When is it OK for boys to be girls, and girls to be boys? [Schools adjust to boys being girls/etc]

SFgate ^

[ChessMan]

When is it OK for boys to be girls, and girls to be boys?

Many kids want to look and act like the other sex. For some, it's a phase; for others, it's not. Parents and schools are adjusting.

Ilene Lelchuk, Chronicle Staff Writer

Sunday, August 27, 2006

Park Day School is throwing out gender boundaries.

Teachers at the private Oakland elementary school have stopped asking the children to line up according to sex when walking to and from class. They now let boys play girls and girls play boys in skits. And there's a unisex bathroom.

Admissions director Flo Hodes is even a little apologetic that she still balances classes by gender.

Park Day's gender-neutral metamorphosis happened over the past few years, as applications trickled in for kindergartners who didn't fit on either side of the gender line. One girl enrolled as a boy, and there were other children who didn't dress or act in gender-typical ways. Last year the school hired a consultant to help the staff accommodate these new students.

"We had to ask ourselves, what is gender for young children?" Hodes said. "It's coming up more and more."

Park Day's staff members are among a growing number of educators and parents who are acknowledging gender variance in very young children. Aurora School, another private elementary school in Oakland, also is seeing children who are "gender fluid" and hired a clinical psychologist to conduct staff training.

[Twinkie]

If you don't like my "rant", then don't read it. A lot of private schools are not worth a spit either.

[SoftballMominVA]

Why not? I agreed with much of it--just pointed out that in this case, this bit of silliness is at a private school.

About the only private schools that are consistently good are the Catholic ones--not every school in every case, but overall, pretty good places to get an education.

[Madame Dufarge]

Kind of knocked my sister off her axis ;-)

My father was a high school champion athlete who had 5 daughters and no sons, so he encouraged any of his daughters who had any athletic ability to pursue it (it was the best he could do given what he had to work with, and baby sister had plenty - came within a hair's breadth of being state champ).

She came to the same realization your friend did, too bad.

[bill1952]

While I did move from Pa to Florida in 81, (and it is a real sea change in everything) I still own property in Pa, and in fact, I am vacationing there right now.

Right next to Valley Forge. - I am dismayed at how poorly Pa now stacks up vis a vie most of Florida; how much it has slid to the left.

Still, a boy en fem would be quite an oddity here.

Where are you? Keep up the fight. We need you.

[USS Alaska]

"And there's a unisex bathroom."

When we were growing up, we had a unisex bathroom and couldn't wait to get rid of it.

So this is san francisco progress?

[bert]

How about this.... At Ross N Robinson Middle School the school year began with gender segregated classes. Boys in together and girls in together. The experiment is hoped to eliminate the distraction where boys and girls sit side by side.

[Reactionary]

Yeah. Liberals are "adjusting" America to their nihilistic fantasies. This has nothing to do with "schools."

The usual propaganda from the glorious sexual proletariat, you know. Made possible by a degenerate university near you.

[gidget7]

Just because it is a private school, and stupid "can't grasp the difference between what you feel and what is real" parents, are paying for it, DOES NOT MAKE IT ACCEPTABLE! It is child abuse,a nd the place should be shut down, and the parents arrested.

[metmom]

One thing this teacher said that stuck in my mind was at rest time. Girls always play with each others hair so when they sit on the mats for nap or rest teach would encourage the boys to play with each others hair.

She was bragging about how educated she was and how she taught teachers to teach crap like this.

Instead of that, why don't they have the girls learn to make obnoxius noises with their armpits, like boys do? Why the emphasis on making boys more like girls and not girls more like boys? Sounds like discrimination to me.

[stands2reason]

"Creo" is short for creationist. I was referring to the creationist/evolutionist threads.

I'm sure the forum is quite impressed with your academic acumen, but you are full of it, like most academics.

I never called myself an academic, I simply posted some facts. You don't refute them, you instead resort to insults. If that's the way you want it, sobeit.

[stands2reason]

Of course. I never said the school was acceptable. Please read my posts.

[gidget7]

I didn't mean to imply that you did find it acceptable, I was just venting. Not at you but at the school and the parents, and the whole reeking agenda! It's no wonder they fight every law to keep our children safe, they want to be free to pervert them. Laws to lock folks up who abuse children, would stop their whole purpose for living.

They are all lower than scum. If that sounds un-pc, or hateful, that's be cause I do hate what these selfish, self important pieces of crap stand for, and what they are doing to Americas youth.

[wintertime]

What needs to be asked is why is this happening? and what can be done to stop it.

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It is happening because liberals have government education by the neck.

What can be done about it?

Answer: See that government schooling completely disappears.

How: Government schools need two things: Students and money.

Parents must remove their children from government schools. Make whatever sacrifice necessary to make this happen. Then go to the polls and vote NO to government school money. Rally your neighbors to vote no to school spending. Campaign for candidates that favor privatization of universal K-12 education.

[wintertime]

What needs to be asked is why is this happening? and what can be done to stop it.

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It is happening because liberals have government education by the neck.

What can be done about it?

Answer: See that government schooling completely disappears.

How: Government schools need two things: Students and money.

Parents must remove their children from government schools. Make whatever sacrifice necessary to make this happen. Then go to the polls and vote NO to government school money. Rally your neighbors to vote no to school spending. Campaign for candidates that favor privatization of universal K-12 education.

[goodnesswins]

LOL.....how true!

[darkangel82]

Lower than scum. That's the same thing I call them.

[wintertime]

What needs to be asked is why is this happening? and what can be done to stop it.

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This particular school is private, but I bet that 99% of its principal, board of directors, teachers, and parents are government schooled.

The liberal government school indoctrination has won. Their graduates are producing private versions in their private schools.

If you possibly can, homeschool.

[mplsconservative]

I understand your concerns about public schools. That is the main reason we moved from the inner-city to a rural area. What a DIFFERENCE! The public schools are great in our little town. I know, because I am in them volunteering every week.

The day starts with the Pledge of Allegiance and singing God Bless America. The first time I experienced this, at the back of the classroom, I shed a few happy tears, because this kind of stuff was still alive in this country I love.

I'm a city person, convenience-wise, but moving out to the hinterlands was the best thing we have ever done.

BTW, my son will be entering 4th grade, and he's reading at 8th grade level. He's surrounded by books and a mother that loves to read, so go figure.

[Tired of Taxes]

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[demkicker]

Schools have always jumped on fads. Here's another one, only it's probably the most damaging of all.