There's a time and a place for everything, and it's called college. Elementary schools, on the other hand, are the place for teaching kids the basics that will serve them well later in their education; some basics like mathematics, history, reading and writing, and so on. Why? Because (as I keep saying, and will keep saying) education has but one purpose: To produce young adults with marketable skills.
Elementary education is where this starts, with lessons on, for example, knowing that it's incorrect to refer to a single person with a plural pronoun.
Schavey Road Elementary School, in DeWitt, Michigan, located just under 10 miles north of Lansing, doesn't see it that way.
A Michigan elementary school district is doubling down on a lesson for students about using novel gender pronouns, including the phrase "tree," with the superintendent saying it promoted "inclusivity."
Schavey Road Elementary School, in DeWitt, Mich., sent out a letter on April 11 informing parents of the school’s plans to "help students share and explore pronouns" in a lesson using the book "They She He Me: Free to Be!" by Maya Gonzalez, which includes cartoon pictures of men and women using interchangeable pronouns. The letter also states parents are able to opt their children out of the curriculum.
"We would like to inform you of a lesson that will be taught in your child's classroom," the April 11 letter said. "The lesson goals are to help students share and explore pronouns through discussion and literature to embrace differences and promote acceptance."
The book teaches kids to embrace nonbinary gender terminology, including "zie" and "tree."
"Zie" and "tree"? Seriously? And they want to teach this to elementary school kids? Kids at the age where the boys are still saying they want to be Batman when they grow up?
Oh, sure, they claim that parents can opt their children out. (I would.) But these books are brought in by people with an agenda; those people are teachers and school staff, and their agenda is advocacy of gender theory. Specifically, teaching gender ideology to children - other people's elementary-school-age children.
But wait! There's more!
"On the inside, you may not feel like a he or she at all," the book states. "Maybe they feels most free or you may feel like both she and he."
Children are taught they can "claim" their pronouns outside "he and she" by creating the way they want to be addressed.
That statement is promoting transgenderism, to children who are not physically or emotionally prepared for discussing a topic like this. Adults have enough trouble wrapping their brains around this nitwittery; it's a dereliction of duty on the part of these educators to subject grade-schoolers to it.
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The letter sent to parents, by the way, was signed by both Schavey Road Elementary Principal Liz Crouch, and DeWitt Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Shanna Spickard. Frankly, both of them should be cashiered.
Fortunately, one local figure is standing up to this nonsense.
Tom Barrett, the Republican House candidate for the district where the school is located, called it "outrageous gender politics."
"There are ample ways and countless books that encourage kids to respect one another that most importantly don’t involve teaching outrageous gender politics and preferred pronouns to 6-year-olds, especially when most adults can’t keep up with their evolving definitions," he told Fox News Digital. "This is another attempt at robbing our kids of their childhoods."
This seems like a good place to point out that homeschooling is an accepted practice in Michigan.
Subjects like this, pushed by educators on gullible children years before they should be thinking about anything related to sex, are not education. It is indoctrination, and you can rest assured if they are teaching children that it's OK to address a single person as "they" or to call someone "xe" or "tree" or "borborygmi," then those same educators are teaching your kids all other sorts of leftist claptrap.
This will end when parents end it. Parents who want to teach their kids gender theory and pronoun silliness can do it at home. Parents who want their kids educated should be showing up at school board meetings and demanding a cease to this kind of thing, and it sure looks like DeWitt, Michigan, would be a good place to start. Parents are, after all, paying for these schools with their tax dollars--and it's not just parents who are picking up that tab. My property taxes here in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough largely go to support the Borough schools, and our youngest kids have been out of school for a decade.
It's time taxpayers demanded to get their money's worth out of the schools. Teaching gender theory does nothing to equip these kids with useful knowledge.
