On Tuesday, the Leon County School Board will address a proposed change to LCS policies and the LCS Inclusive School Guide (Guide) related to which bathrooms students can use and parental rights related to gender issues.
The agenda notes that changes are recommended by Superintendent Hanna based on new rules adopted and published in the Florida Administrative Code and a recent court decision, Adams v. School Board of St. Johns County, Florida.
The new bathroom policy states that all student shall use bathrooms, locker rooms, and dressing rooms based on their biological sex at birth or use a single occupancy bathroom. The Guide requires that “LCS personnel will maintain and monitor bathrooms, locker rooms, and dressing rooms to ensure the safety of all students.”
In support of the change, the Guide states that neither “federal nor Florida state law requires or prohibits schools to allow transgender student access to bathrooms, locker rooms, and dressing rooms corresponding to their gender identity.”
In addition, the Guide notes that a “recent federal appellate court decision upheld a Florida school district’s policy to separate bathrooms based on biological sex at the birth with reasonable accommodations.”
The other change to the Guide relates to student’s right to privacy and parental notification.
The previous guidance stated that “School personnel will not disclose information about a student’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or questions they may have about their sexual orientation or gender identity.”
The recommended change states that a student’s sexual orientation, gender expression or identity should not be shared with others “except parents when required by Florida Statutes.”
Florida Statutes now include the Parents Bill of Rights, which require school officials to notify parents when school officials address certain issues with students.
The Leon County School Board meeting is Tuesday at 6 p.m.
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Mr Rust
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Isn’t it funny how all of the sudden Leftist are squawking about “activist judges” after they have pretended they do not exist on the Left side for decades?
The pregnant comment was meant in jest…and I just turned 63.
“The new bathroom policy states that all student shall use bathrooms, locker rooms, and dressing rooms based on their biological sex at birth or use a single occupancy bathroom. The Guide requires that “LCS personnel will maintain and monitor bathrooms, locker rooms, and dressing rooms to ensure the safety of all students.”
Why you swayed away from this is just STUPID. You NEED a “ZERO TOLERANCE” against Bullying.
“This is why I have told my wife, if we have kids we are moving back to Indiana.”
Congratulations! That sounds like a miracle of almost biblical proportions to have kids when one is around age 64. May God bless you in raising them if you go down that path.
Pat A. says:
December 20, 2022 at 1:41 pm
@N. Weed, my brother was offerred an aircraft maintence job with Eastern just prior to going t1ts up. He declined the offer and went to work for PHI in the gulf. While at Cherry Point, one classmate of mine was also stationed there. Leon class 1977. What squadron was he/she with? I may know him/her.
@Barb yes exactly. You get it. All this bathroom business is tiresome
The Vice President was in in town today. newsworthy?
@Pat A you should do it. Indiana is beautiful and unlike Tallahassee there’s usually no clear progressive Democratic majority
“The new bathroom policy states that all student shall use bathrooms, locker rooms, and dressing rooms based on their biological sex at birth or use a single occupancy bathroom.”
Isn’t this nothing more than the respect, privacy, and dignity we adults have enjoyed our whole lives?
This is why I have told my wife, if we have kids we are moving back to Indiana.
“… the Guide states that neither “federal nor Florida state law requires or prohibits schools to allow transgender student access to bathrooms, locker rooms, and dressing rooms corresponding to their gender identity.”
Except that courts have ruled for *many years* that the Constitution & Title IX do require schools to allow trans student access based on their gender identity. Title IX prohibits discrimination in education on the basis of sex. Including when sex doesn’t match gender identity. That is law. Florida is trying to gin up cases to take before unqualified recently appointed activist judges in order to try to *change* the law.
Since there is no such thing as a “transgender” anything, this entire exercise is based on a fraudulent assumption that people who suffer with the scientific, medical, and psychological syndrome known as Gender Dysphoria/Dystrophy are due special and/or extraordinary rights.
What these folks need is reasonable compassion and empathy for their condition. What they do not need is affirmation nor accommodation of or for their condition.
I’ll say it again – as so many already have time and time again – the PIS must be forced to return to the business of teaching Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. And they must be punished to the fullest extent of the law if they continue to teach hate, racism, and activism.