The Latest Reason Parents are Enraged at a California School District
Parents in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District in California were outraged after learning that fun, overnight field trips for their children may also be intertwined with a warped agenda.
The Daily Signal reported how students in this school district may have to either skip overnight field trips or potentially be placed in a situation where they have to share a room with a child of the opposite sex if they identify as transgender.
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The Daily Signal was shown emails from the Center for American Liberty from 2021 and 2022 which talked about children’s room assignments for overnight field trips as something that parents could not try to change.
In these emails, Sarah Coley from the district wrote, “…if a parent says, ‘hey, I don’t want my student with [who],’ you could provide an ear to listen and consider whether the student is a good fit, but the event response would be, ‘If you/ your student is not comfortable with the rooming assignments and process of staying with other students in a room, then they can elect not to participate in this optional trip.”
Coley further compared issues with transgender students to be the same as dealing with race or religious differences in the classroom.
“Parents and students do not get to pick, and saying I don’t want to stay with ‘Susie’ because ‘Susie isn’t a real girl,’ is no different than saying, ‘I don’t want to stay with Sarah because Sarah is [white/older/non-religious, etc.]’”
In a world that is desiring to indoctrinate children, even if that means putting them in harm’s way, we need to pray for the Holy Spirit to protect and guide children, and that the hearts of those who are placing them in this direct harm would be changed through the power of the gospel.
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Abby Trivett is content development editor for Charisma Media.
