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School Fired Teacher Who Refused To Use Preferred Pronouns

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An Ohio middle school teacher sued her school district Monday, accusing the district of violating her First Amendment rights after she was abruptly fired for refusing to affirm students’ stated gender identity or use their preferred pronouns.

In a lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Vivian Geraghty, a former teacher at Jackson Memorial Middle School in Massillon, Ohio, accused administrators at the school and Jackson Local Schools of violating her right to freedom of speech and free exercise of religion when they fired her earlier this year for refusing to address two students who had claimed to have new gender identities by their preferred pronouns and names.

The lawsuit says Geraghty, who is represented by the conservative legal group the Alliance Defending Freedom, was informed on Aug. 16 that two of her students wished to be addressed by new names and pronouns that did not correspond to their sex. Six days later, on Aug. 22, the school counselor directed Geraghty and other teachers to “participate in the social transition of the two students.” . . .

Carter allegedly informed Geraghty at that meeting that he avoided using pronouns whenever a student sought to be addressed by pronouns that did not correspond to their biological sex. But half an hour later, Geraghty was again summoned to Carter’s office, where she was asked by Carter and Monica Myers, the director of curriculum, instruction, and assessment for Jackson Local School District, to explain her Christian religious beliefs and why she could not cooperate with the social transition of the two students.

“After Ms. Geraghty explained her beliefs … Defendants Carter and Myers told Ms. Geraghty that ‘she would be required to put her beliefs aside as a public servant,'” the lawsuit says. “Ms. Geraghty explained that she could not put her beliefs aside, and she did not believe she could be compelled to do so as a condition of public service.” (Read more from “School Fired Teacher Who Refused To Use Preferred Pronouns” HERE)

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Drag Queen Recruited by School District to Serve as Crossing Guard

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On Wednesday, Denver Public Schools recruited a celebrity drag queen to serve as a crossing guard for the day.

Dixie Krystals, a drag entertainer for over 20 years, was brought on by the school district to attend a “Walk and Roll to School” day, according to the district’s social media post.

Krystals previously appeared on the Discovery+ show “Generation Drag,” which followed the lives of five teenagers as they prepared for a drag show performance.

Krystals was just one of the celebrities the school district enlisted to assist with crossing guard duties for the day in honor of Pedestrian Safety Month. Superintendent Dr. Alex Marrero and Democratic Colorado Senator John Hickenlooper also attended the event.

Amy Kenreich, a Safe Routes to School Advocate, explained in a video posted by Denver Public Schools that the Walk and Roll event is a crossguard holiday that promotes “active transportation.” (Read more from “Drag Queen Recruited by School District to Serve as Crossing Guard” HERE)

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School Board Director to Teach Kids as Young as 9 About Sexual Pleasure

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A Washington state school board director who owns a sex shop is making headlines after announcing she will teach sex education classes for children as young as 9 on topics such as “sexual anatomy for pleasure” and “safer sex practices for all kinds of sexual activities.”

“The class for 9- to 12-year-olds is an introduction to topics related to relationships, puberty, bodies, and sexuality. We focus on what makes healthy vs. unhealthy friendships and romantic relationships, the science of how puberty works, consent and personal boundaries, defining ‘sex’, and discussing why people may or may not choose to engage in sexual activities,” Jenn Mason, owner of sex shop WinkWink in Bellingham and school board director for the Bellingham School District, told KTTH radio host Jason Rantz.

Mason announced there will be four, three-hour sex education classes held at WinkWink next month as part of an event billed the “Uncringe Academy.” The classes, which Mason will teach, are broken down by age, with 9- to 12-year-olds in one class and 13- to 17-year-olds in another class.

