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General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: TomSea on November 05, 2016, 02:36:14 pm

Title: Canada: Teachers’ union urges schools to host drag shows, use ‘comrade’ instead of ‘boy’ and ‘girl’
Post by: TomSea on November 05, 2016, 02:36:14 pm

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Teachers’ union urges schools to host drag shows, use ‘comrade’ instead of ‘boy’ and ‘girl’

EDMONTON, Alberta, November 4, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) — Parental rights advocates are up in arms over a just released Alberta teachers' union resource to help teachers discuss LGBTQ issues that recommends staging “drag” shows in schools, referring to students as “comrades” rather than “boys” and “girls,” and having students take part in letter-writing campaigns to advocate LGBTQ rights internationally.

The 150-page “Prism Toolkit for safe and caring discussions” is intended for use in Grades 7 to 12. Produced by the Alberta Teachers Association (ATA) with funds from the Alberta government, the Toolkit was released October 31, and will be provided free of charge to every ATA member.

But Donna Trimble, executive director of Parents for Choice in Education, has blasted the document as “definitely discriminatory,” asserting that “it makes a judgment statement that gender fluidity is the only idea that really is acceptable.”

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Title: Re: Canada: Teachers’ union urges schools to host drag shows, use ‘comrade’ instead of ‘boy’ and ‘girl’
Post by: Oceander on November 05, 2016, 02:42:39 pm

The use of "comrade" doesn't also get the Parents for Choice group up in arms as well?