Posted on 04/13/2010 9:29:14 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
A school superintendent in New Jersey says a "misunderstanding" led an elementary school teacher to mandate that all students -- including young boys -- dress as women in a now-canceled fashion show to honor Women's History Month.
Maple Shade Township School Superintendent Michael Livengood said the show, which had been scheduled for Friday at Maude Wilkins Elementary School, has been canceled.
"I wish the letter had been clearer and had been worded differently," Livengood told FoxNews.com, referring to a letter sent home to the children's parents last week informing them of the assignment. "But it was a misunderstanding. It was meant to demonstrate students' awareness in women's roles, and along with that, their changes in fashion over time."
In a 16-page packet sent home with students, teacher Tonya Uibel alerted parents that all students in her third grade class would have to participate in the activity, since it would be graded as an "end of unit" assignment.
"If your child is a young man, he does not have to wear a dress or skirt, as there are many time periods where women wore jeans, pants and trousers. However, each child must be able to express what time period their outfit is from. Most of all, your child should have fun creating their outfit and learning about how women's clothing has changed!"
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We finally pulled our children from public schools. No more, never again. Unbelievable what is happening in our country.
You should see how much fun it was to withdraw your children from public school...these progressives are NUTS!!!
This sort of nonsense is the reason why.
Why high school rolls around, I am going to have to spend beucoups bucks to pay tuition at a private school, but it is money well spent.
That was before Kevin Jennings and Planned Parenthood targeted that age group for sexualization
And just what part of the State Curriculum did this teacher's plan fall under?
You’d have to be nuts to leave your cbhildren in public schools these days.
Wow! A teacher needs it spelled out in detail that it is probably NOT a good idea to have boys come to school dressed as women! OMG!!!! How will we ever survive the rampant stupidity of the people of this country?????
I’ll bet the predators at GSLEN would LOVE to see some third-grade boys dressed up like women.
“When I was eight years old, I had never heard the word homosexual, let alone had a clue what it meant. “
Why, you must be homophobic! Off with your head!
Gov. Christie is cutting funding to the schools. This is an excellent reason for him to cut even more.
by the way for those of you in Maine you need to STOP their plan to make boys and girls and guests use the same restrooms!! Can you imagine a man visiting the school using the same bathroom as little girls?
So, let me get this straight (i.e correctly). In New Jersey, they want the boys to dress like girls and in Mississippi girls want to dress like boys, and in some way in both instances, our school system is involved with it....I see. I guess reading, writing, math, history, science, music and art aren’t taking up the whole day and homework isn’t requiring the time commitment it used to, and we’re placing WHERE on standardized tests? What AM I missing here?
Were they also going to wear "blackface" for Black History Month?!
The packet also included suggestions of how students may dress, including fashions from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s like bellbottoms, poodle skirts and cheerleader outfits. Photographs of fashion icons like Twiggy and Madonna are also included.
This might? be fun for teenage girls, not 3rd graders, who at 8-years-old have no knowledge of fashion history (and why should they, at that age?) No, I think this was an attempt at liberal indoctrination, not so slyly slipped into "women's history month". The teacher is not very smart, because he/she picked the wrong age group, which is why this I think this had nothing at all to do with *history*.
Stupid morons. I have two sons. Where would I get “women’s clothes” to fit them? I sure as heck wouldn’t go out and buy them if I was idiot enough to entertain this idea.
What did they have the kids do for Black History month?
LOL!! I didnt know what homophobic meant either!
There's lots of other info under the "Data Universe" link at the top. Enjoy.
Its a fashion show for the Kevin Jennings crew. What could be better than third graders in drag. Fabulous!
What did they say?
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