A California charter school association gave its highest award to the kindergarten teacher whose transgender lesson last summer without warning parents left some of the 5-year-olds traumatized.
The decision of the California Charter Schools Association to name Kaelin Swaney its Teacher of the Year makes it “clear the CCSA does not stand with parents,” says Karen England, executive director of Capitol Resource Institute, a pro-family public policy group.
A teacher at Rocklin Academy Gateway, an elite charter school in the Sacramento suburbs, Swaney touched off a bitter controversy when she read the book “I am Jazz” to her students before explaining their classmate, a boy, was now a “girl” and would be called by a girl’s name, England recounted.
“I am Jazz” is explicitly pro-transgender and begins: “From the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that she had a girl’s brain in a boy’s body.”
Parents were not told in advance about the lesson, which took place just before the school’s summer recess in June 2017, nor that the kindergarten student was “transitioning.”
But a number of parents became outraged when their children came home upset.
The Rocklin Academy board defended Swaney, countering that the California law requiring schools give parents notice and a chance to opt out for sex education did not apply because gender identity is not sex education. It also alleged that it was open to legal action for discrimination if it did not affirm the boy’s gender “transition.”
As a result of the dispute, some 90 children have been pulled from the school, according to a California Family Council (CFC) report.
And it’s “baffling” the CCSA chose to honor the teacher at the center of “unheard of controversy in the family-friendly town of Rocklin,” with an award that signifies outstanding achievement, she noted.
This is NOT education. This is indoctrination. This is not to be awarded. This is child abuse. The chemicals given to suppress the onset of puberty are not tested for this. God only knows how irreparably damaging this will be. California has lost its collective moral compass because too many individuals have lost their minds!
So true on all levels.
The education establishment is an enemy of authentic education. They are leftist indoctrinators.
Well Said
A Worthy Analysis:
Why Are Progressives On An Anti-Christian Witch Hunt?
https://thefederalist.com/2016/07/15/why-are-progressives-on-an-anti-christian-witch-hunt/
Michael,
Thank you for posting the link. The writer presents two different causes behind the fear that motivates leftist ideologues to single out Christians for “special treatment” despite the fact that Christianity is culturally marginal.
The first theory is that there’s significant anxiety in the culture and that people, especially liberal ideologues, are looking [consciously or unconsciously] for a scapegoat to blame. Therefore, we have a type of witch hunt to rid the country of this “monstrous threat against freedom” before further damage is caused. Therefore, as the author states, “deep cultural anxieties get transferred to Christian scapegoats.”
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The second theory is that liberal ideologues realize “that their cultural dominance is fragile and already beginning to crumble” but that Christianity is not only resilient to their ideas but is the only viable counterforce remaining. Therefore, they view us as a real threat that needs to be rooted out.
The whole article goes much deeper and is worth reading. While I favor the second theory, I think both theories could be operative even though they have different premises.
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Steve – I think your excerpt shows a True Beacon of Hope shining out from the morass – in that “Christianity is – Resilient”
This is a comforting thought – in that the ebb & flow of History and its Empires / Ideology / Pogroms, has yet to actually crush the Church
Battered, Bruised, sometimes covered in our own Hypocrisy of proclaiming one thing (Like Homosex Activists should Not be Priests / Leaders) versus the ugly reality of the Ephebophile Abuse Scandal, which adhering to such doctrine would have prevented
Yet the Church Abides, and may need stand up and clean up – but It has in the past and Can Do So Again
A Message of Hope I Approve Of
Michael,
Thank you. I fully concur with hope. :)
I wish to add that the article postulates that the force driving this abuse of Christians is a liberal hedonistic, “pseudo-religion” that focuses intensely on sex. The main sacraments are sexual self-expression and abortion which represent the overcoming of nature in the service of personal autonomy.
If the writers are correct, I think our general strategy should be to affirm the goodness of sex as being authentically Catholic and then to pivot to affirming that sex brings about its greatest joy, pleasure, fulfillment, and meaning in Catholic expression but becomes a source of great destruction, emptiness, and cultural decay when used otherwise.
We are really very proud of Kaelin,” said Robin Stout, , executive director of Rocklin Academy Family of Schools. “She is an outstanding teacher – always putting kids first.”
Stout said she was especially proud of how Swaney showed up at school every day, even when she was receiving hate mail from across the country. “We had to provide a security guard, and for her to show up every single day among the controversy and to still be there for her kids was very remarkable, “ she said.
From the Sacramento Bee
Maybe she should put truth first instead of kids.
People left because she did not put the kids first. She traumatized them.
You are right, she did not put either truth nor the kids first: she put her left-wing ideology first, nevermind the harm to the truth or to kids.
It would have been healthier if she had handed out cigarettes to her class?!
This teacher should not be honored, she should be fired for child abuse. Why sow confusion in these precious innocent 5 year old,s. This is diabolical confusion plain and simple. I urge all Californians and Americans to stand up and do every thing in their power to protect the innocence of these children. If this diabolical confusion of children continues California and the rest of America will face the wrath and judgement of Almighty God even more so than they have already faced in the past couple years. Turn to a God of love and mercy before it is too late. Repent and convert! Jesus Christ King of Kings Lord of Lords True God and True Man is coming soon like a thief in the night. Pray America Pray. Pray Pray Pray!
Everyone is a victim now days. This woman is not a victim, she is abusing these children and making them victims.
For those who have not heard of Jordan Peterson – he is doing for Academentia what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn did to the Evil Soviet Empire
Powerful stuff and Bishop Barron has insights on him to share which I believe worthy of hearing
Bishop Barron on the Jordan Peterson Phenomenon
https://www.wordonfire.org/resources/video/bishop-barron-on-the-jordan-peterson-phenomenon/5727/?
Like many others, I have watched the Jordan Peterson phenomenon unfold with a certain fascination. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you don’t spend a lot of time on social media, for Peterson, a mild-mannered psychology professor from the University of Toronto, has emerged as one of the hottest personalities on the internet.
I love the fact that Jordan Peterson refuses to use the multiple pronouns some want him to use. That has got to soon fade away as even those proposing them will soon forget all of them and “insult” one of their own. Kind of like the feminists who forget to use “all of you” and say “you guys” in a mixed group.
Oh, the trials and tribulations of avoiding “sexism”, whatever that is.