Posted on 05/04/2015 7:08:09 AM PDT by wagglebee
KITTERY POINT, ME, May 1, 2015, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Parents at one Maine school are upset that children as young as six were exposed to a book promoting transgender issues, in the name of "acceptance."
Parents were not only not consulted, they were never even notified of their children's exposure to transgenderism.
Horace Mitchell Primary School read the book I Am Jazz to first-grade students. The book is about a boy who identifies as a girl from the age of two, "with a boy's body and a girl's brain." He eventually finds a doctor who tells his parents, "Jazz is transgender."
Parents began to inquire about what was being taught at Horace Mitchell Primary after children came home with questions about their own sex and wondering if they, too, might be transgender.
One mother, upset that teachers would broach the subject of transgenderism with her little boy, said the primary school ignored her complaint. "I feel like my thoughts, feelings and beliefs were completely ignored...My right as a parent to allow or not allow this discussion with my child was taken from me," she told Hannity.com.
"When I spoke with the principal he was very cold about it," the mother continued. "It's amazing how thoughtless the school has been with this whole thing."
Only after Sean Hannity made national inquiries did Horace Mitchell Primary School suggest that teachers should have told parents ahead of time.
Allyn Hutton, the superintendent of the local district, said she supported reading the book but admitted that parents should have been given advance warning about the subject matter. "We have a practice of – if a topic is considered sensitive – parents should be informed. In this situation, that didn't happen," she said. "We understand that toleration is tolerating people of all opinions."
Horace Mitchell Primary School sent an e-mail, after the fact, to concerned parents, including a link to a blog post of the school's guidance counselor, explaining their motivation was "cultivating respect."
"Some may think primary school students are too young to worry about addressing issues surrounding gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) students. Not so, experts say,” the school's guidance counselor wrote. “It’s never too early to begin teaching children about respecting differences."
Homosexual activists say they support the teaching of transgenderism to first-graders, with or without parental notification. "The staff of Mitchell School is...shedding a light on [LGBTQ] issues,” said a column in Gay Star News.
The LGBT puublication goes even further, advocating homosexual propaganda be commonplace in elementary schools across the country. "LGBTQ issues should never be classified as a 'sensitive subject,' [because] there is nothing sensitive about the way we are born. Blonde hair, brown hair, gay, straight or somewhere in-between."
Brian Camenker of MassResistance commented on the infiltration of homosexual propaganda in children's schools. "We deal with parents and teachers a lot, and the idea that teachers would do this is unconscionable. It's like the people that promote this stuff are evil. It's demonic. You can't imagine adults that would do this to other people's children, and do it with such anger, and such vitrol.”
Camenker emphasized that this is “not an isolated incident with just one, rogue teacher. This happens because the whole administrative hierarchy buys into it.”
“The new generation of educators is very, very frightening,” he said.
Famous sayings:
Get your children off the ship. Titanic 1912
Get your children out of Michale Jackson’s house. 1993
Get your children away from BoKO Haram. 2014
Get your children out of public schools. Now
The ABC FAMILY Channel is loaded with transgender crap directed toward children. Most TV shows have homosexual undertones, if not actually blatant. It’s practically unavoidable any more.
And “jazz is transgender”? I wouldn’t consider that a positive attribute. Jazz is music’s answer to Tourette’s Syndrome or ADD.
“Get YOUR children out of the government indoctrination centers - NOW!!”
Really... how far do public schools have to go to convince good parents to home school their kids or send them to a religious school that aligns with their own belief systems? I understand that it’s expensive, but sending to public schools is child neglect.
“sending to public schools is child neglect.”
Agreed.
In our church, we consider sending children to the public schools as spiritual child abuse and church charges for discipline would be filed against the parents. We have a ministry fund for families that can’t afford to send their children to private school and aren’t capable of homeschooling.
So... There aren’t any children that have been given over to the state for indoctrination.
...”Sexualizing our youngest children is a major accomplishment by the Left. Children this young have no idea and aren’t curious about sex. I do not believe that the LGBT crowd have ANY sexual thoughts at 2, 3, 4, or even 5. But it always sounds good to Big Media, doesn’t it? My heart breaks for the kids.......parents aren’t even given a chance to protect them from the Gaystapo when the Gaystapo controls Education.”...
Exposing children who are to young for sexual detail is to traumatize them and distort their normal development. It is no less sexual “grooming” than what pedophiles do. Parents who do not rise up to stop this are hurting their own children.
...”The homosexual Nazis are examples of adults who were sexualized early (warped) so had the ability to do the most inhumane things to others, including women and children and babies. You see it with the pedophile Kinsey, too, absolutely no compassion for babies being brutalized. You see it with John Maynard Keynes-—a sodomite who had homosexual orgies which included young boys—and thought it was “love” to rape and even castrate little boys.”...
