General Motors Funds Transgenderism Efforts in Children’s Classrooms

General Motors (GM) provided a grant to a pro-transgender organization that supplies kindergarten and elementary classrooms with children’s books that support its ideology.

The Detroit-based automaker made a donation last year to the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network’s (GLSEN) “Rainbow Library” Program, according to its 2021 Social Impact Report (pdf).

The pro-transgender organization is known for lobbying school districts to allow boys who have undergone sex changes to play on girls’ sports teams and use female-specific restrooms, Breitbart reported.

The GM report admitted to funding the “Rainbow Library’s” efforts to provide “supportive curriculum materials and book sets that are LGBTQ+ centered, racially diverse, and multicultural to K-12 schools.”

“This innovative program also provides ongoing support and professional guidance for educators to create inclusive, supportive and identity-safe classrooms nationwide,” it continued.

GM did not mention how much money was awarded to the pro-transgender group, but did it provide “$86.7 million in cash and in-kind donations to nonprofits working to help create inclusive solutions to social issues around the world” in 2021, according to the report.

Pro-Transgender Organization Attempts to Change School Curriculum

GLSEN has been accused of allegedly trying to add “trans and non-binary” gender theory into school policies and curriculum.

According to its website, GLSEN provides a list of lesson plans, “educator guides” and professional development training for educators.

Although the GLSEN has no complete list of the titles in their program, the books were selected based on the Stonewall Award and the Rainbow Book List of the American Library Association, according to School Library Journal.

One of the books, which can be found on Amazon, is called “I am Jazz,” about a boy who discovered that he was a girl from the age of two.

Another example from the book list is the sexually explicit “Gender Queer” by Maia Kabobe, which contains depictions of sexual activities and descriptions of fantasies and experiments.

Megan Brock, a parent’s rights advocate, accused GLSEN of attempting to exploit their “Rainbow Library” program to “covertly groom children and influence educational policy,” in a Twitter post.

Brock posted a video of a GLSEN meeting of what appears to be staff discussing the promotion of transgender books to children.

In addition to children’s books, the organization has been trying to influence school math departments with articles like “How Do We Make Math Class More Inclusive of Trans and Non-Binary Identities?”

Schools And Educators Promote Transgender Group’s Agenda
GLSEN created a “Trans Action Kit” (pdf) for students and teachers to engage in pro-LGBT activism and encouraged the construction of pseudo-religious altars for the celebration of its “Transgender Day of Remembrance,” so kids could pray for deceased transgender persons.

Meanwhile, Chevrolet, which is also owned by GM, donated an additional $25,000 to GLSEN, The Post Millennial reported.

“With this latest LGBTQ+ focused partnership, we are building on that history and reinforcing Chevy’s commitment to driving substantive cultural progress,” said Chevrolet’s Vice President of Marketing, Steve Majoros.

Over the past several years, GM said it has been supportive of LGBT workers, according to its website.

“In recent years, GM and Chevrolet have provided grants to GLSEN to support their work to create safe, supportive and LGBTQ-inclusive learning environments for students. This is just one of the many initiatives and causes that GM has supported as the company provides philanthropic grants to hundreds of nonprofits each year,” wrote a spokeswoman for GM and Chevrolet to The Epoch Times.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/general-motors-funds-transgenderism-efforts-in-childrens-classrooms_4953407.html

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Masks make a comeback: Hundreds of thousands of students across the US will be forced to wear face coverings when classes go back

Hundreds of thousands of students across the US will be forced to wear face masks in class when schools go back this week as controversial mandates make a return.

Despite Covid infection rates plateauing for months, elementary and high schools in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania have made face coverings a condition of entry for students returning from the holidays.

Education officials claim the policy is to prevent a boom in respiratory illnesses after increased mixing during the first normal Christmas and New Year in years.

But there is little evidence that face masks actually reduce infection rates, and mounting research shows the mandates stunted children's social development and education, and robbed them of vital immunity to other seasonal bugs like flu and RSV.

There are growing concerns that damaging Covid policies could creep back into American life after the US Government announced all passengers from China - suffering a major outbreak - would be tested upon entry, despite no proof that policy works either.

Covid infections in the US are running at around 400,000 per week now compared to 4 million this time last year and 1.3 million the previous year.

Weekly cases have been stable since late summer, which has been attributed to high levels of immunity in populations through vaccination and waves of infections.

Schools in New Jersey are justifying the latest mask mandates due to the state suffering increases in Covid, flu and RSV cases.

It comes as 22 states were recording 'very high' flu activity in the week before Christmas - down from 26 the week prior. Six states were recording the highest levels of transmission, down from eight in early December.

America's flu season came unseasonably early, although cases of both flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) cratered for the second straight week just before Christmas — meaning the 'tripledemic' in America could soon reach its end.

Canada joins US in requiring all Chinese travelers to test negative for Covid

Travelers from Covid-stricken China will need a negative Covid test to enter Canada and Australia from this weekend

RSV is also a few weeks ahead of the flu crisis. Cases peaked in November but rates remain very high. Both have led to hospitals, particularly pediatric hospitals, being overwhelmed.

The bacterial infection Strep A is also rising among children and has killed at least two in Colorado. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an urgent advisory message about the infection before Christmas, notifying doctors and public health authorities of the situation.

Paradoxically, masks and lockdowns were blamed for the surge in minors because it prevented them from developing the natural immunity they would have otherwise gained.

Paterson Public Schools in Passaic County and Camden City School District in New Jersey became the latest to enforce masks indoors for students.

Paterson Public Schools' new rule will begin from tomorrow (January 3) and apply to its 25,000 students from pre-kindergarten through to 12th grade.

In a letter to parents, the school district's superintendent Eileen Shafer said: 'I know this is a relief to some, and a frustration to others. No matter what your position may be, I ask for your cooperation.'

