Apparently most of us were ill served by our high school education. But, don’t worry, our children will have that fixed for them. You see, we oldsters were thoroughly misinformed into thinking that there was only two genders in the human animal: male and female. But now, through the wonders of the modern, radical re-education racket, comes the new-new way of seeing “a whole world out there full of different genders.”
Confused? Well, that’s because the radical gender lobby hasn’t gotten hold of your schooling like it has in Vermont where high schoolers are exposed to the fantasy science of “gender studies.” That’s right, now our kids will be taught that there’s far, far more to gender than male and female. And guess what? Your tax dollars are paying for this tripe. It’s “Gendertopia,” folks and it’s funded by an extreme homosexual advocacy group called Outright Vermont in conjunction with Vermont’s Burlington School District.
This is a nine-week, after-school program, held at Vermont’s Queer Youth Center, exposing kids to what its creators said was a way to help kids “explore gender.” The warped propaganda seemed to have had the desired effect if this quote from a student is any indication:
“Most people come into it thinking, ‘Oh, there’s two genders and two sexualities’ … ,” said David Kingsbury, a 16-year-old junior at Burlington High School who signed up for the program. “People assume it’s boy and girl, but it’s so much more than that. There’s a whole world out there full of different genders.”
Sadly this queer group is claimed to have “moved into the main stream of youth social service organizations” as far as the Associated Press is concerned, because the program did not seem to face much community protest. Likely no one knew much about it as schools are becoming famous for not telling parents what they are doing to their kids these days.
And what was this whole thing sold as achieving? Why making sure that kids have “self esteem,” what else?
The program was designed to help young people identify the subtle signals used to express gender and how not being aware of those signals can lower self esteem and possibly lead to an increase in at-risk activities like substance abuse or dropping out of school, Neff said.
Cuz, gosh, we all know that American kids have a singular lack of self esteem, and all.
Once again we see the radical gay lobby targeting our kids for re-education and using a compliant educational establishment to spread their propaganda.
If you want to see how ill served students can be, catch this blinkered, feels-good “reasoning” employed by another one of the brainwashed kids from Vermont:
“I’m straight, but I don’t like using that word because then it feels like if you’re gay then you’re crooked, you’re not meant to grow up in a certain way,” Sophia Manzi, 15, a Burlington high school freshman, said during this year’s final “Gendertopia” meeting. “I come because it’s a really good program. The people, it doesn’t matter what sexual orientation you are, they totally come in with open arms.”
This radical gay propaganda should be summarily removed from our schools. And listen, I no more want a “Hustler magazine” class implemented for high schoolers, either. There is NO place in high school to teach aberrant sexual practices no matter who those practices involve. A man or a woman, two men, two women or what have you. None of it has anything to do with the education necessary to our kid’s future.
The reality is that this program is just one more example of the downfall of an American education. Gone are the days when education meant reading, math, science and history. Now it is queer studies, gender re-engineering, and self esteem building. It’s no wonder that so many universities and colleges are finding that kids just graduated from high school are completely unable to understand college level material. They’ve spent their last 12 or so years being taught to “feel” good as opposed to learning anything.
For shame, Vermont, for so abusing your kid’s education and for wasting your taxpayer’s money on this nonsense.
Steve Maley
Neil Stevens
Daniel Horowitz
"they totally come in with open arms"
molybdanthan (Diary) Monday, June 8th at 7:34AM EST (link)What the hell is wrong with parents in Vermont? For shame indeed.
I totally want to link to that song from Team America.
Warner, I actually read the article you linked to.
redstatebluestate123 (Diary) Monday, June 8th at 10:25AM EST (link)What you’re complaining about is an optional after-school program held off-campus at the local youth center and attended by a dozen kids. Moreover, it appears to be more about the social aspects of gender than anything else.
“‘We’re really clear that gender and gender identify is separate from sexual orientation,’ Neff said. “Hugh Grant and Russell Crowe have the same sex, they’re both male and they’re both heterosexual. But they have very different gender presentations. One is sort of seen as much more masculine than the other.’”
So, while I think this is not particularly useful stuff to be studying, I see nothing particularly objectionable in there. Furthermore, certainly nothing that suggests that allowing 12 kids to attend an after-school program discussing this is a problem.
gender "identity" vs gender studies are poisonous - nt
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Monday, June 8th at 10:29AM EST (link)Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
It is an indoctrination program
molybdanthan (Diary) Monday, June 8th at 10:43AM EST (link)There’s no attempt to provide an opposing point of view here. The kids are given the new group-think model, and that’s all they get.
amen - to call it "education" is a monstrosity - nt
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Monday, June 8th at 10:47AM EST (link)Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
redstatebluestate
mom2oneson (Diary) Monday, June 8th at 10:54AM EST (link)This is one example of many. For years even in K and 1st grades they have had books like Heather Has Two _____. I won’t type the title in case there are kids reading the board. It doesn’t have to be an all out curriculum either. Cartoons and photographs in the textbooks are full of attacks on the traditional family and gender roles. Even the way the stuff is presented is to confuse children’s thought process.
What exactly are they learning?
mailloux (Diary) Monday, June 8th at 10:39AM EST (link)I work at a university. It’s a state school and has a very good reputation for engineering. Yet, about 60 – 65% of first time new freshmen (these are your traditionally aged students fresh from high school) need remediation in both math and English. In other words, they are incapable of basic algebra and piecing together a coherent paragraph. Just what is all that time in high school being spent on? Obviously, it’s not reading, writing, and arithmetic.
I’ve also noticed that by a large majority, students are quite liberal by the time they get here. I just have to wonder how much of that comes from their public education vs. their families. I suspect a significant amount comes from their formal pre-college education.
Fear not, though, they will get plenty more liberal indoctrination once they get here via their general education courses . . . there are deliberate efforts to infuse these required courses with as much gender and race based pseudo science as possible.
Warner, thanks for posting this . . . whether this program is voluntary and occurs afterschool is irrelevant. The fact that it is even available and blessed by the school district says it all.
Take Care, mailloux
ditto 'lloux, thx for mail'-ing that in! - smile - nt
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Monday, June 8th at 10:49AM EST (link)Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
Mike, thanks to you for jumping in above; you said it more succinctly than I . . .
mailloux (Diary) Monday, June 8th at 11:00AM EST (link)gender studies are indeed “poisonous”.
Take Care, mailloux
not only do the school teach it
mom2oneson (Diary) Monday, June 8th at 11:01AM EST (link)to the kids but they bait the kids against their parents for being stupid like not aggreeing with their liberal green/perversions/fill in the blank garbage. They prey on the process of children becoming young men and women (Like them growing up and being a seperate person from their parents.) Sick.
mom2oneson, "sick" is an appropriate descriptor . . .
mailloux (Diary) Monday, June 8th at 11:06AM EST (link)and might I add diabolical as well. Their tactics are enough to make C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape and Wormwood blush with envy.
Take Care, mailloux