Distrusting Parents Should ‘Take Your Children Elsewhere,’ Maine Teacher Admonishes

Donated LGBT books are displayed in the library at Nystrom Elementary School on May 17, 2022 in Richmond, California. Thousands of LGBT books from Gender Nation have been sent to 234 elementary schools in nine California districts. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

If parents don’t like how public school teachers instruct their children, they should take them and leave, the head of a local teachers’ union in Maine said during at an official community meeting.

Third-grade teacher Erin York, president of the Hermon Education Association (HEA), passionately addressed parents during a Hermon School Committee meeting on Oct. 3.