A number of angry parents are considering legal action after a charter school kindergarten teacher staged what one critic calls a transgender “transition ceremony” in class for a five-year-old boy without informing parents beforehand.
But Rocklin Academy Schools has countered that it didn’t have to tell parents about the transgenderism lesson that has left a number of five-year-olds shaken and disturbed. Because gender identity isn’t sex education, the administration said, it’s not subject to California’s parental consent and opt-out laws, reported Fox40News.
Moreover, with gender identity and gender expression prohibited grounds for discrimination in the state, not to accept a five-year-old “trans girl” could leave the Sacramento-area charter school board open to lawsuits.
Parents only found out what happened from their kids, says Jonathan Keller of the California Family Council, a Focus on the Family-founded group that’s advising parents.
‘Transition ceremony’: 5-year-old boy becomes a ‘girl’
Rocklin Academy Gateway’s kindergarten teacher gave the lesson on transgenderism because a boy in the class is transitioning to a girl, Keller told LifeSiteNews.
During the lesson on the second-to-last day before summer break, the teacher read two books, “I am Jazz” and “The Red Crayon,” that purport to explain “transgenderism” to children aged four to eight, Fox40News reported.
“I am Jazz” is particularly explicit, beginning “From the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that she had a girl’s brain in a boy’s body.”
But the “huge bombshell” was that the teacher didn’t just read the books but “essentially put on this more-or-less transition ceremony” for the child, says Keller.
After the teacher introduced the five-year-old student to the class as a boy, he then went into the bathroom and emerged dressed as a girl.
The teacher then reintroduced “her” to the children, explaining “she” was now a “girl” who now had a girl’s name and was to be called that from now on.
Parents angry, kids traumatized and confused
That left a number of kids “really deeply emotionally bothered and traumatized,” Keller said.
“There were several of the little girls that went to their parents and were crying and saying, ‘mommy or daddy, am I going to turn into a boy?’”
And a boy who hadn’t given “gender” a single thought before is now asking his mother if he can dress as a girl for school, added Keller.
Responding to backlash from parents, principal Jillayne Antoon sent out a letter a week later that did not mention transgenderism, reported Fox40News.
Nor did it mention the transition ceremony or the teacher presenting the boy as a girl to his five-year-old classmates.
Antoon maintained the books were “age appropriate” and that the school’s non-discrimination policy “protects all students, including on the basis of gender, gender identity and gender expression.”
No opt out or parental consent for gender issues: law
District Superintendent Robin Stout told Fox40News that parents were not notified because kids can’t opt out of gender identity and expression lessons.
The school board also held a special session on the matter on July 31, which included a presentation on California law by Young, Minney & Corr law firm that echoed Stout’s assertions.
According to that presentation, since January 2016, state law allows parents to only opt their children out of sex education.
“Diversity and tolerance curricula are not ‘sex education,’” it emphasized.
“California law explicitly provides that ‘instruction or materials that discuss gender, sexual orientation, or family life and do not discuss human reproductive organs and their functions’ are not subject to the parental notice and opt-out laws.’”
A number of families have decided to pull their children from the school, Keller says. Parents are also circulating a petition asking for parental notification before controversial material is brought up in class.
Full story at LifeSiteNews.
Welcome to the new norm. You are crazy if you don’t embrace insanity. We need to go back too good old days when these idiots would be locked up and the key thrown away!
Any parents who do this to a child, since a 5 years has not reached the age of reason, should be jailed and their child taken from them. This further signs of a dying culture, most to blame is weak and effeminate Church which did not stand up against this satanic evil, that’s right I said it.
This is just evil. When I was 5 years old, we all knew we were either a boy or a girl. Thanks to the likes of George Soros and those of his ilk, we have all this transgender nonsense foisted upon children. We didn’t need transgender or gender neutral restrooms until just recently. We are allowing this garbage to be forced down our throats. Let us stand up and make our voices heard. As Catholics, we cannot tolerate any ideology that conflicts what God has decreed. (Gen. 5:2) – He created them male and female; and blessed them.
Why do so many crazy and evil people want to become teachers?
Covfefe,
The answer is easy: To indoctrinate our children to see, accept, and agree with these insane LGBTQ peoples points of view! Hitler did this in Nazi Germany with Hitler Youth Groups to indoctrinate Facism. The communists do the same thing in their dysfunctional nations.
There I said it too!
CHILD ABUSE
Breaking: Resolution Attacking Parental Rights Introduced
https://capitolresource.org/breaking-resolution-attacking-parental-rights-introduced/
Concerns surrounding Senate Bill 18 by Senator Richard Pan only continue to increase. Now amended, SB 18 creates a Joint Legislative Committee on Children and Youth which is to be made up of nine members of the Senate and nine members of the Assembly…
This newly introduced resolution opens a Pandora’s box when it comes to the government exercising their judgement and exerting authority in what is best for your child
UPDATE: California first-grader sent to principal’s office for misgendering classmate
By Bradford Richardson
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/23/california-parents-feel-betrayed-transgender-revea/
An elite charter school in California has been rocked by scandal since the end of the last school year, when a kindergarten teacher read her class a pair of books advocating transgender ideology, and a male kindergartener was reintroduced to the class as a girl.
Now first-graders at Rocklin Academy Gateway risk a trip to the principal’s office if they refer to their transgender classmate by the wrong name or gender pronoun, said Karen England, executive director of the Capitol Resource Institute, a pro-family group based in…
I left California for Europe 33 years ago. I have to say, the United States is so screwed up. By pushing all of this gender identity nonsense onto very young children, they are confusing kids. This is wrong! It’s akin to child abuse and should be illegal! I live in the Austrian countryside and I do not miss California one bit. The people in Austria are genuine whereas so many people in California are full of themselves. We celebrate tradition here and in California, what do they do? They think they’re progressive. I think they’re insane.