Children Kicked Out of Exclusive School After Parents Question Gender-Identity Curriculum
“We were worried about raising our kids long term in an area that was embracing these destructive ideologies.”
This is so outrageous. The parents and children are better off being away from this madhouse.
Leighton Woodhouse writes at Substack:
They Questioned Gender-Affirming Care. Then Their Kids Were Kicked Out of School.
On May 25, Paul and Rebeka Sinclair pulled their minivan over to the side of the road, just north of Lake Tahoe, and logged onto a Zoom with Katherine Dinh, the head of the Marin Country Day School.
“Today was the last day of school for your children, Charlotte and Carter,” Dinh informed the couple. The Sinclairs—she’s 37; he’s 51—had been driving home from a vacation to celebrate their anniversary. Dinh appeared to be reading a script. Two MCDS board members joined her on the call but stayed quiet. “Please do not contact any other school employees, particularly Charlotte and Carter’s teachers, as your reaching out to them will cause them further stress,” Dinh continued. “The two of you are not to be on campus again.”
It was the closing act of a year-long drama between the Sinclairs and MCDS, which charges $40,000 per student per year and had been teaching first and second graders about “deconstructing the gender binary”—the idea that there’s no such thing as girls or boys, just a spectrum of relative girlness and boyness.
The Sinclairs weren’t the only parents who had protested the new gender-identity curriculum—most families in their daughter’s class were upset and had been talking about it among themselves. But the Sinclairs had been unwilling to stay quiet. As a result, administrators had suggested that they were homophobic and accused them of tarnishing MCDS’s reputation. (An MCDS attorney had accused the Sinclairs of “defamation” for accusing MCDS of “predatory ‘grooming’ of children.” The Sinclairs never made that accusation.) Friends had stopped replying to their texts. Teachers said they felt unsafe around them. When word got out about why Charlotte, 8, and Carter, 5, had been kicked out, the Sinclairs had to decide whether they could stay in the Bay Area.
“I had no problem being a pariah in Marin,” Beka said. “We were worried about raising our kids long term in an area that was embracing these destructive ideologies.”
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I’m kind of puzzled. If the parents were so concerned about the curriculum and the school was so unresponsive, why didn’t the parents transfer their children to another school?.
That makes too much sense.
Probably because they won’t get a refund and they didn’t happen to have another $80 Grand lying around?
If you’re paying $40K per child per year, is it really unreasonable to at least be able to comment on the curriculum?
Run away from problems instead of facing off with them and trying to solve them? I admire their willingness to face authority.
I’m surprised the school is not required to give notice when expelling a student, at least in situations that are obviously not related to other students’ safety.
Teachers feel “unsafe”? Imagine if they were confronted by sticks and stones?
Or, deigned to cross the bay and walk on Market Street or in the Tenderloin?