Some college administrators in Mississippi appear determined to prevent kids from funding their child’s education. However, state legislators have a chance to add approximately two dozen different states that have prevented that from occurring.
A plan that would establish a familial bill of rights may be considered by Mississippi legislators, strengthening parental authority yet when a child is attending school.
The plan is easy, but powerful: People employees, such as teachers and college administrators, cannot greatly stress a parent’s right to direct a child’s upbringing and health care.
What does this seem like in practice?
Moms and dads usually have to give consent to basic medical care when a baby is first starting the school year by signing forms stating a child’s allergies, ordering the school to procure painkillers during recess, and consenting to basic medical care when a child is in need.
In today’s upside- down culture, but, school officials are allowing minimal- age children to” shift” their name and whether they want to get addressed as a boy or girl, irrespective of his or her sex, while at school.
Some states require parents to be aware that their children are making these decisions while attending school.
What happens is” social affirmation,” where adults tell a child that yes, they were born in the wrong body and should behave as though they are not. that can entice a youngster to seek medical care, including hormone replacement therapy, puberty blockers, and possibly even surgeries that will harm their reproductive organs.
An exaggeration? For prescribing children as young as 11 to use puberty-blocking drugs, whistleblowers have exposed facilities like the St. Louis Children’s Hospital.
In some cases, the outcomes were horrifying: young women would go home bleeding through their clothes because the vaginal wall was thinned by testosterone, which causes the wall to break open. After taking drugs to make themselves appear more feminine, some men developed liver toxicity.
Researchers continue to raise concerns because they discover a link between sexual confusion among young people and claims of mental illness or special needs like autism.
Because children frequently exhibit autism, anxiety, and depression while expressing confusion over their sex, England’s National Health Service has advised doctors to steer clear of such a “gender” in the United Kingdom. And research indicates that in 80 % to 95 % of cases, this confusion is resolved on its own as children advance into adulthood, making watchful waiting a much healthier option for children than social affirmation.  ,
Yet some Mississippi educators are still pushing the dangerous “gender” agenda.
Parents Defending Education, an advocacy organization, uncovered that a school in Jackson received a grant to promote gender ideology. Officials from the Oxford School District surveyed students and questioned students if they identified as queer or” trans.” Teachers were trained in Tupelo to let students change their names and pronouns. When speaking to parents, educators were instructed to use the child’s given name and pronouns unless the child gave a teacher permission to let them know the child had assumed a different gender. This secretive practice conceals information from families.
When a child is confused about their sex, social affirmation can have lasting consequences. Some medical procedures have an irreversible side effect that can result in sterility and other issues.
For at least these reasons, teachers should n’t be able to keep parents apprised about what is happening to their young children in the classroom.
State legislators can help. State legislators have been implementing parental rights legislation similar to the one that was put forth by Mississippi lawmakers for more than a decade. Legislators should state plainly that parents are a child’s primary caregivers and that public officials cannot burden, or obstruct, a parent’s role.
Teachers are required to report abuse or neglect, but that does not mean educators should accept that a child’s self-diagnosis that they need drugs to alter their body chemistry.
The reports from Jackson, Tupelo, and elsewhere demonstrate why Americans are increasingly skeptical about K- 12 education.
Mississippi officials should improve parental rights and improve academic transparency, restoring a civic value that is currently in short supply between local communities and their schools, particularly public trust.  ,
