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School Told to Call Kids ‘Purple Penguins’ Because ‘Boys and Girls’ Is Not Inclusive to Transgender
National Review ^ | OCTOBER 8, 2014 1:50 PM | Katherine Timpf

Posted on 10/08/2014 2:38:38 PM PDT by tje

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 Lincoln Public Schools.

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

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TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: academicbias; culturewar; education; indoctrination; lincolnpublicschools; luke172; mentaldisorder; nebraska; purplepenguins; sexpositiveagenda; smashthepatriarchy; trannykids; transvestitism
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Home school folks..
1 posted on 10/08/2014 2:38:38 PM PDT by tje
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To: tje

Remove your children from the Government Run Indoctrination Centers.


2 posted on 10/08/2014 2:39:54 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: tje

Insanity is the Biggest threat to the US not ISIS or Ebola or Illegals etc etc


3 posted on 10/08/2014 2:41:24 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Darteaus94025

How much more absurd can this world get? So now we can’t say boys and girls to children, because we might offend the sensibilities of liberals who believe in the 56,different genders nowadays???? Really???


4 posted on 10/08/2014 2:41:59 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: tje

They have places for people like that. They are called INSANE ASYLUMS!


5 posted on 10/08/2014 2:42:05 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: tje; GeronL; wagglebee

Where is the edict to teachers “Don’t molest the students!”???


6 posted on 10/08/2014 2:42:56 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: tje

Steve Joel needs to find another line of work - one that involves a padded cell. This is child abuse and the purveyors need to be sued and hounded until this insanity is removed from the schools.


7 posted on 10/08/2014 2:43:05 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: tje

Gay and Feminist Nazis. Case Closed.


8 posted on 10/08/2014 2:43:59 PM PDT by Dallas59
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No matter how much of this crap they ladle out the boys will still act like boys and the girls will still act like girls.


9 posted on 10/08/2014 2:44:14 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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How gay. Purple penguins? For a time there was a false story going around about a gay penguin “couple”... turned out to be a complete fabrication.


10 posted on 10/08/2014 2:44:53 PM PDT by februus
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To: tje

Don’t do it.


11 posted on 10/08/2014 2:46:00 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: tje

Satire?

5.56mm


12 posted on 10/08/2014 2:46:06 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: tje

I would have SWORN this was a satire post. God help us all.


13 posted on 10/08/2014 2:46:42 PM PDT by deoetdoctrinae (Gun-free zones are playgrounds for felons.)
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To: tje

I will avoid this insensitivity be calling all public school educators “jackasses.”


14 posted on 10/08/2014 2:46:44 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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Does that school board have any idea how offended the turquoise rhinoceroses of the world will be given this purple penguin reference?
15 posted on 10/08/2014 2:46:59 PM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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But when 5 year old johnny dresses up in a tutu and demands to be called a girl...they had better correct him/her/it.


16 posted on 10/08/2014 2:47:31 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: tje

Taking a cue from Lady Gaga and her “Little Monsters.”


17 posted on 10/08/2014 2:47:35 PM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: M Kehoe

That’s what I thought; but it’s National Review.


18 posted on 10/08/2014 2:47:38 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert (She accomplished nothing: should have stayed at home and baked cookies)
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To: tje

Long past time to abolish government schools.


19 posted on 10/08/2014 2:48:18 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: kaehurowing

Jackasses everywhere are insulted. Apologize immediately!


20 posted on 10/08/2014 2:49:16 PM PDT by Mygirlsmom (Obama Legacy: Bush's fault. Next guy's problem.)
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