Posted on 02/19/2015 2:15:27 PM PST by lowbridge
For as long as anyone at Franklin High School can remember, young men and women have marched in pairs into the school’s graduation ceremony.
The band strikes the first note of a processional song. Then come the students two by two — girls draped in green robes, boys in black. For the whole event, the girls sit separate from the boys on opposite sides of a wide aisle.
Five other Seattle high schools graduate in a similar way, with gender-specific gowns. At least one school in Shoreline and two in the Lake Washington School District do, too.
But Franklin will start a new tradition this year, one in which transgender students and others who don’t fit the typical male and female roles won’t have to pick a side.
The school’s instructional council voted last month to switch to a more gender-neutral ceremony. While the details are still being ironed out, the students and teachers who pushed for the change see it as a victory.
Male-female seating arrangements can put some students in a tough spot, said Lennae Varlinsky, a mental-health counselor at Franklin who helped students in the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance lobby for the change.
Some students are forced to sit uncomfortably with a gender they don’t identify with, or switch sides and reveal something about themselves that their family may not know.
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The inmates are running the asylum
Seems to me the graduates should be in alphabetical order, all wearing the same color of robes. I am surprised to hear it was still being done in the way described.
One day closer. Come, Lord Jesus.
If you went to a surgeon and told them that your arm was “wrong” and wanted him to amputate it and replace it with your leg, he would refer you to psychiatrist. But when a person decides that their sex organs are “wrong”, not only are we to accept it, we are told that it is natural. Anyone else see how crazy it is?
They could have a separate section for the freaks.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?
Four, because no matter what you call it, it still isn’t a leg.
reveal something about themselves that their family may not know
Seems like this would not be the place to reveal something the family “may not know.”
You’re too good.
I guess Franklin should continue with this venture in sexual equality political correctness absurdity by eliminating their French language studies. Nouns in French are divided into two categories, masculine and feminine. With nouns in the first category, the word for the is le and for nouns in the second category it is la.
As for men and women, vive la différence!
As for France, vive la France!
By the way, does anyone know the origin of the name, Oklahoma and what it means?
That damned reality getting in the way again.
They should go tricolor: Black for guys, green for girls, and orange for those who are graduating from high school but still can’t figure out what genitals they have.
WA Ping"I am surprised to hear it was still being done in the way described."
This being Seattle, I am surprised they are "forced" to wear any sort of uniform attire. Shorts, tank tops, baggy pants and hoodies are more of what I would expect ..HONESTLY!
There is a war on women after all, and a war on men. There is a war on the very idea of “men” and “women” as distinct groups. And the war is being waged by progressives. And it will soon be sealed and ratified by the Supreme Court.
I think Oklahoma comes from one of the Indian tribes, Osage maybe, and I think it means something like “red people” or “land of the red people.”
now that Obama has brought us 57 different sexes to enjoy,
its hard for schools to supply 57 different colored gowns
any student with a penis on this side....any student without one on this side.....problem solved...see how easy it is???
This entire gender identity nonsense is driving me NUTS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s all an attention getting device and the idiot libs are falling for it.
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So now they are Umicorns???
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