Parents sue school: say they encourage their kids to use new names, pronouns without consent

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Parents in the Ludlow Public School district in Massachusetts are taking their children's school to court after they discovered the children at the school are being encouraged by teachers to change their pronouns and names without telling their parents.

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Parents Stephen Foote and Marissa Silvestri say their child was encouraged by Ludlow Public School officials to use a new name and different gender pronouns. Other parents such as Sandra Salmeron and Jonathan Feliciano also allege the school's policies to keep this information from the parents about their child's gender identity and say this violates their parental and religious rights, which it obviously does.

"[The Ludlow School Committee and implicated educators] exceeded the bounds of legitimate pedagogical concerns and usurped the role of [the plaintiffs] and other parents in the Town of Ludlow to direct the education and upbringing of their children, make medical and mental health decisions for their children and to promote and preserve family privacy and integrity," the lawsuit alleges.

"Defendants’ protocol and practice of concealing from parents information related to their children’s gender identity and efforts to affirm a discordant student gender identity at school violates parents’ fundamental rights under the United States and Massachusetts constitutions and violates children’s reciprocal rights to the care and custody of their parents, familial privacy and integrity."

The lawsuit, prepared and filed by the Massachusetts Family Institute and the Child and Parental Rights Campaign, carves out specific complaints on behalf of Feliciano and Salmeron, who base their lawsuit on religious freedom, stating: "]A]s to plaintiffs Jonathan Feliciano and Sandra Salmeron, it also violates their fundamental right to free exercise of religion under the United States and Massachusetts constitutions."

"We want to support our students the best we can," Ludlow School Committee Chair James Harrington told state news outlet MassLive. "But we should bring parents to the table and hope they respond in a loving and supportive way as well."

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Harrington has the audacity to say that he "hopes" parents respond in a loving and supportive way. The reason they're responding to the schools in the first place is because they are the people who love their children the most and the ones who gave them their names and biologically assigned them their gender. 

The school officials know nothing little to nothing about these children because they are operating on critical race theory bullshit, not out of individual love for these kids.

The case is set to go before a federal court and if the parents should somehow lose, the country is doomed.

Anyway, have a wonderful, blessed Easter.

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