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

Bill Bennett

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.

Former Education Secretary Bill Bennett describes gender identity lessons as 'quackery' and warns voters about the significance of education in the midterm elections.

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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Buttigieg wants ALL drugs made legal including cocaine, heroin and meth

He pretends to be moderate, speaks softly and sounds somewhat normal. But you have to listen carefully to Democratic 2020 presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg to realize he's no less radical than Bernie Sanders, AOC or Liz Warren, just for starters.

Mayor Pete looks like an innocent young man, much like Alfred E. Newman from "Mad Magazine" looks like a happy, weird yet optimistic kid.

Now the optimistic mayor, who got elected to that position by a mere 8,000 votes and lost all other elections he ran in, would legalize all currently illicit drugs, including cocaine, heroin and meth.

By legalizing illegal things, that would certainly reduce the crime rate, but it would also reduce the population growth as it will kill even more individuals than it already kills.

Crack was disastrous in the 1980s and currently, about 62,000 people die each year in the US alone, from drug-related deaths. And most people don't go into treatment until they get in trouble with the law, so making it legal will make it seem okay to use drugs and more people will die.

Even though pot is the most prevalent drug used by young people, the pot today is four to five times more potent than it was in the past.

But at least if you follow Buttigieg's thinking, the crime rate goes down, unlike it has in the city in which he is mayor, South Bend, Indiana. The crime rate there is greater than 96% of all cities in America as reported by The Daily Wire via city-data.com.

As he told the Des Moines Register, Buttigieg thinks that nobody should be incarcerated for drugs [see video below.]

“Incarceration should not even be a response to drug possession.”

The paper asked: “Is that across the board? So if it’s meth or coke or ecstasy, any drugs, if it’s possession, incarceration isn’t…”

“That’s right,” he responds.

As you watch and listen to him, his tone actually sounds thoughtful and reasonable. But think about what he is calling for and imagine our society if he had his way. It's really not only incredible, it's crazy. The left has lost its collective mind.

The mayor goes into more detail on his 2020 site:

“Eliminate incarceration for drug possession, reduce sentences for other drug offenses and apply these reductions retroactively, legalize marijuana, and expunge past convictions.”

And vote for me, he implies, which brings to mind the far leftist group, Country Joe and the Fish, performing the Vietnam Song:

"Come all you junkies throughout the land
Mayor Pete needs a helping hand,
He got himself in a campaign jam,
Way down yonder in libtard land,
So put down your drugs
And vote for Pete
Onnaconna these drugs are neat."

Former White House Drug Czar Dr. Bill Bennett discussed his thoughts about Buttigieg's idea, which he shared with Fox News:

“This is crazy. This is a bright guy. I don’t agree with him, but obviously he’s a guy of some subtlety and intellect. No subtlety here. He acknowledges the harm that these drugs do—goodness gracious, it’s incredible the harm these drugs do. … We have a terrible problem going on in this country. We do not need to encourage more of it.”

Bennett explained that legalization of drugs doesn’t — as it’s been supposed — shut down the black market, but Buttigieg doesn't take the free market into account:

“The legalization movement, one of the hypotheses there was that it would end the black market of drugs. With legal marijuana, the black market would disappear. … “The black market has grown, because it undercuts the legal market by selling cheaper. Of course, it’s easier to hide the black market when you have legalization going on. But again, why would one want to encourage more of this? Ninety-five percent of the people who would get into trouble with heroin, with cocaine, with meth, started with marijuana. The marijuana that’s out there now is four or five times stronger than the marijuana in the 60s or 70s.”

Bennett’s also went after marijuana:

“[It] leads to mental problems, serious mental impairment, lack of focus—not good for students obviously—anxiety, and then later in life, it can lead to psychosis, and often does. … Sorry to be worked up on this, but this is just nuts what we’re doing here.”

But it does get drug users to vote for Mayor Pete, and that's really the point to his policy ideas.

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