Kemi Badenoch says guidance will ensure parents know what is ‘going on with their children’ at school

Teachers will be forced to tell parents that their child is questioning their gender even if the young person objects under new guidance for schools in England, the equalities minister has indicated.

  • MasterOBee Master/King@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Even if it’s a school’s therapist, those resources are limited in scope, and assessment of need would be carried out.

    So you think school therapists aren’t good enough? Yet you think the teachers know more about how it will affect the student? Which is it, are the schools competent or not?

    I think you and I both know that’s not the same, nor carries the same weight as potentially being abused and kicked out of your home due to being ousted as LGBT+.

    0 difference. Cops can’t arrests my spouse because they assume that she might one day abuse me.

    If there is a reasonable suspicion that disclosing that information could lead to abuse, and not disclosing it wouldn’t, I’d much rather those “government employees” err on the side of not waiting until they’ve introduced a child into an abusive situation before doing something about it.

    Instead of encouraging lying to parents, why not try to improve abuse and homeless programs? Why don’t you advertise them in school? Giant posters “do you think you’re being abuse? Talk to a school counselor to get information on resources”

    Boom. This is fucking easy dude. You just want excuses for government employees to override the parenting of parents, without any evidence besides a teachers subjective observations and rash conclusions.

    What I don’t want is a law that creates a situation where the above is true, and makes the situation worse.

    What if it makes it better? A kid that’s questioning gender have much higher suicide rates, what if the teacher withholds this information, and the kid commits suicide. That’s on the teacher, is that what you want? Parents have that responsibility, not teachers. You want teachers to have the say, without any of the repercussions.

    Their ability is foster the people of the future, and that includes safeguarding them from harm, including that introduced by the child’s parents.

    Once again, that’s not their duty. Their duty is educate the children how the people in the state and district desire.

    You have this impression that government agents should be the ones determining the culture of the future. Paired with the government forcing us to give them our children for 8 hours a day 5 days a week or else they take our children from us.That’s inherently dangerous and anti-liberal.