How would you explain this to your kid
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trashmanssd
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I can remember playing army out in the woods all the time as a kid with pretend guns usually sticks until we graduated water pistols. I am so glad I grew up when kids were still allowed to be kids.
Ronkh
Wax Waster
Amen !!!
Junebug
JAFO
I graduated high school in the 70's, carried a pocket knife everyday, gun in my car during hunting season and no one thought anything about it. I guess I was lucky having daughters now, if I had a son like me, well, I guess a few school principal's would have me on speed dial. Or, just get tired of my boot up their butt and just use common sense instead of the BS crap that passes for policy these days. I am not a violent man, but screw with my kids, and you'll be spitting teeth.
Ronkh
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dcjredline
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These are my thoughts.
1. That is the rules at that school, if you dont like them then MOVE.
2. I would "explain" it to my daughter as such..."Those are the rules, we may not agree with them but you still must follow them"
Example: I work at a Brewery (I dont drink and dont support drinking at all no matter age, just My OPINION) but I bought her a T-shirt from our store that had horses on it for our 12 horse ale and said very little about beer at all. She wore it to school one day and they made her turn it inside out. I said to her that I find it funny that they will take my BEER money for school taxes but she cant wear a shirt cause she likes horses and is proud of her dad. BUT you cant wear it there anymore cause they said it is not right. PERIOD. End of story.
Tell him/her we dont agree and that is our right, but you must follow the rules if you are going to continue to go there. When they are an adult they have the choice not to shop at a store that supports something they dont believe in, they dont have the right to shop there and tell them how they are wrong and expect them to change their rules.
1. That is the rules at that school, if you dont like them then MOVE.
2. I would "explain" it to my daughter as such..."Those are the rules, we may not agree with them but you still must follow them"
Example: I work at a Brewery (I dont drink and dont support drinking at all no matter age, just My OPINION) but I bought her a T-shirt from our store that had horses on it for our 12 horse ale and said very little about beer at all. She wore it to school one day and they made her turn it inside out. I said to her that I find it funny that they will take my BEER money for school taxes but she cant wear a shirt cause she likes horses and is proud of her dad. BUT you cant wear it there anymore cause they said it is not right. PERIOD. End of story.
Tell him/her we dont agree and that is our right, but you must follow the rules if you are going to continue to go there. When they are an adult they have the choice not to shop at a store that supports something they dont believe in, they dont have the right to shop there and tell them how they are wrong and expect them to change their rules.
dcjredline
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There is a big difference there. You were in the woods not in school. Its simple, there are rules and you should follow them or go somewhere else. Good luck finding a school that allows things such as this these days.
Swanicyouth
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Tell the kid the teachers & administrators are retarded. What types of kids are they raising? God forbid there is a fist fight.
Ronkh
Wax Waster
Non Starter.....
The school board is elected.
Vote em out if they stand behind this. They work for the local citizens.
As far as the letter from the principle sounds it was his decision, not the boards.
Into what????
A bunch of unimaginative clone whiners?
Don't worry, the media will tell you what you are allowed to say so no one can possibly be offended. if you are offended by the medias view, you are wrong?
1) the schools should be teaching your children academics, not raising them... that is the parents job. The parents thinking that their kids are their buddy's and its the schools job to raise them.... that's an issue.
2) the whiners forced these policy's on the administrations.... zero tolerance etc.... they can't let anything go or they could be sued.
To be fair, there are morons in every profession, and i think its crazy to suspend a kid for playing at recess... it would be different if he had been actually threatening another child or fighting, but that's not the story we are told at least.
dcjredline
New member
You can vote I forgot about that. I'm not sure that would be as effective as moving but you are right there is another way.
House of Wax
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And then we have this little gem:
6 Year Old Transgender Student, Workers Fired For Raising Concerns? - Story | KRIV
KATY, Texas (FOX 26) - Two school staff members say they were fired for voicing concern after being told to begin calling a 6-year-old girl by a new name and referring to her as a boy.
