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School Told to Call Kids ‘Purple Penguins’ Because ‘Boys and Girls’ Is Not Inclusive to Transgender
National Review Online ^ | 10-8-2014 | Katherine Timpf

Posted on 10/09/2014 1:36:53 AM PDT by Citizen Zed

A Nebraska school district has instructed its teachers to stop referring to students by “gendered expressions” such as “boys and girls,” and use “gender inclusive” ones such as “purple penguins” instead.

“Don’t use phrases such as ‘boys and girls,’ ‘you guys,’ ‘ladies and gentlemen,’ and similarly gendered expressions to get kids’ attention,” instructs a training document given to middle-school teachers at the Lincoln Public Schools.

“Create classroom names and then ask all of the ‘purple penguins’ to meet on the rug,” it advises.

The document also warns against asking students to “line up as boys or girls,” and suggests asking them to line up by whether they prefer “skateboards or bikes / milk or juice / dogs or cats / summer or winter / talking or listening.”

“Always ask yourself . . . ‘Will this configuration create a gendered space?’” the document says.

The instructions were part of a list called “12 steps on the way to gender inclusiveness” developed by Gender Spectrum, an organization that “provides education, training and support to help create a gender sensitive and inclusive environment for children of all ages.”

(Excerpt) Read more at m.nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: lincolnpublicschools; nebraska; purplepenguins
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To: Citizen Zed

Well ones thing is certain. The educators are Marxist $HITHEAD$ and should be called such.


21 posted on 10/09/2014 3:14:31 AM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: Citizen Zed

Just call them serfs, because that is what you are raising.


22 posted on 10/09/2014 3:18:31 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Steve Joel needs a new name. Rather than DR or Superintendent his new name should be Dr Unemployed Banned From-Education. There’s him a new hyphenated last name too so he’ll feel good about himself LOL.


23 posted on 10/09/2014 3:23:14 AM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: Citizen Zed

How’s about we call them “children” or “kids”


24 posted on 10/09/2014 3:45:51 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Citizen Zed

How about calling them, hey idiots,come over here


25 posted on 10/09/2014 3:45:52 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: ballplayer

If it has a penis, it’s a boy. No penis, it’s a girl. Use the word ‘idiots’ for today’s uneducated educators.


26 posted on 10/09/2014 3:58:43 AM PDT by abclily
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To: Citizen Zed

Language becomes meaningless. Welcome to 1984.


27 posted on 10/09/2014 4:17:06 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Citizen Zed

Who in the world would send their boys and girls to such a screwed up school? Oh...the people of Nebraska, who voted for Kathleen Sebelius as governor.

They should line up as “dumb and dumber.”


28 posted on 10/09/2014 4:26:42 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: txrefugee

“Oh...the people of Nebraska, who voted for Kathleen Sebelius as governor.”

Uh, is it dumb or dumber to not know that Sebelius was governor of Kansas?


29 posted on 10/09/2014 4:33:53 AM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
As a teacher myself, I cannot even fathom being instructed to do as these "educators" have been told. If my boss were to come to me and instruct me to do the same with my seniors, I would probably suggest he check himself into a psych ward.

What I find difficult to believe is that it seems as though all the teachers agree with this ridiculous bovine feces and support it 100% in these cases.

I can GUARANTEE that the teachers in the school at which I teach would GUFFAW at such a policy, mocking the person/persons who devised such a ludicrous plan. Not ALL teachers share the marxist worldview.

30 posted on 10/09/2014 4:36:54 AM PDT by EnigmaticAnomaly ("With the demonrats in charge, we find ourselves living in a kakistocracy.")
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To: txrefugee; All

Just line them up by “Innies” or “Outties”

The next generation of kids is going to be majorly screwed up - well, at least the public schooled ones.


31 posted on 10/09/2014 4:39:59 AM PDT by PenguinM
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To: EnigmaticAnomaly

I sympathize. As a teacher, you have to teach kids that words have meaning and clear identities. How can you do that if you can’t call a boy a “boy” and a girl a “girl”? How can you do that if you have to dance around one of the most fundamental concepts of language and grammar — pronouns? If this sticks, the next generation of kids is going to be stupid and uneducated.


32 posted on 10/09/2014 4:40:53 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Citizen Zed

See latest “South Park” episode.


33 posted on 10/09/2014 4:45:18 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Citizen Zed

Geez, didn’t you read the piece? They are going to be purple penguins. Totally insane.


34 posted on 10/09/2014 4:46:09 AM PDT by all the best
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To: Citizen Zed

Government school is child abuse. That means yours, too. This is in freaking Nebraska.


35 posted on 10/09/2014 5:04:46 AM PDT by tnlibertarian
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To: Citizen Zed

So if I were entering high school today, I could simply claim I’m feeling female today and start using the girls locker room for gym class. O brave new world...


36 posted on 10/09/2014 5:05:43 AM PDT by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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To: Citizen Zed

Right up there with Redskins.


37 posted on 10/09/2014 5:08:29 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ($$$$$$$$ DEFUND OBAMA! $$$$$$$$)
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To: Politicalkiddo

I am laughing so hard right now. “Oddly-colored waterfowl”. I love it.


38 posted on 10/09/2014 5:24:12 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: yldstrk

NO! They are penguins and they are purple! Why can’t you understand that???


39 posted on 10/09/2014 5:27:50 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Citizen Zed

For school administrator. How about Dicks and Dickless


40 posted on 10/09/2014 5:29:59 AM PDT by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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