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I wish parents would try to connect with teachers whom they suspect don't buy into gender ideology. We teachers are told by our administrators that we must use students' preferred names and pronouns and keep this info from parents. We are expected to safeguard children in our roles as teachers, but we are being forced to do things that are in opposition to that. If we object, we will lose our jobs and be replaced by teachers who do support gender ideology. I try in subtle ways to let students know that I think gender stereotypes and expressions like "sex assigned at birth" are silly. I reached out to the non-affirming parents of a "nonbinary" student and let them know that I was also a non-affirming parent and was available if they ever wanted to talk. Teachers have access to curricular materials that would be helpful to parents, like the ubiquitous identity surveys that parents can theoretically opt out of but can't actually read to know what's in them.

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Nov 19, 2022·edited Nov 19, 2022

Read all this again - which left me with a lot of thought and added to how I felt after the Oakville school upheld the rights of the fetish teacher, most recently, despite the scale of objections, and thought about how I've come not to trust teachers, social workers, the medical profession at large, psychologists, psychotherapists, the departments of education in UK and US, the medical accreditation boards in both countries, and so on, and so forth. I also don't trust Christian clergy (that's not a new feeling), unless they've taken a stand, very few of them have. I don't trust the far left Jews, Reform/Progressive Synagogues, no Jewish values in it whatsoever. I trust the Orthodox Jews, I know where they stand on important matters and I know that they won't cave in. I don't trust rainbow-ribbon wearing home educators, or their groups and lesson pods. Or anybody in "Be Kind" T shirt. I don't trust big UK charities, I don't give to most, only to causes known and close to my heart, the others, their begging isn't working on me anymore. Feel entirely justified in all my distrust and entitled to it.

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Judaism is not safe from this nonsense. In Israel a woman won the "right" to be listed as the father on her children's birth certificate. Children that she grew and birthed from her female body. Nothing is sacred and nowhere is safe.

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Yes, so-called Jewish camps in UK and Reform caved a long time ago and is disgusting with antisemitism and transgenderism "inclusivity", progressive Judaism in UK is, sadly and unfortunately, best described as the headquarters of extremist ideologies of every kind and promotes blood libel. Can't leave kids with them - they're "inclusive"! ( Terrible about the children in the above story, "progressive Judaism" is a nightmare for children. How dare any parent be so narcissistic and abusive and subjugate little ones. )

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I also trust eastern Christian Orthodoxy. It seems that only the orthodox have come out against this agenda. I was attracted to an Eastern Orthodox Church in my community for this exact reason.

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All this brings about the question the extent of responsibility of those teachers, who do not believe in the gender fairy, but have it all around them in their workplace, the school. They may try to navigate the minefield of dealing with indocrinated, confused kids and their, occasionally, well meaning but dumb and nauseatingly irresponsible parents, without causing or adding to the harm, themselves. But - is that the expectation of a teacher, a fair expectation, given the role and position of trust and the teacher's implicit position as a role model also at times, but also taking into account the fact that the teacher is an employee, with bills to pay ? - I understand completely what it is like to have your own children, to feed and educate and a mortage to pay, and responsibility of providing a stable home. It is incredibly difficult nowdays, and the adults often have to keep their mouths shut, when they hear all sorts of BS at work. An ethical question. A difficult question. Personally, I have no expectations of anybody out there to do anything but save their own behind, so, I home educate my own children. I am absolutely without retirement savings and my professional life is destroyed, expecting to be dreadfully poor in my old age, but, here we are. Choices. Choices. Choices.

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Nov 17, 2022·edited Nov 17, 2022

How is it not evidence of abuse in schools?!!? Because it isn't. They are being groomed by trannies on discord and TikTok as well as via sissy porn--not to mention their peers. Schools have been saddled with the ideology out of an excess of compassion and confusion due to the harsh treatment of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals in the past. Teachers are forced to tow the line about gender, but some of us are smart enough to work around the bullshit because we can see it for what it is. I am not here to rain more shit down on the heads of anyone who is suffering, but don't shit on me and my entire profession because a small number of people in education are scum.

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A lot of people in education are unfortunately cowards.

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Nov 17, 2022·edited Nov 17, 2022

"The evidence also is the incredibly high numbers of kids and teens indoctrinated into gender crank and deviant sexualities of the endless many varieties."

That is not evidence of sexual abuse. STRIKE ONE

"The evidence you demand is regularly posted to social media, groups, small organisations' social media pages and newsletters and blogs, small news outlets you have not heard of, probably, because main stream media will not publish."

If it was posted online, then it has been published somewhere yet no one has been able to produce it. STRIKE TWO

Unsubstantiated anecdotal stories do not constitute evidence. As a teacher myself, I demand credible evidence of malfeasance. Anyone who harms a child sexually should be strung up but so should anyone who peddles dangerous libel. We are drowning in a sea of trans ideology (as a teacher, believe me, it's everywhere), but we must never stoop to their level of lies and fear mongering.

