Parents Fume As Leaked Emails Show How Woke Massachusetts School Flubbed Trans Student’s ‘Hit List’ Threat: Report
Revelations from a records request have brought to light concerning emails detailing the response of an ultra-progressive Massachusetts school to a transgender student who compiled a “hit list” naming 40 students and teachers.
Watertown Public Schools, located in the western suburbs of Boston, opted not to expel the student involved, according to an exclusive by The Daily Mail.
The student responsible for compiling the list remains unidentified.
Email correspondences between school staff and parents also do not specify the student’s gender identity.
Matthew McCarthy, a spokesperson for Watertown stated, “We are not going to comment on anything related to the identity of the student: their name, grade, or gender. Legally, we can’t.”
Officials instead advocated for “empathy for the creator” of the list. They also emphasized the need for anti-bias training, and the “urgent” establishment of an “LGBTQIA+ affinity group.”
The school emails, obtained by conservative group Parents Defending Education (PDE), through a public records request this week, reveal alarm over the school’s lenient approach to the threatening situation.
The emails shed light on broader concerns surrounding the increasing prevalence of children identifying as trans and nonbinary, and the concerning trend of some resorting to classroom violence.
We reported earlier this month, for example, on an 18-year-old female student from Rockville, Maryland, for plotting to carry out shootings at two local schools.
The student identifies as transgender, and said she wanted to be “famous” according to a 129-page “manifesto.”
Casey Ryan, the PDE researcher who acquired the Watertown emails, criticized the public schools, stating it was “irresponsible to an alarming degree” for keeping the student’s gender identity concealed from the public.
“Parents deserve to know why their kids were targeted and potentially at risk of losing their lives,” Ryan asserted to The Mail.
A concerned individual told the outlet, “The district prioritized the transgender student’s comfort over the safety of 40 other individuals.”
School officials discovered the “hit list” on the unnamed trans student’s Chromebook. Law enforcement was promptly notified, and the student in question was interviewed.
Superintendent Deanne Galdston asserted that the child, in composing the list, was merely “expressing their frustration on paper” and had no intentions of violence in an email addressed to colleagues.
Galdston further detailed that the school had initiated a “reentry process” to facilitate the student’s return to classes.
Principal Jennifer Chen Fein underscored the necessity of addressing “anti-trans and other biased behavior” within the classroom, per other correspondence shared with school staff.
School Committee member Lily Rayman-Read advocated for understanding towards the creator of the list and proposed the immediate establishment of a space for LGBTQIA+ families.
She argued that such an initiative would contribute to the overall safety of students across various identities.
This progressive approach encountered resistance from some parents. During a school forum held that week, Superintendent Galdston described a scenario of what she termed “student shaming.”
One parent, in an email expressing concern about the school’s perceived lenient response, voiced frustration over the lack of information regarding measures to ensure the safety of the school environment and plans for reintegrating the student responsible for the list.
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