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richard owen's avatar

God bless FAIR in all of your efforts. These issues are of the greatest importance to our society and to the human race. I pray that you find a highly capable executive Director who will lead you into the upcoming battles with "Power, Love and a sound mind" as Saint Paul writes.

Eric Hamell's avatar

This lawsuit has nothing to do with intolerance and racism and I do not support it. It's impossible to tell from your one-sided account whether the child suffered from any actions of the school authorities, but as a general principle I'm opposed to the idea that parents have any right to exercise cultlike milieu control over their children. If they don't know about their child's gender identity issues it's for one reason and one reason only, and that is that they haven't earned the child's trust. The school's responsibility is to keep their own trust with the child by not going behind their back.

Eric Hamell's avatar

I had a link to FAIR in one of my email signatures. In response to this I'm deleting it.

Lucy's avatar

You are WRONG. This is a Maoist argument. Im the parent, school has zero authority over MY child.

Eric Hamell's avatar

The school has zero authority over the child, and so do you. The child is a sovereign person. No to ageism!

Lucy's avatar

You will not be there to pick up the damage done to my child as a result of institutional malfeasance. I will. You bear zero consequences for what happens to my child. I will.

ratgrrrrl's avatar

As a 40-year veteran teacher, I couldn’t agree with you more. And all this “parental rights “ stuff has nothing to do with FAIR’s purported mission.

Lucy's avatar

You’re a teacher. Teach writing and math. You have zero rights over my children.

BBH123's avatar

Wow, this poor child and family. I'm enraged at the audacity of the defendants to think this was in the best interest of the child. I used to be a real advocate of public schools but at this point I would not let my children attend a public school. Luckily they are out of school but we have to fight so this doesn't happen to other children. Thank you FAIR for standing up for our children.

DEEP PURPLE's avatar

Nothing to say about Jacksonville...one way or another? How interesting and telling aout the organization and its "mission."