Two California students were suspended for five days and required to attend a “restorative justice” training as a consequence for “misgendering” a transgender teacher. This is according to an email obtained by Glendale Unified School District Parents’ Voices, an organization that aims to “support children’s educational goals and development” in their district just north of Los Angeles.
The email, written by former Herbert High School principal Jennifer Earl, stated that the students entered a classroom, used the wrong name for the transgender teacher, and then fled after being corrected. In the email, the principal mentioned that the students admitted to being “curious about a transgender person” during their interviews.
“I suspended two students for five days each today and will be conducting RJ with students and teacher for the following,” Earl wrote.
“I asked [the] teacher how he wanted to handle it, if he wanted me to just teach them about misgendering or would he like me to speak about being trans,” Earl continued. “He asked me to educate on transgender. It was well received from students and parents. [Restorative justice] will happen after suspension.”
GUSD uses “restorative practices” within the classroom by “reducing, preventing and improving harmful behavior” and “resolving conflict, holding individuals and groups accountable,” according to the district website. In 2018, the district created a “Restorative Practices Advisory Task Force” to provide “input for implementing Restorative Practices throughout the district….”
So the two students are being gaslighted into thinking a man is a woman, or a woman is a man, and those telling them that are cosidered “sane”. Parents get you children as far away from that school as possible.
The parents should refuse this indoctrination being forced on their children. Perhaps a lawsuit is in order.
Students being pressured to affirm what is false – that a man can be a woman, or that a woman can be a man – outrageous.
By the time a lawsuit is resolved, kids will be grown and indoctrinated Take your kids away from the indoctrinators now.
I could not be friends with anyone who thinks transgenders should be taken seriously and affirmed in their delusions. I would continue to correctly refer to that teacher by its real sex and birth name, even if the school kicked me out for “misgendering”, which is as phony a thing as “homophobia” was. The libs created “homophobia” to get people to capitulate to the gays, and now they have created “misgendering” and “transphobia” to get people to capitulate to the trannies.
Schools are teaching students to be cowardly morons.
But we live in an era in which feelings are considered facts, and if you challenge someone’s feelings you are therefore challenging his facts and committing violence against him. It’s crazy. And Democrats are to blame.
There is only a he or a she, nothing else.
The teacher wasn’t claiming to be anything other than a he or she. It was the students who didn’t use the correctly gendered pronoun.
No. The teacher was insisting the students lie and affirm a fake gender proclamation. The point of education is to seek truth, not fantasy nonsense.
Sir or Ma’am or Mr. or Ms., Miss, is how a student should address a teacher , how many pronouns should anyone be expected to memorize in their daily interactions ? . This whole pronoun nonsense is a desperate cry for attention and dealing with childhood or mental health issues . Is there a limit to how many preferred pronouns you can have ? can they change on a daily or regular basis ? this is a great argument for avoiding these people. .
I could argue that there are at least four, male, female, stupid and crazy.
Principal Jennifer Earl and her so-called “transgender” teacher should both be fired– and prohibited from teaching. Kids should never have so-called “transgender” teachers, at any school. A schoolteacher is either a man or a woman. That’s all. No baloney.
All the comments ignore that it was either an intentional prank or act of aggression..
Mis-gendering is a serious crime. It threatens totalitarianism (which is good and safe for you). Off to the re-education camps. Who cares if students can’t do math or communicate? They must have men in drag teach them life’s most important things. Like sex, everything has to be about sex, all the time and everywhere. Otherwise un-educated parents and others might influence children. Leave education to the state and corporate sponsored experts.
Why can’t we all and Christians especially just love one another? God is love. Love is love. All love is good and from God. Jesus loved everyone. Some of the most unloving people I’ve encountered have been followers of the God of love. Isn’t that confusing?
“Why can’t we all and Christians especially just love one another? ” I assume you mean to say that we should accept one another unconditionally and more to the point, uncritically. A man comes up to me, points a gun, and says he will kill me if I don’t give him money etc. I have a concealed gun carry permit, and I am packing. As he puts his gun to my head, I duck, grab my gun and fire, killing him. I confess to God and to the cops I failed in my duty to love this man. If I truly loved him, I would smile, tell him Jesus loved him, and hand over the money. Then he might kill me anyway so as not to have a witness, and go on to rob and kill others. So in the end , what was the loving thing to do?
Now let us take a less extreme example. A teacher comes up to me, a man dressed as a woman and requires that I, a student, address him as a woman. He wants me to be complicit in his lie. If I agree, I am encouraging his delusion, his sickness. Is that love? Yet I know if I don’t indulge this man’s fantasy, I will be suspended from school and subject to indoctrination into an anti-christian philosophy. The loving thing is not to indulge this man’s fantasy, even though the cost to me will be very great.
