Do you think teachers should have to lie to parents about their students ... or is this going to the Supreme Court at a national level what you find 'not cool.'
So because of that he doesn't know affect/effect and there/their/they're???
Buddy, most teachers are on the kids’ side, and if the kid doesn’t want their parents to know, there’s probably a good reason. Teachers should get to lie to parents about their children in order to protect the children from their parents. Period. Parents are unqualified dumbasses who happened to fit a penis in a vagina for a few minutes. Teachers spend years training to help kids be successful.
Buddy seems like a really condescending way to respond to an honest question. I'd say as a teacher myself that most of us DO NOT want to lie to parents but I guess you'd know better.
Depends on what that clergy member is keeping confidential ... the law is the law.
Luckily I've never been put in that position but it's definitely something I'd talk to our counselors and principals about. I genuinely think that the overwhelming majority of parents want what is best for their kids, and sadly a lot of times these kids don't know what is best for them at their young and immature ages.
Seems like you disagree, what experience do you have dealing with these kind of young minds? I'm sorry if you don't agree that the mind of a human isn't fully developed until around the age of 25, meaning I don't expect them to make rational and thoughtful decisions as 16 year olds. I deal with them every single day at this age and they are fascinating to be around but no I don't always think they know what is best.
Actually, my understanding is a Catholic priest cannot violate confessional even if someone confesses to murder. And being trans is not (yet) a crime, although Republicans are trying.
I can answer this....I never questioned my gender nor had reason to question it but that's just my experience, I won't assume it's at all the same for anyone else. I'd say by puberty most young people would become aware of what arouses them and how they feel about themselves and their own leanings. Choice....the most precious freedom. Every human should be free to choose their personal gender identity. It's certainly not any of my business to judge anyone.
And is there anything anyone could have done that would have changed your sexual orientation?
No. Nor my gender. Even though from a young girl, before the women's liberation movement, I chafed at restrictions on girls and women, I knew I was as smart as any boy if not more so, I never doubted I was a girl. I didn't want to change my gender, just how we were seen and treated. And when I became aware of lesbian sexual orientation it was, oh, that's what I am.
You'd feel that limb breaking out from underneath you ... but keep making assumptions!
My first favorite color was pink and I told my mom I was going to wear a dress to my wedding, all this when I was about five or six. And yet I grew out of that and changed, because that's what kids do as their minds develop. There shouldn't be blanket rules for this and there are always exceptions to every rule, but dealing with young people everyday, it's easy to see how their emotions and thoughts swing wildly, sometimes from day to day.
