PDE sends a FOIA to the school district here and finds: An email exchange from the district later that year between a teacher and counselor revealed a similar situation. A teacher explained to a counselor that a bullied student "doesn’t want us to tell her mom that she is LGBT."
Like, this just seems needlessly cruel. I feel like a lot of their FOIA's are like that - targeting kids and Districts that don't go out of their way to rat on every kid for everything. Like, what interest does this group in DC have in schools in Jackson MS or Winnetka IL? Like, it just seems so targeted specifically to score national political points at the expense of random local people.
I'm not a huge fan of some of the folks getting FOIA'd here in this case but I also don't think they deserve to get dragged into national news for having political ideas that PDE finds distasteful.
I will add: I don't think that Districts should be in the business of lying to parents (it is the government after all). But I also don't think the District needs to be in the business of notifying the parents of any potential thing the child has done which may offend PDE's conservative sensibilities.
“I think they’re a bunch of right wing trolls.” Can you link to a news story demonstrating trollish behavior? They seem like a conservative ACLU.
Yeah, let me find some stuff. I think the (modern) ACLU is a bunch of left wing trolls, to be fair :)
OK finally had a chance to sit down. Here's an example. This link is on the first page of their News section:
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/dei-jps-mississippi/2024/07/25/id/1173953/
PDE sends a FOIA to the school district here and finds: An email exchange from the district later that year between a teacher and counselor revealed a similar situation. A teacher explained to a counselor that a bullied student "doesn’t want us to tell her mom that she is LGBT."
Like, this just seems needlessly cruel. I feel like a lot of their FOIA's are like that - targeting kids and Districts that don't go out of their way to rat on every kid for everything. Like, what interest does this group in DC have in schools in Jackson MS or Winnetka IL? Like, it just seems so targeted specifically to score national political points at the expense of random local people.
I'm not a huge fan of some of the folks getting FOIA'd here in this case but I also don't think they deserve to get dragged into national news for having political ideas that PDE finds distasteful.
I will add: I don't think that Districts should be in the business of lying to parents (it is the government after all). But I also don't think the District needs to be in the business of notifying the parents of any potential thing the child has done which may offend PDE's conservative sensibilities.