A Michigan school district has stopped the practice of
allowing members of one biological sex to use the restrooms of the opposite sex
after parents pulled their two sons out of elementary school over the issue.
A couple of weeks ago, Matt Stewart’s 9-year-old son told
him, “There was a girl in the boys’ bathroom” with him and other male
elementary kids. When Stewart called the
school, the principal told him the Obama Administration’s federal guidance on
transgender students forced them to allow transgender students in the
bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers of their chosen gender, and not their
biological sex; and that violating the policy means losing federal funding.
Stewart talked it over with his wife, and they decided to
take their sons out of Southwest Elementary School in Howell, MI.
Now, after publicly complaining that parents should have
been consulted, Stewart says, “over the last few days they have actually changed
their positions.”
Howell Public Schools Superintendent Eric McGregor issued a
statement saying, “At this time, we do not currently have any students using a
restroom other than that designated for their biological gender, or requesting
to do so.” The school district refused
to say whether the elementary girl in the boys’ room left the school district,
or is now using the bathroom of her actual, biological gender. “We are pausing on the federal guidance
issued to all school districts across the nation ... while we work to gather
feedback on this matter,” Superintendent McGregor wrote.
Stewart has since sent his sons back to school.
Former presidential candidate Gary Bauer told LifeSiteNews that Stewart’s concern – and
public reaction – shows the way parents should respond to school districts that
follow the controversial federal rules.
“Parents should join hands and respond by telling their local schools
that if they surrender to these demands, they will take their children out of
that local school and find another alternative to educate them,” Bauer said.
Bauer, who is the president of American Values and chairman
of the Campaign for Working Families, said that parents who follow this family’s
lead “will accomplish two things: reminding local school officials they work
for you, and, teaching your children that fighting back against big government
is as old as the American Revolution.” Bauer
told LifeSiteNews, “The Obama
Administration is bullying low income, disadvantaged students by threatening to
withhold their education dollars if the school district doesn’t cave into Obama’s
demands.”
In Howell, school administrators appear to have gotten the
message. WXYZ reports, “Sources at the school district say the school board
plans to meet with attorneys on Monday to discuss options. The school board has a meeting scheduled for
June 13.”
Rev. Dr.
Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor,
Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
Matt Stewart is an example of what can happen when a citizen nullifies an unlawful order from the government. The Howell public school district is an example of how school districts and states (and citizens) can be held hostage to the federal government.
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