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A public high school's decision to remove the front doors of toilet blocks in order to create 'non-gendered' facilities has been met with fury among parents. In a letter sent to parents and caregivers, Principal of Golden Grove High School in Adelaide, Peter Kuss, advised the changes to the current toilet facilities had been implemented. 'The health, safety and wellbeing of all young people is important to us. We understand that accessing toilet facilities whilst at school can cause anxiety for some students,' Mr Kuss wrote in the letter. 'The guidelines for the provision of student toilets has evolved over...

A Fairfax County middle school teacher was arrested and charged with possessing child pornography. Kristine Knizner, 28, a teacher at Irving Middle School in Springfield and Key Middle School in Franconia, was recently arrested after a brief inquiry, according to Fairfax County police. Police believe none of the victims were her students. The investigation began after police received information on a Snapchat account that may contain child pornography on Tuesday, May 17. Investigators linked that account to an IP address associated with Knizner’s apartment in Springfield’s 6800 block of Meteor Place. Officers discovered child pornography when they searched the flat,...

This is exactly the kind of routine hostility we can expect for students all over the country if Biden successfully writes ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity’ into the meaning of ‘sex’ in education. Braden Rabidoux had no idea how his life was about to change when his mother got a call from his school principal. Braden, an eighth-grader in Wisconsin’s Kiel Area School District, was the subject of a sexual harassment complaint and investigation, the principal told her. “I was like, ‘What? Sexual harassment? What are you talking about?'” Braden’s mom, Rose Rabidoux, recalled to The Federalist. “Because when I...

In a little public school on Capitol Hill, kindergartners are banned from campus nearly every single week. School policy on the matter is simple: If a child in a class tests positive for Covid, every unvaccinated child in that child’s class must quarantine at home for 10 days — or return “early” if their parents produce a negative test on the morning of the sixth day. With less than one-third of children aged 11 and younger vaccinated, the policy casts a wide net. And with Centers for Disease Control information showing Covid infections currently higher among vaccinated children than unvaccinated...

A Washington state school board director is hosting an LGBT event for kids at a sex shop. Jenn Mason is the owner of WinkWink, which bills itself as an all-ages, “identity-inclusive sex shop” in Bellingham. In addition to the sex products, Mason offers 50-minute sex coaching sessions. She’s also the school board director for the Bellingham School District. And on June 1, Mason is hosting “queer youth (0 to 18 years old)” for an open mic. At the free event, children will have five minutes to perform music and poetry, or simply tell a story. Unless Mason clears out the...

Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) introduced an amendment to the “Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act” that would protect concerned parents speaking at school board meetings from becoming federal domestic terrorism targets. The Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act is a Democrat bill that “would codify the process by which the Biden administration came to investigate parents with whom it has political disagreements.” “Last fall, parents across the United States were accused of being ‘domestic terrorists’ for speaking out against their child’s curriculum,” Green said. “My amendment would have protected parents’ ability to speak up and question harmful curriculum like Critical Race Theory and obscene...

A Pennsylvania high school music director who replaced a teacher who had been charged with sex crimes against students has been charged with having an inappropriate physical relationship with a student herself.

On a school trip to Costa Rica earlier this month, three female high school students in the Eudora school district were assigned to a two-bed hotel room with a transgender student who is biologically male — meaning one of them would have had to share a bed with the trans student — and school officials refused a request for a room change. One of the girls objected and told a chaperone she didn’t feel comfortable with the arrangement, but she was told to “deal with it.” A source speaking with the Sentinel on condition of anonymity said the girl raised...

When last we heard from Fairfax County, parents were trying to get the school board to prohibit books with pornographic sexual descriptions (a criminal act in Virginia). Now, parents have something new to worry about: On May 25, the school board plans to approve a set of rules that will make it a Level 4 offense—right up there with assault, battery, and arson—for children in grades K-12 who “malicious[ly] misgender” or commit an “outing related to gender identification.” SNIP I recommend an article at The Federalist for its rundown of the gender madness that has infected Fairfax County schools going...

Philadelphia's School District encouraged its staff to attend the largest free transgender wellness conference in the world, where extremely explicit content was shared in the name of breaking down barriers. The annual event was held online, organized by the Mazzoni Center, which under the leadership of Sultan Shakir works to improve health and wellbeing among the LGBTQ community in Philadelphia. The School District, led by Superintendent William Hite, emailed teachers and school staff on their mailing list in July 2021 to invite them to attend, describing it as an opportunity to 'learn more about the issues facing the trans community.'...

