Parents reacted with cheers of ‘leave our kids alone’ as a California superintendent was thrown out of a school board hearing for aggressively opposing a policy forcing teachers to notify parents if their child is transgender.
Tony Thurmond, the California State Superintendent of Schools, was booted from the Chino Valley Unified school board meeting on Thursday after going over his allotted time to vigorously attack the policy.
Over 300 people filled the main hall at Don Lugo High School in Chino, California to weigh in at the hearing, which was marked with hostility as Thurmond clashed with the school board’s president, Sonja Shaw.
After Thurmond condemned the new guidelines for putting transgender students ‘at risk’, Shaw fired back that the official was ‘proposing things that pervert children.’
The board eventually voted 4-1 to introduce the parental notification policy, a move which was met with cheers from the audience.
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No matter what you call it, transgender ideologies and pedagogies do not belong in K-12 classrooms. Children of these ages (and older) are too vulnerable to what are, in Buddhist terms, delusional attachments to a false sense of self which will lead to suffering. Adults can do as they please though they face similar problems with these ideologies as children do. But adults are adults and legally allowed to change their bodies if they want to, whether that’s a good idea or not. Making your body conform to a delusional mental state in most cases will only increase suffering. Neither seducing children into these ideologies nor destroying their bonds with their parents is morally right or the purpose of early education. Yes, there are bad parents but, no, making schools dens of iniquity will never fix that. ABN
American Buddhist Net 