Two more schools have decided to ditch Phil Murphy’s Policy 5756, Save Jerseyans, which prevents public schools from informing parents or guardians when a child wants to pretend to be transgender in school by changing their bathroom, pronouns, whatever.
Howell (Monmouth County) voted to repeal 5756 on Thursday night.
Kinnelon (Morris County) repealed 5756 on Wednesday.
The policy has been controversial since the get-go, but opposition from districts ramped up after a deputy attorney general revealed during oral argument that the Murphy Administration did NOT consider the policy to be anything other than guidance despite having previously presented it as mandatory.
The Murphy Administration is presently suing four school districts for failure to abide by a policy which Trenton acknowledges is not mandatory.
Parental rights is emerging as a top (if not the top) issue for Republican voters in this cycle’s legislative elections. Polling shows a strong majority of New Jerseyans believing that parental authority in schools should be protected notwithstanding the state’s Democrat orientation in statewide contests.
Where districts aren’t pushing back? The assault on parental rights continues. James O’Keefe (formerly of Project Veritas) recently posted evidence of a South Jersey school district hiding trans info from parents:
FOLLOW-UP: Kingsway Regional School District Superintendent, James Lavender, RESPONDS on phone to James O'Keefe regarding audio and emails showing Kingsway school counselors hiding critical information from parents.
O'Keefe questions how the school district will continue to hide… pic.twitter.com/knVgtXGrKD
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) October 19, 2023
