Gross Parental Rights Violations Exposed by Liberty Counsel in Northern Idaho

SANDPOINT, ID - A school administrator was caught colluding with community activists to recruit students of the Forrest M. Bird Charter School to join a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA), while intentionally hiding this information from their parents. Principal Mary Jensen admitted the secrecy under which school staff and others had operated. Some of the same adults had even facilitated kids meeting off-campus at a local library under the supervision of "supportive" third parties. Jensen stated that they wanted to be "a progressive school on that sort of thing, but we did not want to be 'in-your-face'," so parents could not prevent their children from attending. She states "we're keeping it kind of on the down low," because "this is North Idaho," and "kids who wanted to participate in the club did not necessarily want their parents to know."