When Trans kids confide in a school teacher and cry for help
Teachers who value each and every student will do everything within their ability to ensure that their pupils feel safe in their classrooms and that it is also a safe place to share, vent, and open up about deeply personal life stressors, or that those resources remain available to all. With new regulations in certain states making it against policy for teachers or school counselors to provide support mechanisms for their pupils without circling back to the parents, this gets challenging when policy forbids a teacher from affirming a child’s wishes. When a child explicitly states that he/she/they does NOT want their own personal vents to a teacher to be shared back at home, but the teacher is restrained by new laws targeting trans community to have no Avenue to do anything in their own good faith and conscience, this is most certainly an unfortunate dilemma for teachers (my sister-in-law having been one of those academic teachers). As a source for remedy, the teachers...