Keeping secrets from parents
Keeping secrets from parents
No age limit for kids to express their gender identity; teachers and school administrators will ensure their parents don't find out - even if the kid is transitioning to a cat or the opposite sex
By Elton Robinson
The Greater Essex County District School board (GECDSB), along with all Ontario School Boards, are KEEPING SECRETS FROM PARENTS.
My name is Elton Robinson. I’m a parent with kids attending a GECDSB school. Many Canadians are still “asleep” - I was to what was going on in our School Boards across Ontario. That was until a parent council meeting September 19th 2022, which for some reason, I had felt it was more important that I attend than stay home to watch my Buffalo Bills take on the Tennessee Titans on Monday night football. I know, a Bills fan eh, yep since January 3rd 1993 when they had that great comeback in the payoffs against the then Houston Oilers - ya I know I’m old. Never did I realize being a life long Bills fan would prepare me for the journey I’m currently on. Ups and downs!
In the following I will expand on what I mean by “asleep” to what is going on in our schools across Ontario. We have had quite a journey with my local public school, my mother and her siblings went there, as did my sibling and I, along with my cousins and my two oldest children, and currently my youngest is still at the school with my cousins and sisters children. When my youngest was born the school was to be closed, but we had a parent uprising to save it. A few of the parents did most of the hard work, so afterwards I always placed them on a pedestal in public whenever I saw them. This was becuase of the vital role they played in saving the school - which has had several upgrades since the threat of closing. However, I never thought that what happened at our monthly school council meeting would bring me to the journey that I am currently on, and that those parents I had previously placed on a pedestal would let me down by supporting policies that permit the school to keep secrets from parents about sensitive matters concerning their children.
I am a life long volunteer of a non-profit organization that centers on children only, so I had been attending school council in more of a supportive role. If my years of volunteer experience working with children could be leveraged for the benefit of the school, I was there for that. But for the most part I had trusted that the pedestalled parents were effectively running the school council and were ensuring that policies were in the best interests of students and families. But I was mistaken.
At the Sept. 19th meeting, two parents brought up subjects that have had me on the ride that I’m currently on and cannot seem to get off of. I often say, man I wish I had stayed home and watched that Bills game as I would still be blissfully “asleep.” Well, the two fire-starter parents have catalyzed a movement in our city (more on that later).
At the meeting, one of the two brought up a book. I thought, seriously like who cares about a book (little did I know that I would still be engaged as I learned more over the many months - I was appalled at our seemingly non-existent book review policy at our board) - more on this in an upcoming article that delves a little deeper into the book debacle.
The second parent brought up an issue at a school that my oldest just graduated from. Apparently, a child “meows in class.” The school in question specializes in working with students who have Individual Education Plans, those kids already have a hard time learning, I can only imagine them having to focus in class with a kid acting like a cat.
Then the second parent brought up another school that my middle child just transferred out of to move to the Catholic Board (thank God…well not really, more on that later). At this school she mentioned that kids are “furries” and have litter boxes. Wow what a kook eh? That is exactly what I thought until I called the school the next day.
I spoke with the school and asked about the litter boxes only, the persons reply was “um no definitely not”. I said thank you and stated “that lady from last night was a kook”. The person on the phone asked me to speak with the principal, I said no need, they pleaded that I do, they seemed concerned but could not say anything, so I took the call with the principal. This is when I had an awakening, on the phone with the principle I asked about the litter boxes, then ventured into the furries question, the principal said these things were not happening. I knew they flat out lied to me in stating that they did not have furries in the school. I knew this was a lie as my child told me there are furries attending classes.
Later that day a person brought to my attention that the GECDSB (see attached policy below) has a policy P-AD-38 which is titled Gender Identity and Expression (GID). It states in this policy that “there is no age limit on making an accommodation request; young students have the same rights to privacy and to have accommodations made on their behalf with or without their patents’/guardians’ knowledge.”
This GID policy lit a fire in me that has not stopped, never in a million years would I have thought those parents I put on a pedestal back when they saved our school would have supported this. As well, never would I have thought a school board would keep secrets from parents, and teach kids its ok to keep secrets, in fact to lie, to their parents and live a double life. Wow!
This made me hunt down those two outspoken parents I thought were kooks - which made me miss most of the Bills game. When I got in touch with them, we co-founded Parents for Parents Rights and have been organizing with others to bring about positive change ever since.
See my next story (to be published on Woke Watch Canada later this week) which is directly related to the GID policy mentioned above. Oh ya and go Bills Mafia.
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Thanks for reading. For more from this author read, Parents continue to be disappointed with the performance of the GECDSB
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My favourite line from this insightful article: “I knew they flat out lied to me in stating that they did not have furries in the school. I knew this was a lie as my child told me there are furries attending classes.”
It seems the school board has adopted a new motto: "Keeping parents in the dark, one secret at a time." Who needs transparency and open communication when you can just teach kids to hide things from their own parents? You can disagree with them, but you have to acknowledge the genius in their ways.