Talk:Great Hearts Academies

Great Hearts Transgender Policy
A "controversies" section was added Jan 2017 to memorialize Great Hearts policy regarding their transgender students. Sources have been cited. Official corporate documents were provided.

Username "GreatHeartsAcademies" has deleted the entire section in Feb 2017 claiming it is "inaccurate."

The policy is accurate. The school policy is in force across all Great Hearts campuses had has resulted in the dismissal of at least 2 students.

Below is the full text of the "Controversies" section:

AthenianGadfly (talk) 15:55, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Policy on Transgender Students In June 2016, the Great Hearts corporate Board of Directors adopted a policy that requires their transgender students to align all school activities with their biological sex, rather than the student's gender identity.[1] The student's participation in extra curricular clubs, sports, and the use of facilities (restrooms, et. al.) all must align with the sex of the student as printed on his or her birth certificate. This requirement extends further to Great Hearts' gendered hair cutting standards, school uniform requirements, "girls line/boys line" classroom management, and daily pronoun usage.

Great Hearts' policy on transgender students is strongly opposed by local LGBT organizations and transgender advocates.[2] Opponents to the policy argue that Great Hearts has chosen to ignore clear guidance from the medical and psychological communities[3] regarding how best to support their transgender student population. Instead, by demanding the student's birth sex be the sole consideration with respect to the student's gender, Great Hearts is advocating for a form of conversion therapy.

Great Hearts argues that, since the civil rights of the transgender population is not yet a matter of settled law in the United States, the Board of Directors will define school policy in line with current statutory guidance and use the birth certificate as the official document that defines a student's gender.[1]

By adopting this policy on transgender students, Great Hearts Academies is in violation of guidance delivered in May 2016 by the US Department of Education and US Department of Justice regarding the treatment of transgender students in schools.[4]

References ^ Jump up to: a b "Great Hearts Arizona Policy on Transgender Students" (PDF). Jump up ^ "Great Hearts Transgender Policy". Great Hearts Transgender Policy. Retrieved 2017-01-22. Jump up ^ Olson, Kristina R.; Durwood, Lily; DeMeules, Madeleine; McLaughlin, Katie A. (2016-02-26). "Mental Health of Transgender Children Who Are Supported in Their Identities". Pediatrics: peds.2015–3223. doi:10.1542/peds.2015-3223. ISSN 0031-4005. PMC 4771131Freely accessible. . Jump up ^ "U.S. Departments of Education and Justice Release Joint Guidance to Help Schools Ensure the Civil Rights of Transgender Students | U.S. Department of Education". www.ed.gov. Retrieved 2017-01-22.


 * I removed the 'controversies' section and explained the rationale in an edit summary--this is original research and is inadequately sourced. Unless coverage by multiple WP:RELIABLE sources is provided, this is an example of advocacy, rather than an addition of content that notes coverage either by the media or objective publications. I subsequently removed a lot of promotional content from the page, as well. It's clear that the article has long been overseen by accounts associated with the academies. 2601:188:1:AEA0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 18:30, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Undue controversies?
The article presents five controversies which collectively take up more than half the text of the article. That seems out of balance. Novellasyes (talk) 18:31, 9 July 2021 (UTC)