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Grace,
I went to a recent PTA meeting at my son’s school and after the announcements and discussion about field trips this fall, we were just all kind of mingling and talking about our kids. One of the moms from my son’s class came up to me and asked me to join her Facebook group organizing for parents rights at school. When I went home and looked up the group, I found that it was mostly focused on posts about transgender kids and controlling bathrooms and what the kids read. I don’t know if there are any transgender kids at our school and I don’t know much about the issue, but I feel really uncomfortable with the tone of this group and the idea that all these parents could make kids feel unwelcome or like they don’t belong.
I want my son to learn that everyone deserves to be treated with respect and that there’s nothing wrong with being different (even if we don’t totally understand it). How do I make sure he holds on to this value when he might hear something else at school or at friends’ houses?
Signed,
Principled in Pennsylvania
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