Class topics include, “What IS sex? Kinds of solo and partnered sexual activities,” “Sexual anatomy for pleasure and reproduction,” “Gender and sexual identities,” “Safer sex practices for all kinds of sexual activities,” among others. The description of the classes stipulates that the “workshops are divided by age and presentation of topics will vary for developmental appropriateness (sic).” (Read more from “School Board Director to Teach Kids as Young as 9 About Sexual Pleasure” HERE)

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Disgusting: Teachers Asking Students How Comfortable They Are With Graphic Sex Acts

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Okay, I mean what is going on here? As if things can’t get any worse in our schools regarding all this woke nonsense and critical race theory fraud in the curriculum, we have graphic questions about the level of comfortability regarding sexual activity. . .

Libs of Tik Tok was there to uncover this madness:

Students at Campolino High School in California were reportedly given an invasive and inappropriate sex lesson which included questions about their anal sex and masturbation preferences.

In this worksheet, students were asked to rate their comfort level with anal sex. Presumably, these written responses were turned in by each student, so the school now has their anal sex preferences on file.

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Students were also asked if they like to masturbate with others in the room.

(Read more from “Disgusting: Teachers Asking Students How Comfortable They Are With Graphic Sex Acts” HERE)

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Second-Graders Reportedly Taught About ‘Furries,’ Other ‘Youth Subcultures’

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A second grade teacher at a public school district in Texas reportedly taught students about the subculture of “furries,” according to worksheets submitted to a popular Twitter account.

Parents discovered via fliers that their second-graders at Austin Independent School District learned about “youth subcultures, from goths to furries, and many more” during the second week of April. One worksheet was titled, “Design Your Fursona” and asked students whether their “Fursona” is “male,” “female” or “non-binary.”

Students reportedly collected a Furries Word Search as well.

A spokesperson for Austin Independent School District told the Daily Caller that the worksheets on furries are not part of the district’s curriculum. . .

Furries are described by WebMD as humans who dress up as animals and function as their animal avatars within furry communities. Many of them engage in sexual activities dressed as their avatars. (Read more from “Second-Graders Reportedly Taught About ‘Furries,’ Other ‘Youth Subcultures’” HERE)

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Extremist ‘1619 Project’ Creator Says Parents Shouldn’t Decide What’s Being Taught to Their Children in School

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Nikole Hannah-Jones — the creator of the highly criticized “1619 Project” — proclaimed that parents shouldn’t decide what’s being taught to their children in school.

During a “Meet the Press” appearance on Sunday, Hannah-Jones opined on how much parents’ should be allowed in shaping the curriculum of students. Her commentary was in reference to Republican Glenn Youngkin’s victory in the Virginia gubernatorial race. Youngkin made education a cornerstone during his winning campaign and declared that critical race theory should not be part of the academic curriculum.

Host Chuck Todd asked, “The Virginia’s governor’s race was arguably decided on the strength of how influential should parents be on curriculum? How do we do this?”

“Well, I would say the governor’s race in Virginia was decided based on the success of a right-wing propaganda campaign that told white parents that they needed to fight against their children being indoctrinated as race — as being called racists,” Hannah-Jones replied without providing any evidence for her claim. “But that was a propaganda campaign.”

“And I don’t really understand this idea that parents should decide what’s being taught,” Hannah-Jones continued. (Read more from “Extremist ‘1619 Project’ Creator Says Parents Shouldn’t Decide What’s Being Taught to Their Children in School” HERE)

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Major City to Spend $500 Million Teaching Kids to Obsess About Sex and Race

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Last week, fifth-grade teacher Amy Parker took the pages of the education site Chalkbeat to celebrate New York City’s initiative to promote “culturally responsive education” in its public schools. Parker introduces her essay by lamenting that “School taught me to hide who I was and what I valued” because it didn’t assign books with characters who had gay parents. But, at the same time, Parker also complains that she “was overly represented in the books [she] read and the classes [she] took.”

To make up for this injustice, Parker has now committed herself to providing a “culturally responsive and sustaining education” or “CRSE.” This means that she will pick texts on the basis of “representation” and “diversity” and emphasize racial and sexual identity in all her lessons. Instead of learning about the world and how to contribute to it, her students will now learn about themselves and how to become “agents of change.”

