Thu Oct 27, 2022 – 4:11 pm EDT
LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (LifeSiteNews) – A school board attorney in New Jersey struck a defiant tone against parents’ objections to LGBT classroom material, putting into stark clarity many public educators’ view of parental rights.
Fox News reports that parents gathered October 19 at a Lawrence Township Board of Education meeting to object to the district’s policies stating that it “shall accept a student’s asserted gender identity” without parental consent. “A student need not meet any threshold diagnosis or treatment requirements to have his or her gender identity recognized and respected by the school district, school, or school staff members […] in addition, a legal or court-ordered name change is not required. There is no affirmative duty for any school district staff member to notify a student’s parent of the student’s gender identity or expression.”
State learning standards also hold that school boards “shall include instruction on the political, economic, and social contributions of persons with disabilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, in an appropriate place in the curriculum of middle school and high school students as part of the district’s implementation” of state learning standards.
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