This is the kind of story that makes your blood boil. People who do this behind a parent’s back deserve to be prosecuted.
FOX News reports:
Elementary school’s private emails show secret plans to defy parents’ wishes on transitioning their childA Colorado elementary school’s private emails show secret plans to defy parents’ wishes on transitioning their child’s gender.Emails posted on Twitter by the senior fellow with Independent Women’s Forum Nicole Solas show an assistant principal in the Poudre School District (PSD) inquired how to address a student whose parents instructed school staff to not use the student’s preferred gender pronouns.”Emails reveal @Poudreschools started secretly transitioning K-5 students last year by using students’ preferred names & pronouns at school but legal names with parents,” Solas tweeted along with a long thread of images of documents.According to the tweets, Assistant Principal Amanda Pawelski at Laurel Elementary School sent an email looking for guidance on whether to use a student’s preferred pronouns when their parents told staff directly not to call the student by those pronouns.”I feel very strongly about the student but have heard that we legally have to follow the parents’ direction due to the age of the child (elementary school). I’ve also heard that this is different in secondary schools due to legal determination ages,” Pawelski wrote in the email.”Then tonight I was asked about this in the ABCs training, and I was told it makes no difference if elementary or secondary and that the law doesn’t make that distinction that we should follow the student, not the parents,” Pawelski said in the email sent to PSD Chief Equity and Academic Officer Marlena Gross-Taylor.She continued, “I’d like to be able to have a more definitive answer than I’ve experienced and want to know how to direct my teachers as well. We want to support the student. We also want to be covered legally.”…”Just to keep you in the loop, Darcie and I met to discuss this and both agree that the school should use the student’s affirming name and pronouns at school and use their legal name and corresponding pronouns when talking with the family until they are supportive of the student’s new name and pronouns,” Seitchik said.
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