Posted on 11/04/2016 4:58:05 AM PDT by Lewis Stone
A new guide released to teachers in Canada outlines ways that teachers can make classrooms more inclusive.
In one such proposal, it is suggested that students be referred to “comrades” instead of boys and girls. A second idea encourages drag shows so that kids can study the “performance of gender.”
The Alberta Teacher’s Association (ATA), the top union for teachers in Alberta, Canada released the 152-page document called, “Prism Toolkit for Safe and Caring Discussions.” The guide is meant to assist teachers in creating an LBGTQ-inclusive environment in the classroom.
The guide is intended to create “welcoming, caring, respectful and safe learning environments for children and youth,” and asks teachers use gender-neutral language like “spouse” rather than husband and wife.
Another activity recommended for students is titled, “Drag 101.” The activity encourages students to “examine the performance of gender, specifically the exaggerated feminine aspects of dressing and acting in drag,” and compels students to invite local drag queens to come into the classroom and to organize a drag performance at the school.
Another activity suggested is “Gender Swap,” where students select a piece of writing that is typically strongly associated with a particular gender, but one that is not the gender they identify with.
“Students are asked to perform their selected piece and complete an analysis,” the guide states; giving examples of well known literary classics and how they may change if the roles were reversed.
Additional activities in the manual include “Queer Music,” where teachers select music composed by artists who are “sexual or gender minorities.” Another activity called, “Gender Bending Fashion,” where students are “challenged to create fashion that transcends gender and fully incorporates the masculine and feminine in all their pieces,” was also present in the book.
A “gender unicorn” is used as a way of “understanding gender” in the guide. The five-question survey is meant to show that there are a range of options for gender and sexual identities. The gender unicorn is seen here on Twitter:
“It is deeply offensive of the authors [of the guide] to unequivocally redefine what qualifies as the ‘religious and moral beliefs’ of others,” Theresa Ng, a parent activist who writes a blog called, “Informed Albertans” said. “Whether the ATA chooses to acknowledge it or not, this IS a religious issue for many teachers, parents and students in this province,” she continued.
The ATA contends that the internal guide would assist teachers in creating a safe and inclusive environment for students, pushing back against critics who say the new guidelines do not honor or value alternative perspectives on the issues.
As per http://explorer.opensyllabusproject.org/
Plato’s Republic and Communist Manifesto are in the top three most assigned college texts globally and in the top four in the US in ALL major fields of study combined. They’re probably the top two in certain schools and/or fields.
(edu, msm, law)?
Sounds like the book THE JUNGLE by Upton Sinclair in which a man is hit with all that is wrong in American society UNTIL he comes upon some people who call him “Comrade”.
Instead of overthrowing the Government and replacing it with a socialist-communist one, all the book did bring in changes to the pure food laws.
“Ivan Denisovich”
While not required reading, I read it on my own while other boys were reading about teens and hot rods.
I don’t understand it but in my teen years (1959-1966) I preferred more adult oriented books than teen novels. I even managed to get the librarian at the Carlsbad NM schools to issue me an adult card. I was 14 at the time.
In those years, reading was the only thing that kept me sane.
Four Strong Winds!
Want a breath of fresh air, from a time long-past?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjfTDPhMdTk
The DOE needs to be disbanded, employees fired, all telephone and internet lines ripped out and the buildings boarded up.
Hopefully, Trump will be a man of action who sees the central socialist government as evil as most of us here do.
Of course, this also means that a boy can “identify” as an adult man, and have sex with other men, or anything else.
NAMBLA endorses Hillary Clinton.
The CPUSA was outlawed in 1954. If she is a member, call the FBI.
Every time I read where a Communist meme, phrase, or just one word, becomes an acceptable thing in this beloved nation of mine ....
(this is gonna sound bad)
The only remedy that seems to be the most viable, but most ugly, since We The People, do not have the power to re-enact the Anti-Communist laws of the 1950’s, is to “put them to the blade”.
Who publishes their newspaper, Toad?
Our kids are deprived, they don’t know schools got more than two sexes...I guess we got to tell our kids that you can be a banana peel if you want to be that gender... :-)
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