For these courageous efforts, New York City will support Parker and other teachers like her with a gargantuan sum of money: “Over the course of three years, almost $500 million will be allocated to CRSE so that our students are reflected in what and how they learn.”

While everyone is certainly entitled to her opinions, even bad ones, this becomes a problem when it comes with such a high price tag and threatens to become the dominant position of an entire profession. I may not teach in New York, but even here in Texas, this kind of thinking and the policies it inspires are increasingly common in our public schools. (Read more from “Major City to Spend $500 Million Teaching Kids to Obsess About Sex and Race” HERE)

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Records Suggest Loudoun Sent Team of Police To Deal With ‘Upset Parent,’ Not Alleged Rape of Female Student

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Dispatch records from the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office suggest that a school administrator and school resource officer (SRO) did not act urgently to involve police specialists in a reported rape on May 28 at Stone Bridge High School.

At 1:33 pm, the SRO — who works full-time at the school handling routine matters but officially works for the sheriff’s office — radioed that he “was briefed by assistant principal of a student that has made allegations of being possibly raped or touched unwanted by another student a couple of hours ago. Investigating at this time and parents are and have been notified at this time by admin.”

It is unclear whether the assistant principal learned of the rape “a couple of hours ago,” or whether the alleged rape occurred then and the administrator did not learn of it until some later time period.

The SRO then “investigated” for nearly an hour without calling for outside police officers.

At 2:21, 2:28, and 2:30, three calls for police are finally placed — one requesting a supervisor, one requesting “another unit,” and one noted as “upset parent.” Given that these calls came in a nine-minute window well after officials first learned of the rape, it seems likely that the impetus for all three was the “upset parent.” (Read more from “Records Suggest Loudoun Sent Team of Police To Deal With ‘Upset Parent,’ Not Alleged Rape of Female Student” HERE)

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High School Football Team Holds ‘Drag Ball’ Halftime Show (VIDEO)

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Burlington High School in Vermont hosted a “drag ball” during Friday night’s football game halftime. Put on by the school’s Gender-Sexuality Alliance (GSA) club, the show featured students and teachers dressed in drag attire.

About thirty participants, most of them male, strutted the track in a mixture of gowns, dresses, high-heeled boots, feather boas, colorful wigs and other accessories with techno music playing in the background. Students in the stands, decked out in rainbow attire, cheered them on.

Andrew LeValley, an English teacher and advisor to the GSA club, said the school’s principal and athletic director were “on board excitedly,” according to Seven Days. Tom Flanagan, the Burlington superintendent, joined in wearing a rainbow cape and holding a rainbow flag, Seven Days reported.

(Read more from “High School Football Team Holds ‘Drag Ball’ Halftime Show (VIDEO)” HERE)

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Why Is the Left Waging a War on ‘Gifted’ Children?

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Public schools across the country are eliminating gifted and talented programs, removing advanced courses and overhauling admissions processes to achieve equity across racial categories.

Removing gifted and advanced courses is a no-cost way to cover up the racial achievement gap while ignoring its root causes, according to Harry Jackson, president of the Thomas Jefferson High School Parent Teacher Student Association (PTSA).

“Gifted programs and advanced courses provide a mechanism for low-income households to achieve a stellar education for their children and serve as a ‘great equalizer’ to those families that opt for private education,” Jackson told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “By eliminating gifted programs and advanced courses in the name of equity, they will create greater inequities,” he said.

Black students make up 15% of the student population and 10% of the gifted student population, while Hispanic students make up 27.6% of the student population and 20.8% of the gifted student population, according to a Fordham Institute study. Those student groups are 49% and 23% less likely to participate in Advanced Placement programs than their peers, respectively, according to the Fordham Institute.

Public interest in racial inequities increased following George Floyd’s death with pressure on public schools to resolve racial disparities coming from parents, activist groups, school board members and officials in the U.S. Department of Education. (Read more from “Why Is the Left Waging a War on ‘Gifted’ Children?” HERE)

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