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Originally Posted by Liam-

Counsellors and teachers are there to educate and care for the children while they’re in school, if a child is having thoughts and feelings they don’t feel safe or comfortable sharing with their parents for whatever reason, then children should be told that they can open up to people they feel comfortable with, just sounds like you want children to suffer in silence to me

You're just twisting things , I never said a child should suffer in silence. And yes there is instances where children confide in teachers & counsellors ...as they can't speak to their parents, or they might be getting abused by their family etc. But that's not what I'm saying.

I'm talking about discussions about gender & sexuality, there seems to be this thing now where a teacher will know more about the kid than the parent themself...and that's wrong. Surely the teacher should encourage both parent & child to talk to eachother .