Mike Colangelo <air@vatican_.con> wrote in
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> Just kill those fucking transgenders and the problem is solved.

Cassie Schmidt confronted school board members in a North Dakota district
that pledged not to "openly out" students despite a newly-passed state law
requiring otherwise, but she holds a history of fighting back on behalf of
parents.

Though she chose the private school route for her own family, she stood
before the Fargo, North Dakota board and spoke on behalf of the "Let
Parents Decide That" Facebook group of community members concerned over
allegations that the board has concealed � and will continue to conceal �
children's gender identities from their families.

"Whose kids are these? Do they belong to you as a school board? Do they
belong to Fargo Public Schools or is each parent's child ultimately the
decision-maker in their family over what is allowed and what is safe for
that child�?

NORTH DAKOTA PARENTS RAGE AT SCHOOL BOARD FOR DEFYING LAW ON KIDS' GENDER
IDENTITIES: �WHOSE KIDS ARE THESE?�

"There is no possible way for each teacher to know every kid as intimately
as their parents do," she said at a board meeting last Tuesday.

"Parenting 101: You teach your kids that nobody that asks you to keep a
secret is safe," she continued.

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Schmidt told Fox News Digital about her role in advocating for parental
rights in her community and how a Facebook group she helped found to push
back against mask mandates during the COVID pandemic in 2021 continues to
strive for the overall wellbeing of children while offering a voice to
parents who feel they have none.

After two years, the group has over two thousand members.

"It [mask mandates] was something at the time that was really hard for
parents to talk about. They were really being shamed into silence. Nobody
wanted to look like the selfish parent that didn't want to protect all the
other kids in class, even though masks have been proven to do nothing. So
we really tried to build a community of concerned parents to just kind of
support each other," she explained.

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Schmidt said the group has taken on several key education issues in the
two years since its founding, including violence in North Dakota schools
and the most recent gender identity concealment issue that garnered media
attention in recent days.

"Instead of addressing actual issues that we're having, they kind of start
to take up these social justice flags, and it just gets really
frustrating," she continued.

The most recent issue in the district came after Superintendent Dr. Rupak
Gandhi said, "We will not openly out any student because of one law if we
know that that's going to cause harm to that child" at a May 9 meeting,
one day after Republican Gov. Doug Burgum signed the state's HB1522 into
law.

HB1522, establishes policy prohibiting districts from taking up pronoun
policies and bars the district, boards or teachers from "withhold[ing] or
conceal[ing] information about a student's transgender status from the
student's parent or legal guardian."

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The law also touches on transgender restroom policies and other LGBTQ+
related key issues.

Still, she said reaching out to state officials to challenge the issue is
getting parents nowhere since they continue to kick the issue back to the
local level.

"I think what's happening here is this issue is getting really pigeonholed
into an LGBTQ plus issue, and I think people aren't thinking about it kind
of how they should be. It's really a parents' rights issue because what's
really happening is the schools are getting in between the student and the
parents to gate keep information from the parents," Schmidt said.

"That is really concerning, and it should be concerning for people on both
sides of this LGBTQ issue, whether you're for it or against it. We should
be able to come together and understand that the parent makes the
decisions for the child and that protecting kids does not mean hiding
information from parents."

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�KEEP YOUR KIDS HOME�

Schmidt also alleged the board has a history of ignoring parents by
refusing to address anything they say. Noting Dr. Gandhi's remarks about
protecting transgender students, she mentioned his discussion about
suicide rates among transgender youth.

"If you think about that, that these issues might lead to an increased
risk of suicide for the student, that is something that must be shared
with the parents, that are responsible for the child in every situation.
They spend nights and weekends with the child, long holidays over the
summer. Where are the where are the schools in the summer time?

"We're setting a really bad precedent again over what who's allowed to
have the information, and the parents, in my opinion, should always be
allowed all the information on their child."

When reached for comment on the issue earlier this week, a representative
for Fargo Public Schools stated that Gandhi never explicitly said "the
district is keeping students' gender identities hidden from parents."

Schmidt argued that the language used to convey the district's message is
intentionally vague.

"Whose kids are these? They don't belong to the schools, and people don't
like to think about children belonging to anybody, but they belong to the
parent. They belong to the family," she said,

"What the school is doing is they're placing themselves right in the
middle of your family, and they're deciding what's okay for you to
believe. Because if your beliefs don't align with their beliefs, then
they're going to protect the student from you. They're teaching kids that
keeping secrets from their parents is safe. That is not safe. It is not
safe. That's not how we protect them."

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