It has been almost 90 days since Gay Pride month. According to the Los Angeles Unified School District, that is too long a hiatus from the imperative of immersing young children in the arcana of gay and trans identity. So throughout the week of October 9, many elementary school classrooms in Los Angeles will celebrate “National Coming Out Day,” which falls on October 11.
October is itself LGBTQ+ History Month, the Los Angeles Unified School District bureaucracy has reminded what it calls the district’s “fabulous educators.” Other LGBTQ+ programming will take place throughout October, picking up where Gay Pride month left off. The goals for the so-called Week of Action are ambitious: to turn six-year-olds into budding gender and critical race theorists.
An LAUSD teacher forwarded me the district’s “toolkit” for teachers laying out that agenda. Use of the toolkit, decorated with a Black Power Fist superimposed on neon rainbow stripes, is nominally optional, but elementary school teachers who forego LGBTQ programming during the Week of Action will surely risk stigmatization. (The district did not respond to queries regarding expected classroom participation rates.)
At the Week of Action’s start, teachers should engage kindergarten and first-grade students in discussions about identity, aided by an activity called an “Identity Map.” Pupils chart their experiences of discrimination or privilege along 12 axes, including race, gender identity, sexuality, mental health, and body size. This mapping allows seven-year-olds to see themselves through the “lens of intersectionality.” Teachers then post the identity maps on the wall for a class discussion about students’ multiple “identities.”
Each elementary school day during the Week of Action can be devoted to a different LGBTQ+ celebrity, whose identity will be announced in morning assemblies, suggests the toolkit.
Monday is Jazz Jennings Day. Jennings’s fame rests on being one of the youngest children to date to claim a trans identity. “Assigned male at birth,” as Jazz’s publicity materials inevitably put it, Jazz allegedly asserted female identity at age two, and was diagnosed with gender dysphoria at age four. Subsequent surgery tried to cut Jazz’s body into a simulacrum of a female one and resulted in undisclosed “complications.” On Jazz Jennings day, the LAUSD recommends that kindergartners engage in the fabulous activities of “Which Outfit” and “Which Hairdo.” (One day is not enough to acknowledge the fabulousness that is Jazz. January in the LAUSD is devoted to holding Jazz and Friends Reading Events, supplemented by reading inclusive books in every grade.)
Friday is Carl Nassib Day, celebrating the “first openly gay active NFL player.” Kindergarteners on Carl Nassib Day should be encouraged to “Take a Pledge to Be An Ally!” Those who do so will get a diploma from the LAUSD that certifies that [insert pupil’s name] “hereby pledges” to “teach others to be allies” and to “Be an Upstander….”
From City Journal
Someone has lost their mind.
Democrats are evil. Gays are a scourge on society. Apparently you have to have an IQ below one standard deviation from average IQ to qualify to teach in LAUSD. So, most teachers in LAUSD probably have an IQ of 85 at max. I would never entrust my children to those fools.
Let me be honest with you, “Re.” Your comment calling people “evil,” “scourge,” and “fools” is exactly what Our Lord admonished against when He said “But I say to you, that whosoever is angry with his brother, shall be in danger of the judgment. And whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council. And whosoever shall say, Thou Fool, shall be in danger of hell fire” (Matt. 5:22). Regardless of what others do that repel you, there is no excuse to descend to name-calling, vileness, and demonization. It’s un-Christian. It’s un-Catholic.
jon. You have said Thou Fool on many occasions here. Having no sense of irony must be a burden.
For the record, “O Really” is wrong. I have not called anyone “you fool” in my comments here nor in real life. If “O Really” insists that I did, he/she is called upon here to prove it.
I do believe that it is uncharitable comments and words like “scourge” and “fools” applied to those with same-sex attraction that partly fuel the efforts of people like James Martin and some German bishops. In their minds part of their effort is to combat the antipathy, the hatred, and the discrimination in the Church against those with same-sex attraction, and so they come up with these dissentful proposals like blessing “gay couples”.
