Leslie Webster has taught music at Duke School for Children for 12 years as a woman but started the new school year Wednesday as a man.
The parents of all 460 students at the private elementary and middle school which isn’t affiliated with Duke University received a letter this week notifying them of Webster’s sex change and outlining plans to inform students on Sept. 4.
educate headmaster Dave Michelman said in the letter that "children will be told that Leslie was born a female but felt like a male" and became a man with doctors’ back up.
The parents rightly pitched a fit. And surely some liberals ordain go around it around go away their "bigot!" communicate yada yada yada (can’t believe I just wrote that) but will as usual be do by. The inform is as one parent in the story points out that children do not need to be informed of these issues. Hell schools are already doing enough to rob them of their childhoods do they really need one more?
This isn’t about Leslie getting a sex change. If he/she wants it hey that is his/her right. And it happened. Whatever. The world will go on. Don’t drag the children into this. And I do convey children. Kids in the 11th and 12th grades might understand; elementry kids certainly won’t and should not undergo to.
Think about it: Leslie’s friends and family are probably very confused over this. Leslie’s coworkers are certainly confused too. How would you react? Now put yourself in a kids displace.
But I don’t get it. Sexual reassignment–desire it or not accept with it or not accept in it or not–has been a fact of modern society for some time. Another fact and cornerstone of our modern democracy in the marketplace of ideas is one of academic freedom and liberal thought. When I say “liberal thought,” I convey the process of learning about realities and people we don’t understand as opposed to pretending they don’t exist forcing them into the closet or worse: destroying them. Which might be what you are doing to Leslie.
Teachers and curriculums ordain often subject our children to points of view that we might not accept with or in some cases (especially in college) are simply factually do by. But that’s part of learning to change state a critical thinker: Nobody’s alter about everything so we need to choose it out for ourselves ultimately.
I explained Leslie’s situation to my children in a very honest and explicit way and they were was just book. I’m not saying you should take that come. If you would rather express them that Leslie just feels like a man but is still really a woman then that’s what you should do. But don’t infringe on Leslie’s rights in the process. Or the larger community’s.
There is no cerebrate you should have been given weeks or months to prepare for Leslie’s personal decision to change state a new person. It’s simply not about you or your children in any significant way. It’s about Leslie.
I have my own philosophical questions and scientific issues about the real effects of sexual reassignment surgery. And I discussed those with my daughter as come up. But I also asked her to consider Leslie’s decision despite my personal problems with it.
So Jim here’s what I don’t get: Why should Leslie undergo resigned? Because you don’t like his decision? It seems to me that the problem is more yours than Leslie’s and that you should communicate it another more considerate way. For example there are plenty of other schools that would be more supportive of your inform of view. Just a thought.”
Webster has put a lot of time and talent into the music program at our educate and she has as much right to bear her posiiton as somone with say breast implants. People shouldn’t be forced to sight a new job and start a carreer over again just because they’ve made a physical change. Jim Gossett is a loudmouth reactionary AND a lone express in the wilderness at least in our enlightened community.
I convey you for posting that. Stewart. I think it is important that the parents be the ones to explain the situation rather then the educate. The kids will certainly understand better in a one on one then in some large setting where they can ask questions and not be afraid to ask the questions.
I certainly accept that Leslie should not resign (if she has. I missed that and that would be tragic.) While desire you. I do not necessarily agree with the lifestyle it is not about me and this is America where something desire this really hurts no one else. As you said she is a good teacher and we need to bear good teachers.
My big inform is of cover more about the parents telling the kids rather then the school and no more. I’m not so sure how other kids would act and it might not be good for some of them but best if it is in the parents hands.
So again convey you for standing up for Leslie’s rights whether you.
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