Feds reject school district's plan for transgender student, locker room

Oh look , more wasted tax dollars on stupidity.

I know I know, making sure someone has a penis can use the bathroom with girls is much more important than our educational system or feeding hungry Americans. Because taking care of 1 student and building him his own bathroom that he will only use for maybe 4 years is much more detrimental than making sure the other 4,000 students have the necessary means to move onto the next level of education.

 

Yes, then you can (*)(*)(*)(*)(*) more about kids not being active on getting fat. Physical education is important, and we shouldn't stop it just because 1 kid doesn't want to shower with his own gender.

Tell him or her they can just skip the shower and stay out of the locker room. Don't bring everyone else down just because of one student.

Let's be even more stupid, via PC , and just say if a boy can't use the girls bathroom the nobody can use bathrooms. That's it, make everyone suffer because one person can't have their way.

 

The money spent on this of course goes into the tally of America spends XXX on Education, and of course is part of the reason that our students don't fare as well as other nations despite us spending so much more on it than them.

Nations which take education seriously, are not worrying about feel good minutia such as this. Their kids come in and learn the X's and O's needed, and the feel good fluff crap can happen at home.

This kid should be kept at home until he is able to cope with his mental disability. his identity issues are not something others should have to run into, accept or be distracted with.

He's not a girl, he will never be a girl...and he needs to work through this fantasy on his own. The boy who thinks he is Superman..yet for some reason cant fly or bend steel doesn't get all this accommodation, and no one builds a phone booth for him to change into nor accept when he wears a cape to class... he goes into a special ed program at best.

 

We've already got a childhood obesity problem. people wish to take the easy way out and blame food, drinks and the like but in truth its because of the sedentary lifestyle combined with these habits IMO. The most exercise kids get these days are their fingers from their Phones and Xboxes.

IMO Gym class should be escalated to happen every single day, because not enough kids are doing it on their own.

 

It's absolutely insane . How can they justify wasting money like this?

Oh but when it comes time to address the situation of new or up to date books, they don't have the money.

Schools are falling apart, in horrible condition and many have some serious security issues and kids can't even go to school and feel safe, but we don't have money for that because we spent it trying to allow a kid with a penis use the girls bathroom.

Kids are failing out of schools, many in high school can't even read or write properly, but making sure Johnny, aka Joanna, can't tinkle and shower with girls is a much more pressing issue.

Another reason why I can not stand a liberal and 100% believe their way of thinking and policies are nothing but a full blown cancer to this country and its future. This is why I will never side or vote for a liberal, they are a bigger threat to this nation than ISIS or any terrorist organization can dream. They don't have to destroy the United States , just give liberals 50 straight years of power and terrorist can kick back and watch the country crumble .

 

interesting, I thought groups showers was a national thing in out public school

so did not having group showers in your school effect it negatively in any way? do you think it's a good solution that we could roll out nationwide today?

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An article from 20 years ago indicates it is heading towards being a thing of the past.

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/22/us/students-still-sweat-they-just-don-t-shower.html

Whether it is good or bad is not something I have an opinion on. I simply find it ridiculous that right wing anti trans folks sit there and prattle on about the mythical mandatory group showers.

 

Maybe the problem is that people think that a few minutes of shooting hoops a day is exercise. Gym obviously isn't working. Ax it .

 

By the way, despite the citation in the OP of an article form last October, this situation has been settled. The student in question gets her own private stall within the girls locker-room, along with their being other stalls for other students to use if they like.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/subur...deadline-district-211-met-20160114-story.html

 

I am a liberal, and they were not mythical when I grew up, I am so glad to hear they are going away, that is great news, thanks for the link


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Ummm when I was in gym up to the 8th grade we did stretched, did exercises, had competitions with pull ups, sit ups, and racing. Learning the correct way to exercise so you wouldn't hurt yourself and get the most out of working out. And yes we played full games of basketball, flag football, volleyball, wrestling, softball and baseball, soccer not just to play but to also understand the games better.