What mostly fuels that effort is a desire to cover sin with the label “goodness”.
This is not a helpful mindset if one wants to reach out to the world nor to the Germans, nor to Martin. Neither the German bishops nor Martin have said that what fuels their effort is “to cover sin with the label of goodness.” You have essentially demonized their position, thereby isolating them even more in their error. You address first the errors of those who use demonizing terms like “fools,” amend that, then you will be in a better moral ground to reach out to them. If you do not take these extra steps, you’re not doing evangelization.
No jon they are not doing evangelization
these ain’t schools – these be
government indoctrination centers
simply no time left in school day
to teach the 3 R’s
all propaganda – all the time
I was in favor of LGBTQ until I found out it didn’t mean “Let’s get Biden to Quit.”
Yeah, that’s not an image for body positivity.
Young Pioneers.
Sorely in need of a David Reimer Day.
Or J. Edgar Hoover Day
Your Hoover reference is a long-since debunked Soviet smear.
What’s the problem? There’s a J. Edgar Hoover Building. Why not a J. Edgar Hoover day?
Celebrate J. Edgar Hoover, widely known as as gay.
Soviet propaganda.
David Reimer was an infant victim of a botched circumcision, then castrated and further victimized by early gender transitionist and pervert Dr John Money of the once great Johns Hopkins Institute. A sadder story you’d be hard put to find.
“This mapping allows seven-year-olds to see themselves through the “lens of intersectionality.” Teachers then post the identity maps on the wall for a class discussion about students’ multiple “identities.”” This indoctrination of vulnerable, innocent children into LGBTQ+ ideology is evil disguised as good. Notice there is no attempt at presenting the dangers inherent in the current transgender fad–no mention of the Chloe Coles or even the significant traumas of Jazz Jennings. No mention of the impossibility of changing from male to female and vice versa; no mention of the mental illness that prompts the desire to achieve the impossible; no mention of the grifters who make money from this insanity– the drug companies and surgeons who are reaping such a fortune that this is listed on the stock market; no mention of people like Jeanette Jennings, Jazz’ mother, who has become rich off her son’s misery. Of course the whole story can’t be told because the content is unsuitable for children, and by that I mean all of it. Add to this the large number of souls who stand in peril buying into this insanity. Those pushing this new month are themselves, knowingly or unknowingly, doing the work of Satan, the father of lies, and are putting Christian teachers’ and administrators’ jobs on the line.
When is Straight Pride Month?
Or, Straight History Month? Straight Math Month??
When is Chastity Pride and Humility Month?
Marriage month? Celibacy month?
Sexual topics don’t need special months. Maybe LA and other districts could try emphasizing Reading, Writing, Math, Science, U.S. History, Physical Education, and other subjects for all students; a job, their primary task, that they’re failing at.
“Maybe LA and other districts could try emphasizing Reading, Writing, Math, Science, U.S. History, Physical Education, and other subjects …” What an original thought. It is easier to teach indoctrination into moral sloth than to teach the particulars of math, science, English etc. Who cares if Johnny can’t read or write, or solve mathematical equations, as long as he can hold up a Pride flag when called upon to do so.
Whoever should cause one of these little ones to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large Millstone hung around their neck, and be drowned in the depths of the sea.
Young children are “tabula rasa”, minds lacking in knowledge and the experiences of life. That is the point of this Gay indoctrination, to fill the minds of the young with gay propaganda. This is a criminal activity, and parents must guard their children carefully, even in schools. Teachers and politicians must be held accountable for these crimes.
Well said, jon.
Why?
Restrainer believes Teachers and Politicians should not be held accountable for these crimes. Why? he muses.
Correction: well said Joe. Would that it were jon. Sadly, gay propaganda is regarded as vital, virtue-laden information by our blessed California legislators and governor, so much so that the withholding of such from children–these same would regard this as criminal. My how thoroughly decimated is Christianity by the culture war.
Having all these days to celebrate the destruction of the soul and body is definitely overkill in more ways than one.