DOJ Sues Kansas City School District Over Secret Gender Transitions of Students
“If the student asks to exclude the student’s parent(s)/legal guardian(s) from the school planning meeting, that request will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.”
The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney for the District of Kansas sued Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools (KCKPS), claiming the district facilitated secret “gender transitions” for children without notifying the parents.
“Parental rights are paramount in the operation of America’s public schools, and Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools does not know children better than their own parents,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “The Department will not tolerate school districts playing fast and loose with federal law in the service of radical gender ideology.”
The DOJ alleges the district violated the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (“FERPA”), 20 U.S.C. § 1232g, and the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (“PPRA”), 20 U.S.C. § 1232h.
According to the complaint, KCPS has kept policies on how to deal with students who insist they are “transgender” or “gender non-conforming” since 2017.
It all started on September 18, 2017, when the district published the guidance document Kansas City Kansas Public Schools Guidelines for Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Students at School. The district never formally voted to adopt the document.
However, the district also implemented a similar policy named USD 500 Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Students Internal Guidance Document (emphasis mine):
A student or a student’s parent or legal guardian should contact the school principal if a student is transgender or gender non-conforming and the student or the student’s parent or legal guardian are seeking any related accommodations. If any staff member learns a student is transgender or gender non-conforming, that information should be relayed to the school principal without delay. The school principal should discuss available accommodations and resources with the student or the student’s parent or legal guardian, including the availability of a planning meeting. If it becomes known that the student does not want the student’s parent or legal guardian included at this stage, that request will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Such requests will be evaluated by the Executive Director of Student Services & Family Support, Director of Student Support Programs, Executive Director of Equity & Inclusion, and the district’s attorney. When reviewing the request, the district will consider the student’s age, the student’s grade level, the student’s welfare based on the information available to the district at that time, and any other relevant information.
The document includes parents/legal guardians as the people who “may be present” at the planning meeting. In other words…not required (emphasis mine):
If the student asks to exclude the student’s parent(s)/legal guardian(s) from the school planning meeting, that request will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Likewise, if the student does not want his or her transgender or gender non-conforming status disclosed to the student’s parent(s)/legal guardian(s), that request will also be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Such requests will be evaluated by the Executive Director of Student Services & Family Support, Director of Student Support Programs, Executive Director of Equity & Inclusion, and the district’s attorney. When reviewing the request, the district will consider the student’s age, the student’s grade level, the student’s welfare based on the information available to the district at that time, and any other relevant information.
Yeah, the District does not have to alert parents or legal guardians at all during the process.
The District doesn’t even give the parents or legal guardians an opportunity to challenge any “Gender Plan.”
“For decades, schools operated with little accountability as federal parental rights laws like FERPA and PPRA went unenforced, allowing some districts to cut parents out of deeply personal matters involving their own children,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. “That era is over. The Trump Administration is enforcing these laws at an unprecedented scale and making clear that schools cannot hide sensitive information from parents and expect to operate with impunity. We are grateful to the Department of Justice for taking this next step and for its continued partnership with the Department of Education to enforce federal law and protect the fundamental rights of parents.”
Beyond ridiculous. If my child is under the age of 18, I better be notified about everything, even if you’re giving my child a Tylenol.
In fact, if I am responsible for my child, at any age, I better be notified about everything.
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This type of behavior, DEI, etc. won’t be stopped by holding the “system” responsible. Policies are formulated and implemented by individuals; charge people with violations of Federal law, felonies if possible.
Q: How do you handle kids who are weird?
A: If kids are acting weird, we have weird administrators who are adept at weirdness who will handle it without parent’s knowledge.
Q: What if parents are weird?
A: Parents should not know anything about it unless the parents are also weird.
Sue? Why not prosecute?
those are my sentiments.
Child abuse
Sexual abuse
etc
Prosecute
It is past time for the students parents, to take control back from the public school officials. The school boards and educators are to woke. The changes need to start in the liberal colleges educating our future teachers. Home schooled kids are less indoctrinated and usually better prepared than public schooled kids. The Marxist educators 60 years ago were pushing for the reforms we are dealing with today. Far too many of them hate America and what it stands for. If we don’t the future is going to be full blown communism.
Yes. Parents have primary responsibility for the care of their children. Including removing their children from corrupt institutions.
The root problem is adults pursuing their own desires at the expense of children.
When I was in school, if I jumped up on the desk and said I identify as Batman the policy was the teacher grabbing my earlobe and pulling me back in the chair. My, how we evolved from those primitive times.
Schools went from a resource to give sprouts a power up, to part of the great orchestrating mechanism.
These days the intended product is like those Japanese cube watermellon: green on the outside, red on the inside, grown into a shape that fits the way we’ll stack them. Foot binding is next, no doubt.
Everything’s up to date in Kansas City.
They’ve gone about as fer as they can go.
Gibbie: Everything’s up to date in Kansas City.
Dorothy: Yeah, but we’re not in Kansas anymore.
Teachers aren’t supposed to teach, remember?
The entire edifice of Government Schools (never call them “public schools, for obvious reasons) needs to be razed to the ground, the earth salted and a nuclear waste disposal site erected over the remains. Any good, normal care-about-the-kids type teachers who get displaced, sorry. Should have seen something and said something.
Schools have been failing for well over forty years now anyway. See The Closing of the American Mind (1987) by Allan Bloom:or Why Johnny Still Can’t Read (1981) by Rudolf Flesch, et al.
How the hell did these perverts and pinheads end up in America’s heartland?