I knew about the Nazis but I did not know about Keynes, whose economic ideas are idolized by the left. Perhaps that is not the real reason they idolize and push him as a great someone.
The parenting response should be to teach your children what they need to know in response to the perverts in the school opening up that issue. The kids need to know that a boy thinking he is a girl is as mentally ill as a boy thinking he is a puppy.
The next response is to decide between homeschool and simply continuing to respond to this liberal activist school’s transgressions.
Now that's amazing — that's exactly how "tolerance" works, too! Great job, superintendent of schools!
“Parents were not only not consulted, they were never even notified of their children’s exposure to transgenderism.”
NOR SHOULD THEY BE. Public schools are funded by GOVERNMENT MONEY, they don’t owe jack to parents.
...therefore I have NO PROBLEM with this kind of garbage going on. The REAL QUESTION is just who are these parents and do they really have NO CHOICE but to subject their kids to government institutions?
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There are school situations so horrendous that it would be better for the child to receive no schooling whatsoever than to be exposed to this evil. Illiteracy and innumeracy can be fixed. Adults do it all the time, even among those illiterates who who have spent 13 years in the government's K-12 single-payer camps. The psychological damage done by sexualizing young children very often can't be fixed.
1) Unless a parent can ransom their child by paying extra in the form of homeschooling and private schooling expenses the child **will** be forced to attend the government school. A quick Google search on the words, “Truant and Police” will confirm this.
2) Regardless....The taxpayer is definitely forced to pay for it. If they refuse the government will simply take their property. If they are sufficiently resistant they risk prison and even death. Even if a person were to commit suicide to avoid school taxes, the government will take the school taxes from their estate.
No, public schools are funded by WE THE PEOPLE.
The government works for us, not the other way around.
...therefore I have NO PROBLEM with this kind of garbage going on.
Both odd and disturbing.
The REAL QUESTION is just who are these parents and do they really have NO CHOICE but to subject their kids to government institutions?
Do SOME of the parents have a choice? Certainly. However, it is incorrect to assume that all do. There are many families who are unable to send their children to private schools or to homeschool them because of financial or other reasons.
The solution is to break the back of the teachers unions and provide vouchers for those families that do not want to use public schools.
The other thing this situation demonstrates is one of the major flaws in the libertarian mindset. They understand the inherent problems with the federal government while assuming that some sort of nobility exists at the levels of state and local government. The fallacious theory that more control at the state and local level is the panacea for America's woes is every bit as problematic as doing nothing at all.
That may well rank in the Top Ten dumbest posts ever put up at Free Republic.
” The solution is to break the back of the teachers unions and provide vouchers for those families that do not want to use public schools.”
AZ is trying to dismantle the public school system with vouchers and magnet schools. The teachers union is going insane right now, so it’s working well.
The teachers ARE the problem, they are the ones running things and they have no real accountability to anyone.
The magnet/charter schools are MURDERING the regular public schools here in academic performance. The unions have no viable argument against this, so they are merely lashing out, spewing their usual venom. This is causing the majority of the general public to hate the unions. A win-win thus far.
They owe everything they have to parents and taxpayers
“NOR SHOULD THEY BE. Public schools are funded by GOVERNMENT MONEY, they don’t owe jack to parents. ...therefore I have NO PROBLEM with this kind of garbage going on.”
Maybe dumb to you, but people answer to who pays them, and for public schools, it is THE GOVERNMENT.
Ask yourself this, if public schools actually answered to PARENTS, why do we read about kids getting EXPELLED because they cut out a piece of paper in the shape of a gun? Which PARENT is demanding this?
On a larger scale, ask yourself this: Did PARENTS (who you seem to think control schools) really demand that California jump head-first into Whole Language Reading (look it up) in the 1980s when it was PERFECTLY CLEAR that kids would no longer learn to read? Did parents want to see an ENTIRE GENERATION of kids not learn reading (which is what happened), due to whole language?
While I have to admit that my life, too, would have been much simpler if I thought that schools gave a crap about my views (other than smiles and lip-service), I’m still VERY GLAD that I NEVER trusted the education of my kids to them.
I’ll concede that there might be a handful of parents that cannot afford alternatives to public schools, but I’ve worked with enough people to know that is rarely the case.
In the VAST MAJORITY of cases, the question that parents ask themselves is whether they can afford alternate means of education while maintaining their lifestyle. In those case, the answer is usually NO. So yes, if the family wants to live 25 miles away from where the breadwinner works, and wants to maintain the ability of each kid to have their own bedroom, and wants a house that can give a match to the Jones’s - then no, they are stuck with public schools.
But for families that put their kids first (unfortunately a minority of the ones that I work with), they realize that a two bedroom apartment (in a not-so-nice neighborhood) for a few key years is NOT the end of the world, if it means that their kids are instead given a chance to PROPERLY learn math and reading.
So, in most cases, the concept of not being able to afford something is more related to lifestyle choices than anything else.
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