The parents teach me so much about how to advocate for our children. If you dont have a regular way to communicate with your parents, figure out how you can and dont be afraid to answer the phone calls. If they call screaming, just listen and wait and continue the conversation. There are so many nuggets in there. They are the expert for their kid. They can help you influence both the lives o their kid during the school day and also the other students in your school. A couple of questions from the back. We know some students do you have any thoughts on how to support that student while maintaining some of the privacy around their situation . Question, first of all. Thank you for seeing me yesterday. That is complicated. We have a lot of people in my gender Sexuality Alliance that north out at home. When they attend our events ir that, has to be a lot of navigating their parents. It is great. I used it when i was outed to my administration. It is complicated. There needs to be more of an open conversation. There doesnt need to be that, what will they think, how are they thinking . There has to be that unawareness. There has to be a better word. Something that prevents these issues from coming up. I feel like that could probably be applied to a lot of issues. Specifically with lgbt students, politics are so complicated. That makes a lot of School Officials and administration very hesitant to talk to parents. What needs to happen is that these conversations need to be going on with every single parent and then we wont have this issue. If it does happen, it needs to be handled with a lot of care and a lot of communication with the students. A lot of my friends have been outed to their parents and it has been catastrophe. I have lucky to have supportive parents. That doesnt work for so many people. Always have conversations with all the parents. That needs to change structural. Slow conversations. Not, oh, by the way, your kid is lgbt and they got bullied and they got incredibly injured. If you are, you need a quick conversation. That was bad. Im sorry. Just tau just talk to the students. Just as parents are experts on their kids, the kids are experts on their parents. The kids will now about whats going on and they will know how to handle those issues. Thank you. I can speak a little bit to it. Judy, do you have the answer . It plays into how we respond if there is an incident at school. Students do have some privacy. So right now, our schools are charged with reporting incidents of bullying. We are looking at incidents of bullying based on particular reasons. I dont know if School Districts necessarily have the right safeguards in place to redact that or to know to proactively redact that information. If a parent asks to see, say, the complete record of their student behavior tracker, which is what we call it in dcps, but certainly, ferpa says they have right to the educational records. It depends on what an educational record is. Your Legal Counsel will help you determine what goes into the educational record. There is some federal guidance but also states and the district, because we have our own legislation. We actually have some of that spelled out in our municipal regulations. So there are teacher notes and educational records. Our student planning tool thats in our trans policy guidance, our Legal Counsel calls those teacher notes. If you are talking about what name do you want us to use, he was going to go into your book, what about going to the bathroom, how do you want to change out for sports, how are we going to pace p. E. For you, all sorts of questions that we might want to help a young person think through and help the school think through. That all goes into teacher notes. Those are not part of the educational records and do not get handed over to parents but its complicated. We also now where we cant disclose someones transgender status according to the d. C. Municipal regulations. Last question. Thank you all so much for sharing your experience and your knowledge. This question is, i think, specifically for nathan and glisten. Glisten, i am so happy that you exist. I am so grateful for your years and years of collecting data. I have a bone to pick with you. I think today we have heard pretty resoundingly across the panels that while student to Student Bullying is a major issue, there is also institutionally supported harassment of our lgbt students and others. That sometimes comes in the form of individual teachers, whether it is comments in passing or the curriculum thats being taught. In other times, it comes in the form of the way the discipline is being doled out. I think every year, look to the School Climate survey and look for questions that are asking not just about how the students feel in general about their School Experience but what are their experience was discipline, what are their experience was their administration. Thats an area i always find lacking. I feel like the questions just quite miss it. Its a plea and also a question. Is there any interest on glistens end or anybody else on the panel to explore these questions in more depth. I think it will help as deanna was pointing out, it will help us point it how our work in supporting lgbt students is directly linked to educational outcomes which would help us do our work better and more. Is there any interest in that . Yeah, absolutely. I am so glad that i have a response to the bone that you have to pick with me. We actually just released a report 3 1 2, 4 weeks ago called educational exclusion. It looks at discipline experiences of lgbt youth. Check that out. It is also on our Research Site in the research section. As we evolved over the years, we are trying to keep current were the conversations. School push out and pipeline issues are more than just inters inters inters intersexuality there. It is just nathan. Smith glisten. Org, you can send me an email. I am happy to pass it on. Thank you all so much. Please join me in thanking our panelists. The house investigation of Hillary Clintons use of the private email server continues today with representatives of the Justice Department and fbi testify. That House Oversight Committee Hearing starts live at 5 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan3. Now, a discussion on the harmful effects of toxic chemicals in vietnam and laos many years of their wartime use by the military. This is an hour and 45 minutes. Im linda yard. Im director for partnerships for International Strategy in asia, a program of the Elliot School of internaal
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