Disaster Teacher instructs 10-year-old to 'make sure this email is deleted' after private communications about student's gender identity in Olympia, Washington - Jennifer Knight, a teacher at Centennial Elementary School, wrote in an email to the 10-year-old girl, “I would take you into my home any time you need.”


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Jul 13, 2023
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A teacher in the Olympia School District was privately communicating with a 10-year-old student about her gender identity, and even invited the girl to her house and suggested she set up a private email account and delete messages, “…otherwise when your mom looks, you will be outed instantly.”

Alesha Perkins, who has put a spotlight on the policies of the Washington school district obtained thousands of emails and documents as part of a public disclosure request and turned them over to the unDivided podcast.

According to host Brandi Kruse, the emails from the summer to the fall of 2022, is between Jennifer Knight, a teacher at Centennial Elementary School, and one of her 5th-grade students.

In an email to school staff on April 28, Knight said that the student, a biological girl, would now be using he/him/they/them pronouns.

“Crew Knight," the teacher wrote referring to the class, "has a student who has recently changed their name and pronouns in school and this email is to inform you of that change because you work with this child in some capacity.”

The student “…has opened up to me these past few months and has just requested this change. Please understand that this change is his right and is not to be questioned. Please also know that they are not going by this change at home, and we will not be discussing this with his family.”

The district’s policies allow for teachers and staff to conceal gender identity and other related issues from a student’s parents, similar to the state policy which reads, “…in general, school staff should not share a student's transgender or gender-diverse status, legal name, or sex assigned at birth with others, who could include other students, school staff, and non-school staff.”

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Knight sent the student private emails which included statements such as, “You need to get a personal email set up so we still have a way to communicate.”

“I would take you into my home any time you need.”

“Make sure this email is deleted too when we are done bc otherwise when your mom looks, you will be outed instantly.”

“I kept emailing you but I was worried your mom interfered before you saw my messages.”

According to Kruse, while the emails were going back and forth with the child, Knight sent an email to the student’s mother to discuss concerns about the child’s mental health but neglected to mention the minor’s struggles with gender dysphoria.

A May 9 email to the student’s mother asked for an “in-person informal conference” because “I am concerned about her mental health – her self-esteem and how she feels about herself is low and I think meeting in person and talking together would help Taylor feel supported. I don’t have all the answers, but I was hoping we could chat and see if we can brainstorm some ways to support her.”

The following month, Knight was discussing how the student should be concealing the emails from her mother in addition to inviting the minor to stay at her home.

Perkins told Kruse that the student’s family has moved her out of the district and that the child has gone back to identifying as a girl. Knight's employment status with the district is currently unknown.

In a statement to Kruse, Susan Gifford, the district’s executive director of communications and community relations, reiterated its policy which allows for concealing gender identity from parents but added, “Staff are expected at all times to maintain appropriate boundaries with students and follow the Washington Code of Professional Conduct and district policies and procedures related to staff/student communications. In instances when there is reason to believe those expectations are not being met, we investigate and take appropriate personnel action. We do not comment on personnel matters nor students' private information.”

The school district is known for its radical activism, and most recently fourth and fifth-grade students at Lincoln Elementary were taught graphic sex-ed curriculum by Planned Parenthood, which included depictions of vaginas and penises, as well as intersex private parts, without their parents being informed.

Additionally, due to shrinking enrollment, the district planned to cut music classes it felt promoted “white supremacy culture” and “significant institutional violence.”

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In 2022, the district’s school board also appointed Talauna Reed, a Black Lives Matter radical and Antifa ally, to fill a vacant director position.

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At a July 2021 rally in Olympia, Reed said “f*ck the police” and told rally attendees, “It amazes me how those pigs can sit over there to watch us peacefully talk about what we want [to] change in this state. It amazes me. And they don’t pay attention until we tear sh*t up. So, before I get started, tear everything up in this f*cking city until they do what we want them to do.”

Students in the district were also previously segregated by race.
 
