Fairfax, Va. Parents Rally Against Policy Punishing Their Middle-Schoolers For Calling Boys Boys And

[Kamaji]

Fairfax, Va. Parents Rally Against Policy Punishing Their Middle-Schoolers For Calling Boys Boys And Girls Girls

‘Our enthusiasm for the First Amendment will not wane; we will not stop paying attention,’ said mom Stephanie Lundquist-Arora.

BY: OLIVIA HAJICEK
MAY 28, 2022

Parents rallied outside of Luther Jackson Middle School in Fairfax, Va., on Thursday in opposition to a proposed policy change that would increase penalties on fourth- through sixth-graders for “misgendering” or “deadnaming” people — for example, addressing a boy as “he” even though he calls himself a female, or calling “transgender or gender-expansive” people by a name other than their chosen name.

The Fairfax County School Board was initially scheduled to consider this change to the Student Rights and Responsibilities guide at their meeting that evening, but they rescheduled discussion of the topic to June 16.

“It could be that some people are waiting for the stillness and quiet of a summer evening when we’re all not paying attention,” said Stephanie Lundquist-Arora, a mother who spoke at the event. “But I’m here to say, our enthusiasm for the First Amendment will not wane; we will not stop paying attention, even in the summer months.”

In addition to this policy change, rally-goers expressed concern about declining education quality and racist and sexualized materials in schools. Asra Nomani, who is a senior contributor at The Federalist and whose son graduated from the school system, showed a group of parents a stack of books she said were in schools around the country.

In a children’s book called “Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness,” Nomani showed the other parents a line that read, “Innocence is overrated.” Nomani also held up a book for teenagers called “Let’s Talk About It: The Teen’s Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human.” The book had cartoon illustrations of people who were naked and engaged in sexual acts. Nomani showed the parents where the book encouraged teens to post pornography of themselves online.

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Source:  https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/28/fairfax-va-parents-rally-against-policy-punishing-their-middle-schoolers-for-calling-boys-boys-and-girls-girls/

[Fishrrman]

Why are these parents still sending the kids to public schools...???

Take them OUT OF the public schools, and put them into private schools -- preferably ones that accept no government money.

I would reckon that if you're south of the Mason-Dixon line, the best place to send kids for a K-12 education these days is in one of [what were formerly called] "segregation academies". They're still around, and although they're no longer "strictly segregated" I sense that of all the schools, these are the ones in which a "traditional education based upon white/Christian/Western European culture" is most likely to still be taught.

[PeteS in CA]

Whether parents enroll their children in private schools or homeschool their children, it's often a huge lifestyle decision. Private school tuition is expensive and if the household is single-income, becoming two-income is almost forced. OTOH, homeschooling all but forces a family to be single-income (or single-income plus some side gig), a significant change for a two-income family.

Apparently, many families are making one or the other of those changes, but not because it's easy.

[Smokin Joe]

This has reached the point where the private schools can't handle the students if everyone were to take their kids out of the schools the taxpayers fund. That might save individual kids, but it will not stop the nonsense, which is what needs to happen.  Whoever is promoting this stuff needs to lose their job, and any position that gives them enough influence to continue or promote this egregious pandering while being funded by tax dollars. Making people who do not have issues, academic or personal, shut down the programs that might permit them to achieve excellence in academics (STEM or otherwise) to pander to the social/emotional issues of a few is not the ticket to strength, economically, scientifically, medically, or militarily in this nation's future.

This is the tip of an iceberg of indoctrination, and it must be stopped before an entire generation (already harmed, academically, by COVID policy) gets wrecked to the point that the future of the Nation is imperiled.
It is a matter of National Security, whether that is evident today or becomes so thirty years from now.