Public school students have a right to privacy
Every Dallas citizen I know desires to honor and respect every student, especiallyElliot Yoder, because every person is an image bearer of the holy and sacred, and therefore shall be treated with dignity and respect. A recent Dallas School Board meeting reflected this concern for all students residing within the district.
Unfortunately, the current policy doesn't respect the privacy concerns of all students and therefore must be changed. Students in the school district are children and need their privacy protected accordingly.
Article 16 in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) expressly states children have a right to privacy. Therefore, if students do not wish to see nor be seen by a student of the opposite anatomical gender in locker rooms or restrooms within school district buildings, that is within their right to privacy.
In an article in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, legal scholars Benjamin Shmueli and Ayelet Blecher-Prigat write, "Children need physical privacy in order to develop their individuality, their independence and their self-reliance, as well as for the sake of their creativity and other attributes important to personal development."
It is especially critical that the Dallas School District and Oregon Department of Education stand for and create public policy that protects every student's right to privacy. This is not about one group of students against another group of students, just as it's not about transgendered students against non-Public school students have a right to privacy (OPINION) | OregonLive.com:
