A group of parents in North Hollywood in Los Angeles, California, is planning to keep their children home from school on June 2 because of a planned school assembly to observe LGBTQ+ Pride month.
Parents at Saticoy Elementary School are outraged at the event, which appears to be part of a broader observance within the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) of June as Pride month.
A post on the parents’ Instagram page says:
Keep your kids home on June 2nd! We are parents of elementary school children, who have the right to introduce sexually explicit topics at our discretion. Yes any topic that is related to LGBTQ is is sexually explicit. Why? Our children are innocent and have no idea what is out there. We as parents have the right to introduce these topics at our discretion. Instead we are being forced into talking about topics that should not burden our children for many years to come.
Another post explains that the school has “a large population of Armenian & Hispanic families many who are Christian & or share conservative values [and] don’t feel this material is appropriate to teach to the children and believe it’s a parents’ [sic] right to choose.”
The parents are also organizing a protest outside the school on the day of the Pride assembly, reported local news outlet KTLA-5, which added that not everyone in the community agreed with the protest.
A document on the LAUSD website called “Queer All School Year” includes ideas for validating LGBTQ+ students, staff, and parents. In addition to celebrating Pride month, it also advocates supporting Black Lives Matter.
The LAUSD responded cautiously to parents’ concerns, as reported by the Los Angeles Times:
In a statement, the Los Angeles Unified School District said it remains committed to “creating a safe and inclusive learning environment that embraces the diversity of the communities we serve….”
From Breitbart.com.
This is a growing problem in California, as the voting population of many cities no longer overlaps the parent population. The voters (even if they never had kids in the public schools) run the schools, the parents have natural rights over the education of their children, and clashes like this will only become more common.
This old Catholic school teacher says: parents, get out as you can, to private or home-schooling.
I cannot tell you the horror and revulsion I feel, seeing LGBT books promoted now in children’s libraries, and occasionally seeing two pervert daddies or mommies together, with babies and little toddlers and preschoolers in tow, picking out children’s books, and attending children’s libraries’ events.
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I am now 94.” Way back when” my daughter was in elementary school, I was fighting what was being taught. . I had a newsletter in which I published articles and wrote books about “Death Education” (yes, they took kids to a funeral home), Drug education that promoted drug use,and something called “Values Clarification” that upended parental values.Of course, there was the abominable sex education. Nothing has changed for the better — everything has gotten worse — far worse than ever expected. At that time I urged parents to take their kids out of government schools. Of course, they “couldn’t” — Mom had to work or had other priorities or Mom didn’t think herself smart enough to teach basic skills.. In my humble opinion, the “education” situation” will continue to worsen until enough parents have the will and gumption to take their kids away from the indoctrinators.. It’s simple — the schools wouldn’t exist without the kids!
Get a copy of my book, “Change Agents in the Schools” on Amazon. It was published in 1979.
Thank you “old Catholic school teacher” for saying the obvious.– get into homeschooling. (Often, private schools today are part of the problem).
In the Midwest and South, some parents have retaken control of through the election of responsive school boards (and governors), but in California, that’s not likely. I recall a few of the things you mentioned (not that they were always policies in schools in which I taught), and even well-intentioned ideas were presented in morally hollow fashion: all the reasoning was consequentialist. On drugs, for example there was no mention of the sin of intemperance and our responsibility to God to maintain the health of our bodies and the integrity of our will and reason, which illicit drugs and excessive alcohol injure, and here’s how this drug hurts us, etc. True education is about virtue, not just bodily health. But the drug “educators” at least wanted physically healthy kids; the alphabet crowd wants affirmation of lifestyles that are harmfully spiritually and physically, even to the point of mutilation, and increasingly, if your kid’s in their school, he can’t get out of this “education for death”.
The last thing I told my last Religion class before retirement was to beware the lie of trans: that “male and female He created them”. I’m off the line now, but still pray for all still in the fight.
I looked up your book. 1979? I did not have kids in school back then.
I was more concerned about the witchcraft/vampire/shapeshifter things when mine was in school.
This is K-5.
I think, like you, don’t put your kids in government schools.
You could start a gofundme type of thing for private/charter/Catholic school tuition.
I’m sorry someone gave you a down vote. May you continue to be a virtuoso on the keyboard for many more years!
Hi Barbara Morris, I thank you for writing that book. I hadn’t heard of it before. I’ve read “deliberate dumbing down of america” by Charlotte Iserbyt. She tried to inform The Heritage Foundation but they ignored her warnings. We can’t trust anyone now. I also heard tapes by Catholic author William Coulson. A recent book by a Catholic author is important reading, “Get Out Now: why you should pull your child out of public school before it’s too late” by Hasson and Farnan.
Parents must answer to God for what they teach their children. Better to keep kids home than willingly subject them to sin and degeneracy.
Three year old asked where I got the cheese I was eating. I said it fell out of the sky. She asked how. I said someone threw it from a plane. She asked why. I said it was a Cheese Plane. They fly by and throw cheese. She is now outside looking to the heavens, hoping for cheese.
Honest people never pretend to be dishonest people.
Hopefully, Hispanic and Armenian families aren’t the only ones to see this evil and have the courage to stand against it.
I think Islamic families when they do this go uncondemned publicly .
The children should be put first.
Work it out like adults, please.
Good time to teach your kids how to love all people.
Good time to teach your children right from wrrong– and protect them from all Evil.
I am always greatly offended seeing “Pride” month observed at San Francisco libraries and Senior centers, which help needy Seniors– and in all other public places. There should be no such thing as “Pride” month, or the “Pride parade,” or anything like it. That’s because it celebrates the sinful LGBT “lifestyle” of sin, trying to wrongfully force acceptance of these vile, mortal sins on the public. That should be strictly illegal! However, there ought to be a nice public program, just to educate people and encourage them to practice kindness and friendliness to all people, of all walks of life. That’s all. Uganda just passed their strict “anti-gay” law. I think it ought to be called, just the “anti-gay sex” law, ecause it is sinful, pervert LGBT sex behavior that is illegal. You can get up to 10 years in prison, for committing gay pervert sex acts (that’s too many years, though, I think). And you can get the Death Penalty for LGBT rape of a child, an AIDS patient or other vulnerable patients. I think that gay pervert sex acts, pornography, and LGBT propaganda should all be illegal in America and all Western countries, with strict penalties for these types of crimes, if children, and all minors, and vulnerable people are involved. I also have long thought that premarital and extramarital sex should be strictly prohibited and illegal, for heterosexuals. When registering for a hotel room, or in renting a place to live, or buying a home together, a couple must show that they are legally married. No “shacking up.”
Why fight the public school/teachers union monopoly? Transcend it — with School Choice. Even the public schools would be forced to compete and improve or perish.
Voucher Schools: Freedom, Choice, Competition, Excellence.
Live it, learn it, love it.
In the meantime, however, keep your kids out of the Public Sewers.
Target stores have been receiving big bomb threats from LGBT activists since removing LGBT merchandise from their stores. These violent LGBT activists have been using bomb threats for decades, now, to force their agendas on the public. I think these groups should be classified by the government, FBI and Attorney General, as violent, dangerous criminals that should be locked up in jail for their bomb threats.
You are catastrophizing.
After Target announced that it was pulling some merchandize, there were threats in Utah which were found to be not credible.
In Ohio, someone emailed a news outlet and said that they had put bombs in 4 stores and 1 in Pennsylvania which was a hoax.
Target pulled the merchandize because of some threats to its employees safety.
Law enforcement are much more concerned about violence from alt-right agents than from LGBTQ agents.
Regardless of whether a bomb threat turns out to be false, you must always take bomb threats seriously, and protect the public. Violent gay activists and pro-abortionisrs belong in jail. No one should ever give in to their violent demands.
You should stop. Everyone can google Target bomb threats and see what the real story is.
Googling does not matter. The public needs to be protected from all violence, always. Violent criminals who make bomb threats belong in jail.
Target losses are currently at $12.4 billion, due to their LGBT promotions, especially babies’ and children’s clothing. These LGBT babies’, children’s, and teens’ clothing items should be illegal. Kids of all ages should be kept safe, far from the filthy, dangerous, perverted, sinful LGBT culture.
Where did you come up with that number? Brick and mortar stores are hurting everywhere and for a while now. Not because of a two week overnight campaign people who break the law and threaten employees. I hope the vandals are prosecuted the same way Cordileone wants the vandals in Marin prosecuted to the fullest extent.
YFC, these figures regarding Target, Bud Light, and similar companies can be found in the “Wall Street Journal,” and many other news sources. All of them warn that these companies are daily losing billions.
Target does expect to lose billions because of theft. That report came out before Target was targeted.
The billions that you read that Target lost is because of a drop in stock prices. So it can keep going down or go back up.
The media wants to put it on the protest but I don’t know.
It could be, but when you look at the shares traded, it seems like it might be people manipulating it.
I bet the government will be investigating.
Well now we see that all of retail is off.
House of cards.
It is not losses. It is market capital on the stock market.
It is probably not because of this. The stock price does not usually reflect things like this but it makes a good screen for those who want to divest. Do you know how the stock market works?
It is a dividend stock. It is still too pricey for me. If it gets lower, I might consider buying it.
People invest to make money.
Anyone who buys and sells a stock to support a cultural agenda is not a smart investor.
If these people are doing this to manipulate stock prices, it is probably illegal.
The people who get hurt of those who have to sell because of illness, death, some kind of money crisis.
This is not something to gloat over.
Be rational. Not emotional.
This is a K-5 school. There should not be any lesbians, gays or bisexuals in it. There could be transgender, queer or questioning students.
These conditions may be a sign of autism.
I don’t think it is appropriate to have a neurodiversity day.
People should point out that the government of California requires children to have an education. Not everyone can afford private schools and not everyone can homeschool. If the government is going to require that children be educated then a free public education is necessary. It is exploitive to use it for social change or grooming (grooming does not have to be sexual in nature).
I agree with the parents who are keeping their children home.
Not as much with the protests. Nothing says “I’m powerless” more than protests and you are not powerless.
Each parent that cares should send a well-thought out, rational email to school with copies to the school board and the government entities that are appropriate.
Boycotts are not illegal. You can boycott Bud Light or the LA Dodgers-that is fine.
Calling for a boycott of Target or Kohls to pressure them into not buying from certain manufacturers may be illegal.
Also Target paid a dividend on May 16 and you expect the stock price to go down after that. This one fell a lot more than it should have though.
stay home; one less day of indoctrination