The board is the latest to consider such rules, which have been OK’d by the Chino Valley and Murrieta Valley school boards, and are being considered in Orange.
Discussion of the item has resembled what occurred in the other districts: Supporters spoke about parents’ rights, while those against the policy voiced concern for students’ safety and privacy.
“There’s been a lot of added, extra things on top of just the parental notification that people are trying to make this about,” Ramirez said. “I think all it really is, is that parents just want to be informed of what’s going on in their kids’ lives. And that’s it.” “A lot of people on our side get called homophobes, transphobic, and this phobic and that phobic, and that’s actually not the truth,” he said. “Many of us are Christians. We love everybody, and we have respect for everybody,” even if “we may not agree with someone’s lifestyle.”
“It’s not fair to ,” said Topaz Cook, 15, who is transgender. “We have a right to choose when we want to come out.”Cook considered speaking at the meeting, but said “if I speak, it’s not gonna make any difference.”Sophomore Zoe Sullivan-Douglass said “school isn’t about parents,” but “about students and learning.”
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