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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.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: lincolnpublicschools; nebraska; purplepenguins
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To: Citizen Zed
“Always ask yourself . . . ‘Will this configuration create a gendered space?’” the document says.

Remarkable. How can he tie his shoes or walk across the street if his mind is always full of PC crap like this?

41 posted on 10/09/2014 5:37:49 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: EnigmaticAnomaly
Usually bad things happen when school board instead of promoting up through the local rank and file competent principles to Superintendent they seek out Liberals from places such as Ivy Leagues States. Nation wide searches doesn't as such produce better results and many times simply moves another districts problems to a new location where the administrator is hired.

The first thing on the Supers agenda usually is promoting Common Corpse, Block Scheduling, and the beloved year around day care program called Year Around School. Oh I forgot the insane Pre-K program. Separate kittens or puppies too early and your a villian. Separate a child {Toddler barely walking through 5 yrs old} from parents and it's called educational enlightenment.

The elementary schools I attended had no Kindergarten. First - third grade went home at 1:30. Fourth -eighth went home at 2:30 daily. High school went till 3:15. Kids were waiting on school buses in actual daylight and even high schoolers were home by 4:30. We were taught by teachers, we retained what we were taught, we finished text books by mid May, and we still had lots of time for recess. Today kids ride up to an hour and a half in some cases one way to mega/consolidated schools.

42 posted on 10/09/2014 5:43:30 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

Katherine Timpf needs to channel some Ross Perot here.
Surely whoever approved and ordered this bs has a name.
The irresponsible parties must be named publicly and held to account. Letting them hide is a big mistake.

Parents need to jam their elected school board members with the following questions:
Is it the policy of the elected school board that children should be disengendered? Was that debated at an official board meeting? When? Who voted for approval and who opposed? In what way is gender confusion helpful to children? Based on what evidence? Why harm over 99% of children for the presumed “benefit” of the less than 1% transsexuals? Will you personally work to end this ridiculous policy? What steps will you take and when?


43 posted on 10/09/2014 5:51:51 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: maddog55

Sounds like a good DirectTV ad.


44 posted on 10/09/2014 5:55:13 AM PDT by petercooper ("I was for letting people keep their health insurance, before I wasn't". --- Barack Obama)
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To: Citizen Zed

And we are always hearing some one whining and asking : why does there have to be war?

That garbage is enough to make any one ready to fight.


45 posted on 10/09/2014 6:05:58 AM PDT by ravenwolf (nd)
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To: maddog55

Perfect time to beat the living sh-t out of whoever thought this up and implemented it.


Exactly.


46 posted on 10/09/2014 6:07:33 AM PDT by ravenwolf (nd)
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47 posted on 10/09/2014 6:13:19 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Citizen Zed
"The instructions were part of a list called “12 steps on the way to gender inclusiveness."

This is what happens when you negotiate with evil... When we lay aside our principles and allow the Godless and queers to takeover the care and feeding of our children....well, we get exactly what we deserve....

48 posted on 10/09/2014 6:19:37 AM PDT by unread (Rescind the 17th. Amendment...bring the power BACK to the states...!)
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To: ravenwolf

“Perfect time to beat the living sh-t out of whoever thought this up and implemented it.
Exactly.”

But no one will. And so it continues...


49 posted on 10/09/2014 6:21:05 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: Citizen Zed

Teachers are public servants, they will do as instructed just as will the police or any other professional who went to college to learn to become any thing from a flagman to an accountant for the Government.

If this abomination is to change, the voters will have to change it, but most likely people will keep on voting the way they have been and it will keep getting worse, if possible.


50 posted on 10/09/2014 6:25:14 AM PDT by ravenwolf (nd)
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To: Citizen Zed

What if you feel like you are more of a pink Penguin? :-)


51 posted on 10/09/2014 7:49:39 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Citizen Zed

I got involved in one of these gender complaints once when I was co-teaching a college freshman English course with a Lesbian wymen’s rights activist.

She filed a complaint with the English department because at the opening session of the course, I made some statement that used the phrase ‘boys and girls’. She didn’t complain about the ‘boys’ reference, but told the head of the department that the use of the word ‘girls’ was misogynist and showed my male chauvinism.

Needless to say, the class was split and we didn’t teach together thereafter.


52 posted on 10/09/2014 8:57:12 AM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one... what's your plan?)
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To: Politicalkiddo

*oddly-colored.


53 posted on 10/09/2014 5:13:54 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo (Power always thinks.. that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. -John Adams)
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