Letter: Parents, stand up for children’s rights on bathroom policies

Published 8:30 am Wednesday, June 22, 2016

The bathroom “guidance” policy for schools does not yet have the force of law behind it, but “tells” schools how the Department of Education intends to enforce it, including a loss of federal funding threat for school lunch programs.

However, the federal government appears reluctant to enforce this. How cool is it, after all, to target needy kids with such obvious bully tactics?

Therefore, parents, now is the time to act to protect your girls in schools where any hot-blooded boy can pretend to be a transgender and take advantage behind closed doors.

In one state, just one parent threatened to pull his two students, and that school changed its policy. It could be that schools really don’t want to go down this rocky road and need to hear from you.

Contact your school board. Parents, you have the power, students too.

If we, the people, do not exercise our rights, this un-American mandate will become the norm. The comfort needs of .3 percent of students do not surpass the safety needs of 50 percent. Transgenders can be accommodated in separate bathrooms of their own.

If my grandkids’ schools won’t change, I’ve told my kids to pull them out and I’ll help pay for private education. Pull them out of swim teams and all other sports, the schools won’t know what hit them and can’t function, or get funding, if your kids aren’t there. You won’t have to be absent long.

Roberta Burns

Carnation