The Anne Arundel County policy change came after Education Secretary Linda McMahon urged the Justice Department to punish the district, citing parental rights protections.
Maryland school district caves to Trump and adopts forced outing policy to expose LGBTQ+ students
https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/maryland-school-forced-outing?1
20 Comments
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 5d
Disgusting.
hamsamrich@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 5d
Front row seat seats to rapid American decline. Honestly, it’s terrifying.
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 5d
None of that is ANYONES fucking business but that childs. If they aren't telling their parents, it's probably out of fear.
Quokka@quokk.au · 23 pts · 5d
Relevant Assigned Male At Birth
Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 5d
Many people fundamentally do not understand that a child is not a pet, and should more often than not be treated with the same or higher respect as an adult
homura1650@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 5d
Fun fact, the USA is the only member of the UN which has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Quokka@quokk.au · 4 pts · 5d
I work in education with babies and toddlers, it’s so hard to get people to see them as other humans and not simply a “child”. The results of doing so speak for themselves however.
I’m glad that at least as a field, we are pushing for this understanding. Cultural attitudes however are going to take decades to change.
alapakala@quokk.au · 0 pts · 5d
is a nation of rapists. ⅓ of the population do not remorse a nonce as President. Humans are chattels to them. Getting a nation of rapists to comprehend children aren't property, is going to take more than therapy session to reconstruct.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 5d
I've heard that the biggest predictor of someone's politics is whether they support authoritarian parenting, or authoritative/nurturing parenting
alapakala@quokk.au · -1 pts · 5d
This comic needs an update, because there’s another ⅓ that is ok the fact Pearls📿 should have authoritarian control of their child, and that makes them money. The Child as an adult can later sue Pearl, and that ⅓ gained more money than the three combined.
Corvidae@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 5d
Forced outings raise youth homelessness.
alapakala@quokk.au · 8 pts · 5d
You have to use fascist diction, so the Nazis get it:
reddig33@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 5d
According to a Google search, “Federal funding accounts for about 10.5% of total public K-12 school funding”
Probably not an amount worth caving over. The current administration will just use this financing threat to continue to blackmail them on other issues.
brendansimms@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 5d
10.5 % would be a MASSIVE loss for a public school system. Anne Arundel co. isnt poor (source: I'm close), but a 10% budget reduction would cause serious harm. Hopefully the 'caving' is just saying theyll change the rules but then no one actually follows through.
echolalia@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 5d
Total public school funding for who? This sounds like an average.
Wouldn't a district in a poor area be more reliant on federal $?
One of my elementary classes growing up was taught out of a trailer because the school couldn't afford repairs. I grew up in an extremely poor area.
Edit - wikipedia says in 2010, "The median income for a household in the county was $83,456 and for a family was $97,557. Males had a median income of $63,187 versus $48,750 for females. The per capita income for the county was $38,660. About 3.3% of families and 5.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 6.9% of those under age 18 and 5.5% of those age 65 or over.[50]"
They're probably fine monetarily honestly but who knows.
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 5d
Hey! I wonder what Linda is hiding in her miserable private life?
Stern@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 5d
Most recently a sex trafficking lawsuit involving her husband
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 5d
vince is a sex pest himself, likely linked to epstein. shes doing what she is told. shes already was in his 1st term before.
AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 5d
I wonder when she'll be somewhat public next and if targetable.
Bryllyg@quokk.au · 10 pts · 5d
What the fuck. So this is what they are going to do to the only few safe blue states, just bully the fuck out of each county? Fuuuuuuuuuuuck