Raleigh TV station ABC 11 reported live from the school board meeting in Robbins, April 17.
Parents of students in Moore County schools have been restored as partners in raising and educating their children.
The Moore County Board of Education on April 17, 2023, passed a Parents’ Bill of Rights resolution created to take down a firewall separating administrators, teachers, counselors and students from parents and legal guardians in matters of gender transitioning and related mental health issues.
The resolution passed, 6-1, after a meeting of more than four hours during which a vocal minority of transgender transitioned children, and some of their parents, admonished the board to reject the measure on grounds that it would make trans students vulnerable to violent parents, ridicule in school and, ultimately in extreme cases, suicide.
“I am terrified for the future of women like me,” said a boy, 16, who identifies as a girl, during public comments before the board. "This parents' bill of rights is a disgusting abuse of the democratic system."
Said a trans female, 15: "We should have a right to keep our identity secret if needed."
Amid the shrieking by a hysterical few, the Robbins Elementary School gym was mostly filled by supporters of a policy that partners parents with the public education process.
“Children belong to parents, not the state,” said Carthage resident Jim Pedersen, a well known champion of efforts to cleanse school libraries of sexually graphic, age-inappropriate books.
Hanna Parker, 22, warned high schoolers that attempting to “live a double life” — transgender at school unbeknownst to parents — “will hurt you”.
Parker, who attended with her father, William, saluted the school board's resolution as a common-sense "notification policy." The reality is, she said, "there are bad parents out there; there also are bad teachers -- nobody wants to talk about that."
William Parker ended his remarks with an thunderous, passionate prayer.
Said public speaker Wendy Crespo, “Schools and their employees are public servants. Parents have a God given right to raise their child.”
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