When Tuscaloosa First Grade Teacher Miss Jones Undergoes Her Sex Transformation....

...the students might be able to watch the process. From thetuscaloosanews.com:

The Tuscaloosa City Board of Education is considering changing its policies against discrimination and harassment to include students and employees who change genders or wear clothing of the opposite sex.

In a four-hour meeting held Thursday evening at Westlawn Middle School, the board heard from school board attorney Dave Ryan. He explained why the board should add “gender nonconformity” to the list of classes — race, color, religion, gender, age, disability, etc. — that are protected in the school systems anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policies.

Ryan cited a case in Atlanta in which a male employee of the Georgia Assembly's Office of Legislative Counsel was fired in 2007 for wearing women's clothing to work. According to case files, the employee wore women's clothes to work because he was planning a sex change operation and part of that process is dressing like the opposite sex before the operation.

Ryan said the employee sued and the district court ruled in the employee's favor.

As a result of the case, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which Alabama is a part of, ruled on Dec. 11, 2011, that a state agency cannot discriminate against a person for gender nonconformity.

“Prior to this case, gender non-conformity was never recognized as a protected class,” Ryan said. “When this opinion came out, it changed the law. So we have to go back and change our policies to reflect that.”

No one objected to the possible policy changes.

Maybe that's why the schools need to introduce sex education classes in kindergarten.   This has been an issue the current Federal Administration has been pushing, and the President has been supporting sex education from kindergarten since he was a state Senator.

Will these "gender nonconformity" policies make our students globally and STEM competitive?  What is the primary goal of public education?

Parents Have Just Not Been Successful

Deb Levine is an education entrepreneur. She saw a need and filled it.  The need she saw was for better information about sex that children could access in middle school. The school was not providing enough information. "The message has basically be distilled down to; wait to have sex and when you do use a condom."  And the parents efforts "just weren't successful."




The reporter does not ask her to clarify what she considers successful parenting about sex. The fact that children have questions about something is more a statement about the nature of youth than a condemnation of an educational forum. She, however, seems to think that this thirst for knowledge demonstrates a void in public education. So Ms. Levine developed the ISIS website, so that kids could address the "icky" matters of sex with total strangers.

ISIS also has a mobile app that can give kids daily sex advice.  The tidbit for the day this story aired was,  "Talk it out. If you have sex, talk with your partner about safe sex, getting tested and what you like before you get in bed."  Such a statement, without supporting context and values, would probably throw a typical 6th grader into a panic. The implication that they are supposed to know what they like "in bed" as an immature prepubescent could ratchet down their already shaky self confidence. But there is probably some totally disinterested stranger on a hotline who could answer their questions.

The good news is that this "tool" is already in the public school curriculum in Chicago and DC.  And ISIS is working on getting into other schools as well. Gee, maybe she could get it into the CCS. Wouldn't that be just what every middle school parent wants?