Frank Gordon Irwin The problem though stems from the fact when informing a parent may result in abuse. LGBT children in particular are exceptionally subject to that abuse. To simply say, well, the school has no role in that and wash your hands is to open children to exactly that abuse. This is especially true to a particular subset of children that is going through an especially delicate time, in an era where there is enormous ignorance about the issue. I do hope most parents do come to a position of support, but absolutely, schools and other trusted adults have not only a right but a duty to protect the safety of all the children who enter their doors, even when that threat comes from the child's own parents. Otherwise the school becomes complicit in that abuse.

Frank Gordon Irwin The problem though stems from the fact when informing a parent may result in abuse. LGBT children in particular are exceptionally subject to that abuse. To simply say, well, the school has no role in that and wash your hands is to open children to exactly that abuse. This is especially true to a particular subset of children that is going through an especially delicate time, in an era where there is enormous ignorance about the issue. I do hope most parents do come to a position of support, but absolutely, schools and other trusted adults have not only a right but a duty to protect the safety of all the children who enter their doors, even when that threat comes from the child's own parents. Otherwise the school becomes complicit in that abuse.

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