Posted on 02/03/2021 5:57:18 AM PST by Red Badger
This week, Seattle Public Schools (and other area schools) are teaching students in kindergarten to pick their gender, combat a so-called hetero-patriarchal society, and disrupt the nuclear family structure. The lessons are part of the Black Lives Matter at School movement.
The radical, political agendas on gender identity and the family structure have some parents livid. These topics are not age appropriate.
Hoping for an alternative viewpoint to BLM talking points? There are none presented to students and it’s by design. Indeed, SPS believes them to be bigoted.
Seattle Public Schools will spend this week promoting Black Lives Matter lessons to students. Teachers are encouraged to offer their opinions. The intent? To push a liberal agenda. I stopped by the @FaulknerFocus with @HARRISFAULKNER for analysis. pic.twitter.com/k3bCqOEuJW
— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) February 2, 2021
BLM lessons teach gender identity You wouldn’t normally associate Black Lives Matter with issues on gender identity. But one of its founders, Alicia Garza, believes the two to be intertwined.
In the SPS lessons for Pre-K-3 grade students, children are introduced to a number of radical concepts, none of which they would even understand.
“Black queer and trans folks bearing a unique burden in a hetero-patriarchal society that disposes of us like garbage and simultaneously fetishizes us and profits off of us is state violence,” Garza writes to these young students.
All the lessons and resources center on 13 guiding principles, which include being queer and trans affirming. They tell young children to do “the work required to dismantle cis-gender privilege and uplift Black trans folk.”
Pick your gender — or none at all Teachers are specifically informed that their “students need to see how problematic our binary notions of gender are.”
With that in mind, students must reject what their doctor or parents say about their biological gender. Teachers are asked to read this to their captive students:
If our doctor and our parents assign us a gender and it matches what we feel inside, then we can say we are cisgender. However, we may look like what society says a girl or boy should look like, but inside, we feel something different than just boy or just girl, we are somewhere in between, we can say that we are gender-expansive or transgender.
Another document shared with area teachers gives an idea of the best way to present complex ideas to young students.
“Everybody has the right to choose their own gender by listening to their own heart and mind,” Laleña Garcia writes in talking to young children about the Guiding Principles of the Movement for Black Lives. “Everyone gets to choose if they are a girl or a boy or both or neither or something else, and no one else gets to choose for them.”
Imagine how confusing this might be to a kindergartner.
Rantz: Seattle Public Schools teaching radical BLM, anti-police lessons to K-5 students
Cutting out father BLM had taken heat for its cynical views on the nuclear family. The lessons to children are no less disconcerting.
We are committed to disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, and especially “our” children to the degree that mothers, parents and children are comfortable.
This principle exposes children to a concept of family that completely cuts out fathers. And if you’re looking for alternative perspectives, look elsewhere in Seattle.
Alternative perspectives are racist SPS once hoped teachers would provide students with alterative opinions on controversial topics. But that time has passed.
I asked SPS how schools will ensure students hear viewpoints beyond political Black Lives Matter talking points. A spokesperson for SPS pointed me to this section of their Strategic Plan.
Generally speaking, the alternative – “the competing point of view” — has been the predominant viewpoint for several hundred years in the US and much of the western hemisphere. In other words, it has been the status quo. Seattle Public Schools is working to dramatically improve academic and life outcomes for students of color by disrupting the legacies of racism in our education system.
In other words, students will not be exposed to viewpoints competing with BLM. Those viewpoints have somehow created “legacies of racism” at Seattle schools.
It’s not so much that everyone who find all or even any of these policies objectionable. It’s that they shouldn’t be presented alone, sans context or without an alternative perspective. That’s not educating kids. It’s indoctrinating them.
Parents who want a more balanced approach to any of these topics should provide it on their own.
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What if a kid says he is Batman?
What then?
= = =
Tell him he probably meant Batwoman.
How far we have sunk into the depth of insanity!
Stop this bus, I want to get off!
We have freedom of religion in this country.
These are public schools.
Not only evangelical Christians, but Orthodox Jews, Muslims, Chinese family religion, Sikhs, Mormons and others oppose this notion. I doubt even secular humanists are lock step on it.
These children are not prisoners. A school can’t unilaterally teach this notion without parents going along. The parents are ultimately responsible here unless it’s a stealth campaign.
It like the trannies in libraries. I oppose it. But what sort of evil parent is taking their kid to that?
The severe mind-deforming sickness worsens...
Are the parents ok with this? If they aren’t stopped, they won’t stop. Anyone who goes along with this is abusing their children.
It’s Seattle, Jake, forget about it...................
All of this leads to destruction of the family, culture, and nation. How the hell do you enforce the anachronism of extended families? And yet they want to destroy marriage, children, and let the elderly die in nursing homes. Sounds like Eugenics to me.
Seatle? I thought they burned that place down.
Apparently they need more gasoline for their Molotov Cocktails, but Biden shut down the drilling and pipelines.............
“A concept of family” that doesn’t include fathers?
Just take a look at any inner city to see just how well that has worked out for young men.
I’ve read that same thing. Black people from Africa tend to be hardworking, at least everyone whom I’ve met.
It cost them a bundle of money to get to the U.S. and they rarely get to see their families back home.
Plus, they might be doctors in Africa, but end up driving cabs in North America because their degrees aren’t recognized.
Taxpaying dollars at work.
If this isn’t child abuse, non physical child abuse doesn’t
exist.
This is opening pandoras box. It’s like the Leftists want no absolutes, anything goes.
“The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world. Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether you live or die is an absolute. Whether you have a piece of bread or not, is an absolute. Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter’s stomach, is an absolute.
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromise is the transmitting rubber tube.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
And Republicans screamed for public schools to open again.
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