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How are the astounding high numbers of sexualised and gender confused kids and teens, not evidence of psychological and emotional sexual abuse in schools, which put all that they teach, on display? You mean, the teachers put their grubby hands only on their minds, not in their pants? With same effect of potentially life long self loathing, physical self harm and inability to relate positively to self, family and others? But it's not meeting the criteria for abuse?

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Nov 17, 2022·edited Nov 18, 2022

I see that you moved from "unsubstantiated" to "outright lies" in your comments and all caps. If I had more time, I would explain to you that nothing has been "striked" out, despite the comments being general. (However others gave specific examples) Why read here, where grieving parents of groomed and abused children and teens, share their experiences and emotion, if it's all just lie and libel? I see a few links have been provided to you in the comments here, do you remain unconvinced? What next, it's all still anecdotal and...and...and... What do you teach, BTW, which subjects?

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Nov 17, 2022·edited Nov 17, 2022

That paper is 18 years old and light on hard numbers. Lots of talk about "prevalence" vs. "incidence" without saying what is happening and how often. The studies it cites are skewed by ethnicity and lack of verifiability. Any amount of abuse is intolerable, but the paper leaves out the occurrence of children/teens lying about an event. I have seen far more of that (two cases) than I have of colleagues being rightly accused of abuse (zero cases in 14 years).

We are not here to spread anecdotal and poorly supported information about alleged offences by teachers. Teachers are not the source of this trans contagion although we have been dragged into it. The amount of noise in schools about it is being promoted by administrators and a few well-intended brainwashed colleagues. Parents don't help when they "go along to get along". I have children and will not tolerate any trans crap in my home. Adults? Fine, live your fiction if it makes you happy. I am in a special ed position which places me outside the usual continuum of classroom instruction. I work with parents with "gender-challenged" students, and I do not acknowledge their children's identity play. Throwing dirt on an entire profession overwhelmingly staffed with committed and loving people because some percentage of us are scum does not help. We need help to push back against the tide of insanity not more vitriol.

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Nov 18, 2022·edited Nov 18, 2022

In a nutshell. If you have not seen it, it is lie and libel. The profession is overwhelmingly staffed with committed and loving people. That's not a generalisation which required statistics and evidence to support it. The propaganda, with which schools are plastered, and the nature of "sex/relationship/politics/gender identity education", which is widely known to now be just about everywhere, despite the majority of overwhelmingly committed and loving teachers, somehow exists right under their noses and is there because of...administrators and a few culprits only. But it is as widespread as that. And you ask the grieving and worried parents, who post here, to trust the profession. I rest my case.

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In that case, please give us examples of honest teachers, who are not seeking to sexually abuse children/teens by grooming them with trans ideology and "unacceptable and bad heteronormativity" ideology, who take on the corrupt administrators and colleagues and the "go along to get along" parents. Not in your school, of course, where no teacher colleagues have been accused, but generally, give us the stats. And give us the stats of the children/teens lying, around the world entire. It can't be anecdotal, which is what your comments above are, but it must be well supported and published in MSM, not in blogs/small news outlets/PITT and so on. I trust you will do as you ask us to do and provide the evidence requested according to your own criteria, of what constitutes evidence. ( And BTW, this sort of thing is exactly why so many of us distrust teachers and hire our own tutors and home educate our children.)

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Well said! Especially that last part. He is more concerned about the image of his profession than the abuse of children. 👏🏻

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This part of the report seems to be about you...

"The possibility of a false accusation is included in this section because there is widespread belief that false accusations are common. Because

this is the prevailing mental model, students are often not believed.

Currently, there is no mechanism for determining how many false accusations occur. Because many of the accusations involve behavior that might not be easily prosecuted under criminal statutes, for instance verbal and visual abuse or physical abuse that is not penetration, there is confusion about what constitutes abuse. While this issue will be explored in more detail in a subsequent section, the distinction between a criminal offense that can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt and an incident of sexual misconduct is sometimes blurred, leaving the impression that if there is not a prosecution (or a criminal charge), the accusation must have been false."

"When students do report, they almost always report incidents of contact sexual abuse—touching, kissing, hugging, or forced intercourse. Verbal and visual abuse are rarely reported to school officials8.

Of the cases that come to a superintendent’s attention, nearly 90 percent are contact sexual misconduct (Shakeshaft and Cohan, 1994). When alleged misconduct is reported, the majority of complaints are ignored or

disbelieved (Shakeshaft and Cohan, 1994). Other students note this lack of response and conclude that teachers (or coaches or administrators) cannot be stopped (Shakeshaft, 2003). If the school will not act, what can a mere student do?"

"There are no systematic studies of false accusations of educators, but studies of child sexual abuse in general indicate that false allegations are not common. In a 1991 review of false or mistaken accusations of sexual abuse, Yates concludes that the majority of false accusations occur in custody cases and that in other circumstances, the incidence of false accusations appears rare."

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Nov 18, 2022·edited Nov 18, 2022

It isn't "light on hard numbers."

