Jury awards non-binary former Albany student $317K in school discrimination lawsuit
Jury awards non-binary former Albany student $317K in school discrimination lawsuit
The jury agreed that the former Greater Albany School District student was discriminated against based on their gender identity.
Elaine Kelsey, Onaly-Kelsey's mother, provided emails and communications she had with the school district. The jury determined former Oak Grove Principal Jerrie Matuszak knew of the bullying Onaly-Kelsey was experiencing but did not investigate or intervene "reasonably" and as school district policy dictated.
The title said it was discrimination but the article didn’t state that is what the jury found. Reading the article, it seems the jury found the school to be negligent in responding appropriately to the bullying.
Regardless of their gender identity, the real story here is that the school didn’t stop the bullying, which is a larger problem of all schools. Severe bullying is a big issue and one I worry about with my own kids.
Sorry. Didn't catch this is behind a paywall
No worries!! I actually just tried to read the article again and got the paywall as well 😂
Here is a link from OPB: https://www.opb.org/article/2023/09/25/albany-oregon-oak-grove-schools-education-discrimination-nonbinary-lawsuit/
That is an issue in many schools is bullying. I went to school in the 80's and I was bullied for being nerdy.
My parents had one rule, I could not start a fight but if someone put their hands on me, I could defend myself.
I beat the crap out of three bullies in about two weeks and that solved my problem. That shouldn't have been the solution but back then that was the solution.
I get kids that are different will be picked on but we need to stop that crap as much as we can.
I know this is going to sound horrible to some people, but what 3rd grader identifies as nonbinary? IMHO sex and gender may as well be treated as the same thing until puberty, at least.
In this scenario who cares? The real issue is the kid was being bullied. Schools need to stop that as much as possible.
I have heard people say it'll make them stronger but in the work force, they would get sued for allowing bullying behavior.
Woah, no one here said anything about bullying being good for the kid. The article doest even mention the reason for the bullying, but it claims that the school didn't do enough/anything to address it.
My surprise came from a 3rd grader self-identifying as "non-binary". I've never heard that term come from a child, only ever from adults and in academic settings.
For some kids that's true. For a surprisingly large percentage though, gender identity can be known before they start school. Most will conform to their birth-assigned gender, so for those people, it isn't something they express clearly.
Wow before school ? I never would have guessed.
What social situations are kids put in that make them confront the question of their gender? Is it mostly like marketing and toys and stuff? Or more like family/social pressure to conform to "roles" (baseball v ballet)?
Just seems so odd for a kid to have to think about gender in general, I'm trying to imagine non-creepy situations where it would come up lol
but what 3rd grader identifies as nonbinary?
This one do.