The news comes as the quality of education in Los Angeles has become something resembling the film “Idiocracy.”

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.)

Los Angeles isn’t the only city that is taking “Coming Out Day” as another opportunity to influence students into embracing progressive ideology. Grace Church High School in New York did the same two years ago.

While teachers and other members of school staff are busy trying to indoctrinate small children into embracing the wonders of queer theory and transgenderism, proficiency in subjects like reading, writing, and arithmetic are collapsing worse than Joe Biden trying to climb stairs.

A closer look at the statistics shows some alarming findings.

In 2022, 61 percent of third-graders in the Los Angeles Unified School District did not meet California’s watered-down, equity-driven standard for English. Children not reading by third grade will fall further and further behind in school, since they will be ill-prepared to absorb ever more complex academic content across a range of fields.

In 2022, 59 percent of third-graders failed to meet the state’s already-low standard for math competency. Over 76 percent of LAUSD eighth-graders did not meet math standards. Eighth-grade math is a make-or-break point, after which poorly performing students become ever less likely to master the skills necessary for STEM careers or admission to selective schools.

These numbers are not mere digits on a piece of paper. They are indicative of a generation of kids who are unprepared to face the challenges of adulthood. While school districts like LAUSD are trying to influence young minds, they are also dumbing them down and ensuring that they do not possess the skills they need to prosper after they grow up.

There are some obvious questions that arise from this development. For starters, why does LAUSD believe it is so important to embed a specific ideological perspective on sexuality and gender identity into the classroom to the point that it takes away from teaching children important skills?

Moreover, how many of the district’s parents are aware of what is happening at their children’s schools? Do they approve of this? Does it bother them that their kids are not getting a quality education?

When it comes to California, it is difficult to tell. Indeed, many parents are fully on board with the agenda going on in schools. However, there are still plenty who do not co-sign this blatant indoctrination but are either unaware that it is happening or don't know what they can do about it.