A Maine faculty got here below hearth from a mom who claimed a social employee tried to transition her 13-year-old daughter with out her consent, giving the pupil a “chest binder” used to flatten breasts, amongst different allegations.
Damariscotta mother Amber Lavigne allegedly discovered the chest-flattening machine at dwelling and requested her daughter about it. Her daughter at first reportedly instructed Lavigne the machine got here from a pal, however later admitted she acquired it from her faculty.
On “The Ingraham Angle,” Lavigne instructed host Laura Ingraham the state of affairs reveals that folks are not the final word arbiters of their kids’s lives.
“It is scary, actually,” she stated. Lavigne’s lawyer, Adam Shelton, added parental rights are legally broad and that his group — the Goldwater Institute — demanded in writing the Nice Salt Bay Group College launch a full investigation and alter different insurance policies.
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“[The school must mandate parental notification] every time the college comes to a decision that straight impacts the psychological well being or bodily well-being of their kids. Mother and father do have a 14th Modification proper to regulate and direct the training, upbringing and well being care selections of their kids,” Shelton stated.
Ingraham then performed a clip of a latest faculty board assembly the place the incident was introduced as much as the panel by a involved dad or mum.
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“I’ll ask for those who keep on with points at hand and never do hypothesis round well being and well-being at this board assembly. It’s not germane to training,” replied a person recognized as College Board Chairman Samuel Belknap.
Lavigne referred to as the assembly “fairly disgraceful,” including that Belknap shrugged his shoulders at any attendee who introduced up the incident.
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“They have been sighing. Jesse Butler picked his cellphone up twice whereas individuals have been making public remark. He spoke at one level whereas anyone was making public remark. It was simply unprofessional, they usually simply behaved in a method {that a} faculty board should not behave,” she stated, showing to refer to a different board member.
Shelton stated he’s getting ready a federal lawsuit on 14th Modification grounds, whereas Lavigne added that some locally are attempting to “bully [her] into silence.”
“They’re attempting to deflect the true concern at hand. They’re attempting to guide individuals to consider that, , my elevating questions as to what’s occurring in our faculties is by some means inciting violence on the faculties, and it is simply not the case.”
“The Ingraham Angle” didn’t obtain a response from the college.
