Showing posts with label Schools. Show all posts
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Parents HIDE YOU'R KIDS! They coming for them...




Ok so this reminds me of the "Antoine Dodson" "Hide Yo Kids, Hide Yo Wife" song clip from the news. But in this week it's been reported that the Chico Unified School District has voted to keep their “parental secrecy” policy in place. “Parental secrecy” allows Chico Unified to not inform parents if a child identifies by another gender at school. Wait what? Yes you read this correctly friends now during the meeting, the board received input from educators as well as Aurora Regino, a mother who is currently suing the district. Regino alleged that a school counselor facilitated her 11-year-old daughter’s transition without her consent.







The board voted 3-2 to keep the current policy.



Regino expressed her frustration with the district’s policy and is calling for more transparency when it comes to counseling services provided to students. She explained, “I was diagnosed with breast cancer. My daughter was distressed and began questioning her sexuality, so she decided to reach out to a wellness counselor at her elementary school.”



“The day my daughter shared with her guidance counselor that she felt like a boy. The counselor immediately affirmed this new identity,” the mother said. “My daughter told the counselor she wanted to tell me about her new identity. The counselor ignored her request and did nothing to support her and letting me know what was going on at school.”



Oliva Phillips, an educator supporting student privacy policy, claimed “We as educators and service providers, we as educators need to cultivate an environment where students feel trust and safety and acceptance, to be unapologetically themselves without repercussions of backlash.”







Sandy Hook Families File Another Lawsuit Against Alex Jones from INFO WARS!


More problems for Alex Jones as another Sandy Hook lawsuit ha’s been filed against him… As the saying goes when it rains it pours, and for Jones it’s been coming down hard these days for the comments made when Sandy Hook happened, and since. Now families of multiple victims of the shooting accused Infowars founder Alex Jones of hiding millions to avoid paying damages stemming from defamation suit he recently lost.

The families of nine victims asked in a court filing that Jones relinquish control of Free Speech Systems, alleging he’s “systematically transferred millions of dollars” to himself and others to hide money from the families.

The filing reads:

Since the Sandy Hook Families filed their lawsuits, the Debtor has systematically transferred millions of dollars to Alex Jones and his relatives and insider entities. It claims to owe a massive, secured debt to an insider that was first documented as a loan when the Sandy Hook Families were securing key wins in Connecticut and Texas, but no records show that an actual debt existed before the Sandy Hook Families sued. The filing requests an independent committee be appointed to investigate the financial state of Jones’ company and to “ensure transparency, accountability and maximize the Debtor’s Estate for all creditors.” A bankruptcy trustee would also take control of Free Speech Systems.

Jones was ordered to pay nearly $50 million earlier this month in damages to Sandy Hook families after entertaining a conspiracy theory on his show that the Sandy Hook shooting, which claimed the lives of more than 20, never actually happened. In the years since, Jones has acknowledged the shooting did occur.

A lawyer for Jones said he would be filing a response to the new motion soon, according to the New York Times. Jones’ Free Speech Systems filed for bankruptcy last month, though lawyers for the Sandy Hook families deny that the company is actually bankrupt. “Alex Jones is not financially bankrupt; he is morally bankrupt, which is becoming more and more clear as we discover his plots to hide money and evade responsibility,” Kyle Farrar, a lawyer for the families, said.

Nikolas Cruz pleads guilty to the 2018 shooting massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

Nikolas Cruz pleaded guilty to 17 counts of first-degree murder for the 2018 shooting massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, as his attorneys turn their focus to saving him from a death sentence.

The guilty pleas will set the stage for a penalty trial in which 12 jurors will determine whether Cruz, 23, should be sentenced to death or life in prison without parole. Given the case’s notoriety, Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer plans to screen thousands of prospective jurors. Jury selection is scheduled to begin on Jan. 4.


Cruz entered his pleas after answering a long list of questions from Scherer aimed at confirming his mental competency. He was charged with 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted first-degree murder for those wounded in the Feb. 14, 2018, attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, located just outside Fort Lauderdale.

As several parents shook their heads, Cruz apologized, saying, “I’m very sorry for what I did. … I can’t live with myself sometimes.” He also added that he wished it was up to the survivors to determine whether he lived or died.

“Today we saw a cold and calculating killer confess to the murder of my daughter Gina and 16 other innocent victims at their school,” Tony Montalto said. “His guilty pleas are the first step in the judicial process but there is no change for my family. Our bright, beautiful, and beloved daughter Gina is gone while her killer still enjoys the blessing of life in prison.”

Anthony Borges, a former Stoneman Douglas student who was shot five times and severely wounded, told reporters after the hearing that he accepted Cruz’s apology, but noted that it was not up to him to decide the confessed murderer’s fate.

“He made a decision to shoot the school,” Borges said. “I am not God to make the decision to kill him or not. That’s not my decision. My decision is to be a better person and to change the world for every kid. I don’t want this to happen to anybody again. It hurts. It hurts. It really hurts. So, I am just going to keep going. That’s it.”

Following the pleas Wednesday, former Broward State Attorney Mike Satz recounted the details of the murders. Cruz killed 14 students and three staff members on Valentine’s Day 2018 during a seven-minute rampage through a three-story building at Stoneman Douglas, investigators said. They said he shot victims in the hallways and in classrooms with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle. Cruz had been expelled from Stoneman Douglas a year earlier after a history of threatening, frightening, unusual and sometimes violent behavior that dated back to preschool.

The shootings caused some Stoneman Douglas students to launch the March for Our Lives movement, which pushes for stronger gun restrictions nationally.

Since days after the shooting, Cruz’s attorneys had offered to have him plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence, saying that would spare the community the emotional turmoil of reliving the attack at trial. But Satz rejected the offer, saying Cruz deserved a death sentence, and appointed himself lead prosecutor. Satz, 79, stepped down as state attorney in January after 44 years, but remains Cruz’s chief prosecutor.

His successor, Harold Pryor, is opposed to the death penalty but has said he will follow the law. Like Satz, he never accepted the defense offer — as an elected official, that would have been difficult, even in liberal Broward County, where Democrats outnumber Republicans by more than 2 to 1.

By having Cruz plead guilty, his attorneys will be able to argue during the penalty hearing that he took responsibility for his actions.