Parents are not happy with Eagleswood Township's school board approving the hire of a substitute teacher who has undergone a male to female gender change. Five out of six school board members voted to hire Lily McBeth, 71, who had taught as a man for five years at Eagleswood Elementary school. The one nay vote was by Don Haines who said he is not religious but voted against hiring McBeth because he didn't think it was appropriate for elementary school children to deal with a transgender teacher. "Young kids are too easy to persuade, too easy to confuse, he said.
The School Superintendent, Deborah Snyder, said that she or a teacher's assistant would almost always (?) accompany the transgender teacher in the classroom, and that either she or the school nurse would take children who need help to the bathroom. She also said she would tell McBeth not to discuss 'her' gender change with the young students and that the school would notify parents when McBeth substitute teaches so that "parents can arrange for their children to speak with the school psychologist if needed."
However...if parents take their kids from school for the day because McBeth is teaching, the school will count it as an unexcused absence, the Superintendent said.
What? no opting-out?
This is ridiculous...5 - 12 yr olds don't need to be exposed to this kind of controversy, and parents should be able to make the decision to not expose them without punishment. Besides, the teacher is 71 yrs old...c'mon.
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