Indoctrination in Your State & District

More details...Great Valley's instructions to teachers...DON'T DARE TELL THE PARENTS!!!

Great Valley School District, Pennsylvania

Submitted: 2022-03-11

Story:

Although the GVSD's policy on parental notification was last revised on 11/18/2019, a recent article, prompted by comments from an anonymous teacher who objects to the policy, provides more details regarding Great Valley SD's refusal to allow teachers to inform parents if a student is questioning his/her sexual identity. The article can be read in its entirety from the URL provided in the supporting documents.

Much of the article focuses on information and comments provided by the anonymous teacher. The teacher noted that "the district has even instructed elementary school teachers to withhold information about children questioning their gender....Especially, in the upper elementary (grades) it’s permeated so much of what we do.” One of the teacher's concerns is that "children who are questioning their gender might also need mental health services. How will they get those services if their parents are being kept in the dark?...How can we rationalize keeping this information from the very stakeholders who are in the best position to help? The parents.”

Selected quotes from the article are given below:

"The educator said other teachers in the affluent Chester County district are also uncomfortable keeping the information secret from parents but are afraid to speak out. In past years, a small number of kids might identify as a different gender, but since the schools opened again after the pandemic closure, the number of those students has exploded, (the teacher) said."

"The teacher believes some staff members encourage kids to consider changing their gender. And some kids are doing it just to get attention. They have learned about being transgender on social media or through their peers or library books."

The teacher also said: "During puberty many kids are 'confused and have discomfort about their bodies.' ...Most of the students who say they want to change their gender are girls."

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