Taipei American School (TAS)

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at 14, yes

:face_with_raised_eyebrow: So who are you reporting 2 14 yr olds ass fucking to, and what do you expect the response to be?

It’s mandatory reporting. You just report it and let the authorities responsible handle the case and decide what to do.

Even if you think it may not meet the thresholds… best to just report to keep yourself in the clear.

Do you suppose these surveys have the names of respondents correlated to their responses, or perhaps rather that a reasonable attempt to maintain anonymity was made, in order to encourage participation?

Some of the answer options include “Too personal”, which suggests it wasn’t anonymous.

Could still be anonymous. Many anonymous surveys have that option as people often have a sneaking suspicion that such surveys are not 100% anonymous.

14 and 15 is way too late. Kids are going through puberty at increasingly earlier ages now, with many girls getting their periods as young as 9 now. With one’s period comes all the other stuff that surrounds hormones and such. Anyone who thinks teenagers “shouldn’t be exposed to this stuff” doesn’t understand that if the school doesn’t teach them straight facts, someone else will teach them something else.

It’s not. Or at least I’ve worked in multiple schools where I’ve started compiling evidence of obvious sexual abuse and making sure to keep a paper trail only to be told I have no right to be digging to personal matters like that. Never got a straight answer but clearly there’s no mandatory reporting.

In the US I would end up in legal trouble if I ignored obvious signs of sexual abuse (anytime young children are being overtly sexual, they’re being sexually abused. Full stop. A six year old does not simply know nor would be interested in luring their classmate into a hidden corner in order to do obviously sexual acts unless someone is doing that to them. On the other hand, information and understanding of the biology of the human body and what “that icky feeling” is and how to make a scene when someone you’re supposed to trust is giving you “icky vibes” is the best possible weapon against abusers.)

Guess who just learnt a big new word…

…I actually know the guy they are referring to, head of upper school PE, just by the by…

This is juicy. Why the high turnover?

Spelt wrong.

Someone help us spell it…

…autogynephilia?

But where’s the connection between taking pictures of your junk and cross-dressing?

Can you think of another reason why people would take explicit photos of themselves for personal use only?

Norwegian leather exports?

Interesting. It seems that local homeroom teachers (at least in public schools) always get entangled in students affairs. (I.e. too loud at home, financial problems, not enough food etc…)

“I know someone who said…” is not a case for anything. It’s like the republicans who ran around school board meetings across the US saying they heard from parents that kids were identifying as cats and the schools were allowing them to use litter boxes instead of the toilet. The best case they could actually come up with was that there are schools with kitty litter in classrooms… so that there’s a way to manage human waste in the event of a lockdown wherein there’s no access to bathroom for long periods of time. You know, lockdowns, those things that only ever happen regularly in US schools because gun control is not a thing?

Up until now, I have only ever heard “people say that” and “I have a friend who…” but I have yet to actually hear from someone who actually had their name and gender changed by their teacher. Kids who have been pressured to make up lies to get the school (and parents) attention but it turns out there’s no evidence? Yes. Actually having students come out and say “my teacher changed my female name to the male equivalent” and there’s any evidence that it actually happened? Nope.

Simple social worker type stuff is easy. Don’t need to meddle too much to look like a saint because you got a child access to food or bought them their own school supplies on the governments dime. It also serves as an excuse for why a student isn’t doing well academically (though if they get any additional supports as a result is another issue…). Physical, emotional, or sexual abuse? Not something they want to get involved in.

It wasn’t done to her. I’m suggesting that she was accidentally supported into exploring a transgender identity, because school counselors heard about it, it became a topic, which they then had to say was totally ok, and curiosity was co-opted into courage, so the school could signal how supportive they were.

I’m not attacking gender exploration, I’m being cynical about a private school virtue signaling to American universities

It’s all part of the game