Stacey Jacobson-Francis works on math homework with her 6 year old daughter Luci Wednesday, May 14, 2014, at their home in Berkeley, Calif. Gallup rolled out their new measure of parental engagement Tuesday, with the intent of going beyond typical measures of parental involvement in school. chool districts throughout Idaho have implemented policies requiring teachers to keep parents in the dark regarding the transgender identity of their children.
Once thought to be isolated to blue states, such suppression of parental rights has now reached even the reddest states that were once seen as havens from this alarming ideology, such as Idaho. Numerous school districts throughout Idaho have the same gender policy in place, with the language nearly identical in each district. The policies often state that “school employees should not disclose a student's transgender status or sexual orientation to other individuals, regardless of setting, including the other school personnel or the student’s parents/guardians.” Teachers who violate this policy can face “possible termination.
Parents Defending Education submitted 14 public records requests to school districts in Idaho requesting documentation and correspondence regarding the creation of these gender policies. We that districts were working closely with the Idaho School Boards Association to implement policies to deliberately withhold information from parents about the gender identity of their own children.
Pretty straight forward; parents have the con.