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Originally Posted by GGG
So you are approaching it from the mindset of a loving parent who will support their child and get them the best medical and psychological treatment they need. Those kids and parents are not affected by this law.
Now this law probably does have to balance self harm that isn’t prevented from a parent not being told versus self harm from kids not telling anyone or abuse from parents from disclosure. I’d suggest that suppressing people from knowing and informing parents who will abuse their children of a result of this information likely causes more harm then the edge case where a kid isn’t telling their parents but would tell a teacher who will tell their parents.
Do you believe there is a child who under this new law is more likely to get the help they need than under the previous law? If a child won’t tell their parents why would they tell a teacher who will tell their parents. At least under current legislation they have told someone.
A lot of populist legislation makes sense in the common cases that don’t need to be dealt with. Loving parents who care and support their children will be able to help their child. Why would anyone be against parents helping their child. The logic ignores the edge case where the parents are abusive.
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I never understood the pushback to informing parents, and there are a LOT of people who are fully comfortable with not informing parents. If we stop informing parents on these matters, what would be next? It's not like the government takes on responsibility overall in these matters.
As I stated before, I don't have children and this policy doesn't affect me personally. I totally understand some aspects of this new change may affect some children in negative ways and that is not right, some parents can and are abusive without a doubt. I am not condoning that at all.
I am by no means an expert in this field but when people are VERY comfortable about taking major decisions away from parents, not informing etc, I get uncomfortable about it, and I don't have children!
I went to a school that in essence harbored one of Canada's worst sex offenders. Lot's of teachers, admin, principle and management at CBE all claim to have very little knowledge of the situation. It was a decision to NOT really tell parents that there were problems with this teacher, despite a mass amount of evidence and the students actually knowing there was a problem.
My thing is if the government and schools/school boards make a decision to NOT inform parents, then they sure better take 100% responsibility if and when something goes wrong.