And it’s unconscionable to hide such efforts from parents.
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it → ’ → parents
As The California Post reported exclusively, the US Department of Education on Friday announced investigations into three school districts — North Monterey County, Palo Alto and San Francisco Unified — over claims that educators probed students’ sexuality, gender identity and more without parental knowledge or consent.
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educators → report → knowledge
If true, that’s egregious.
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that → ’ → ?
Educators should focus on getting kids proficient in English, math and other basics — and not on ideological indulgences that distract students from academics, squander valuable class time and trample parents’ rights.
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that → focus → rights
They must also obey the law.
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They → obey → law
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Schools are barred by the federal Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment from surveying students on certain protected information without first obtaining parental consent.
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Schools → download → consent
And, as US Education Secretary Linda McMahon told The Post, parents have the right to opt their kids out.
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parents → tell → kids
That’s as it should be.
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it → ’ → ?
Parents, and not schools, are responsible for raising their children.
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Parents → raise → children
And parents, and not schools, may be left to grapple with years of fallout from a kid’s “exploration” of gender dysphoria.
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parents → leave → dysphoria
Schools have no place asking kids such intrusive questions without parental knowledge.
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Schools → have → knowledge
Educators have no business quizzing students about their sexuality, what they think about their gender, or any other personally provocative questions.
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they → have → gender
And parents have every right to be informed about any and all aspects of what their kids are learning on campus.
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kids → have → campus
That goes for not just for how (and how well) kids are taught to read, write, add and subtract.
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kids → go → ?
It also goes for ideological exercises such as the “Wheel of Power/Privilege” and “Mapping My Identities” — both of which the three implicated school districts reportedly required students to complete as part of “ethnic studies.”
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districts → go → studies
Instead of stressing divisions among people, why not emphasize the civic ideals that unite us as Americans?
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that → stress → Americans
Per California’s latest round of official student test scores, released this month:
In North Monterey Unified, 29% of students were proficient in English, and just 17% were proficient in math.
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% → release → math
In San Francisco United, only 53% showed proficiency in English, with 46% proficient math.
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% → show → math
Even so, would parents in Silicon Valley rather their kids explore gender identity — or learn to code for AI?
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kids → explore → AI
The feds are right to press the point, and the investigations are the latest in a string of federal actions meant to hold schools accountable for obeying the law and respecting parental rights.
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schools → press → rights
In January, the feds found the California Department of Education had violated federal law by pressuring schools to conceal students’ gender transitions from their parents.
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Department → find → parents
The state, and the school officials who agreed to deceive parents, could not have been more in the wrong.
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who → agree → wrong
Their rationale — that some parents would abuse their own kids if they came out as trans, and therefore it’s fine to mislead all parents — doesn’t wash.
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it → abuse → parents
In the rare cases where abuse might be an issue, there are better ways to protect kids.
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abuse → be → kids
Lying to parents, by omission or otherwise, is unacceptable.
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Lying → lie → omission
When are lefty California school districts going to learn?
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districts → go → ?
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