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Stop Calling Your Kid ‘Son’ or ‘Daughter,’ Vermont Tells Parents
Cybercast News Service ^
| August 28, 2024
| Craig Bannister
Posted on 08/29/2024 11:11:57 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The same state that introduced terms like “person who produces sperm” into the classroom is now telling the general public to stop referring to their children as sons and daughters.
“The language we use matters!” the Vermont Department of Health declared Wednesday in a social media post titled “Inclusive Language for Families”:
“The language we use matters! Many families and students are getting ready for the new school year. Equity in the classroom is an essential piece of a productive and healthy learning environment.
“When talking about family, it's important to use terms that cover the many versions of what family can look like.”
The post then directs the public to stop saying “daughter” or “son” and replace those terms with the “gender neutral” descriptors “child” or “kid.” In order to avoid hurting the feelings of people like “incarcerated parents,” the post says to replace “household members” with “family members.”
And finally, the post says to remove “extended” from the term “extended family.” …
(Excerpt) Read more at mrctv.org ...
TOPICS: Education; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: culturerot; homosexualagenda; vermonsters; vermont
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posted on
08/29/2024 11:11:57 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Good gravy stop it people! I would have to tell the state to go to hell.
2
posted on
08/29/2024 11:14:39 AM PDT
by
Trumpette1954
(Live laugh love!cper)
To: Olog-hai
I’ll call my son and daughter anything I want. You Vermontsters can KMA.
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posted on
08/29/2024 11:15:06 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Liberals are FOS. The greatest threat to "democracy" is "immigration". Stupid morons.)
To: Olog-hai
To quote our VP candidate, they can go to hell.
4
posted on
08/29/2024 11:15:17 AM PDT
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
08/29/2024 11:15:17 AM PDT
by
BigFreakinToad
(Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
To: Olog-hai
So they should call them “it”?
6
posted on
08/29/2024 11:16:28 AM PDT
by
DallasBiff
(Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
To: Olog-hai
They are not your children so BUTT OUT Vermont Department of Health
To: Olog-hai
They will keep pushing until they get their civil war.
8
posted on
08/29/2024 11:17:20 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(I think women should get out of women's sports before they get hurt.)
To: Olog-hai

Oh my, I guess this would no longer be considered inclusive, lol.
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posted on
08/29/2024 11:17:49 AM PDT
by
OttawaFreeper
("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
To: FlingWingFlyer
I knew a guy who called them “vermin.”
10
posted on
08/29/2024 11:17:59 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: Olog-hai
I have a name for the Vermont Department of Health....
Scum.
11
posted on
08/29/2024 11:19:23 AM PDT
by
cgbg
("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
To: Trumpette1954
seems like it’s headed that way in any case.
12
posted on
08/29/2024 11:19:42 AM PDT
by
xoxox
To: Olog-hai
"Parental units," "offspring," "consumables."
They want us to speak like the Coneheads from Saturday Night Live.
Regards,
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posted on
08/29/2024 11:20:00 AM PDT
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: Olog-hai
They are children. Kids are baby goats.
14
posted on
08/29/2024 11:20:40 AM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: Olog-hai
Hey, Vermont, I’ve got a much better idea: how about you stop telling people what they can and cannot say.
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posted on
08/29/2024 11:23:32 AM PDT
by
No name given
( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: Olog-hai
Prepare them for possible "transition", see?
We need war crimes trials.
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posted on
08/29/2024 11:23:35 AM PDT
by
Salman
(It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
To: butlerweave
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posted on
08/29/2024 11:25:24 AM PDT
by
No name given
( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: Olog-hai
Vermont can F off.
Them, and the horse they rode in on.
To: Olog-hai
At least some right-minded people there tap their sugar maple trees and make really good maple syrup. I wonder what those people would call their sugar bush trees?
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posted on
08/29/2024 11:26:38 AM PDT
by
kawhill
(kawhill)
To: Olog-hai
I hope the good people of Vermont tell the Dept of Health how they feel about it.
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posted on
08/29/2024 11:28:11 AM PDT
by
bk1000
(Banned from Breitbart)
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