{"id":2022742,"date":"2023-09-05T20:32:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T00:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/colorado-teachers-union-told-teachers-to-destroy-evidence-of-student-surveys-on-gender-identity-report\/"},"modified":"2023-09-05T20:36:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T00:36:07","slug":"colorado-teachers-union-told-teachers-to-destroy-evidence-of-student-surveys-on-gender-identity-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/colorado-teachers-union-told-teachers-to-destroy-evidence-of-student-surveys-on-gender-identity-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Teachers Union allegedly instructed teachers to delete evidence of student surveys on gender identity, according to a report."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcolorado-teachers-union-told-teachers-to-destroy-evidence-of-student-surveys-on-gender-identity-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2022742&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Colorado Teachers Union Instructs Teachers to Destroy Evidence of Student Surveys on Gender Identity<\/h2>\n<p>A Colorado teachers \u2063union reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/five-cities-where-teachers-unions-are-keeping-schools-shutdown\/\" title=\"Five Cities Where Teachers Unions Are Keeping Schools Shutdown\">instructed teachers<\/a> to destroy\u200b evidence of student surveys on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/gender\">gender identity<\/a>. \u200bThis controversial move\u200d has sparked\u200d outrage\u2063 among \u2064parents and raised \u200dconcerns about transparency \u2062in\u200d schools.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffco Public Schools, the district serving students in the west Denver area, had previously advised teachers to avoid administering surveys about students&#8217; preferred\u2064 pronouns due to ongoing lawsuits surrounding the issue. A slide sent by the school district\u2063 explicitly stated, &#8220;Please no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/colorado-teachers-union-told-teachers-to-destroy-evidence-of-student-surveys-on-gender-identity-report\/\" title=\"Colorado Teachers Union allegedly instructed teachers to delete evidence of student surveys on gender identity, according to a report.\">preferred pronoun\/gender identity questionnaire<\/a>. Do not promise to keep information from parents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>However, the Jefferson \u200bCounty Education Association, which represents teachers\u2062 in the area, gave\u200c teachers different \u2064guidance, CBS Colorado <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/colorado\/news\/colorado-controversy-erupts-jefferson-county-teachers-union-educators-destroy-evidence-student-surveys-gender-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The union sent out an email to teachers advising them to conduct\u200c any gender identity\u2062 questionnaires using paper and pencil, as digital records are more permanent and may be subject to requests under federal law. They also instructed teachers to make notations about students without holding onto the \u2063documents.<\/p>\n<p>Parents have accused the\u2063 teachers and their union of disregarding federal \u2064and state laws. Local group Jeffco Kids\u2064 First claims that dozens of teachers conducted the gender identity surveys after receiving guidance from the union on\u200b how to hide the evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Denice Crawford, a parent with\u2064 three children in the school district, expressed her feelings of betrayal when her son came home with \u2062a survey \u200casking about his gender identity. She told CBS Colorado, &#8220;I don&#8217;t\u2062 feel I\u200b can trust the\u200b teachers. This is not political. It&#8217;s \u2064just they&#8217;re breaking the law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO\u2062 GET THE DAILY \u200cWIRE\u2063 APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Initially, Crawford felt reassured when the school district emailed all employees before school started, reminding them about restrictions on surveys that ask children about protected information and the option\u2064 for parents to opt out.\u200d However, \u2064school board member Susan Miller emphasized that\u2063 the union&#8217;s actions have\u200d put teachers&#8217; jobs at risk,\u2062 as\u2064 violating the law \u2062can result in the loss\u200c of their licenses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The leadership\u200d actually provided an avenue\u2063 to get around the law and basically saying it was OK,&#8221; Miller \u2063stated. &#8220;I want\u200b parents to know the district takes this very seriously.&#8221; She\u2064 called on the teachers union to issue a correction to their guidance,\u2063 acknowledging their\u2062 mistake and the \u2062need to\u200c comply with the\u2063 law.<\/p>\n<p>However, the union&#8217;s president, Brooke Williams, did not\u200c offer a correction in her statement. \u200dInstead, she defended the importance of allowing students to share their preferred pronouns while maintaining privacy. Williams also emphasized that\u2064 teachers should follow the district&#8217;s policy, which prohibits\u2064 disclosing a student&#8217;s gender identity to parents unless the student gives permission or legal requirements demand it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Transgender\u200d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/education-student-reinstated-following-suspension-for-saying-a-man-is-a-man-a-woman-is-a-woman\/\" title=\"Education Student Reinstated Following Suspension For Saying, \u2018A Man Is A Man, A Woman Is A Woman\u2019\">gender nonconforming students<\/a> have the right to discuss and express their gender identity\u200d and expression openly \u200dand to decide when, with whom, and\u2063 how much to share \u2064private information,&#8221; Williams stated.<\/p>\n<p>Transparency \u2062surrounding students&#8217; gender identity has become a contentious issue among parents in \u2062recent years. Some parents in various states \u2064have accused schools of keeping their children&#8217;s identities a secret, leading to lawsuits against school districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to destroy evidence of student surveys on gender identity. Jeffco Public Schools, serving west Denver, advised teachers against conducting surveys on preferred pronouns due to ongoing lawsuits. The teachers union allegedly instructed them to refrain from administering such questionnaires and not to commit to destroying any related evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":2022743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2022742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2022742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2022743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}