• Zachariah@lemmy.world
    191·
    4 months ago

    Aside from this being an LGBTQIA+ issue, why would you want to make the impossible job of being a teacher any harder?

  • Elise@beehaw.org
    13·
    4 months ago

    If your kid isn’t (eventually) telling you about it themselves then you’ve got more serious communication issues.

  • qevlarr@lemmy.world
    163·
    4 months ago

    Ask the children. Act in the interest of the children. We or anyone else has no business deciding this without taking the individual needs into account. Blanket yes or no would be stupid

    • jerkface@lemmy.caEnglish
      10·
      4 months ago

      Children have a right to education. Parents do NOT have a right to withhold an education. Teacher’s obligations are to the student, NOT TO THE PARENT. Parents can fuck right off.

      • jerkface@lemmy.caEnglish
        51·
        4 months ago

        Sorry, I thought this was a Canadian sub. Probably, your children don’t have a right to education. But I still think any teacher’s moral and ethical responsibility is to the student, not to the student’s parents.

        • qevlarr@lemmy.world
          4·
          4 months ago

          I’m from the Netherlands, so we’re all right. One of my kids is nonbinary since when teachers tried to teach the gender binary in Pre-K. My kid was so confused they called us in and needed to be reassured it could just be a phase. It wasn’t, that was 6 years ago or something. Who cares as long as they’re happy

  • psivchaz@reddthat.com
    9·
    4 months ago

    There’s a lot of hypocrisy around. The issue isn’t pronouns, the issue is: Does a child have a right to keep secrets from their parents?

    The ones saying “no” are probably keeping or kept a fair amount from their own parents. I mean, the ones who say “yes” probably did too, it’s pretty universal, but they’re not being hypocrites about it.

    I wonder, if you changed this question to some other hypothetical secret, how would the responses change? What about… “Does a teacher have an obligation to report if a student is dating someone?” Or maybe, “Does a teacher have an obligation to report every book a student reads (on their own time) in case it’s a book the parents don’t like?”

    I get it, too. I’m a parent. The idea that my kids might have secrets kind of bothers me. I want to be a part of their lives, I want to help them with any problem they have. But they have a right to their own lives, and the only way I could even try to prevent it would be immensely damaging to them in the long run. I can only do my best and hope they’ll see that and be comfortable talking to me about the important stuff.