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California now bars teachers and other school officials from disclosing to parents information about peer pressure or possible adult grooming of their children related to “sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.”
If you send your child to a government school in California, the safeguarding you put it place will weaken. A teacher could end up convincing an impressionable child that he or she is in the wrong body, and you won’t know anything about it.
Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed the bill into law, which purportedly is about “pupil rights.” The law also bars school district employees, contractors, officials, etc., “from retaliating or taking adverse action against an employee on the basis that the employee supported a pupil in the exercise of specified rights, work activities, or providing certain instruction, as provided.”
The law goes into effect on January 1, 2025, and overturns any existing parental notification policies in the state.
The Liberty Justice Center filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Chino Valley Unified School District and several parents to stop enforcement.
The plaintiffs contend that the law violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution and the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
“School officials do not have the right to keep secrets from parents, but parents do have a constitutional right to know what their minor children are doing at school,” said Emily Rae, senior counsel at the Liberty Justice Center. “Parents are the legal guardians of their children, not Governor Newsom, Attorney General Bonta, or Superintendent Thurmond. We will continue to defend parents’ rights and children’s well-being by challenging invasive laws like AB 1955 in court, at no cost to taxpayers.”
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