A former choir teacher of a local high school is facing criminal charges after court documents say she had an inappropriate relationship with a student.According to a press release from the New Wilmington Police Department, an investigation into 26-year-old Olivia Lois Ortz began after the principal of the Wilmington Area High School received a call from Ortz’s husband, reporting the alleged relationship. As a mandated reporter, the principal reported the allegation to the police.Police say they held interviews with the 17-year-old student involved in the incident, who told officers that they considered Ortz to be a safe adult whom they...

It was long thought that “words will never hurt” you. That, as it turns out, was wrong.In fact, not only can words hurt, but you can be injured by your own — more precisely, the pronouns you employ.Just ask a trio of Wisconsin middle schoolers.As reported by Green Bay’s Channel 2, three boys at Kiel Middle School have been charged with sexual harassment.Parents claim the boys are under investigation by the district for alluding to a classmate with the wrong pronouns.Last month, moms and dads were informed their children had violated Title IX by way of gender-based harassment. The youngsters...

A Florida teacher claims she was fired for discussing her pansexual status with middle school students whom she then asked to draw pictures representing their own sexual orientations. Cape Coral art instructor Casey Scott said her students were curious about her sexual orientation and she explained to them that she was pansexual during a lesson in March, NBC2 reported. “A discussion happened in class and because of that, now I’m fired,” Scott told the outlet.(snip) Scott, who is married to a man, said the kids at Trafalgar Middle School then created flags representing their own sexuality and gender identities ranging...

After being accused of sexually assaulting a student last year, a former New Hampshire teacher of the year finalist is facing criminal charges. This is the first case that County Attorney Patricia Conway’s office would prosecute under a relatively new statute that focuses on the relationship of authority over an alleged victim rather than their age. Bridgette Doucette-Howell, 38, was charged in April and May 2021 with three counts of serious felonious sexual assault of an 18-year-old. The accuser was a Sanborn Regional High School student. Doucette-Howell worked as an extracurricular activity theatre coach at the high school on a...

We are excited to announce Tucson High's first annual drag show! Are you interested in being a part of the drag show?? We'd love to have you! You can perform, support with marketing, help with makeup, choreograph dances, etc. Former School Counselor Accused of having Sex with Teen Student, Police Say

Kiel, Wisconsin school district charges kids for using wrong pronouns A Wisconsin school district has filed sexual harassment complaints against three middle schoolers for calling a classmate by a wrong pronoun. The school district in Kiel, a city of 3,600 residents, has charged the three eighth-graders at the Kiel Middle School with sexual harassment after an incident in April in which the students refused to use “they” to refer to a classmate who had switched pronouns a month before the alleged incident, according to reports.

National outrage over George Floyd's death was particularly virulent in super-progressive ("woke") Vermont, where schools widely displayed the BLM flag beside the American flag. Unconcerned that this was a blatantly illegal government endorsement of an overtly partisan organization, proponents donned the "hear no evil from constitutionalists" earmuffs and prided themselves on agitating their neighbors by violating the Constitution. Many Vermonters have complained publicly that this is obvious abuse by government, but school officials have stonewalled, gaslighted, and suppressed all efforts to assert this axiomatic constitutional truth. The state's capital city of Montpelier shamelessly painted BLM on the road in front...

“Do you think straights flaunt their sexuality? If so, why?” / “40 percent of married couples get divorced. Why is it so difficult for straights to stay in long-term relationships?” / “Considering the consequences of overpopulation, could the human race survive if everyone were heterosexual?” / “99 percent of reported rapists are heterosexual. Why are straights so sexually aggressive?” / “The majority of child molesters are heterosexuals. Do you consider it safe to expose children to heterosexual teachers, scout leaders, and coaches?”

“D.C. Public Schools Spent $31,843 Per Pupil; But D.C. 8th Graders Had Lowest Math and Reading Scores in Nation,” reports CNS News. Washington, DC spent more per student than any of the 50 states: The public schools in Washington. D.C., spent a total of $31,843 per pupil in fiscal year 2020…Meanwhile, the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests administered in 2019 showed that only 23 percent of the eight graders in D.C. public schools were proficient or better in reading and only 23 percent were proficient or better in mathematics. The average reading test score for D.C. eighth graders was...

The Leftist’s obsession with race is, as predicted, proving to be very damaging to interracial relationships, especially with school-aged children. One parent, Melissa Riley, has reported that her 13-year-old son is starting to be damaged by his school’s incessant focus on race. As schools adopt Liberal “anti-racist” programs, kids are becoming more conscious of racial differences in the classroom, and more focused on the narratives spewed by the Left about racism and privilege, further dividing our nation. Riley lives in the Charlottesville area of Virginia where her son attends school. Riley is a white and Native American woman, and her...