School tells upset parents they can leave if they don’t like school’s policy
Nearly a dozen parents who spoke during the latest meeting of Clover Garden School’s board of directors complained that their children are being taught grammatically incorrect English in an eighth-grade honors class and are being threatened with disciplinary action if they question it.
The administration at Clover Garden School in western Alamance County has threatened students with disciplinary action if they fail to use the “preferred pronouns” for their eighth-grade honors English Language Arts teacher and has advised parents that if they don’t like it, they can enroll their children elsewhere, based on comments by the nearly dozen parents who outlined their concerns for the school’s board of directors earlier this month.
Read comprehensive coverage of the controversy
Lead story about parents’ complaints, voiced at recent board of directors meeting: https://alamancenews.com/clover-garden-parents-in-uproar-over-english-teachers-insistence-that-students-use-they-them-pronouns/
Clover Garden is apparently relying on Biden Administration’s interpretation of Title IX (subsequently repealed by Trump Administration): https://alamancenews.com/clover-garden-following-bidens-2024-rewrite-of-title-ix/
The school’s response to parents: https://alamancenews.com/clover-garden-board-responds-to-parent-complaints-about-preferred-pronouns/
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