Before you get excited: I think this family were legal immigrants.

In June 2022, two Centennial Elementary School students in Olympia, Washington, disappeared. Their parents, Indian immigrants, had quietly driven them out of state, to Oregon, before they eventually decided to fly back to their former home country. No one in Olympia has seen the children since.

"My daughter mentioned that Tia had been gone from school for a couple of weeks," said Jess Davis, whose daughter was a classmate of Tia's, one of the family's children. (I have changed most of the names in this report to respect requests for anonymity.) "We were at an ice cream social that our neighborhood has at the end of the school year, and I was thinking about them." So she decided to text Tia's mother to ask why they weren't there. The mother "got back to me and said, 'Sorry, we are out of town,'" Davis explained. Evidently, the family was still hiding and hadn't yet left the country. The mother texted Davis again, "and said, 'Can I call you?' And she dumped it all out."

Tia, who was ten, had apparently just gone through a social gender transition at school, encouraged by her teacher. Olympia School District is one of at least 1,000 districts nationwide that have enacted secrecy policies for kids who express gender dysphoria; so for months, Tia's parents had no idea what had happened. When they finally learned of their child's secret identity, they came into conflict with a public school system that had embraced gender ideology's radical notion that parents who don't unquestioningly affirm their child's gender choices pose a danger to that child. Tia's parents' protests were, consequently, treated as illegitimate.

"Mrs. A [Tia's teacher] is stalking my daughter," Tia's mother told Davis. "What is she going to do to my daughter?"

Paper copies of the following e-mail messages, among others, from Mrs. A to Tia's school e-mail address were anonymously placed in the mailbox of local mother and activist Alesha Perkins in the early summer of 2023. Most were sent after Tia's parents had taken their children to Oregon.

"Make sure this email is deleted too when we are done bc otherwise when your mom looks, you will be outed instantly."

"I kept emailing you but I was worried your mom interfered before you saw my messages."

"I was also serious I would take you into my own home anytime you need."

"You need to get a personal email set up so we still have a way to communicate!"

"I'm worried you're going to leave and I will never be able to be reached."

When Perkins publicized the e-mails on Facebook, they sent shockwaves through the community. "This is probably the most disturbing thing that I've seen because it is on such a level of coordinated deception that so many people have to play a part in, including young children," Perkins told [un]Divided, a local journalism website.

So I don't meant to unduly attack teachers, but I will repeat again: Teachers take 6 or so credits of basic, 100-level child psychology. I'm sorry to say this, but of all the "learned professions," teachers are the least learned. Their degrees are the easiest and least competitive.

And yet, these 22-year-old gals, who have nothing to their name but a thin paper credential and almost zero actual education, decide that they're Basically Just Like Psychiatrist M.D.'s and should be allowed to practice child psychiatry without a license.

I say this because the left is the most obsessed with credentials: If you're a teacher, your credentials extend to teaching children stuff that only children do not know yet.

I'm so tired of teachers saying they're "the experts." The experts in what? The multiplication tables?

We keep seeing people with very basic degrees telling parents -- most of whom have more advanced education than the teacher do* -- that they're the "experts" who have unquestionable training in deciding what sex your kid should be and which gay porn comic books he should be beating off to.

• Yes, I know, it doesn't matter what a parent's level of education is, he should still decide what his kid will learn about sex or "identity." I'm just pointing this out because teachers keep making the "I'm credentialed, I'm an expert" argument.

You're credentialed? Oh, you mean have the lowest possible level of BA? But you're more of an expert than doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc.?

Oh -- and also, you're 22 years old and know absolutely nothing about anything?

Below, what I believe is a different case of an Unlicensed Free Range Child Psychiatrist practicing her healing arts on someone else's kid.

Dr Jordan B Peterson
@jordanbpeterson

Prison for the teachers enabling this. Seriously. It is absolutely inexcusable cult behavior.