Source:  Jay Greenberg  

A Wisconsin school district has announced that it will block parents from knowing if their child declares they are transgender while in their "care," according to reports.

The Oshkosh Area School District issued a memo telling employees to not inform parents about their children "coming out" with gender confusion issues.

"[S]taff members are no longer required to seek parental consent prior to honoring student requests to be called by their preferred name and/or pronouns," the October 19 memo states.

The memo was sent to all employees from Matthew Kaemmerer, the director of pupil services for the school district.

Parents were informed of the new policy in an October 22 email from Kaemmerer.

He wrote that the new policy was put in place to "acknowledge and support each student's unique needs" after acknowledging "varying perspectives related to gender identity."

"So, if my son starts identifying as a girl at school but hides it from me, I will never know about it," one outraged Oshkosh parent told the Federalist.

"Deliberately concealing this information from parents, when those same parents would be consulted over the administration of Tylenol or permission to go on a field trip, is beyond outrageous," Meg Kilgannon, the Family Research Council's senior fellow for education studies, told the Daily Caller News.

"This one of the many reasons we are seeing sustained pushback at school board meetings across the country."

A national parents group also criticized the new policy, pointing out that authority is delegated to schools, "which then act 'in loco parentis'" while the students are there.

"Oshkosh Schools likely require parental consent to give a Tylenol to a student at school," Parents Defending Education Director of Outreach Erika Sanzi told The Daily Caller.

"What school officials fail to understand, it seems, is that parental rights do not disappear when parents send their children to school – the very reason the school has authority over the child is because of parental consent.

"Concealing information from parents, or worse, deceiving them, is entirely at odds with that delegation of authority."

This is not the first time schools have been accused of keeping parents in the dark about various issues.

Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly said in September that her sons were quizzed weekly about their gender identity without her knowledge.

She revealed in November that she was forced to move her family out of New York City due to the schools' "woke" agenda.

megyn kelly moved her family out of nyc over the city schools woke agenda
Megyn Kelly moved her family out of NYC over the city schools' 'woke' agenda

In July, an online training seminar for teachers in Missouri's Francis Howell School District became a contentious subject after Dr. LaGarrett King advised teachers how to sneak "social justice" indoctrination past parents in "Trump Country."

In Loudoun County, the school board was accused of covering up a May 28 sexual assault in order to secure passage of a transgender policy.

The school board adopted that policy in August, as Neon Nettle previously reported.

The accused assailant was found guilty in juvenile court on October 25.

Sen. Tom Cotton introduced legislation to deny federal funds to schools that "facilitate a gender transition" without "express parental consent."