• Stovetop@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    What this is really about is protecting teachers from retaliation by bigoted parents. When kids grow up in a hostile household, teachers may be the only authority figures they feel safe to confide in.

    Not having a mandatory reporting policy for gender identity/pronouns means that teachers do not need to betray the trust of their students to keep their jobs/don’t have to fear losing their jobs for keeping that secret in spite of the policy.

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      2 months ago

      Agreed. My point was that it has not having mandatory reporting doesn’t hinder transparency.

      Teaching is already an impossible job without gender reporting nonsense.