I am of no help but I do know of a wonderful trans advocate here in Massachusetts, that may be able to answer some of your questions. She has publicly spoken alongside Senator Warren, too.

Her Twitter bio and handle is below.

@mimislemay Mom x 3, trans rights advocate, author “What We Will Become: A Mother, A Son and a Journey of Transformation,” opinions mine

This may be helpful. It shows the crime rates for every city/town in Ma.

Link

Yikes- Streisand effect.

Castle Rock in Marblehead.

And all the politicians, sports figures, actors, and millionaires who received large amounts of forgivable PPP money during COVID- those are just fine?

If they forgave all those loans for millionaires, I would think forgiving $10-20k in student loans for the working class, would be just fine.

I paid my students loans off and I hope others get theirs forgiven.

Edit- spelling.

I’m good.

I live in a coastal community on the North Shore. It’s a small town that’s rich in history and friendly people. We have the annual Memorial Day Parade, The Horribles Parade/Fireworks for the 4th, tree lighting and Christmas Walk each December, Festival of the Arts etc. Numerous movies have filmed here, too.

Politically, it’s blue. People have USA flags and Ukrainian flags up. When the presidential election ended the few Trump flags were taken down and put away. I’ve never seen a MAGA red hat in my community.

Local politics is a mix- with no extremes on either side. We are able to meet in the middle. We have Town Meeting with elected Selectmen and town administration. Voting is easy.

Property taxes are lower, housing costs are 600k and up. We have our own electric, harbor, recycle/dump, locally owned movie theater that was recently redone, and all of our schools are completely rehabbed or built in the past 20 years.

It’s a big boating community, beaches and docks, shopping, stand up paddle boarding and kayak rentals, restaurants, walkable, and historical. It’s about 15 min to the highway and 30-40 minutes from Boston.

The only gas station in town is for boats. But the surrounding towns have plenty of them.

And that’s why I stated- she should make an appointment with the teacher. OP also never stated her child did this repeatedly in a classroom setting.

People may consider it offensive- but it’s not obscene and it’s protected under the First Amendment.

Massachusetts passed a state law in 1974 “the Student Free Expression law.” Mass Supreme Judicial Court read this state law to incorporate the “Tinker” standard and proclaimed broad free speech for students in Massachusetts. Because Massachusetts created this state law and Mass Supreme Judicial Court expanded the meaning- students in Massachusetts have more 1A freedoms/protections than students in other states where no state laws have been passed.

Tinker Standard is Tinker v. Des Moines is a ruling from 1969- the right to speak freely and protest as long as the student isn’t disruptive.

Again- OP never said her son was being disruptive- she stated he has been disciplined for saying the statement.

I was taught to say gosh instead, because you shouldn't say g-d's name in vain. My religion also calls for g-d to be written with a hyphen instead of with an o. The meaning behind that is simply if it's written out and the paper is thrown away, it's a sin. These two habits have stuck with me- but it's not something I would forbid my own children from saying or writing- let alone someone else's child.

IMHO it's silly for a teacher to harp on this. It's not a swear word, offensive phrase or harming anyone by saying it. I would make an appointment to speak with the teacher directly.

WCVB link that explains it.

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