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A school board meeting descended into chaos during an argument over an LGBTQ pride book that was made available to children in kindergarten. The book, titled 'The Rainbow Parade', illustrates a young child and her two moms attending a pride parade together, where they see men in bondage holding hands and a near naked person walking the streets alone. Outraged parents from Penfield Central School in New York attended a board meeting on Tuesday night in an effort to voice their concerns, but were shut down by officials who refused to listen.

The New York Post reports that the mentally ill gunman who shot and wounded two kindergarteners at a small California school Wednesday wrote that he was deploying a “countermeasure involving child executions” in response to “America’s involvement with genocide and oppression of Palestinians,” in a note he left behind. Following the shooting at Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists on Thursday, the gunman turned the gun on himself. He has been identified as Glenn Litton, a 56-year-old homeless man. He had been in jail until just two days prior to the attack. “Countermeasure involving child executions has now been imposed...

A drone fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon into northern Israel landed near a kindergarten near Haifa on Monday, but did not cause any injuries because the children had been hiding in a bomb shelter, despite the lack of nearby sirens. The Times of Israel reported: A drone from Lebanon exploded next to a kindergarten in the northern town of Nesher on Tuesday, shattering windows and scattering debris across the outdoor play area. Although there was no warning siren in the Haifa suburb, the staff, aware of alerts nearby, had moved the children into the facility’s bomb shelter as a precaution....

Distressing footage captured at least 10 adults and children fighting during a Tennessee kindergarten graduation ceremony earlier this month, according to a report. The chaos unfolded at Buckley Carpenter Elementary in Somerville, Tenn., on May 15, 2024, when tensions between two women in the crowd boiled over into violence, police told Fox 13 Memphis. The adults, identified as Tyeisha Humphreys and Kierra Smith, were seen brawling down the gymnasium bleachers as witnesses tried to escape the madness. Beyond the bleacher brawl, at least two other people on the basketball court exchanged several punches. According to the outlet, Tyeisha Humphreys told...

Distressing footage captured at least 10 adults and children fighting during a Tennessee kindergarten graduation ceremony earlier this month, according to a report. The chaos unfolded at Buckley Carpenter Elementary in Somerville, Tenn., on May 15, 2024, when tensions between two women in the crowd boiled over into violence, police told Fox 13 Memphis. The adults, identified as Tyeisha Humphreys and Kierra Smith, were seen brawling down the gymnasium bleachers as witnesses tried to escape the madness. Beyond the bleacher brawl, at least two other people on the basketball court exchanged several punches. According to the outlet, Tyeisha Humphreys told...

The Michigan Senate has approved legislation that mandates kindergarten attendance in Michigan.The bill, which supporters say will improve early education, passed with a vote of 21-15, with Republicans in the Democratic-controlled Senate largely opposed. It must now go to the Michigan House for consideration.Beginning with the 2025-26 school year, a child who is five years old on Sept. 1 would be required to enroll in kindergarten, whether in a traditional public school, charter school, private school, or if their parents are homeschooling them.Michigan is one of more than a dozen states that do not require kindergarten. Despite this, the state...

Glassbrook Elementary is located in Hayward, California which is south of Oakland on the east side of the San Francisco Bay. The school has just under 500 students and lately it has been struggling with falling test scores. But that didn't stop the school from signing a $250,000, three-year contract with a company called "Woke Kindergarden" which, as the name suggests, provides training to teachers (but not to students in this case) on how to fight white supremacy. One teacher at the school, whose name is Tiger Craven-Neeley, felt the expense wasn't justified under the circumstances. Funding for the Woke...

The 551st Brigade, a reserves brigade of commando and paratrooper soldiers, has been operating in the Beit Hanoun area, demolishing Hamas terrorist infrastructure, weapons and eliminating terrorists, the IDF confirmed Saturday. As part of the brigade’s operations, the forces destroyed weapons, ammunition, and explosive devices in a kindergarten located in the Beit Hanoun area. The forces of the 551st Brigade, a reserve brigade of commando and paratrooper soldiers, has been operating in the Beit Hanoun area for the past two weeks. Video During the operations, and in coordination with air, engineering, and armored forces the brigade eliminated terrorists, scanned for...

Israeli forces captured a Hamas stronghold following a 10-hour firefight as troops uncovered the terror group’s tunnel shafts, one of which Israeli officials say was located near a kindergarten. Troops from the 933rd Nahal Infantry Brigade, one of the five infantry brigades of the IDF, completed the takeover of Outpost 17 in northern Gaza, which Hamas previously ran. The troops battled Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad above and below ground, killing dozens of terrorists.According to a Thursday IDF statement, Ibrahim Abu-Maghsib, the head of Hamas’ Anti Tank Missile Unit in the Central Camps Brigade, died during the attack from an...

