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?
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 oneâs period comes all the other stuff that surrounds hormones and such. Anyone who thinks teenagers âshouldnât be exposed to this stuffâ doesnât understand that if the school doesnât teach them straight facts, someone else will teach them something else.
Itâs not. Or at least Iâve worked in multiple schools where Iâve 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 thereâs 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, theyâre 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 âthat icky feelingâ is and how to make a scene when someone youâre supposed to trust is giving you âicky vibesâ is the best possible weapon against abusers.)
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 etcâŚ)
âI know someone who saidâŚâ is not a case for anything. Itâs 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 thereâs a way to manage human waste in the event of a lockdown wherein thereâs 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 âpeople say thatâ and âI have a friend whoâŚâ 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 thereâs no evidence? Yes. Actually having students come out and say âmy teacher changed my female name to the male equivalentâ and thereâs any evidence that it actually happened? Nope.
Simple social worker type stuff is easy. Donât 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 isnât doing well academically (though if they get any additional supports as a result is another issueâŚ). Physical, emotional, or sexual abuse? Not something they want to get involved in.
It wasnât done to her. Iâm 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.
Iâm not attacking gender exploration, Iâm being cynical about a private school virtue signaling to American universities