“It caused confusion,” says one employee. At Children’s Lighthouse Learning Center on Clay Road in Katy, Madeline Kirksey says last week she and her staff were told a six-year-old student is transgender. According to Kirksey, the child's parents cut the girl's hair short and Children’s Lighthouse Learning Center workers were instructed to start calling the girl a boy and by a boy's name.
Kirksey was a manager at the school and says she suggested informing all parents. Instead, school administrators allegedly gave staff a handout to refer to if students have questions.
Photo Workers fired for raising concerns about transgender student
“I don't think we should be talking to other people's children who are under the age of 18 about being transgender,” says Kirksey.
After insisting on notifying parents regarding the transgender 6-year-old student at Children’s Lighthouse Learning Center, Kirksey says she was fired. The termination letter includes claims that she failed to tell a worker to leave a game room and "When requested by parent and management to call a transgender child by the child's new name, Madeline does not follow instructions."
"I said, ‘this is what this whole thing (firing) is about?' So she said, 'We'll scratch that off,' and that’s when she scratched off the line about the transgender child and wrote her initials by it,” explains Kirksey.
A Children's Lighthouse Learning Center teacher says she was also fired for raising concerns about all the confusion, which is apparently even being experienced by the six-year-old child.
“One day, she wanted to be a girl, the next day she wanted to be a boy," says Kirksey. "The other kids are confused as well, calling her a boy and she would start screaming, 'I'm not a boy!'”
At Children’s Lighthouse Learning Center, FOX 26 News was told the school doesn't respond to issues regarding staff or students. The parents of the six-year-old child also declined to talk with FOX 26, asking for their privacy.
6 Year Old Transgender Student, Workers Fired For Raising Concerns? - Story | KRIV
KATY, Texas (FOX 26) - Two school staff members say they were fired for voicing concern after being told to begin calling a 6-year-old girl by a new name and referring to her as a boy.
“It caused confusion,” says one employee. At Children’s Lighthouse Learning Center on Clay Road in Katy, Madeline Kirksey says last week she and her staff were told a six-year-old student is transgender. According to Kirksey, the child's parents cut the girl's hair short and Children’s Lighthouse Learning Center workers were instructed to start calling the girl a boy and by a boy's name.
Kirksey was a manager at the school and says she suggested informing all parents. Instead, school administrators allegedly gave staff a handout to refer to if students have questions.
Photo Workers fired for raising concerns about transgender student
“I don't think we should be talking to other people's children who are under the age of 18 about being transgender,” says Kirksey.
After insisting on notifying parents regarding the transgender 6-year-old student at Children’s Lighthouse Learning Center, Kirksey says she was fired. The termination letter includes claims that she failed to tell a worker to leave a game room and "When requested by parent and management to call a transgender child by the child's new name, Madeline does not follow instructions."
"I said, ‘this is what this whole thing (firing) is about?' So she said, 'We'll scratch that off,' and that’s when she scratched off the line about the transgender child and wrote her initials by it,” explains Kirksey.
A Children's Lighthouse Learning Center teacher says she was also fired for raising concerns about all the confusion, which is apparently even being experienced by the six-year-old child.
“One day, she wanted to be a girl, the next day she wanted to be a boy," says Kirksey. "The other kids are confused as well, calling her a boy and she would start screaming, 'I'm not a boy!'”
At Children’s Lighthouse Learning Center, FOX 26 News was told the school doesn't respond to issues regarding staff or students. The parents of the six-year-old child also declined to talk with FOX 26, asking for their privacy.
Ronkh
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Swanicyouth
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I might be coming out as a lesbian after reading this.
Bunky
Detailing Gnosis
I am not sure it is claiming they are smarter but trying to deal with lowest common denominator so it is getting awfully low. They have lawyers, sensitive parents, etc. all helping them since they would be crucified if they missed one simple clue on some behavior issue.
It is sad.
I know why they have no tolerance policies but these are not legal adults. If you are going after some, the parents should be the source. I still find it odd that we expect them to act like adults yet they cannot drink until 21.