California teachers ask U.S. Supreme Court to block gender secrecy policy

USPIE’s Michigan PIE President and Board Member: ‘Parents and good teachers must realize that, even if the Supreme Court rules in their favor, the system is broken!’

Two teachers from Escondido Union School District in California recently submitted an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court in response to an appeals court panel’s reinstatement of the district’s policies forcing teachers to hide students’ identities from their parents.

“The Thomas More Society sued on behalf of teachers who feared punishment if they refused to lie about a student’s gender identity,” the Daily Signal reported. “Parents and other teachers joined the lawsuit, challenging the Escondido Union School District’s policy of hiding students’ gender identities from parents unless students consented to reveal them.”

“The policy mandates that teachers and school staff will immediately accept a student’s expressed gender identity and bars teachers from revealing the student’s claimed gender identity to parents or guardians unless the student consents to notifying them.”

“Bully for those teachers brave enough to take on the system. But it’s just two teachers filing the lawsuit, which goes to show how most teachers are going along with these disgraceful policies and practices!” said Melanie Kurdys, United States Parents Involved in Education’s (USPIE) Michigan PIE president and board member. “And the school district is defending the policies! Parents and good teachers must realize that, even if the Supreme Court rules in their favor, the system is broken! Fixing it is a Herculean task.”

The teachers’ lawsuit contends that the policy violates their First Amendment right of free exercise of religion by forcing them to lie or face punishment.

Their emergency appeal to the Supreme Court requests that the nation’s highest court reinstate the injunction against gender secrecy policies or consider the appeal as a request to take up the case.

The Supreme Court often considers cases in which different appeals courts have handed down conflicting rulings; the teachers’ appeal claims that conflicting court rulings are emerging on this issue. Therefore, the court should consider the issue, the emergency filing states.

USPIE’s new report, “Are Government Schools Redeemable?” examines why government schools are irredeemable and why parents must get their children out now.

“Teacher unions rally in support of LGBTQ+ policies, including placing inappropriate books in school libraries and classrooms, hiding gender issues of students from parents, protecting teachers who dress up pretending to be the opposite sex and other policies offensive to many parents.

“At least for the last 10 years, teachers’ colleges have been pushing critical theory, leftist activism, and LGBTQ catechism … Indoctrination in critical theory, leftist activism, and LGBTQ ideology rather than proven teaching methods is now what is certified,” the report says.

“Get your kids out of government schools as quickly as possible,” Kurdys said. “And good teachers should go find a small school or a homeschool group to work for where sanity prevails.”

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