Actually, I dismissed the ability to rely on the accuracy of a lawsuit finding. Do you think that lawsuit filings are a reliable source of information?
You dismissed the whole story. If you didn't you would have commented on the story or added to it.
Sure, to an extent. This is a persons side of a story. Did you believe Christine Ford when it was just her testimony without any evidence? Oh you did, interesting...
You believed her without evidence. Are you going to say the same thing with this story... When you come up with a good reason to believe these parents are lying, I'll agree it's unwarranted?
Did you change your opinion when her story started to fall apart?
The only details Christine Blasey Ford seems to remember are ones that are damaging to Brett Kavanaugh.
thehill.com
And a year later?
You still believe it, with still no evidence. Yet you will not believe this story. Interesting.
Also I laughed when I read that you were trying to make fun of Trump about a woman to Scotus remark...
I read an almost identical article in the NY Post before I made my comment.
Yet you didn't post it and comment on it.
I know you're a fan of people bringing evidence to the discussion, and I've no doubt you hold your newspaper sources to the same standard. So, it must have been my failure when I could not find one bit of supporting evidence in the DailyMail article (nor in the NY Post article, for that matter). No screenshots of the Instagram page or Facebook page the lawsuit mentions. No paperwork from the school acknowledging the issues that were allegedly acknowledged. The whole article read to me as if it was cribbing from the lawsuit, with no effort at all. That surely could not be true, not with
@Bucknutz quoting it. I must have missed some supporting evidence. Could you point out where in the article I can find this supporting evidence?
You're right, I am a huge fan of evidence. Things they brought up in the article that I find interesting that leads to credibility in my eyes, yet you are correct not direct evidence:
1. Found out about it through District psychologist
2. Parents Open to gender identity
3. Named specific books
4. Meet with Superintendent and Principle
You don't know this. How do you know the parents do not have evidence? And no, putting students and teachers in these situations. You know what I mean.
I think trans or non-binary people can be appropriate to discuss at any age. My niece and nephew (7 and 8) know I have a non-binary child, and it's not an issue for them.
Good, when its with family or people you trust, absolutely appropriate. I see no issue with that at all. This is an amazing opportunity for you niece and nephew, to know someone deeper and more personal, where they can get an understanding of someone else's life; to know about their successes, struggles or breakthroughs. Awesome personal experience.
BUT, This is a teacher/student relationship and in a public setting. Please tell me why a 3rd grade math teacher should be talking about gender/sex at all with a student. Completely inappropriate. It's extremely easy for a teacher to change topics. As a parent, you really don't know anything about that teacher or their views, desires, wants or needs. They truly are strangers.
How would you feel about a teacher if they pulled your non-binary child in 3rd grade aside a let them know they are "wrong" or have "mental issues" or "devils work" or anything disgusting someone could say to your child about their gender? It's not appropriate. This is a conversation that a parent and teacher has with each other and sets expectations, rules and guidelines to follow. If that teacher can't follow them, find a different one.
Perhaps the parents misrepresented the wishes of their daughter. You don't know, and neither do I.
According to the parents in the article they were open to it "The new revelations shocked the child's parents - who did welcome their pre-teen daughter exploring her identity"
Do you always judge so hastily?
Judging who? The parents or the teacher? I have stated before, I don't know why professionalism has left the teaching profession. Dress code, room personality with flags of teams, politics or religion, sexual topics. I honestly don't know why things have changed so much in 23 years since I left school. Public school graduate and all teachers had a dress code with button down shirts and slacks (jeans 1 Friday a month) or dresses. Rooms only had the subject information, school information / events, and a tv. TV was for announcements or channel 1. The only other time there was something else on the TV was OJ Simpson trial and March Madness. We had sex-ed twice - 6th grade and then in health class in my sophomore year. We had a topic on it for a couple days in psychology.
Maybe I had a stricter public school then most in Ohio.