In the Dept. Of Ed Report, one of the surveys said,

"Based on the

assumption that the AAUW surveys accurately represent the experiences of all K-12

students, more than 4.5 million students are subject to sexual misconduct by an

employee of a school sometime between kindergarten and 12th grade."

It also says 9.6 percent of students are targets of educator sexual misconduct sometime during their school career

This survey only asked about "unwanted" misconduct and they gave several other reasons why this number is actually under reported.

There were other surveys mentioned, but the Dept of Ed said, "Because of its carefully

drawn sample and survey methodology, the AAUW report that nearly 9.6 percent of

students are targets of educator sexual misconduct sometime during their school career presents the most accurate data available at this time."

Yes, it's 18 yrs old. Do you think that bad ppl just stopped doing bad things in 18 yrs? It is quite likely to now be worse since kids now have cell phones and such and they have easir access to be groomed.

Poorly supported? You clearly did not read the report I shared.

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Schools are obsolete for actual education. The risks they pose to mental and physical health outweigh any benefits, like the so-called socialisation. Home ed is the only option, for an actual education including math, science, languages, art, music and sports, with close monitoring the children's and teens tutors and friends. That last is necessary as there are cranks in home education also but at least, they can be parted company with instantly and never seen again. Home ed tutors work for parents and they can be interviewed for all their views. If unsuitable, a risk to children, just get a different one, later that day. Or DIY it. Plenty of free resources.

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I am a teacher in the US who can no longer stomach having to participate in indoctrinating students into gender ideology. I would love to find out about pods, or about charter schools that don't buy into this. Can anyone share resources for finding pods that might already be forming, or on how to form one?

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Lots of online and live home education providers, parents usually, organising small groups. Search home ed in your area and worldwide.

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Lots of online tutoring agencies out there,, lots of tutors have own websites, advertise on social media.

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Search home education.

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Good piece -- thank you for your "undercover" reporting. The whole situation is so disgusting.

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Very good points!

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Some kind of evidence. Articles citing arrests, convictions, teachers being fired for gross misconduct. And not articles written by crackpots on their blogs or garbage posted to Twitter or other social media. If teachers in the US are actually sexually assaulting children en masse, then there would be evidence of it happening.

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The evidence you demand is regularly posted to social media, groups, small organisations ' social media pages and newsletters and blogs, small news outlets you have not heard of, probably, because main stream media will not publish. The evidence also is the incredibly high numbers of kids and teens indoctrinated into gender crank and deviant sexualities of the endless many varieties. What more do you want? It will be years before lawsuits and statistics hit MSM.

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Repeating a lie does not make it a truth. Put up some verifiable sources or shut up.

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Like you want photos?

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Read and take this to heart: "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."

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Grieving and desperately worried parents are not here to put food into open mouths of trolls.

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Troll seems to be exactly what he is.

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If it is a question of money, to be able to home educate the children, until they finish high school, I would suggest doing a fundraiser, if possible involve like minded family and friends, if none are available, a public fundraiser, use GiveSendGo. Every other crowdfunding/fundraising site that I know of is captured and corrupted. They will cancel your fundraiser and possibly try to steal the money. I am sure a lot of people will contribute just a little, to save two teenagers. I say two, because your son will also be at risk in the school and from his sister's propaganda and influence and bullying. He is already being bullied to agree to a lie.

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Nov 15, 2022·edited Nov 15, 2022

I hope you do get in touch with that business teacher.

Many of us who teach feel like we are living in a police state. I recently sent a question to a guidance counselor about a student who goes by "they/them." The question had to do with some mundane matter, and since the student wasn't on the communication, I used her real pronouns. The guidance counselor (female, 30s) somehow managed to get about 10 "they/thems" into a reply of about three sentences. I wondered then if, in the future, my use of the student's real pronouns in communication with another adult might be used as evidence of discrimination if the school ever wanted to let me go.

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The spell analogy seems to hold true.

This whole scenario is why we made the choice to homeschool alongside others with similar worlview.. We emphasized critical thinking, but with the spell overtaking the culture, internet, gl8bal connection, etc., indoctrination into trans ideology is virtually inevitable.

It is a spiritual war and we have surrendered our spiritual weapons. The enemy of our souls knows this.

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Totally! They are casting a spell on people! For profit and, eventually, for the ultimate Transhuman agenda where everyone, meaning all the plebs, are living in virtual reality and sterilized. Natural reproduction would be only for the so-called Elites. This is where it is going....

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You must get your kids out of these schools. They've been captured and they're capturing the kids. You CAN homeschool. Or create a micro or pod school. (If Canada allows?) Don't let the government raise your children.

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I completely agree! The thing about Canadians is that they have been trained to be complacent. Honestly, I just could not stand living there anymore - they just follow orders. This is why I ended up moving to Mexico. This kind of dehumanizing shit is Never going to catch on here - Mexicans are too Natural.

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Yep. Americans too. Europeans, in general, it seems.

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And they value the family too much to welcome a cult that drives a wedge between parents and children.

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Exactly! Americans have allowed ourselves to devalue family. It has been happening for decades. Mexicans are very family oriented.

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