A special education teacher in Humble, Texas, gave melatonin gummies to a few of her students, and CNN is mad. Not only were the students’ parents not informed, the outlet tells us, but the teacher didn’t even alert the school nurse or administrators either. It’s shocking, really, a teacher giving kids a hormone supplement without parental consent. We should really demand better of our educational system.
Though the teacher has resigned, we should all be flabbergasted and dismayed at this egregious violation of the trust between parents and schools. Today, melatonin gummies, tomorrow, the teacher, had she not resigned, may have done something especially horrific, like encouraging students to hide really big secrets from their parents. She may have even aided and abetted students in that subterfuge.
Except, had she, CNN and the rest of the corporate media would not be so perturbed. They would probably even cheer the teacher on. For example, here’s CNN on a policy adopted by the school district in San Bernadino, California, that would require educators to inform parents if their kids adopted a different so-called “gender identity” while in the classroom. It quotes a teacher who says, “We’ll truly hit a milestone in our district when ‘sensitive issues’ aren’t sensitive at all, and these children can choose to simply exist exactly how they are.” Read: We’ll truly hit a milestone when teachers can help students potentially destroy their lives without notifying the parents as to what’s going on.
It doesn’t stop there, though. Here’s
