Posted on 05/30/2023 9:24:37 AM PDT by Morgana
Parents in the Midwest are speaking out about a controversial book discussing a child's desire to transition genders - after it was pulled in several states but remains in others.
'Call Me Max,' a picture book penned by a transgender man, tells the story of a child who identifies as transgender - and is currently being read aloud to kids as young as four in Minnesota, public school officials in the state have confirmed.
Released in 2019, the 32-page story depicts a child who struggles with the gender they were born with, and asks teachers to call them by a boy's name.
Since its publication a few years ago, it has been banned in schools in several US states such as Texas and Florida, after inciting protests and anger amongst outraged parents.
The book has now resurfaced on shelves in the Great Lake state - spurring one parent, 47-year-old LaDawn Severin, to slam officials at a recent school district board meeting - footage of which is now going viral.
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'I’m just gonna read one page,' the Minneapolis mother with six kids aged 17 to six years old told Osseo Area Schools last Tuesday while producing a copy of the book she claimed was recently given to first-graders in the school district.
'You can figure out who’s been distributing these to elementary teachers in our district,' Severin continued, before reading an excerpt she and parents before her have found issue with.
In it, author Kyle Lukoff writes that when a child 'grows up to be transgender,' adults who originally called the child a boy or a girl 'made a mistake.'
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Whatever happened to Dick, Jane and Spot???
Or MacGuffy Readers?
no more reality, only identifiers.
our loss of reality is the only way marxism can seem prosperous.
teach your children well.
in what state do they have a child identifying as a cat?
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Today, it would probably deserve an NC-17 rating.
When I was little, I was thrilled to get a box of 64 crayons and two coloring books.
Nowadays kids are disappointed if they don’t get the latest iPhone..
Times have changed..
“a box of 64 crayons”
I remember those! It had a crayon sharpener in the back! We loved those as kids!
Yup. Those were the bees knees..
Burnt sienna would be BIPOC now, and “flesh” would be cancelled because: white skin bad.
ANOTHER REASON HOMESCHOOLING IS TO BLAME FOR THE STATE OF EDUCATION:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4156986/posts
If you cede the primary school battlefield to the left (which is EXACTLY what homeschoolers do) you allow them to convert the rest of the public to their leftist ideas.
Stand a fight. Don’t cower in your homes.
You will lose at the ballot box, and at the universities.
This nation is finished.
Don’t worry about these books. In the public schools none of the kids can read
Total BS. All this public school crap started well before homeschooling gained so much popularity, for good reason.
In a community I lived in the school board instituted a deviant sex ed curriculum against the wishes of the entire community, the advice of the superintendent, and the testimony of a psychologist of the damage it would do to the kids.
All the community outrage and action did NOTHING to stop it. And this was in 1992.
Homeschooling did not cause the problems. The problems caused the homeschooling.
I also notice that you do not go after private schools, Christian schools, and Catholic schools, all of which have been around longer than homeschooling by far. And what about all the public school teachers who enroll their own kids in private schools because they know how bad the system is and how little can be done to stop it?
You are really out of touch with reality about the cause and effect.
And homeschoolers are still bucking the system and standing up to the schools and DSS.
So why are you defending perversion? Because public schools have long since ceased to educate and they now only indoctrinate. And you want people to sacrifice their kids education and moral character, and even physical safety, for what exactly?
If you think that sending kids to public schools is going to change anything, or that parents speaking out and demanding accountability and action is going to change anything, you are seriously out of touch with reality.
In the 1950’s, the Parent Teach Association (PTA) where I lived, was a good organization. Parents and teachers were, together, determined to do good work.
Along came a leftist in sheep’s clothing. That disquise being a Ph.D. from Columbia, in New York City.
The board of education was sturdy, having been the same determined folks since the 1930’s; but some members were getting old in years, and so there might be an opening - a crack in the armor.
The leftist had a wedge: “credentials from a distinguished college.” And that wedge had a shine that stopped some people from looking deeper.
One of the things that a deeper look would reveal, was the house that the leftist purchased. She installed wood panels over the windows, so that you could not look directly outside; but there were gaps that let in some light.
In a short time, she presented grand visions of what the school system should be. She quickly took advantage of the town’s leadership who also imagined their increasing income streams, as she argued for higher taxes.
Of course, she had no care for the local farmers, and like dominos, the farmers sold their land in order to pay for the higher taxes, or the farmers quit altogether. Up to that moment, the area had been a very nice territory with abundant fruit from faithful labor.
With the money that she pushed for, the leftist pushed for a new “middle school,” and construction produced a large single story roundhouse style WITH NO WINDOWS wherever students would be or sit. Inside the building, THERE WERE NO WALLS for the classrooms - rather, sliding, heavy vinyl “curtains.”
So, the leftist uprooted the local economy and created chaos.
During which time period of the leftist’s rise of power, the community of parents and teachers was divided, as some fell to their knees in worship of the concept: “’experts’ with ‘expertise.’” “Best and the brightest.” “The system is the answer.” (Now days: “Best practices.”) Word bling.
While the people of common sense, fell away from attending meetings because of the C.R.A.P. word choices used by the left, designed to smash whatever obstructs their unlimited communist-socialism.
Footnote: The old guard leader of the school board, and advisor for the PTA, passed away. His wife remained in the school system, doing what she could for us, and then she retired by continued to her end as a tutor. Great, wise, sturdy and loving people. Patriots with standards of decency, honor, and integrity.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2874
From Volume I, Translator's Preface, 2nd para.:
-ht ebb tideShe was truthful when lying was the common speech of men;
she was honest when honesty was become a lost virtue;
she was a keeper of promises when the keeping of a promise was expected of no one;
she gave her great mind to great thoughts and great purposes when other great minds wasted themselves upon pretty fancies or upon poor ambitions;
she was modest, and fine, and delicate when to be loud and coarse might be said to be universal;
she was full of pity when a merciless cruelty was the rule;
she was steadfast when stability was unknown, and honorable in an age which had forgotten what honor was . . .
Yes, it’s necessary for parents to stay involved in the schools, and aware of what’s being taught.
All 3 of our kids went through public school, good universities, and onto excellent careers.
My wife and I were involved. We called out the leftist teachers and inappropriate curriculum. We met with principals and teachers.
We fought. We did NOT hide in our home and surrender the school to the leftists.
Nobody is *hiding* in their homes.
There is no redeeming or reforming the public school system. It needs to be abolished completely.
Kids can get a far better education at private schools or homeschools.
This world did just fine until the graded public education system we have today was instituted in the early 1900’s, and it’s been downhill since then.
We don’t need public schools and considering the literacy rates, the graduation rates, and the drop out rates of the public education establishment, the kids would n ot be any worse off.
The ones who want an education will see to it that they get one and the ones who don’t won’t, even if you chain them to the desks and force teach them.
Since the schools have stopped teaching and turned to indoctrination facilities for the government to crank out good little mindless drones, shutting them down is the ONLY answer.
Why are you so adamant about supporting government indoctrination centers? Are you a socialist?
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