The problem is that you have a small number of people setting policy and then directing the rank-and-file teachers to implement the policies. Now, on most matters that is really not a big deal. For example, if a school board decides to teach math a certain way, or to restructure class schedules. These are administrative matters. However, when these small groups start setting a morality based policy and then start implementing it without parental consent, they may be overstepping their bounds.
I feel that it is perfectly appropriate to teach and encourage diversity. But trannies? Come on. Unless a kid is a hermaphrodite, then there is no reason not to point out, implicitly, a distinction that suggests that there are only boys and girls. They are, afterall, boys and girls. Even if a kid is having hormone problems, the kid is still either a boy or a girl. Trannies do not start whacking off their junk until they become adults. Besides, what percentage of people are actually trannies or hermaphrodites? The answer is far too few to justify a policy that seeks to erase sexual orientation from the minds of children. The idea is absurd.
Teachers seem to be crossing these lines a lot. For example, my nine year old son recently received a disappointing grade on an assignment. He said out loud that his grade "brings great shame down on his family" and apparently said something about falling on a sword. The teacher construed what my son said as talk of suicide and shipped him out of class and to the counselor, who thoroughly interviewed my son about his comments, home life, his parents, etc... The administration at his school was notified that my 9 year old son was making comments about committing suicide. All of this unfolded without any contact with me. Nobody even called me. I found out about this nonsense from my son, who was upset at having to go to the counselor and be probed about his personal life.
Had they bothered to call me with their concern they would have learned that we jokingly say "you bring great shame upon our family" around my house all the time. If our dog gets into the trash we all tell her that she has brought great shame down on our family. We may even throw in some hari kari references too. The point is that it is a harmless joke. But, for the public school idiots, my son's words equated to him talking about suicide, which sets off certain protocol.
I got pissed and drove to the school. I was most pissed off that a public school teacher can, without notice to me, pull my son out of class and conduct an interview that includes my 9 year old son having to answer a lot of personal questions about what is going on at home. To make it more absurd, those people know me. I am involved in my son's education. I communicate regularly either in person or be email. They know me, what I do for a living, and my reputation in our relatively small community. Yet, they made the decision to exclude me from the process to determine if my son is having a problem. That determination was made without me. Both me and my ex were pissed by this. I, of course, had to go to the school and act like a total ass and be critical of their protocol. However, I think they are used to that by now.
The matter was straightened out, but I found it to be incredibly annoying and a waste of time. Why? Because the school was conducting a unilateral inquiry of my son's home life with no parental involvement. Obviously, I have nothing to hide. But the fact is that they have the responsibility to teach our kids, not delve into the inner workings of a home.
Granted, intervention may be both appropriate and helpful in cases where the parents do not give a shit. However, I do get involved and the school knows it. They had no business pulling my child out of class then placing him in an isolated setting where he must be subjected to questioning about his family life.
My story is offered to show that when you drop off your child at school they become custodians of the children for several hours each day and are free to instill any sort of ideology into the children. They have a scary degree of influence over our kids. And, honestly, teachers are generally not that smart. They are autonomotons that execute the policies set forth by a very small group of people. It is ******* ridiculous. If this was the first time the school absurdly overreacted, that would be in thing. But, this is not the first time something like this has happened. My son is energetic, smart, and very curious. Unfortunately, he has a problem with authority, just like his old man. Thus, he is a handful and the school is always coming up with some non-productive bullshit to deal with him. He studies music and just attended an architect program that lasted a week. He can field strip, clean and reassemble every firearm I own. He is a very bright kid, but then he gets caught up in this bullshit at school. It is pathetic. I am strongly considering enrolling him in a private school because I am growing tired of the social engineering that is happening.
