With children in school and parents out of school being censured, the free speech question extends to whether Americans have the right to even state that they believe there are only two biological genders. Existing law is clear that they do possess that fundamental liberty.
Students showed a decline in average scale scores compared to Vermont’s 2019 results. While it is fair to conclude that the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are reflected in student performance, that explanation does not tell the whole story. Vermont students’ performance on NAEP has been generally declining for over a decade.
John Helfant is one of the volunteer coaches of the Randolph Union High School girls’ varsity soccer team. He said he has served as a police officer for 32 years and is the chief of police of the Northfield, Vermont, police department.
With the emergence of Outright Vermont as the newly self-proclaimed referee of what’s news and what’s not regarding trangenderism in Vermont schools, it’s worth looking at what role they play in Vermont schools and how — and how much — the organization is funded.
Powerful teacher union officials like Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association (NEA), and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT/AFL-CIO), routinely try to deflect criticism of their outrageous actions by labeling it as criticism of “teachers.”
Knowledge of gender ideology and active participation in government are part of the antidote against efforts to usurp parental authority. Parents are the experts of their children, not the State. Let’s keep it that way.
WCAX has withdrawn from its website the Sept. 30 news report that broke the story, News Director Roger Garrity confirmed Thursday night to Vermont Daily Chronicle. The story was not consigned to the digital memory hole due to factual inaccuracy. “We believe our story was accurate,” Garrity said.
Blake Allen and her teammates spoke out when a biologically male student used their locker room. Now these young girls face heavy criticism — and maybe even punishment.
The “Hormone Blocker Bill,” H.659, usurps parental authority. What is driving this type of legislation, and who is driving it?
H.659 was not taken up in the Committee on Health Care. Yet the mindset is clear: many of our state legislators think they know what is best for our children and feel justified introducing and passing legislation that usurps parental authority.
Parents in Vermont will, like all informed Americans, protect their daughters. Layne Millington should resign quickly, and flee the accountability he so desperately fights to avoid.
The Randolph Union High School volleyball team fiasco is part of a larger pattern of the overpaid thug-like Superintendent Layne Millington bullying and violating children’s and parents’ free speech rights.