ABCLocal.Go.com – By Gerrick Brenner
Durham – For 12-years a band and music teacher named Leslie Webster has taught at the Duke School for Children – a private kindergarten through eighth grade school near the Duke University campus. Now Ms. Webster has become Mr. Webster and at least one parent of 9-year-old is very concerned.
“It should not be a topic of discussion, especially something as harsh as a gender change,” concerned parent Jim Gossett said.
But this week, the school sent a letter home to parents saying teachers would discuss the sex change with students who were taught by Webster last year.
“Every so often a community has the opportunity to test its core values,” school officials stated in the letter, “Duke School is now facing such a test.”