She added: 'Please continue to maintain universal masking throughout our buildings and we encourage you to take all other precautions against the spread of the Covid-19, RSV, flu virus including frequent hand washing, avoiding large gatherings, and staying home when sick.'

Camden City School District, which has 75,000 students between kindergarten and 12th grade, will ask anyone entering its buildings to mask up inside for at least two weeks, until January 17.

The school district superintendent said in a letter to families that the move was 'in an effort to be proactive and remain vigilant'.

The school district of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania is also forcing students to wear masks for at least 10 days, starting January 3 and ending January 13 if it is not extended.

Meanwhile, Boston Public Schools (BPS) in Massachusetts announced on Friday that students and staff would be asked to wear face coverings between January 4 and January 13.

BPS said in a statement the temporary masking was an 'ask and expectation' and 'not a mandate', and said no one would be sent home or disciplined if they refused to wear one.

And in Washington state, Wilson Elementary school mandated masks for a week in December due to rising respiratory illnesses leaving roughly 30 percent of its students absent on one day.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11592073/Mask-mandates-return-schools-week-hundreds-thousands-students.html

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Las Vegas parents SUE school district for $50,000 after making daughter, 15, read out X-rated assignment about 'd**ks' and lesbianism in theater class - that was even too explicit to be read aloud at school board meeting

Two Las Vegas parents have sued their daughter's school district after the 15-year-old was made to memorize and read out a sexually-explicit monologue in front of her theater class.

Parents Candra and Terrell Evans filed the $50,000 lawsuit against the Clark County School District and its superintendent, Dr. Jesus Jara, alleging they engaged in 'unlawful grooming and abuse of a minor' over the assignment which they characterized as 'pornographic material.'

They say their unnamed daughter, a student at the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts, was made to perform the monologue written by a fellow student - in which a narrator came out as lesbian and talked about not liking 'd**ks.'

The passage was so lewd that Ms. Evans' microphone was cut off as she read it aloud during a school district board meeting last spring, and she was admonished for violating the board's decorum rules.

The Evans allege that last March their daughter's theater teacher, Kelly Hawes, told her students to write monologues which their classmates would then memorize and read aloud before the class.

The lawsuit said the monologue their daughter was given 'contained explicit, obscene and sexually violent material,' and that Hawes 'helped the other student edit their obscenely violent pornographic monologue knowing that it would then be provided to another student to read, memorize and perform in front of the class.'

The monologue the 15-year-old performed involved a woman telling her ex-boyfriend that she was a lesbian, described how she never like his penis or having sex with him, that she'd begun sleeping with a college roommate.

In addition to reading the monologue aloud, the girl was made to act it out in front of the class.

According to the lawsuit, the monologue the Evans' daughter was made to read was as follows:

'I don't love you. It's not you, it's just (looks down) your d***. I don't like your d*** or any d*** in that case. I cheated Joe. We were long distance and I'm in college and me and this girl, my roommate, started having some drinks and you know, I thought it was a one-time thing but then we started going out for coffee, and started sleeping in the same bed.'

'I never thought it would get this far but God, it was like fireworks, and made me realize that with you it was always like a pencil sharpener that keeps getting jammed. I've tried to look at it from all different perspectives, but the truth is, I'm a f***** lesbian. I'll never love you or any man, or any f****** d***.

'I hope you find a nice straight girl because that's not me, and I'm tired of pretending that it is.'

Ms. Evans learned of the assignment a month after it was performed and raised concerns about it with school administrators. An administrator then told her the school district would handle the issue.

'[The administrator] empathized with them that he would be very upset if he found out that assignment had been given to his daughter,' the lawsuit read. 'He told them that plaintiffs were handling the issue better than he would and that it would not be swept under the rug. He promised he would make sure that it never happened again.

'Further, he agreed that [the teacher] should have stopped [the teenager] as soon as she heard the first line of the monologue.'

The Evans then agreed to let the administrator discuss the assignment with their daughter, but only if a female member of faulty was present. However, during the meeting with their daughter only the male administrator was there.

The parents then called for another meeting with more staff members, who then 'defended the obscene monologue and then blamed [the student] for reading it, stating that she could have said 'no,' but she didn't.'

The lawsuit said some faculty members later 'backtracked and admitted that the assignment was not appropriate for the classroom.'

'At any point, Hawes could have prevented this pornographic material from getting into the hands of children, but she refused,' the lawsuit said. 'When confronted about this, [Las Vegas Academy of the Arts Principal Scott Walker] and CCSD did nothing.'

According to her biography on the Vegas Theater Company website, Hawes is a Massachusetts native who graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

In May, the Evans informed the regional superintendent about the situation, and an official agreed to investigate.

Shortly after they also spoke with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, who told them they needed to file a report with the Clark County School District Police. The lawsuit said the Evans filed a report, but it was falsified by an officer who 'conspired with others.'

Later that month Ms. Evans brought her complaints to a meeting of the Clark County School District board (CCSD), where she tried to read aloud from the monologue before being silenced.

'I am going to read you an assignment given to my 15-year-old daughter at a local high school,' she said at the meeting. 'This will be horrifying for me to read to you but that will give you perspective on how she must have felt when her teacher required her to memorize this and to act it out in front of her entire class.'

As she began to read, her microphone cut and board trustee Evelyn Garcia Morales told her off for using the profane language.

'That you for your comment,' Morales said. 'Forgive me, we are not using profanity. This is a public meeting; I ask for decorum.'

'If you don't want me to read it to you, what was it like for my 15-year-old daughter to have to memorize pornographic material,' Evans replied.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11595495/Las-Vegas-parents-SUE-school-district-making-daughter-15-read-X-rated-assignment-class.html

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