Oh look, that thing that never happens is gonna happen again.
Oh, but it isn't happening, chud. You see, we moved the goalposts on what counts as child grooming, and the newspeak definition no longer considers this to be grooming. So it isn't happening, bigot.
 
an adult teacher was privately chatting to a girl in grade 5 over emails
instructing them to keep it secret, and was trying to lure them into their home
there is no dressing up or gender blabla fuck all that
i sincerely hope this is just a spotlight article that ends in an investigation
but from the sounds of the article, they dont ever disclose the result of that information to anyone asking
anything being done about this is totally cut off from comment, so we wont know either way unless someone else makes it public
 
Reminder. Olympia, Washington is the home of the Evergreen State College and most teachers there got their degrees from Evergreen. The kids there are screwed the moment they enroll.
You know when you put it that way it makes the fact lucas werner creeped around olympia and wanted to become a teacher all the more horrifying. It really makes you think and raises even more red flags about the education system in washington

That said, this loon is definitely grooming this kid and knows full well what shes doing is neither ethical nor legal. People who aren't doing illegal and unethical shit don't tell a 10 year old to delete evidence of what they're talking about, nor do they offer to let somebody elses 10 year old stay at their house behind their parents backs. That woman needs to get looked into very closely. No fucking way this is the first time shes done something like that
 
Oh, but it isn't happening, chud. You see, we moved the goalposts on what counts as child grooming, and the newspeak definition no longer considers this to be grooming. So it isn't happening, bigot.

Wasn't that similar to what Chief Wiggum said?

Marge: "Do I have to be dead before you'll help me?"

Chief Wiggum: "Well not dead.... dying, the knife has to be standing on it's own"
 
You know when you put it that way it makes the fact lucas werner creeped around olympia and wanted to become a teacher all the more horrifying. It really makes you think and raises even more red flags about the education system in washington

That said, this loon is definitely grooming this kid and knows full well what shes doing is neither ethical nor legal. People who aren't doing illegal and unethical shit don't tell a 10 year old to delete evidence of what they're talking about, nor do they offer to let somebody elses 10 year old stay at their house behind their parents backs. That woman needs to get looked into very closely. No fucking way this is the first time shes done something like that
Here is the thing though, most of the teachers in Western Washington are like this. I grew up around the area during the Bush years. The teachers there don't want to help kids become productive members of society. They want to raise activists and revolutionaries. I remember as a kid my teachers pressuring me and my classmates to register as Democrats the moment we turned 18. "You wouldn't want people to think less of you do you?" Is what they would tell us. They would also give extra credit to kids who attended left-wing protests while punishing the kids who refuse to go. Do you really expect anything less from a state that has a statue of Lenin at their "peace park" and names many of their streets and buildings after socialist activists?
 
Here is the thing though, most of the teachers in Western Washington are like this. I grew up around the area during the Bush years. The teachers there don't want to help kids become productive members of society. They want to raise activists and revolutionaries. I remember as a kid my teachers pressuring me and my classmates to register as Democrats the moment we turned 18. "You wouldn't want people to think less of you do you?" Is what they would tell us. They would also give extra credit to kids who attended left-wing protests while punishing the kids who refuse to go. Do you really expect anything less from a state that has a statue of Lenin at their "peace park" and names many of their streets and buildings after socialist activists?
I honestly feel so grateful none of my teachers did this shit. Two of my favorite teachers in highschool were complete political opposites yet not one of them pushed their views on us or tried to influence us politically in any way.
 
Reed said “f*ck the police” and told rally attendees, “It amazes me how those pigs can sit over there to watch us peacefully talk about what we want [to] change in this state. It amazes me. And they don’t pay attention until we tear sh*t up. So, before I get started, tear everything up in this f*cking city until they do what we want them to do.”
The cops sit over there and watch you not break the law, and only act when you do break the law. What a stunning revelation. Truly, an enlightened thinker. A sagacious mind at work here, fellas.
 
Seconding @PaladinBoo
I bet this woman is childless. I won't be surprised if this movement by progressive female teachers to troon out their students is a mixture of malformed mothering instinct for the children they never had and the perennial upper middle class feminine drive for social status. She needs a trans pupil whose soul gender identity she can save, or she's nothing at the next teachers' conference.
The woke evangelism of the last few years is the culture of urban Western WA, and has been for generations. The struggle sessions that have been making the news post 2020? Those were happening 20 years ago in these places, and they were work-mandated "anti-oppression" training. These people are as exhausting and obnoxious to be around as a fundamentalist Christian, they will drag every topic of conversation back to their politics and how fucking superior their progressivism makes them to everyone else. Nothing of value would be lost if an asteroid hit Puget Sound.
 
Oh, but it isn't happening, chud. You see, we moved the goalposts on what counts as child grooming, and the newspeak definition no longer considers this to be grooming. So it isn't happening, bigot.
Omg so true! Not only that but what about the Catholic Church? I mean those heckin CHUDS always talk about the grooming in schools, but what about the Catholic Church? I know that this may seem completely irrelevant to the discussion frienderino, but what about the Catholic Church? Yikes.
 
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