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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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I can't decide if these kids will become sissies or panzies?
1 posted on 10/09/2014 1:36:53 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
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“I can’t decide if these kids will become sissies or panzies? “

The correct answer is confused....


2 posted on 10/09/2014 1:52:03 AM PDT by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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Some fifth-grader is standing there, grinning, and writing up a fake note to the teacher and signing mom’s signature to it....claiming that he’s been reassigned as a “he-she-it”, and by lunch...the school principal will be calling the school district manager to ask for instructions on how to handle a he-she-it. This will get sent onto the state guy, and the state board by nightfall.


3 posted on 10/09/2014 1:56:46 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Citizen Zed

Perfect time to beat the living sh-t out of whoever thought this up and implemented it. It should be done in front of the kids and when it’s over you look at the kids and say, “ There are WINNERS and LOSERS in life and this idiot is a LOSER. Don’t grow up to be a loser.


4 posted on 10/09/2014 2:01:56 AM PDT by maddog55
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To: Citizen Zed

Surprise surprise. Gender Spectrum, located in the bay area, provides important legal services as well as trainers. In other words they are a made up group of lawyers ready to sue anyone for anything and shake down taxpayers.


5 posted on 10/09/2014 2:04:44 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Citizen Zed

What a bunch of PC codswallop!

What is a “gendered space?”


6 posted on 10/09/2014 2:06:34 AM PDT by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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To: Citizen Zed

Nebraska? GTFO.


7 posted on 10/09/2014 2:06:49 AM PDT by Rodamala
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+1

“Reason No. 8376452783194 to homeschool”


8 posted on 10/09/2014 2:09:17 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Citizen Zed

Okay that’s it....Close it down.


9 posted on 10/09/2014 2:11:32 AM PDT by Bullish (You ever notice that liberalism really just amounts to anti-morality?)
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To: Citizen Zed

Yeah, let’s change what’s been since the beginning of time. Let’s insinuate that women give birth to oddly colored water fowl, simply so we don’t offend a few screwed up kids. This is what happens when you don’t allow the mentally ill to be locked up and instead give them jobs so they can spout their craziness to rub off on impressionable young children.


10 posted on 10/09/2014 2:13:09 AM 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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To: Organic Panic

How about we stop funding this lunacy and en masse withold paying local school taxes?

I said it a million times and I will say it again, elections matter... from POTUS down to the damned township dogcatcher. Be active and run for School Board... or support conservative School Board candidates. The leftist are fundamentally transforming the nation... by brainwashing YOUR little purple penguins!


11 posted on 10/09/2014 2:17:08 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Citizen Zed

After listening to the vegan cry about snow the chicken I thought the weird stuff of this week couldn’t get weirder and here comes this!


12 posted on 10/09/2014 2:17:51 AM PDT by RginTN
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Purple penguins? That’s soooo offensive to the native penguins all across the global community spectrum. Where’s their progressive sensitivities?


13 posted on 10/09/2014 2:20:38 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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“Purple Penguin” is a racist codeword.
14 posted on 10/09/2014 2:27:43 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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Despite controversy, Lincoln Superintendent Steve Joel has declared that he is “happy” and “pleased” with the training documents.

This person should be made an example...as a lesson to others

15 posted on 10/09/2014 2:31:15 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: Rodamala

So Nebraska is turning to ‘purple’? Who knew?
A little parental outrage is in order here.


16 posted on 10/09/2014 2:37:17 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Citizen Zed

One of the music production boards I read (for the Reaper DAW audio software) is largely a refuge from PC BS. A miracle considering it’s all musicians.

One guy when on a spaz “I’m OFFENDED! fit because of the name. and as a joke, had “Mortal” under the name of each poster. It offended him because his brother was terminal. He made demands, kicked screamed and generally acted the lib to the fullest. So management appeased him.

they changed “mortal” to “Human Being with Feelings”.

We haven’t seen him since. These idiots need that treatment and that attitude thrown at them every time they open their communist freak mouths.


17 posted on 10/09/2014 2:51:16 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Kozak

Comrade should do nicely for all genders and pseudo-genders.


18 posted on 10/09/2014 2:53:36 AM PDT by ruesrose (The Anchor Holds)
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To: Cowboy Bob
On a 2006 immigration raid in Grand Island "That raid changed my life," said Joel, who grabbed headlines when he declared that immigration agents would not be allowed on school property.
When it was all over, he said, a third-grade student sent him a poster on which she'd drawn a picture of him. The caption read: "This is Dr. Joel. He keeps kids safe."
That's why he's in education, he said.
From here.

Openly defies the law and is rewarded with a job.

19 posted on 10/09/2014 2:54:51 AM PDT by raybbr (Obamacare needs a death panel.)
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To: Rodamala

Would you have ever imagined this happening in Nebraska? Those New Yorkers and Californians are moving en masse taking there degenerate minds with them.


20 posted on 10/09/2014 3:07:47 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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