Posted on 10/23/2018 1:22:17 PM PDT by Simon Green
Several parents are outraged after a drag queen spoke to their children during Rocky Top Middle School's career day. Now the principal is apologizing for not notifying parents ahead of time.
A police officer, an architect and a drag queen -- a broad range of jobs on career day, but parents say one of them has no business inside a school.
“I was pretty appalled. I was pretty surprised. It was a shock because no one was notified,” parent Jen Payer said.
Ms. Jessica is a gay man who was invited by one of her fans, a Rocky Top student, to come to career day. All of the guests talked about their job and its connection to literacy.
“This person is an adult entertainer and is talking to 12-year-old students about something that’s adult nature,” parent Heather Rogers said.
Rocky Top principal Chelsea Behanna said the event reflected the diversity of the community.
In a letter sent to parents on Monday, she said “Jessica read a chapter from 'Horrible Harry' and she used the text to illustrate the damage bullies can do, the need to always put kindness and acceptance at the forefront, and the shortsightedness of judging a book by its cover.”
Ms. Jessica says she used career day to show kids it’s OK to be different.
“I had a couple kids that were like, 'I’m gay in school and I get bullied every week and I don’t know what to do and just talking to you helped me realize that I can still be me and still be happy,'” Jessica said.
“I got messages being like thank you so much for coming to my class. I was having a really horrible week and you made my day.”
But parents said Jessica was not age appropriate. They said they should have been notified so they could make the decision to have their child attend the career day or not.
“I take responsibility for not notifying families ahead of time and apologize for any stress this has caused you and your child," Behanna said. "Moving forward, a prominent step in planning for next year will be to share the guest list for all families prior to the event.
"Should you feel like any of the sessions are not appropriate for your child, you’ll be welcome to notify us and we’ll make alternate arrangements for your child during that time.”
Meanwhile, Jessica says the negative feedback from some parents won’t stop her from speaking to kids, no matter the age.
“I want to go to more elementary schools because of this experience at Rocky Top. I’ve already reached out to a couple people about how to develop a Ted Talk,” Jessica said.
Jessica uses the stage name “Jessica L’Whor.” She said she introduced herself as Ms. Jessica during career day because she did not think her last name was appropriate for a school setting.
Mainstreaming perversion.
Defining deviancy down.
Slouching towards Gommorah.
For further reading....
https://www.pride.com/dragqueens/2018/5/21/18-funniest-drag-queen-names#media-gallery-media-18
It’s funny that the girl has no idea that she is taking a picture with her “female” replacement in the post Obama society. These “chicks” with dics are winning races, beauty contests, obtaining affirmative action status and all sorts of goodies. Meanwhile abortion is pushed as a female “human, reproductive right”. Feminism was all a lie.
Drag queens are performers,not transgenders.
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We need to start a whole new education system for normal people and just let Democrats have their own schools to teach their kids communism and homosexuality.
why is a 12-yo student on a talking-basis with a middle aged drag queen?
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That’s just ugly.
I’ve seen men in the grocery store decked out as women and a 6’2” man trying to dress and act like a woman just doesn’t work.
The only one he’s fooling is himself.
A subhuman, lowlife “drag queen” is now a “job”?
My daughter is a senior in high school.
She is on independent study this year and planning to go to college.
She wants to go to a Christian college now in hopes of avoiding Giblet Studies and Feminism 101 and all of it.
Can you find a lifetime career as a sex worker?
When an employer goes to career day isn’t that called “recruiting”?
That’s what I was wondering.where in his comings and goings did he happen across a drag queen.
I expected to read that the transgender community was upset because drag queens are not really transgender, they are cross-dressers. This guy for example still identifies as a male, and he is gay, meaning he has a same-sex attraction for men.
A trangender woman is a man who identifies as female, and if they were attracted to men, would not call themselves gay, and if they were attracted to women would call themselves lesbian.
Drag queen could be a career, you can make good money as a man dressing up as a woman, apparently.
Another is the word.... basically.
AMEN!
I’m trying to break my granddaughter from saying “BASICALLY”...
She’s 6...
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That school is walking distance from my house. So glad my kids are grown up and done with public schools.
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