{"id":8371,"date":"2024-02-05T06:59:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T01:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/05\/parents-sue-school-district-for-allegedly-transitioning-daughter-in-secret-you-dont-get-to-lie-to-the-parents-about-anything\/"},"modified":"2024-02-05T06:59:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T01:29:39","slug":"parents-sue-school-district-for-allegedly-transitioning-daughter-in-secret-you-dont-get-to-lie-to-the-parents-about-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/05\/parents-sue-school-district-for-allegedly-transitioning-daughter-in-secret-you-dont-get-to-lie-to-the-parents-about-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents Sue School District For Allegedly Transitioning Daughter in Secret: &#8216;You Don&#8217;t Get to Lie to the Parents About Anything&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-cbn-component-name=\"wysiwyg_editor\">\n<p>Michigan parents are suing a public school district over the claim district employees began socially transitioning their daughter without their consent, purportedly concealing these efforts in the process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to them on the latest\u00a0episode\u00a0of \u201cQuick Start\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"482\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?p=CCBNC3640195386\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dan and Jennifer Mead have sued the Rockford Public School District in Michigan, with the parents telling CBN News the case shows the troubling ways parental rights are sometimes undermined and upended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we were working with the school closely to address [our daughter\u2019s] academic needs in regards to her autism, it came to our attention that the school was actively deceiving and hiding from us the fact that they were transitioning our daughter from being a girl to a boy, using a boy\u2019s name and pronouns,\u201d Dan Mead said in a recent interview.<\/p>\n<p>The parents said they only became aware of the purportedly covert social transitioning after being given paperwork in which they said a school employee had \u201cinadvertently forgotten to change one of those male names and pronouns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer said she initially assumed it was a mistake and that the name and information pertained to someone else\u2019s child. Upon emailing the school to ask if it was an error, she said she found it odd no one responded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe started to kind of dig a little bit more and say, \u2018Well, why would they not respond to an email over important information like this?\u201d she said. \u201cSo, once we found out what was really happening, clearly I was just in shock [and] disbelief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch the Meads explain:<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Parents Sue School District For Allegedly Transitioning Daughter in Secret\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3yQcRY1enjE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Dan said he and his wife started to piece together what was happening and were trying to make a plan for how to handle it. Then, they said they found a \u201cvery explicit\u201d book in their daughter\u2019s bookbag that purportedly came from the school counselor; he said the book contained a story about a \u201chomosexual boy trying to kind of coerce the boy into a relationship with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They then realized they needed to take action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a meeting with the school principal,\u201d Dan said. \u201cHe said to us, \u2018Look, you have to understand this is the school policy. We\u2019re mandated to do this. The desires of the children outweigh those of the parents, and there\u2019s not a whole lot we can do in that regard.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kate Anderson, an attorney with Alliance Defending Freedom, the firm representing the Meads, said such policies have become \u201cvery pervasive\u201d in some areas across the U.S., with districts choosing not to tell parents about changes in student pronouns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have situations where they\u2019re actively hiding that information from parents like they were with the Meads,\u201d Anderson said. \u201cThey were actually erasing the male name and male pronouns on documents and replacing it with their daughter\u2019s real name and her female pronouns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The attorney said this is a violation of the U.S. Constitution, as parents \u201chave the right to direct the upbringing and education of their kids.\u201d In the end, Anderson said parents know their children best and must be included in major decisions such as these.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA school should never hide information from parents,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer became emotional while discussing her daughter\u2019s plight, noting she and her husband have always told their kids they\u2019ll love them no matter what \u2014\u00a0even if they disagree with their decisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have always told our children \u2026 we will always love them and, of anybody in the world, we are there for them,\u201d she said. \u201cThey can trust us. We are here to speak truth to our children, and I look back and I think that that relationship sort of changed for a little while.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer said she knew her daughter was facing some turmoil and added that her anxiety was \u201cthrough the roof,\u201d with depression also taking hold. With her daughter missing school and no longer wanting to attend, she felt something was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were working with the school counselor very closely to come up with a plan for her,\u201d Jennifer said. \u201cI was sharing personal information about what was going on within our family dynamic as well, and I thought that we were being transparent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite all of the chaos, the Meads said their daughter is \u201cno longer confused\u201d and knows she is loved and can come to them with anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is thriving, her grades are up, she is happy,\u201d Jennifer said. \u201cShe\u2019s like a different child now, and it\u2019s wonderful that we\u2019ve got her back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dan said he and his wife knew they could have left their initial meetings with the school and quietly ignored what had unfolded to avoid public scrutiny and chaos.<\/p>\n<p>But, in the end, they felt a responsibility to speak out and take action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many other parents have done this before us?\u201d he asked. [H]ow many are going to come after us? And if I ever had to look at another father or mother who went through this and say, \u2018Oh yeah, that happened to us, too, but we didn\u2019t do anything about it,\u2019 I don\u2019t know how I could handle that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dan said he and his wife want to \u201cmake this right\u201d and stop it from happening to other parents and children. The purported lies and deceit are what have left him and his family most stunned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t get to lie to the parents about anything,\u201d he said. \u201cYou don\u2019t get to withhold information, change documents \u2014 none of that stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anderson said the lawsuit was filed just before Christmas and is very early on in the process. The Meads are\u00a0<a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.wzzm13.com\/article\/news\/local\/rockford-school-board-hears-from-public-for-first-time-since-parental-rights-lawsuit\/69-a9082a7a-8a57-4da7-bdba-e33bb7435405\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wzzm13.com\/article\/news\/local\/rockford-school-board-hears-from-public-for-first-time-since-parental-rights-lawsuit\/69-a9082a7a-8a57-4da7-bdba-e33bb7435405\">asking the court<\/a>\u00a0to see the incident as a violation of the family\u2019s First and Fourteenth Amendment rights and are seeking damages pertaining to the cost of taking their child out of school.<\/p>\n<p>CBN News will continue to cover the case as it unfolds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/world\/2024\/february\/parents-sue-school-district-for-allegedly-transitioning-daughter-in-secret-you-dont-get-to-lie-to-the-parents-about-anything\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan parents are suing a public school district over the claim district employees began socially transitioning their daughter without their consent, purportedly concealing these efforts in the process. Listen to them on the latest\u00a0episode\u00a0of \u201cQuick Start\u201d Dan and Jennifer Mead have sued the Rockford Public School District in Michigan, with the parents telling CBN News [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}