything even remotely on the scale you're fearmongering, chicken little.
The teachers union told them something else. An email from Jefferson County Education Association (JCEA) to teachers says, "if you do a questionnaire, please make it a paper and pencil activity - any digital records are more permanent and may be requested under federal law."
The union also encouraged teachers to "make your notations about students and not hold on to the documents."
While we're at it, can we break down the difference between IDEOLOGY and EDUCATION and explain to me how you can have one without the other
originally posted by: JinMI
State over parents.
20 or so states have banned trans related healthcare for those under 18.
originally posted by: JinMI
I noticed you provided no sourcing.......
Gender-affirming care is medically necessary, evidence-based care that uses a multidisciplinary approach to help a person transition from their assigned gender — the one the person was designated at birth — to their affirmed gender, the gender by which one wants to be known.
Gender-affirming treatments, including puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries, are now inaccessible for transgender minors in much of the South because of new laws that heavily restrict or ban such care for youths younger than 18.
By preventing doctors from providing this care, or threatening to take children away from parents who support their child in their transition, these bills prevent transgender youth from accessing medically necessary, safe health care backed by decades of research and supported by every major medical association representing over 1.3 million US doctors.
originally posted by: marg6043
I really do not understand why parents that care for the wellbeing of their children will send them to a place like that.
Schools are becoming deceiving places where children has been abused psychologically by groomers.
originally posted by: Terpene
a reply to: JinMI
You don't learn about the diffrent religions of the world?
Whatever you want to call the class in question...
originally posted by: JinMI
Again, isn't smoking and drinking banned for those under 18?
originally posted by: Terpene
a reply to: JinMI
You don't learn about the diffrent religions of the world?
Whatever you want to call the class in question...
originally posted by: JinMI
originally posted by: Terpene
a reply to: JinMI
You don't learn about the diffrent religions of the world?
Whatever you want to call the class in question...
Can't speak for anyone else but the only Abrahamic religion mentioned was Islam briefly followed by a good amount of eastern beliefs broadly. This was one day in fifth grade IIRC.
originally posted by: AdifferentOpinion
originally posted by: JinMI
Again, isn't smoking and drinking banned for those under 18?
I can't believe I have to say this but smoking and drinking are not evidence-based, medically necessary care as determined by doctors following the guidelines of every major medical organization in the U.S.