In high school we learned more about nutrition, more advanced forms of exercise in the weight rooms, and we did a lot of conditioning .The football players would go suit up and practice during football season, and it was the same for baseball and basketball seasons. Basketball being the most fun because the boys and girls in the class would make mixed teams and play against each other. Us guys used to call it "bloody Mary" because the girls would usually leave scratch marks all over our faces lol.

I went to both public and private high schools and the experience was about the same. But what I also learned the very few people who hated gym was because they were the ones who did not want to participate solely based off the fact that they were just lazy, or would rather use the time to discuss the X-files.

 

When I was in the 8th grade, nobody was forced to dress out for gym

 

We werent forced either. The public school I went to you could sit your lazy ass out but you had to sit away from other students and only do schoolwork. In the private school you had the choice to dress out and participate or clean the gym and locker rooms.

There werent too many lazy kids though, not many cry babies back in our day like the spineless panzies that are being brought up today.

 

Id rather see it improved if it's not quality exercise and made mandatory 5 days a week.

Axing it would be the worst thing you could do IMO, but to each his own.

 

We just had a no street shoes on the gym floor rule. Street shoes were anything other than sneakers.

 

What you going to eliminate to allow for 5 day a week gym class? US History or biology I hope. Learning about all dead documents written by old dead people or dissecting old dead piglets never really added much to my life I would say.

 

At the private school we could wear anything but the dress shoes, street shoes were still ok. same with the public school . People dressed out in both schools so they wouldnt be ruining their good clothes and smelling like sweat.

Nobody likes sitting next to stinky people. It's called having good hygiene and respect for others.

 

Stinky people often do not know how stinky they are. #NoseBlindness

 

lol so true. And usually too many people don't want to embarrass someone by telling them lol. I always been too self conscious about hygiene , I end up taking a shower in the morning and at night. During football season after practice during gym class I would always take a shower before going back to class. Extra pair of shorts and flip flops were a must at school just for showers lol.

 

There are some old women in my area who love mothballs for reasons known but to God. They will store their clothes with those things and then try to drown out the smell of the mothballs with perfume. You want to talk about something that will send you fleeing from a room, it is that combination, yet, I have never once said anything to them LOL.

But back to the OP--we can eliminate busing too. That way every kid is pre-funky by the time they reach school.

 

I don't think busing should be taken away, but it needs to be toned down and only used for kids who's parents can't drive their kids to school. It would save on money and time because you don't need a bus load of kids riding for an hour for something that is only 15 minutes away.

Plus busing a crowd of kids seems to lead to a lot of problems. So in that sense it's time for some parents to be parents and drive their own kid to school.

 

Start with some of the fluff slots they have now, like open study blocks where they sit in the library doing nothing anyway. Im sure adjustments can be made to find a half hour in the day for something as important as exercise.
We do have a childhood obesity problem do we not? Why wouldn't we try escalating physical activity? the food is only part of the issue and is a scapegoat to an extent.

I ate McDonalds with a buddy every single day in Highschool. total crap diet....but we also played football , basketball and ran around a lot. I was always in shape.

 

So you want transgendered girls who think they are boys in the locker room before the big game? How very progressive of you. Personally I will kill sports teams too. Having already killed busing, they would only be able to play home games anyway.

 

Ummm, absolutely not.
I am unsure how you get your response from the quote.

For the record, which should have been clear all along...I don't believe in any such thing as a Transgendered girl at all. I don't believe it is valid just the same as I don't believe a person with multiple personality disorder is really 4 different people....even if you give them 4 intricate costumes to wear each day.


Some people have mental disabilities.

Now if you'd like to address what you quoted, and correct your mistake..I'll field it.

 

There was no mistake at all except on your part. School district allows transgendered people in wrong locker room. You advocate for sports and more PE, therefore you are advocating for more transgendered people being in the wrong locker room more often. I have consistently argued a solution. You have consistently argued aggravating the problem that you yourself acknowledge is a problem. No locker rooms; no sports and no transgendered issues to deal with that cannot be resolved by a row of port o potties and some nails to the current bathroom doors.