Posts Tagged: public school system

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Teachers Encouraged to Use ‘Gender Snowperson’ in Classrooms to Teach Children About Gender Identity

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Teachers are being encouraged to use a "Gender Snowperson" graphic to teach students about gender identity in sex education classes.

The gender snowperson image was tweeted by Teacher2Teacher, a left leaning nonprofit organization that provides lesson plans and other resources to teachers.

Teacher2Teacher is sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

The organization identified Johnny Cole, a "diversity officer" for the Lexington School District, as the source of the image.

The image shows a genderless snowman on a board accompanied by stickers that explains the gender identity ideology. One sticker says:

"Gender Identity
Girl, Boy, Neither
Who you are and how you feel as a person."

Another sticker reads:

"Sexual orientation
Who you love or are attracted to".

A third sticker says:

Sex Assigned at Birth
Girl, Boy, Intersex
Pronoun assigned at birth".

Twitter users were confused and baffled by the agenda behind the lesson.

"What is the target age for this lesson?" asked one Twitter user.

"This is just awful. This is not something prepubescent children should have to deal with," wrote another user.

A third user tweeted: "Why is the snowman white?".
 

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Texas school tells woman to cut grandson’s dreadlocks or put him in a dress

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A Texas schools superintendent is under fire for telling a woman to cut her grandson's dreadlocks or put him in a dress for wearing his hair too long.

The unusual demand was made after the school notified the grandmother that her grandson was in violation of the school's dress code.

Randi Woodley and parents of children attending a Texas school say the school board altered the dress code to discriminate against Black children.

"I went to the principal's office, where she explained to me that my grandson's hair was too long," Woodley told KETK.

Woodley said she attended the school board meeting where she addressed the restrictive dress code with Tatum Independent School District's superintendent.

"He told me that I could either cut it, braid it and pin it up or put my grandson in a dress and send him to school and, when prompted, my grandson must say he's a girl," Woodley said.

The school district's policy states: "No ponytails, ducktails, rat-tails, male buns or puffballs are allowed on male students. ALL male hair of any type SHALL NOT extend past the top of a t-shirt collar, as it lays naturally."

But Woodley says the dress code targets Black boys like her grandson who wear dreadlocks past their collars.

Parent Kambry Cox told KETK that her son thinks something is wrong with his dreadlocks.

"With my son's dreadlocks, sometimes they do fall in front of his face, so I felt it would be easier to put his hair up, but then that's a problem," Cox said.

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Joe Biden: ‘Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids’

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There's an old saying that goes, "If you let a person talk long enough, they will reveal their true intentions." Presidential frontrunner Joe Biden, who has dubbed himself the "gaffe machine", made another Freudian slip while speaking to voters in Iowa on Thursday.

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LeBron James Opens I Promise School in Akron; Kids Receive Clothing, Bikes, Books, and More

NBA superstar LeBron James opened his first elementary school for at-risk students in his hometown of Akron, Ohio on Monday, July 30. "If we get to them early enough, we can hopefully keep them on the right track to a bigger and brighter future for themselves and their families,” the father-of-3 said at a press conference in the school's temporary building on Monday, July 30.

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Florida ‘Hope Scholarships’ to give parents of 1,000 bullied children vouchers to pay for PRIVATE school

Bullying in high schools

Florida's legislature is giving hope (literally) to parents of students who are bullied relentlessly in public schools. Florida lawmakers plan to use Hope Scholarships to pay for private school vouchers for vulnerable students to attend private schools. The scholarships will be paid for by redirecting $105 from car registration fees.

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Trump, Betsy DeVos Revive Obama’s Transgender Policy; Schools must refer to trans students by ‘preferred gender’

A new Department of Education policy allows the federal government to investigate public schools that don't refer to gender-confused students by their chosen gender pronouns.

The memo was written by Candice Jackson, the lesbian acting assistant secretary for the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Education (DOE).

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75% of Black California Boys Can’t Read

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Three out of four black boys in California schools don't meet reading and writing standards, according to data obtained by CALmatters from the state Department of Education.

The data shows, for example, nearly 80 percent of black boys in the fourth grade failed to meet state reading standards.

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School forces trans student to stop flip flopping genders

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A female student says administrators at her Long Island high school made her sign a contract promising to stop flip flopping her gender.

The student who was a born a girl decided she wanted to live life as the masculine gender. The student asked Valley Stream South High School administrators to recognize her as a boy complete with a male name.

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Cincinnati police release video of 8-year-old boy who was knocked out by bully in school bathroom 2 days before he hanged himself

Gabe Taye

An 8-year-old Cincinnati boy was knocked out by a school bully 2 days before he committed suicide. Gabe Taye was assaulted by a bully in the boy's restroom at Carson Elementary School on Jan. 24.

Two days later, he took his own life.

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