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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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1 posted on 08/29/2024 11:11:57 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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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)
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To: Olog-hai

I’ll call my son and daughter anything I want. You Vermontsters can KMA.


3 posted on 08/29/2024 11:15:06 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Liberals are FOS. The greatest threat to "democracy" is "immigration". Stupid morons.)
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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)
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To: Olog-hai

not your kids, stfu


5 posted on 08/29/2024 11:15:17 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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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)
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To: Olog-hai

They are not your children so BUTT OUT Vermont Department of Health


7 posted on 08/29/2024 11:16:32 AM PDT by butlerweave
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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.)
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To: Olog-hai
Oh my, I guess this would no longer be considered inclusive, lol.
9 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 )
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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])
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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)
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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
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To: Olog-hai
"Parental units," "offspring," "consumables."

They want us to speak like the Coneheads from Saturday Night Live.

Regards,

13 posted on 08/29/2024 11:20:00 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Olog-hai

They are children. Kids are baby goats.


14 posted on 08/29/2024 11:20:40 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Olog-hai

Hey, Vermont, I’ve got a much better idea: how about you stop telling people what they can and cannot say.


15 posted on 08/29/2024 11:23:32 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Olog-hai
Prepare them for possible "transition", see?

We need war crimes trials.

16 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. )
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To: butlerweave

Well said.


17 posted on 08/29/2024 11:25:24 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Olog-hai
Vermont can F off.

Them, and the horse they rode in on.

18 posted on 08/29/2024 11:26:30 AM PDT by politicket
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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?


19 posted on 08/29/2024 11:26:38 AM PDT by kawhill (kawhill)
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To: Olog-hai

I hope the good people of Vermont tell the Dept of Health how they feel about it.


20 posted on 08/29/2024 11:28:11 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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