A Michigan father pulled all three of his sons out of school until administrators explain to him why a girl was allowed to use the boys’ restroom.
Matt Stewart said his 9-year-old son told him a girl who identifies as a boy was permitted to use the restroom alongside him at Southwest Elementary School in Livington, reported the Detroit Free Press.
“My son informed me there was a girl in the bathroom with him and the other kids in his class,” Stewart told WXYZ-TV.
“She was instructed to look at the wall, don’t look, and there was a conversation with my 9-year-old about standing closer to the urinals,” Stewart told WDIV-TV.
Stewart has demanded answers from the Howell Public Schools Board of Education, but he said administrators cited privacy rules and have declined to comment on the matter — so he’s keeping his boys, who are all under age 10, home in protest.
“I have three children in Southwest Elementary School and they are being humiliated and intimidated,” Stewart said. “Our kids are absent from school until there’s a policy in place that keeps them from being humiliated or intimidated.”
He said school employees told his son he could use a single-person restroom if he felt uncomfortable using the restroom alongside his classmate.
The school board president, Michael Yenshaw, said the matter had not reached the board, and the vice president, Stacy Pasini, declined comment.
Yenhaw said the matter did not relate to any immediate threat to public safety, and he also said the district may be limited by the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act in releasing information about a student’s private education records.
Stewart said neither the superintendent nor the school principal would confirm whether the third-grade student was transgender, again citing privacy rules.
The father filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking an approved policy on transgender students using the restroom, but school officials told him the district had not adopted one.
Stewart said Superintendent Erin MacGregor “took ownership” of a decision to allow students to use the bathroom of their choosing — but the father said that was not satisfactory.
The issue has provoked protests and even random acts of violence since North Carolina passed House Bill 2, which prohibits transgender people from using public restrooms that don’t match the gender on their birth certificate.
The U.S. Department of Education issued a non-binding directive asking schools to permit transgender students to use the restroom that corresponds with their gender identity — but 11 states have sued the Obama administration over the issue.
“The bottom line: A 9-year-old girl is in the boys’ bathroom with my son,” the father said, saying no safeguards were in place to keep the girl from walking out of a bathroom stall and see a boy urinating.
Detailed sea-floor maps made during the unsuccessful search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, released by Australia on Wednesday, could help increase the knowledge of rich fisheries and the prehistoric movement of the earth’s southern continents.
The whereabouts of the plane, which vanished in March 2014 en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board, remains one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries.
“To see this work come out of that tragedy that was MH370 is really quite astounding, they’ve taken it to a new level,” said Martin Exel, a commercial deep-sea fisherman at Austral Fisheries who has fished in the area.
“From a fishing perspective it would be valuable information – they’ve found whale bones and cables and a drum, it is incredible the resolution,” he said, referring to the data.
Stuart Minchin, chief of Geoscience Australia’s environmental geoscience division, said the remote search area was now among the most thoroughly mapped regions of the deep ocean on the planet.
“It is estimated that only 10 to 15 percent of the world’s oceans have been surveyed with the kind of technology used in the search for MH370,” Minchin said.
Investigators believe someone may have deliberately switched off MH370’s transponder before diverting it thousands of miles off course, out over the Indian Ocean.
Australia has not ruled out resuming the search for the airliner but has said that would depend on finding “credible new evidence” about the plane’s whereabouts.
“No new information has been discovered to determine the specific location of the aircraft and the underwater search remains suspended,” Transport Minister Darren Chester said in a statement.
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