Surprise, Parents! Co-Ed Restroom in North Shore High School
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.10.16
A couple of months ago, Deerfield High School (DHS) in Deerfield, Illinois quietly changed a multi-stall girls restroom to a co-ed restroom. Worse still the administration has not notified either parents or students. Rumors are circulating that the administration chose...
The Left is Pushing Hard Against Privacy Bills
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.04.16
The Leftist effort to sever objective immutable sex differences from both meaning and cultural recognition and to promote the fiction that one’s sex can change marches on. Within hours of the filing of the Pupil Physical Privacy Act (HB 4474)...
Courageous Lawmakers Fight for Student Privacy
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.28.16
State Representative Tom Morrison (R-Palatine) introduced the bi-partisan Pupil Physical Privacy Act (HB 4474), which if passed would require the following: [A] school board to designate each pupil restroom, changing room, or overnight facility accessible by multiple pupils simultaneously, whether...
D211 Transgender Debate Reveals a Crisis of More Than One Kind of Leadership
01.26.16
Written by Teri Paulson Well, it’s official: Our girls are now getting undressed in the presence of a boy (with complete male genitalia) in the girls’ locker room at William Fremd High School in Palatine, Illinois. The overwhelming majority of...
Save Us from the Tyranny of ‘Settled’ Science
01.19.16
In classrooms across the country, high school students are taught the scientific method. It consists of constructing a doubtful hypothesis and designing a series of experiments to test the hypothesis with the observable facts. After a number of tests prove positive. The student can then take the facts and reach a conclusion. When a conclusion is constantly verified, it is enshrined in what might be called “established” science.
Illinois School Board Reaffirms Invasion of Girl’s Privacy
By Monte Larrick   |   12.16.15
School Board officials in Township High School District 211 — which includes Palatine, Schaumburg and Hoffman Estates — have implemented a controversial and dangerous policy to allow male gender confused student access to a girls’ locker room at a high...
Attacks on Prayer From Anti-Christian Foundation
By   |   12.15.15
There’s an enormous misunderstanding regarding the U.S. Constitution as it relates to religion and it’s causing all sorts of trouble for folks that just want to pray. The misunderstanding is being intentionally propagated by an atheist group that wants to...
Questions for Schools on Transgender Policies and Practices
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.14.15
It’s not just District 211, the largest high school district in Illinois, that’s allowing gender-dysphoric students to use opposite-sex facilities. Rumors are circulating that gender-dysphoric students, enabled by their deceived parents, are asking school districts all over Illinois for permission to use opposite-sex restrooms and locker rooms. School administrations are accommodating these requests (or demands) in diverse ways and doing so without community input, without parental notification, and without establishing policy. One of those districts is District 200, a K-12 district in DuPage County that serves Wheaton, Warrenville, and portions of Carol Stream, West Chicago, and Winfield, which has multiple gender-dysphoric students, at least one of whom—an actual girl—is allowed to use a curtained changing area in the boys’ locker room. This information has been withheld from the public.
District 211 Reaffirms Ignorance
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.08.15
Following a public spat between the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the District 211 Board of Education over their tentative agreement regarding locker room use by a gender-dysphoric boy, the district has decided to move forward with the agreement. The district already allows gender-dysphoric students to use opposite-sex restrooms, and now they will allow this boy to use curtained, private changing spaces within the girls' locker rooms.
Perversity Harms Children and Perverts Education
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.07.15
In our world of normalized perversion, erotic love is severed from sexual differentiation, marriage is severed from sexual differentiation, sex is severed from marriage, sex is severed from procreation, procreation is severed from marriage, and people are severed from their...
District 211 Enraged by Alleged Bad Faith of OCR
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.05.15
Perhaps I owe an apology to District 211. While District 211 is guilty of egregiously poor judgment in allowing gender-dysphoric students to use opposite-sex restrooms and in agreeing to allow a gender-dysphoric boy into the girls’ locker room to use...
An HIV/AIDS Prevention Message American Youths Need to Hear
12.04.15
Charlie Sheen’s HIV diagnosis comes as a great surprise to Hollywood and the rest of the nation. Sheen says that the news of his infection was “a mule-kick to my soul.” Indeed. The news is particularly startling because HIV in the U.S. is an extremely rare disease even among those who like Charlie Sheen are notoriously promiscuous.
District 211 Leadership: Incompetent, Dishonest or Both?
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.04.15
ACLU attorney John Knight who represents the gender-dysphoric boy in the lawsuit against District 211 has issued this statement about the agreement reached between the district and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR)—a clarification that should deeply trouble District 211...
Pastor Opposes District 211 Policy for Gender-Rejecting Student
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.04.15
Palatine resident and pastor of the Village Church of Barrington, David W. Jones, attended the District 211 Board of Education meeting on Wednesday night and sent the following letter to the District 211 School Board immediately following the meeting. If...
District 211’s Cowardly Surrender to Big Brother
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.03.15
Against the wishes of the majority of community members who spoke at last night’s District 211 Board of Education meeting, the district capitulated to most of the Office for Civil Rights’ (OCR) demands with regard to the gender-rejecting boy who...
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