So when you say,”Why can’t we all and Christians especially just love one another? “, I hope you see it is easier said than done.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, [love] is not pompous, it is not inflated,
it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,
it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails.
Mark 12:28-31
One of the scribes, when he came forward and heard them disputing and saw how well he had answered them, asked him, “Which is the first of all the commandments?
Jesus replied, “The first is this: ‘Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone!
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’
The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
John 13:34-35
I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another. This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
God is love, not lust. Men and women confuse the latter with the former. If you love someone, you do not misuse his or her body for one’s own pleasure.
God made us to be attracted to the opposite sex and to take pleasure in joining our bodies.
Taking pleasure in marital relations between a married man and woman is not lust, unless it is misused — such as insisting on marital relations when the person is actually ill. All else is lust.
Can we stop making things dirty, please?
Jesus was not talking about sex.
He was talking about how Christians should treat each other.
Love one another. Period.
Are you saying that if you don’t embrace evil you are evil?
I gave you a thumbs up but it disappeared. Then I tried to give you another but the thumbs up was not working.
Love is loving and helping those with mental illness, not encouraging them in it. One doesn’t love an alcoholic by encouraging him or her to continue drinking.
Giving a post a thumbs down is an expression of hate, which is a sin. A Catholic website should only have thumbs up. Be positive.
A lot of haters post here. You know them more by their comments than by their votes.
Then long live hate…. rip apart the LGBT mafia
“A lot of haters post here.” It would help if you would be very specific about what you think constitutes hate speech. That might help some of us not just understand you but help us examine ourselves.
Students: The students were forced to “restorative justice” training or (indoctrination) for 5 days for misgendering a transgender teacher. Let me repeat, there is only a he or she!
“restorative justice ” , marxist struggle sessions , you will think as you are told to do or as the party tells you to .
is that like political re-education camps in Siberia, comrade education bureaucrat?
Loving someone means wanting what is best for them, especially eternally. Confirming someone in their misguided transgenderism is not wanting what is best for them.
Reason 2,543 to not send my children to government schools. You will NEVER win against secular liberalism. Homeschool or send to a solid parochial school. In the diocese of Arlington, they simply DO NOT PLAY the pronoun game. Period.
The Montana State Library Commission voted recently, to totally withdraw from the American Library Association (ALA), because they just elected a self-described “Marxist Lesbian” as the new ALA President! And the ALA has been peddling liberal leftist political evils, pornography, and LGBT and gender ideology books, films and materials, for years, to kids. Wish the ALA would likewise be kicked out of California!
As that great traditional Catholic Comunion song goes, “Gentile or Jew, servant or free, woman or man no more.” There’s room for fluidity in sex in Catholic faith. We need to sing those songs more because the old songs teach important truths about the faith.
as in tranny fluid
like Bud Lite?
“As that great traditional Catholic Communion song …” The song is the St. Louis Jesuit song One Bread One Body which is rather new as songs go. It is based in part on Galatians 3:28 where St. Paul has just expressed the primacy of faith over the Law, making us all children of God by baptism through faith in Christ Jesus. This adoption as God’s children renders human distinctives irrelevant so far as being a beneficiary of God’s favor is concerned. He is merciful to slave and free, men and women, Jew of Greek as if these distinctions did not exist. Apart from God’s equal bestowing of grace on the baptized, it must be admitted that St. Paul knew the distinctions existed, and in some cases were important, as is clear from his discussions on men and women in I Cor 7.
Now we come to Fluidity’s conclusion drawn from One Bread One Body: “There’s room for fluidity in sex in Catholic faith.” Whatever this inference means, and I am not certain I know, it has nothing to do with Gal 3:28. I suppose Fluidity might be saying sexual preferences, such as they are, enjoy protection and nurture, more or less, by Catholicism. There’s room at the communion table for all manner of sexualities. But the otherwise strictness of St. Paul on sexual matters renders such an application of Gal 3:28 as impossible. So sing One Bread One Body as often as you like, but please mine your understanding of the words of this song from a careful reading of the scripture themselves so as not to dig up a meaning foreign to the scripture behind it.
As long as you are in a state of grace, you can receive communion. If aware of grave sin, you should go to Confession first.
If a man wearing women’s clothes came to Mass, I’d take my family to Mass at a different church. I don’t want my children seeing that nor being influenced by that. LGBT inclusion has to mean that they keep it quiet and hidden. If it means they are out and proud in my family’s face, I’m going to have a problem with that, just as I’d have a problem with a man who sat with a woman other than his wife and held hands with her during Mass. That’s not sending a message of living in accord with Catholic faith and morality. Welcome has its limits. That should be a song instead of All Are Welcome, which I’m sick to death of hearing sung at churches I go to.