‘Queer All School Year’: Los Angeles School District Forces Gender Theory Into Classroom

The Los Angeles Unified School District is using presentations, training programs, and clubs to instruct K-12 students on gender identity. (Photo Illustration: JackF/Getty Images)

The largest public school district in California is teaching a curriculum promoting transgenderism and gender theory to children, according to public documents.

The Human Relations, Diversity, and Equity department at Los Angeles Unified School District is using presentations, training programs, and clubs to instruct K-12 students on gender identity, according to public documents, first reported by City Journal, that include classroom instruction materials and district-sponsored event calendars. The “trans-affirming” curriculum first appeared during the 2020-2021 academic school year.

For example, the district hosted a virtual conference that featured a panel of “queer 7th graders” to advise parents on what their “queer middle schoolers want you to know,” the documents showed. The conference also included a presentation encouraging queer athletes to “come out.”

A workshop on “International Transgender Day of Visibility” said “history has a disturbing way of elevating certain voices while silencing others,” the documents showed. The presentation focused on raising awareness for the transgender community to achieve “trans justice.”

The “Standing with LGBTQ+ Students, Staff and Families,” run by school administrators, taught “local social justice engagement” and gave out free “gender-affirming clothing,” the documents stated. Teachers were instructed how students can be “Muslim and Trans” and taught how to address different “religious objections” to gender theory.

A trans-affirming calendar, deemed “Queer All School Year,” featured different pride events in each month such as the “Standing With LGBTQ Students Conference,” according to the documents. The training program “Queering Culture & Race” promoted the abandonment of gendered expressions such as “boys and girls.”

“The Black community often holds rigid and traditional views of sexual orientation and gender expression,” the presentation documents showed. “Black LGBTQ youth experience homophobia and transphobia from their familial communities.”

Teachers in the district are instructed to address a student by their chosen name and pronouns, and are not permitted to alert the parents of the student if they change, the documents said. Students were also told they can use any pronouns, including “tree” or “ze.”

The school also established a “gender neutral dress code and school uniform policy” as an “elimination of barriers,” the documents stated.

More than 600,000 students attend the K-12 education in the school district that includes more than 115 schools and campuses, making it the second-largest district in the nation, according to the school’s website.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/07/21/queer-all-school-year-los-angeles-school-district-forces-gender-theory-into-classroom

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‘Cancel culture’ backfires as donors pull cash from Edinburgh University

The University of Edinburgh has seen its donations slump by almost £2 million after it “cancelled” the philosopher David Hume over his slavery links.

The institution said that 24 donations and 12 legacies had been “cancelled, amended or withdrawn” in response to the September 2020 renaming of a prominent campus building dedicated to its former student, one of the leading figures of the Scottish enlightenment.

While he argued against the institution of slavery, Hume was condemned by student activists largely for a footnote in a 1758 essay in which he said he was “apt to suspect the negroes to be naturally inferior to the whites”.

The David Hume Tower was rechristened 40 George Square with the university claiming that while Hume’s opinions were “not uncommon” when he wrote them more than 250 years ago, they “rightly cause distress today”.

While it refused to say how much money had been withdrawn by donors directly due to the renaming row, overall donations to the university fell from £23.2 million in 2020-21, to £21.3 million the following year.

A small number of those to cancel donations also cited the treatment of the academic Neil Thin, who was investigated and later acquitted after wrongly being accused by students of expressing racist and other “problematic” views.

Dr Thin, a senior lecturer, was a vocal critic of the campaign to rename the tower.

Pam Gosul, the Scottish Tory spokesman for higher education, said: “The reduction in donations will offer university bosses the chance to reflect on decisions they have taken.”

The information was disclosed to the Scottish Daily Mail in response to a Freedom of Information request.

The university said that while it knew how much cash it had lost from donors who specifically cited the Hume and Thin controversies, it would not make the total public as it considered this commercially sensitive.

A spokesman said: “Every year, several thousand donors support our students and life-changing research, for which we are deeply grateful.

“Views among our donors will vary widely and we respect the fact individuals may sometimes disagree with decisions we take, and may choose to suspend or cancel their support.

“We always want to thank them for their generosity on behalf of the students, researchers and communities beyond campus who have benefited.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/20/cancel-culture-backfires-edinburgh-university-loses-donors-david/

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Teachers' body urges mandatory bag and pocket checks of students to stop 'out of control' vaping in schools

Vaping in schools is so 'out of control' that a leading teachers' body is begging for pocket checks and bag searches to be imposed on students as they enter the classroom.

A recent survey of 196 Australian schools found more than 80 per cent of high schools are aware of students who vape, with 16 per cent of parents or guardians giving their children e-cigarettes.

Teachers' Professional Association of Queensland secretary Tracy Tully said stricter measures must be put in place to tackle the looming health crisis.

'They should be doing bag checks and pocket searches on entry to schools. It's not a privacy issue, all the schools would have to do is amend their behavioural management plans,' Ms Tully told The Courier Mail.

'These vape instruments are very hard to detect, they can be so easily concealed.'

A George Institute for Global Health study found more than half of the students and teachers surveyed believe vaping has resulted in a 'shift in school culture'.

It revealed lunch was the most popular time to vape for high school students, with before and after school the preferred times for primary school kids.

A small number of respondents across primary and high schools reported students had even vaped in classrooms.

Bathrooms and sporting fields, however, were the two most popular locations for students to vape.

George Institute's Professor Simone Pettigrew said the research suggested Australian students have easy access to vapes.

'Our study shows some concerning trends in e-cigarette use in Australian schools – particularly primary schools – that need to be nipped in the bud to prevent future harm,' he said.

It is estimated around 400,000 Australians now vape, including one tenth of the NSW population aged 16-24, with numbers doubling in the last year.

Experts warn e-cigarettes are actually even more dangerous for teens than smoking cigarettes.

The battery-powered vapes work by heating the liquid inside and producing an aerosol which is then inhaled.

But the vapour - once touted as a safer alternative to cigarettes - is made up of various 'cancer-causing' chemicals such as heavy metals - even if labelled 'nicotine free'.

Other risks of vaping can include cardiovascular disease and mental illness.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11048941/Vaping-school-Teachers-body-urges-bag-pocket-checks-students.html

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