School districts across California are on a recruitment spree, doing what they can to enroll the state’s 4-year-olds into their year-old pre-K or “transitional kindergarten” (TK) program. Districts are trying to sell parents on TK by using school banners, bus bench ads, billboards, and texting and robocall campaigns. The $2.7 billion plan aims to have 400,000 4-year-olds enrolled by 2025, but it has been off to a sluggish start. Estimates from the Legislative Analyst’s Office put average daily attendance for the 2022-2023 school year at about 91,000, well short of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s estimates.The idea of having the government in...

Six people were killed and one wounded in an attack at a kindergarten in southern China's Guangdong province on Monday, a spokeswoman for the city government said. 'The victims include one teacher, two parents and three students,' she said, in the rampage which unfolded around 7:40am (2340 GMT on Sunday). She did not offer details about the identities or ages of the victims, nor the weapon used in the attack in the city of Lianjiang, but reports suggested the victims were stabbed. .....

Chelsea Clinton came out in favor of porn for children. Bill Clinton’s only daughter said banning sexually explicit books from schools is “harmful.” Chelsea Clinton linked to an NBC News article reporting on the sexually explicit LGBT themed children’s books banned from libraries.

On Friday, California kindergarteners were set to learn about themselves. Potentially part of that enlightenment: They possess a gender identity in opposition to their sex.A March 24th “Principal’s Weekly Update” for San Francisco-area Burton Valley Elementary announced festivities for a day of observance and education:Next week you will notice a new flag on our flag pole, as we fly the Transgender Flag across all of the schools in [Lafayette School District (LafSD)] in accordance with [School Board Resolution 11-2223] to honor International Day of Visibility.Additionally, the public K-5 school would learn via literature:We will also be reading a story as...

We should stopping pushing 5-year-olds onto ADHD medication and start pushing them to get outside and play.My patient was struggling in the classroom and at home. His teacher complained that he couldn’t complete his math worksheets without frequent interventions to refocus him. His parents were tired of the nightly struggle to get him to sit still long enough to finish his homework. The Vanderbilt forms confirmed what everyone already knew: a classic case of ADHD. I filled out a letter for parents to give the school to start the formal process of getting him special classroom accommodations (extra time on...

N is for Nonbinary and T is for Trans. Did you know that? If you were a Williamson Country, Tennessee, kindergartner and clicked on the book “The GayBCs” on the iPad given by your school for you to take home over the weekend, you would. You’d also know the B is for Bi. (You can shout it out loud/ “I like boys and girls/ and that makes me proud.”) C is—needless to say—for Coming Out and D is—what else—for Drag. I won’t bother you with the noxious doggerel accompanying those—you can probably make it up for yourself. And no, it’s...

It's remarkable to me how people don't hear the words coming out of their mouths. MSNBC wanted a sob story from a teacher about how Ron DeSantis' "Parental Rights in Education" bill is adversely affecting them. That's the legislation that critics call the "Don't Say Gay" bill, but people who have read it know it just says teachers can't push sex and gender on kids 3rd grade and under. MSNBC chose Cody Bernaert, who is upset he can't talk about his personal life to his students anymore. He teaches kindergarten. In other words, five-year-olds. "My kids do have questions. They...

Democrat gubernatorial hopeful Rep. Charlie Crist (D) said this week that it is a “grim day” in Florida because Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed legislation barring age-inappropriate classroom discussions on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten classrooms. “It’s a grim day for Florida. Today especially, I want our LGBTQ+ brothers and sisters in Florida and across the country to know that they are loved and will always be welcomed in the Sunshine State,” the Democrat and former Florida governor said on the day DeSantis signed the Parental Rights in Education act, essentially mourning for LGBT Americans and repeating the...

TUCUMÁN, Argentina (LifeSiteNews) – A three-year-old girl in Argentina died of a heart attack the day after receiving a COVID vaccine required for her to enter kindergarten, her mother said.Speaking with Telefe Tucumán, Miryam Suárez said the vaccine and government mandate killed her daughter, Ámbar, who had been healthy and “full of life.”“I pre-enrolled her in school so that next year she would enter kindergarten, because now they force you when it comes to the vaccine,” Suárez said. “She was healthy. She was fine. She was not ill and didn’t have COVID.”Suárez took her daughter to get vaccinated on December...

Absent parent pushback, an updated guide used in public schools nationwide will promote abortion and gender confusion and expose kids to sordid, explicit sex education.This article contains adult-level information about sex and genitals.Last year, three leftist nonprofits created the National Sex Education Standards, a blueprint for the “sex education” of K-12 children. In practice, the standards serve as an indoctrination camp in extremist sexual ethics designed to destroy children’s innocence and undermine their attachment to the traditional, Judeo-Christian understanding of sex and marriage.About 40 percent of school districts had adopted the earlier, less extreme 2011 version of the National Sexuality...

A kindergarten teacher in China has been sentenced to death for poisoning dozens of children in an act of revenge against a colleague that left one toddler dead. A court in the central Chinese province of Henan said Wang Yun put sodium nitrite into porridge being prepared for her colleague's students, sickening 25. News reports last year said the children began vomiting and fainting after eating their breakfast. Kindergarten students in China are aged between three and six. The death sentence was handed to Wang this week for the offence of using dangerous substances. The attack took place in March...